The Equip Project Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In this series we're thinking about 'origins'. The idea of origins is relevant for everyone. Because we all live within a story. And the beginning of a story is the seed from which everything grows.  In episode 6 we consider the origin of war. 

Send us Fan Mail In this series we're thinking about 'origins'. The idea of origins is relevant for everyone. Because we all live within a story. And the beginning of a story is the seed from which everything grows.  In episode 5 we consider the origin of the metaverse. 

Send us Fan Mail In this series we're thinking about 'origins'. The idea of origins is relevant for everyone. Because we all live within a story. And the beginning of a story is the seed from which everything grows.  In episode 4 we consider the origin of cities. 

Send us Fan Mail In this series we're thinking about 'origins'. The idea of origins is relevant for everyone. Because we all live within a story. And the beginning of a story is the seed from which everything grows.  In episode 3 we consider the origins of law. 

Send us Fan Mail In this series we're thinking about 'origins'. The idea of origins is relevant for everyone. Because we all live within a story. And the beginning of a story is the seed from which everything grows.  In episode 2 we consider the origin of money. Our real focus isn’t so much on pound coins or five-pound notes found in our coat pockets. We’re going to talk about the g...

Send us Fan Mail This series we’re going to be thinking about 'origins'. The idea of origins is relevant for everyone. Because we all live within a story. And the beginning of a story is the seed from which everything grows. Charles Darwin’s book changed the world precisely because it gave society a new origin story. The origin of species. The grand opening words of Genesis 1 – in the be...

Send us Fan Mail Hi everyone,  A very Happy Christmas to you all. Thanks so much for your support and encouragement this year, it’s been greatly valued!  I hope you’re able to find a few moments of quiet during this busy season to listen to this short Christmas Reflection from Jim Crookes. 

Send us Fan Mail In this fourth season of the Equip Project Podcast we’ll be focussing our attention on a pastoral question that is very relevant to young adults today: the question of our mental well-being. We're going to consider five key concepts that underpin a healthy mind. If, with the Lord's enabling, we can build these five truths into the base of our minds then over time we’ll d...

Send us Fan Mail In this fourth season of the Equip Project Podcast we’ll be focussing our attention on a pastoral question that is very relevant to young adults today: the question of our mental well-being. We're going to consider five key concepts that underpin a healthy mind. If, with the Lord's enabling, we can build these five truths into the base of our minds then over time we’ll d...

Send us Fan Mail In this fourth season of the Equip Project Podcast we’ll be focussing our attention on a pastoral question that is very relevant to young adults today: the question of our mental well-being. We're going to consider five key concepts that underpin a healthy mind. If, with the Lord's enabling, we can build these five truths into the base of our minds then over time we’ll d...

Send us Fan Mail In this fourth season of the Equip Project Podcast we’ll be focussing our attention on a pastoral question that is very relevant to young adults today: the question of our mental well-being. We're going to consider five key concepts that underpin a healthy mind. If, with the Lord's enabling, we can build these five truths into the base of our minds then over time we’ll d...

Send us Fan Mail In this fourth season of the Equip Project Podcast we’ll be focussing our attention on a pastoral question that is very relevant to young adults today: the question of our mental well-being. We're going to consider five key concepts that underpin a healthy mind. If, with the Lord's enabling, we can build these five truths into the base of our minds then over time we’ll d...

Send us Fan Mail A five episode series on Church History from the Equip Project Podcast! The first three episodes will take history in 500-year blocks, so we’ll think about the period up to the fall of Rome in 476AD, then the so-called Dark Ages up to the year 1000AD, and then we'll talk about the High Middle Ages which takes us up to the story of Columbus landing in America at the end of the...

Send us Fan Mail A five episode series on Church History from the Equip Project Podcast! The first three episodes will take history in 500-year blocks, so we’ll think about the period up to the fall of Rome in 476AD, then the so-called Dark Ages up to the year 1000AD, and then we'll talk about the High Middle Ages which takes us up to the story of Columbus landing in America at the end of the...

Send us Fan Mail A five episode series on Church History from the Equip Project Podcast! The first three episodes will take history in 500-year blocks, so we’ll think about the period up to the fall of Rome in 476AD, then the so-called Dark Ages up to the year 1000AD, and then we'll talk about the High Middle Ages which takes us up to the story of Columbus landing in America at the end of the...

Send us Fan Mail A five episode series on Church History from the Equip Project Podcast! The first three episodes will take history in 500-year blocks, so we’ll think about the period up to the fall of Rome in 476AD, then the so-called Dark Ages up to the year 1000AD, and then we'll talk about the High Middle Ages which takes us up to the story of Columbus landing in America at the end of the...

Send us Fan Mail A new five episode series on Church History from the Equip Project Podcast! The first three episodes will take history in 500-year blocks, so we’ll think about the period up to the fall of Rome in 476AD, then the so-called Dark Ages up to the year 1000AD, and then we'll talk about the High Middle Ages which takes us up to the story of Columbus landing in America at the end of...

Send us Fan Mail In this, the last episode of season 3, we discuss the role of education in society. Education has unfortunately moved centre stage in the various culture wars that rage in society just now. Christian parents are worried that schools are becoming hostile to Christianity. There is an increasing concern about indoctrination of even very young children. And the cancel culture in unive...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we think about a hugely controversial topic called conversion therapy. There has been so much in the media in recent weeks about the campaign to ban this practice. We consider what conversion therapy is, and discuss how christians should think about it.

Send us Fan Mail We live in a society that has turned history into a battleground. And that should set alarm bells off in the minds of Christians, because we hold to an historical faith. Christianity is not a philosophy. It isn’t just a set of speculative ideas. It claims to be truth revealed in history. We claim that the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ are real, historical facts. T...

Send us Fan Mail We are continuing to think about the big elements that make up our society. And one really important element in modern culture is Islam. There are about 3.5 million Muslims living in the UK. That’s about 5.5% if the population, and that percentage is growing fast because of a disparity in birth rates. In some London boroughs, over 30% of the population is Muslim. So there is no do...

Send us Fan Mail Language, and how we use it, has become an immensely powerful factor in how we engage with this culture. It’s as if society no longer has a shared, stable, language. There is this increasing pressure to learn a new language, because this new language is the passport we need to engage in the modern world. To refuse to learn the new language is a decision to be iced out of your soci...

Send us Fan Mail In this special bonus episode, recorded by Christian Unions Ireland (CUI), Jim Crookes is joined by world renowned author and social critic Os Guinness, to discuss the Christian and politics. The world watched in shock at the events that unfolded on January 6th outside the Capitol building in Washington DC. Protesters held signs that said “Jesus Saves” as they rampaged through one...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we discuss the role of the media in society.  There is no doubt that organisations like the BBC or CNN have a massive impact on western societies. The tabloid newspapers in the UK have been credited with winning elections for both New Labour and the Conservative party over the past few decades.  More recently, we’ve seen the rise of fake news. And we’ve also seen...

Send us Fan Mail This week we talk about social justice. The concept of social justice has evolved a lot over the past two hundred years. Today, the conversation about social justice is dominated by an ideology called Critical Theory.  Critical theory says that the world is unjust because every society is structured the same way. There is always an oppressor and then there are oppressed minority g...