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Podcast: Something to think about
Episode: Sitting Comfortably?
Description: With Patrick Boyns. Life has never consisted in the abundance of our possessions – that’s what the teacher said – and he knows these things. He said this after having been asked to settle a family dispute – essentially making it clear that material possessions are essentially worthless.And it was he, you may well remember, who told a would-be follower that, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” No luxury king-size, four-poster, sleep-enhancing bed … not even a conventional, worn-out, bog-standard, bunk bed … “no...