The Holy Shed - Dave Tomlinson

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 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 Follow Holy Shed on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/theholyshed/ Support Holy Shed on...
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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. Follow Holy Shed on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/theholyshed/ Support Holy Shed on Ko-fi; https://ko-fi.com/holyshed follow Dave on https://facebook.com/dave.tomlinson.925/ follow Dave on https:/...
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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) Follow Holy Shed on Facebook; https://ww...
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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.' Follow Holy Shed on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/theholyshed/ Support Holy Shed o...
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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". Follow Holy Shed on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/theholyshed/ Support Holy Shed on Ko-fi; https://ko-fi.com/holyshed follow Dave on https://faceb...
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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. Follow Holy Shed on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/theholyshed/ Support Holy Shed on Ko-fi; https://ko-fi.com/holyshed follow Dave on http...
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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? Follow Holy Shed on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/theholyshed/ Support Holy Shed on Ko-fi; ht...
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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. Follow Holy Shed on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/theholyshed/ Support Holy Shed on Ko-fi; https://ko-fi.com/holyshed follow Dave on https://facebook.com/dave.tomlinson.925/ follow Dave on https://ins...
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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. Follow Holy Shed on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/theholyshed/ Support Holy Shed on Ko-fi; https://ko-fi.com/holyshed follow Dave on https://facebook.com/dave.tomlinson.92...
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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. Follow Holy Shed on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/theholyshed/ Support Holy Shed on Ko-fi; https://ko-fi.com/holyshed follow Dave on https://facebook.com/dave.tomlinson.925/ follow Dave on https://instagram.com/bad_christian/
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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 💔 YNWA Follow Holy Shed on Facebook; www.facebook.com/theholyshed/ Support Holy Shed on Ko-fi; ko-fi.com/holyshed follow Dave on facebook.com/dave.tomlinson.925/ follow Dave on instag...
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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. Follow Holy Shed on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/theholyshed/ Support Holy Shed on Ko-fi; https://ko-fi.com/holyshed follow Dave on https://facebook.com/dave.tomlinson.925/ follow Dave on ...
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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. Follow Holy Shed on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/theholyshed/ Support Holy Shed on Ko-fi; https://ko-fi.com/holyshed follow Dave on https://face...
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May 13, 2025 • 29 mins
follow Holy Shed on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/theholyshed/ Support Holy Shed on Ko-fi; https://ko-fi.com/holyshed follow Dave on https://twitter.com/goodluker/ follow Dave on https://facebook.com/dave.tomlinson.925/ follow Dave on https://instagram.com/bad_christian/
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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. follow Holy Shed on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/theholyshed/ Support Holy Shed on Ko-fi; https://ko-fi.com/holyshed follow Dave on https://twitter.com/goodluker/ follow Dave on https://facebook.com/dave.tomlinson.925/ follow Dave on https://instagram.com/bad_christian/
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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 follow Holy Shed on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/theholyshed/ Support Holy Shed on Ko-fi; https://ko-fi.com/holyshed follow Dave on https://twitter.com/goodluker/ follow Dave on https://facebook.com/...
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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 follow Holy Shed on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/theholyshed/ Support Holy Shed on Ko-fi; https://ko-fi.com/holyshed follow Dave on https://twitter.com/goodluker/ follow Dave on https://facebook.com/dave.tomlinson.925/ follow Dave on https://instagram.com/bad_chr...
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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 follow Holy Shed on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/theholyshed/ Support Holy Shed on Ko-fi; https://ko-fi.com/holyshed follow Dave on https://twitter.com/goodluker/ follow Dave on https://facebook.com/dave.tomlinson.925/ follow Dave on https://instagram.com/bad_ch...
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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 follow Holy Shed on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/theholyshed/ Support Holy Shed on Ko-fi; https://ko-fi.com/holyshed follow Dave on https://twitter.com/goodluker/ follow Dave on https://facebook.com/dave.tomlinson.925/ follow Dave on https://instagram.com/bad_c...
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March 30, 2025 • 20 mins
For just this week I'm departing from the 'Post-Evangelical' theme to share with you some thoughts from a sermon I gave today at my old pad, St Luke's Church in north London...I hope you'll find it helpful and inspiring follow Holy Shed on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/theholyshed/ Support Holy Shed on Ko-fi; https://ko-fi.com/holyshed follow Dave on https://twitter.com/goodluker/ follow Dave on https://facebook.com/dave.t...
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