The Equip Project Podcast
The Equip Project is designed to help people engage with the Christian faith in a thoughtful, and reasonable way. Our goal is to help provide clarity and understanding, as we seek to tackle many of the cultural and intellectual challenges to Christianity.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 107
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
S3 E7 - Conversion Therapy
In this episode we think about a hugely controversial topic called conversion therapy. There has been so much in the media in recent weeks about the campaign to ban this practice. We co…
S3 E6 - History
We live in a society that has turned history into a battleground. And that should set alarm bells off in the minds of Christians, because we hold to an historical faith. Christianity is…
S3 E5 - Islam
We are continuing to think about the big elements that make up our society. And one really important element in modern culture is Islam. There are about 3.5 million Muslims living in th…
S3 E4 - The Language of Wokeness
Language, and how we use it, has become an immensely powerful factor in how we engage with this culture. It’s as if society no longer has a shared, stable, language. There is this incre…
S3 Bonus Episode - The Christian & Politics
In this special bonus episode, recorded by Christian Unions Ireland (CUI), Jim Crookes is joined by world renowned author and social critic Os Guinness, to discuss the Christian and pol…
S3 E3 - The Media
In this episode, we discuss the role of the media in society.
There is no doubt that organisations like the BBC or CNN have a massive impact on western societies. The tabloid newspapers…
S3 E2 - Social Justice
This week we talk about social justice. The concept of social justice has evolved a lot over the past two hundred years. Today, the conversation about social justice is dominated by an …
S3 E1 - The Rise of the Self
Season 3 has arrived!
This season we’ll be thinking about the ideas and philosophies that have impacted all the building blocks that make up society. Things like social justice, languag…
Joy & Anguish - A Christmas Message
A couple of weeks back I asked Jim if he’d be willing to record a brief Christmas refection for us, as we come to the end of a tough and uncertain year.
I hope this short message is a b…
S2 E9 - Be Not Afraid
In this second series of the Podcast, we've thought about the challenges that young Christians will have to face over the next thirty years. We looked at the rise of the Green religion …
S2 E8 - Choosing to Die?
In this episode we discuss euthanasia and assisted suicide. Should we have the right to decide when and how we die? What are the dangers of legalising euthanasia and assisted suicide? W…
S2 E7 - The Rise of the Machines
In this episode, we think about how technology will shape our futures. We'll discuss Artificial Intelligence (AI), and bio-engineering, trying to understand what might happen in these f…
S2 E6 - Jordan Peterson
In this episode we are going to discuss the phenomenon that is Jordan Peterson. Peterson is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto who shot to fame when he resisted the …
S2 E5 - The Future of Evangelicalism
In this episode, we discuss the future of evangelicalism in the West. We discuss the collapse of cultural christianity, and the fragmentation of the evangelical church, which may take p…
S2 E4 - #deconversion
In the past couple of years a number of high profile christians in the evangelical world have announced they are no longer christians, or that they have started a process labeled ‘decon…
S2 E3 - Spirituality
Approximately 64 million Americans identify as spiritual but not religious, and one-fifth of the UK population fall into the same category. In this episode we ask why people are rejecti…
S2 E2 - Earth
In this episode we talk about the environment. It’s clear there are some massive environmental issues in our world today - on an almost daily basis we hear about the impact of climate c…
S2 E1 - Has COVID Killed the Church?
We're back! To kick off season 2 we look at the impact COVID-19 has had on society and on the church. How should we as christians respond to this strange new world?
Episode 30 - A Better Story
Our final episode of Season 1 is entitled 'A Better Story'. It's vital that young Christians in this generation exude a quiet, calm confidence that their understanding of reality is imm…
Episode 29 - Christianity and Politics
The big issue that we tackle in this episode is the relationship between Christianity and the world of politics. Many young Christians are becoming politically active, especially in the…