The conversation with Rev Phill Sacre should be published next weekend (25/26 January) all being well.

Blessings,

Julian.

Upcoming Programme

We shall be joined once again by Rev Phill Sacre for a conversation on the theme: "How the church was sabotaged".

Our chat will centre in a podcast series Phill produced late last year called "How the church was sabotaged", in which he reflects upon a 1980s book by the Christian thinker and writer Os Guinness. Though published 40 years ago, this book—"The Gravedigger File"—caught Phill's attention for its apparent prescience on a number of issues facing the church today, which prompted him to respond in a series of eight substantial podcasts. So, please join us as I "get in on the conversation" and we chat around some of the issues on TMR.

(Phill is a Christian minister. Ordained in the Church of England, he formerly served in a parish on the Essex coast, but now leads an independent housechurch. He also runs various online ministries, including "Understand the Bible" and "Sacred Musings : Building on Christian Foundations".)

Possible Future Programmes

I am working on, or considering, the following projects (in no particular order):

• A follow-up interview with Jacob Hornberger on the Zapruder Film Mystery

• An interview in the area of "A Christian approach to health and medicine" with a recently qualified Cambridge University PhD graduate

• A possible follow-up interview with Dr Gary Sidley on his research into the effectiveness (or otherwise) of masks with respect to the spread of respiratory viruses

• An interview in the area of The Philosophy of Miracle

• TMR Roundtables on the following films: (a) One by One (2014) starring Rik Mayall; (b) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) starring Richard Burton and John Hurt; (c) Journey to the Far Side of the Sun or Doppelgänger (1969) by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, starring Roy Thinnes and Patrick Wymark; (d) Minority Report (2001) starring Tom Cruise; (e) Fahrenheit 451 (1966) directed by François Truffaut; (f) The Sound of Music (1965) starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer; (g) The Parallax View (1974) starring Warren Beatty.
  

• A (possible) series of interviews with Dr Martin Erdmann on his book The Spiritualisation of Technology.

Results from TMR survey

Format: Everyone who responded said that they particularly appreciate the interviews (and other types of one-to-one conversation) and asked that these remain at the core of TMR's programming. They also generally prefer in-depth conversations.

Subjects: The majority of respondents are happy with the types of subjects covered on the podcast. (Some aren't keen on subjects that are specifically Christian, while others aren't keen on subjects that are not specifically Christian. Given that this mix is central to TMR's philosophy, such difference of opinion is only to be expected.)

Frequency: Very few asked for the podcasts to be posted at any regular interval (such as weekly or fortnightly), but instead stressed the importance of quality over quantity.

Conclusion: I shall therefore continue in much the same way, but prioritise the in-depth conversations, even though that may impact the frequency with which I post podcasts.

Many thanks to those who contributed.

Julian.