Wholly Buyable
Advertising Creative Director Chas Bayfield takes you on a road trip through the Bible, leaving one significant item of baggage at home- religion. He tells the story from Genesis to Revelation and explains how this more than any other book has impacted western culture. Wholly Buyable is a podcast for people who might never normally pick up a Bible but who feel they should perhaps know a little more about it than they currently do. After all, the Bible is a book for everyone, not just believers. Listeners will be taken through action sequences worthy of a 21st century TV drama. They will be seduced by erotic poetry and bombarded with hallucinatory visions. Fill your boots with betrayal, brutality, beauty and, believe it or not, comedy. This isn’t your average Bible podcast; no one will be told what to believe but everyone who joins in the journey will hopefully feel that they know the world’s best-selling book a little better.
Wholly Buyable
80: Man Whores (1 Kings 13-15)
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The Kingdom of Israel has split into two.
Judah is tiny but retains Jerusalem and its temple, and a dynasty descended from David.
Israel is vast in comparison but in separating from Judah, it appears to have also separated itself from God.
In these chapters, Israel enters a kind of death spiral from which it seems impossible to pull out, while Judah just about clings on.
However, this nation seems one godless - or childless - king away from ending the bloodline and cancelling the divine promise that a son of David will remain on his throne forever.
Chapters covered: 1 Kings 13-15
Written and produced by Chas Bayfield
Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music
Cover art by Lisa Goff