Author: Mark Vernon

An audio version of the conversation is at my podcast, Talks and Thoughts, available via podcast feeds. A couple of years back, Martin Shaw had a visionary experience that led him to Christianity. We talked about it as the Mossy face of Christ. So it was great to talk again about what’s been happening. Which is… Continue reading Strangeness is the new real. Martin Shaw & Mark Vernon in conversation

An audio version of the conversation is at my podcast, Talks and Thoughts, available via podcast feeds. The makers of Seaspiracy and Cowspiracy are back. Christspiracy is another profoundly disturbing film detailing the industrial abuse of our animal kin. Expect more horrific carelessness and exploitation on a mass scale. Only this time, Kip Andersen and… Continue reading Christspiracy. The documentary’s claims about Jesus & Christianity put to the test, w Kameron Waters

An audio version of this conversation is at my podcast, Talks and Thoughts, available via podcast feeds. Energy is a key organising principle in modern science, the conversation of energy being a grounding and universal law. But what is energy? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon examine the history… Continue reading The Nature of Energy. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon

This year, 2024, the Realisation Festival is focused on the soul. Most will have an intuition that soulfulness matters. Many will go a step further and actively seek ways of attending to the soul. But what might be meant by this simultaneously crucial but elusive aspect of ourselves and life in all its fullness? I… Continue reading What is soul? A Realisation Festival post

An audio version of this talk is at my podcast Talks and Thoughts, available via podcast feeds. I talk again with Landon Loftin and Max Leyf about the genius insight of Owen Barfield. The Riddle of the Sphinx (Barfield Press) is a new collection of talks and essays about the great friend of CS Lewis… Continue reading Participation renewed. Discussing The Riddle of the Sphinx, new essays from Owen Barfield

An audio version of this talk is at my podcast, Talks and Thoughts, available via podcast feeds. How can Christianity address the climate crisis? Isn’t the objectifying of nature and the drive to improve our lot a secular legacy of Christendom? And isn’t individual conversion more or less irrelevant in a time of systemic crisis?… Continue reading Apocalypse? It’s now! Good news & secular salvation, climate crisis & time. With Gunnar Gjermundsen

An audio version of this talk is at my podcast, Talks and Thoughts, available via podcast feeds. Western liturgies are obsessed with sin. “There is no health in us”, or words to that effect, begin and end most services, particularly in Lent. Jesus’s wilderness experience was actually about something else – practicing paradise, to use… Continue reading Practicing paradise, or refusing wretchedness in Lent

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An audio version of this talk is at my podcast, Talks and Thoughts, available via podcasts feeds. Isaac Newton is best known for his theory of gravity. And yet, the great scientist also insisted: “ye cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know.” In other words, notions like gravity, and force in… Continue reading The Speed of Gravity. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake

An audio version of this conversation is at my podcast, Talks and Thoughts, available via podcast feeds. The rituals around death and dying are changing in the UK and across the developed world. Medical care advances, which is for the good, though can mean to a loss of other kinds of wisdom about this facet… Continue reading How rituals of love can aid death and dying. A conversation with Madeleine Pennington