The Holy Shed - Dave Tomlinson
Dave Tomlinson is an Anglican priest and founder of The Holy Shed community He's the author of many books including How To Be A Bad Christian, Black Sheep & Prodigals and The Post-Evangelical. Dave's a popular speaker and regular contributor to Pause For Thought on BBC Radio 2.
Episodes
August 12, 2025 • 20 mins
Holy Shed Lite | How to Read One of the Worst Parables Jesus Told
Welcome back to the littlest parish in the whole of Christendom for a shorter Shed Lite for the month of August. In this episode we're answering another Shedster's question, Diane in Australia says she struggles with lots of parts of the Bible and she worries progressive types cherry pick favourite bits, she mentioned the Parable of the Minas in Luke 19, so let's ta...
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August 5, 2025 • 14 mins
Holy Shed Lite | Save the Pigs! (second thoughts on the Gerasene demoniac)
Welcome back to the littlest parish in the whole of Christendom for a shorter Shed Lite for the month of August. In this episode we're answering another Shedster's question, Susie asked about sending demons into a herd of pigs as featured in Mark Chapter 5 verses 1-20
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July 29, 2025 • 25 mins
Holy Shed Presents | 'God' Needs a Rebrand - Part 2
Welcome back to the littlest parish in the whole of Christendom where we're continuing on from last week, talking more about God needing a rebrand, apologetics and other stuff.
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July 22, 2025 • 25 mins
Holy Shed Presents | What Kind of God Would do Stuff Like That?
Welcome back to the littlest parish in the whole of Christendom where we're starting something different this week. Inspired by recently writing a chapter for a book which is a collection of essays. My chapter was named after the subtitle of my book, The Bad Christian's Manifesto - Reinventing God (and other modest proposal's)
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July 15, 2025 • 25 mins
Holy Shed Presents | The Inclusive Love of God. The Way, The Truth and The Life.
Welcome back to the littlest parish in the whole of Christendom where once again I'm answering a Shedster's Question. Today I'm attempting to answer a question about John 14:6, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'
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July 8, 2025 • 27 mins
Holy Shed Presents | Uncontrolling Love (Part 3) - Is There Any Comeuppance in Love?
Welcome back to the littlest parish in the whole of Christendom where once again I'm answering a Shedster's Question. At last we move on to Pat's question 'Do the baddies get their Comeuppance".
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July 1, 2025 • 24 mins
Holy Shed Presents | Uncontrolling Love - Shaping the Future- Part Two
Welcome back to the littlest parish in the whole of Christendom where once again I'm answering a Shedster's Question. After last week's foundational chat we now move on to all those pesky questions around eschatology.
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June 24, 2025 • 27 mins
Holy Shed Presents | Uncontrolling Love (is there any other kind?) - Part One
Welcome back to the littlest parish in the whole of Christendom where once again I'm answering a Shedster's Question. This week it's a bundle of Shedster's questions relating to eschatology, but to answer that we're first starting with who or what is God?
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June 17, 2025 • 28 mins
Holy Shed Presents | For God's sake... stop feeling guilty... and live!
Welcome back to the littlest parish in the whole of Christendom where once again I'm answering a Shedster's Question. This week it's Suzanne's question.
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Holy Shed Presents | God makes everything work out good for Christians (and other daft religious ideas)
Welcome back to the littlest parish in the whole of Christendom where once again I'm answering a Shedster's Question. This week it's Frank's question.
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June 3, 2025 • 30 mins
Holy Shed Presents | Grace Changes Everything
Welcome back to the littlest parish in the whole of Christendom where once again I'm answering a Shedster's Question. This week it's Angie's question.
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May 29, 2025 • 3 mins
This is my Pause for Thought on Monday 26th May when we were in Liverpool for the LFC victory procession...such a joyous wonderful occasion marred by the horrendous injury of 79 people. Which makes my piece all the more poignant. Prayers and love đź’” YNWA
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May 27, 2025 • 28 mins
Holy Shed Presents | How to Escape the Religion of Guilt & Fear
Welcome back to the littlest parish in the whole of Christendom where once again, for the month of May, I'm answering a Shedster's Question. This week it's Ann's question.
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May 20, 2025 • 21 mins
Holy Shed Presents | God Owns all the Forking Roads (or how to live faithfully without becoming neurotic)
Welcome back to the littlest parish in the whole of Christendom where once again, for the month of May, I'm answering a Shedster's Question. This week it's Jackie's question.
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May 13, 2025 • 29 mins
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May 5, 2025 • 24 mins
Holy Shed presents | I BELIEVE IN DUMPING GUILT AND LIVING LOVE | God is love, and those who live in love, live in God and God lives in them.
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April 29, 2025 • 21 mins
A Holy Shed Classic Episode | How Fundamentalism Monumentally Misunderstands The Bible.
This is an episode from 2 years ago but follows on nicely from the recently concluded series looking back at my book The Post Evangelical
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April 22, 2025 • 29 mins
Join me for Part Ten of reflections on my book written 30 years ago and the relevance to the world now especially with respect to the current climate in the USA
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April 15, 2025 • 28 mins
Join me for Part Nine of reflections on my book written 30 years ago and the relevance to the world now especially with respect to the current climate in the USA
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April 8, 2025 • 29 mins
Join me for Part Eight of reflections on my book written 30 years ago and the relevance to the world now especially with respect to the current climate in the USA
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