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Cooper

James Cary and Barry Cooper are two English friends who live 4000 miles apart and enjoy theology, culture and the arts. Now they record themselves and call it a podcast. Thanks, internet.

To get access to well over a hundred Cooper & Cary episodes, plus regular extended episodes and bonus content, subscribe to C&C Plus on Apple Podcasts.

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#138 Can Men&Women Be Friends? (With Aaron Renn) from 2022-10-20T06:00

In the wake of the Matt Chandler Instagram DM story, Cooper and Cary Have Words with Aaron Renn, creator of the Masculinist. The word of the podcast is 'asymmetry'.

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#127 Away With The Faeries (with Nate Morgan Locke) from 2022-02-10T06:00

That tweaked theme tune should tell you that Cooper and Cary are having words with friend of the show, Reformed Mythologist, Nate Morgan Locke about fairies. Literal fairies. Or Faeries if you&a...

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#126 I Used To Be Agnostic But Now I Don't Know from 2022-01-27T16:00

Cooper & Cary have words with Andrew Sach about agnosticism. Is it the humble, wise way to go? Andrew's written a book with Jonathan Gemmell, Are You 1...

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#125 Fitter, Happier, More Productive from 2022-01-13T17:00

Cooper and Cary have words about productivity. En route, we discover that Barry once sold books door to door (very badly), marvel at Mark Wahlberg's timetable, and consider Jesus' view...

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#124 Look Back&Forward But Don't Look Up from 2021-12-30T20:00

Cooper and Cary look back on 2021 and ahead to 2022 in terms of highlights and low-lights, both in books, TV, films and bad habits. With much better sound quality. And Cary has words about Don&a...

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#123 Why Art Matters from 2021-12-16T04:00

Cooper and Cary have words with fine artist Alastair Gordon about why art matters, and why that would need explaining to us. We also ask: what sh...

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#122 That Would Be An Ecumenical Matter from 2021-12-02T04:00

Cooper and Cary have words about the ecumenical movement, how and why we just can't get it together this side of glory and maybe that's okay. How did Billy Graham, John Stott and Marti...

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#121 C&C REUNITED from 2021-11-18T16:00

For the first time in FOREV-AHHHH - well, 5 years - Cooper and Cary sit in the same room together. In this live Q+A, they discuss what on earth is going through their minds when they podcast, th...

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#120 A-Hunting We Will Go? from 2021-11-04T08:00

Brits and Americans tend to feel very differently about guns and hunting - and animals. Is our our culture just too squeamish? So Cooper and Cary have words with Coops' pastor Larry, who hu...

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#119 The Mother of All Sins? from 2021-10-21T10:00

Cooper & Cary have words about another deadly sin: pride. Along the way, they talk about how pride has embarrassed them personally, and Cooper explains his email habits and why he agreed to ...

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#118 Why Build A Cathedral? from 2021-10-07T05:00

Cooper & Cary have words with Steve Jeffery about postmillennialism, and why it matters. How did a Christian British man come to be so optimistic about the future of the world? Also, some di...

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#117 Rewards In Heaven? from 2021-09-23T06:00

Cooper and Cary have words about whether or not believers will receive different degrees of "reward" in the new creation.

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#115 Bullies&Saints from 2021-08-26T12:00

Barry and James have words with author / historian / definitely NOT apologist John Dickson (@johnpauldickson), whose new book is all about the v...

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#114 What Happened At Mars Hill (Doesn't Stay At Mars Hill) from 2021-08-12T05:00

Cooper and Cary have words about what we can learn from The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill podcast from Christ...

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#113 You Don't Look A Day Over 4.5 Billion from 2021-07-29T06:00

Barry and James have words with the excellent Rhys Laverty about creationism: young earth, old earth, and points in between. What are the non-negotiables where it comes to interpreting Genesis? ...

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#112 Anything But Sanctification from 2021-07-15T06:00

Cooper and Cary have words about how we try to avoid sanctification and do Christian things in order to avoid it or achieve it - and whether Cooper has been wasting his life aiding and abetting ...

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#111 Ghost In The Machine from 2021-07-01T06:00

Cooper and Cary have words with Ben Clube about artificial intelligence, the gulf between humans and machines, and how technology changes us. He's thought a lot about tech, and not just as ...

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#110 The Gospel According To A Sitcom Writer from 2021-06-17T06:00

Cooper puts Cary on the spot about his new book, The Gospel According To A Sitcom Writer in which Cary reads between the lines, fabricates some parables and has a proper go at Pilgrim's Pro...

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#109 Mr&Mrs Edwards from 2021-06-03T06:00

Cooper and Cary have words with author and historian Dr Stephen Nichols about Jonathan and Sarah Edwards, Martin and Katie Luther, and the subject of his brand new biography, Dr RC Sproul.
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#108 The Ascension: What's Up With That? from 2021-05-20T01:00

James and Barry talk about the Ascension, and then delve into the mailbag. Among other things, they wrestle manfully with the worms uncanned by Barry's views on singleness, whether musical ...

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#107 Should I Leave My Church? from 2021-05-06T06:00

James and Barry have words about leaving a local church. What are good and bad reasons to leave, and what are good and bad reasons to stay? Along the way, there's discussion about weird peo...

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#106 Heavens Below from 2021-04-22T06:00

James and Barry talk about utopias: past, present and future; fictional, and all too real.

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#105 The Bible in 56 Chapters from 2021-04-07T05:00

Cooper and Cary have words with author and Psalm lover, Matt Searles who explains why the Psalms are so important and why instruments will actually affect your theology  - and James somehow expl...

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#104 Too Cool For School? from 2021-03-25T06:00

Controversial subject alert. Cooper and Cary have words about homeschooling. Why school your children at home if your tax dollars/pounds are already paying for a government-run education? What i...

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#103 The Trueman Show from 2021-03-11T04:00

Cooper and Cary have words with Carl Trueman, another Brit lurking around the USA for no good reason. Carl is the author of the highly acclaimed The Rise and...

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#99 Cooper's Mix Tape from 2021-01-14T06:00

In the second of two episodes, Cooper is in the hotseat as Cary plays Desert Island Discs. Cooper choses one song that explained his life at the time but didn't know it. And he has a surpri...

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Bonus Episode: Cary and Rachel Gilson on the Good Book Company Podcast from 2020-03-26T07:00

In Series 3 of the Good Book Company podcast, James had a good chat with Rachel Gilson who became a Christian whilst in a same-sex relationship at Yale, reading a stolen copy of CS Lewis's Mere Chr...

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