The Living In Faith Everyday Podcast
The Regular Weekly Podcast of the Living in Faith Everyday (LIFE) Community. This podcast was launched during the lockdown to create an online Christian community for anyone who was unable to connect with a local church or faith community because of social isolation. Following the pandemic the podcast has now shifted and relaunched as an Bi- Monthly podcast that attempts to react and engage with the world of Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment from a Christian Perspective.
Socrates Part Two— The Socratic Method — How to Win a Soul, Not an Argument.
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Socrates Part Two— The Socratic Method — How to Win a Soul, Not an Argument.
Welcome to our second step in our four-part journey through the life and legacy of Socrates.
Last time, we met the man himself: the barefoot stonemason who wandered Athens like a holy irritant, waking people up from their moral sleep. We heard about his courage in battle, the simplicity of his life, his strange inner voice, and his relentless devotion to understanding the soul.
But...
Socrates Part One.— The Man Who Changed the Question (A History of Philosophy)
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Welcome to the life and thinking of Socrates, and this is the moment when everything changes. Up to now, we’ve wandered through the wild and wonderful world of the Presocratics. Rivers that flow, universes that freeze, cosmic forces that fall in and out of love, atoms dancing in the void, and Sophists who could argue you into believing your own sandals had a life of their own.
But when Socrates arrives, philosophy stops being a speculative guessing game about what the universe is made of and becomes a moral and spi...
Atoms, Arguments, and the Last Word Before Socrates (My History of Philosophy)
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Welcome to Episode Seven—the final episode of my journey through the Presocratic world before we step into the classical era.
It's about the birth of atoms. And it is also about the rise of professional arguers and the philosophical chaos that made Socrates necessary. Because by the time we reach the thinkers in today’s episode, the ancient world is buzzing with questions:
What is matter really made of?
Is the universe purposeful or mechanical?
What is truth? Can truth even be known?
And...
Zeno, Empedocles, and Anaxagoras - Paradox, Powers, and the Mind Behind the Cosmos. (My History of Philosophy)
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This is my Bi-Monthly podcast that seeks to respond to and engage with the world of Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment from a Christian Perspective.
Welcome to my next episode, taking you through the history of philosophy from my Christian perspective.
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Welcome to an episode in which the Presocratic world becomes even stranger, perhaps more imaginative, and certainly more intellectually daring. Because after Heraclitus’ ri...
When the Ground Shifts. Xenophanes, Heraclitus, and Parmenides. (History of Philosophy).
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The Living In Faith Everyday Podcast: L.I.F.E. Podcast:
This is my Bi-Monthly podcast that seeks to respond to and engage with the world of Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment from a Christian Perspective.
Welcome to my next episode, taking you through the history of philosophy from my Christian perspective.
Today the philosophical landscape doesn’t just expand… it tilts, cracks, and rearranges itself entirely. Up to now, our journey through the Presocratics has been almost gentle. The Milesians and...
Anaximander, Anaximenes, and Pythagoras - From the Breath of Life to the Music of the Spheres.
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Episode Notes: Anaximander, Anaximenes, and Pythagoras - From the Breath of Life to the Music of the Spheres.
In our last episode, we spent time with Thales, the man who looked at the world and said, “Let’s think about this properly.” In today’s episode, we meet the three more thinkers who followed in his wake, three men who took his spark of curiosity and fanned it into something far larger, stranger, and maybe more ambitious.
If Thales dipped his toe into the waters of philosophy, Anaximand...
Thales - The Man Who Asked Why. (My History of Philosophy)
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Thales of Miletus was one of the so-called ‘Seven Sages of Greece’. He lived in a thriving Ionian port and was known not only as a thinker but as a gifted astronomer, mathematician, and engineer. But what truly makes Thales the origin story of philosophy is not his practical genius or his comic mishaps. It’s the fact that he sought a single natural principle—the archê—from which everything comes and to which everything returns.
And here’s where things get interesting for Christians.
Firstly, Thales believed the world had...
The Presocratic Philosophers c.600–450 BCE. (My History of Philosophy Part 2)
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2nd in my series, which follows my journey through a History of Philosophy and puts my particular spin on what I have learned over the last 2 weeks.
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A Christian Perspective on the History of Philosophy. Introduction to the Series (The Ancient World)
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Introduction to the Year-Long Series.
For the next year on The L.I.F.E. Podcast, we’re going on a journey. Well, if I’m going on this journey, I’ve decided to take you with me.
I’m currently starting a course called The History of Philosophy, using A.C. Grayling’s well-known book of the same name as the course textbook. Grayling is a brilliant thinker, a sharp writer, and—let’s be honest—a committed atheist and humanist who approaches philosophy with the confiden...
Reflection: The Tyranny of Choice
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My Reflection on the Illusion of living in a modern consumer society.
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Christianity an Embodied Faith. (John 1: 1-14)
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The centre of the Christian faith is not an idea, a philosophy, or a spiritual technique. It is a person. A person with skin and bones. A person who ate, wept, touched, and was touched. A God who became a person who lived a fully embodied human life.... God did not save us by lifting us out of our humanity. God saved us by entering it.
From the opening chapters of Scripture, we see that God cares about the whole of life. In Leviticus, even t...
Aristotle- Wisdom, Habit, and the Call of Christ.
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"The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.” — Proverbs 16:9
This week, I found myself lingering in the company of a man who lived three centuries before the birth of Christ: Aristotle. This is a special double-length episode in which I explore "A Christian History of Aristotle." It is a long conversation, and one I recorded and offered as ‘Patreon-only’ content back in 2024. However, I believe it is a discussion that is vital for anyone wanting to understand the "spiritual architecture" of the world we live in today...
Finding the Logos in the ‘Gloaming’: Hamnet Film Review.
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A Meditation on Hamnet – A film by Chloé Zhao.
"For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible... and in him all things hold together." (Colossians 1:16-17)
This week, my imagination has been caught in the mossy, tactile world of the new film Hamnet. As many of you know, I spent much of this past month immersing myself again in Genesis "The Book of Beginnings," as a re-edited my work both for placing my entire back catalo...
Launch Episode. Welcome. + "Crito". A Dialogue by Plato
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Welcome to the Re-Launch of The L.I.F.E. Podcast
Hello and welcome. I’m Jeremy McCandless, and this is "The L.I.F.E. Podcast" reimagined, renewed, and ready to engage with the world of ideas.
This podcast began during the lockdown—a time of isolation, uncertainty, and longing for connection. Back then, it was a lifeline. A weekly rhythm of reflection, encouragement, and spiritual grounding for those unable to gather in person. It was about building community in the everyday. And it stil...
