Holy Smoke

200 Episodes

1. How pistols in St Paul’s Cathedral shaped the science of sound

   Published: 9/20/2024
2. Losing faith: will Labour’s VAT policy hit religious schools hardest?

   Published: 9/6/2024
3. From the archives: An atheist goes on a Christian pilgrimage. Why?

   Published: 8/29/2024
4. A Habsburg Archduke explains how not to be nasty on Twitter

   Published: 7/19/2024
5. Walsingham and the musical grief of the Reformation

   Published: 7/1/2024
6. Calm fire: the consolation of listening to Bruckner

   Published: 5/23/2024
7. The problem with cringe-making funerals

   Published: 4/24/2024
8. How the Church of England patronises African Christians

   Published: 3/15/2024
9. How much did Pope Francis know about Fr Marko Rupnik?

   Published: 2/26/2024
10. How liberal bishops are squeezing the life out of the Church of England

    Published: 2/9/2024
11. Does Trump have evangelical Christians to thank for his second coming?

    Published: 1/26/2024
12. Gay blessings and theological porn: why leading cardinals are distancing themselves from Pope Francis

    Published: 1/15/2024
13. Raymond Arroyo on the joys of a Sinatra-style Christmas

    Published: 12/22/2023
14. The strange appeal of Integralism

    Published: 12/15/2023
15. How light filled the first Roman Churches: a conversation with Dr Elizabeth Lev

    Published: 11/13/2023
16. The Pope, gay blessings and the Rupnik scandal

    Published: 10/5/2023
17. Genghis Khan and the Pope's summer of madness

    Published: 9/7/2023
18. The future of churchgoing in the West: why Protestants should worry and Catholics should panic

    Published: 8/18/2023
19. Is 2023 Pope Francis's 'Year Zero'?

    Published: 7/25/2023
20. Escaping the atheist hell of North Korea

    Published: 7/7/2023