This month, Tim and Elliot explore inheritance — not just beliefs handed down through church and family, but the atmospheres, freedoms and anxieties that quietly shape a life. They recreate Tim and Hannah’s 11-year-old worlds (egg and chips, Blue Peter, Red Dwarf, ZX Spectrum games), revisit the pre-internet universe of mixtapes and missed TV shows, and imagine what might one day sound unbelievable about Elliot’s childhood. There are Komodo dragons, Minecraft music, bread-and-butter pudding, and a brilliantly irreverent Red Dwarf take on the “first page” of the Bible.Beneath the nostalgia and quizzes lies something deeper. Through a timeline exercise and a playful round of Keep / Leave / Not Sure Yet, Elliot begins to notice what makes faith come alive for him — creativity, movement, outdoorsness — and what drains it — passivity and being told what to believe. There are honest moments about anxiety, boredom in pews, and the courage it takes to say, “This isn’t working for me.” Rather than chasing tidy conclusions, this episode leans into experiment, permission and the freedom not to decide too quickly.

This month, Tim and Elliot set out to explore Jesus not through tidy answers or big beliefs, but through stories, games, and things you can actually hold in your hands. Along the way, they build stormy Lego worlds filled with monster waves and unlikely villains, notice small, “Jesus-y” moments in everyday life — from a duck breaking ice for others to quiet acts of kindness at home and school — and play their way through a quiz that asks what Jesus really said, and what we only wish he had.Rather than trying to decide what to think about Jesus, this episode leans into curiosity, resistance, and surprise. There are awkward questions, honest disagreements, moments of boredom, bursts of laughter, and the gentle realisation that noticing kindness and presence in the world might matter just as much as having the right words about them. It’s a conversation shaped by imagination, play, and the freedom to wonder out loud.

In this month’s Homegrown Faith practice, we explore Play — not as something to squeeze in around “more important” things, but as a way of loosening our grip and paying attention. For Tim, play doesn’t come easily. It still bumps up against an inherited sense that faith is meant to be serious and useful. So this month became an experiment in letting go — and noticing what emerges when we stop trying to be productive.Along the way, Tim, Hannah and Elliot build dramatic Bible moments out of Lego, invent household games with arbitrary rules, create ridiculous parables from random cards, and test themselves in the Household Olympics. There are missing socks, biscuits eaten with great care, and playful failures that turn out to matter more than getting things right — suggesting that play itself might be a quiet form of wisdom, worth entering for its own sake.

Join Tim and his eleven-year-old son Elliot for a month of sacred reading — a journey that begins with a mustard seed and ends on a pebble-strewn beach in North Norfolk.What starts as classic Lectio Divina soon widens into something bigger: meditating on Bible stories, listening for meaning in His Dark Materials, tuning in to birdsong in a pine forest, and reading the shifting shapes of clouds and trees. Along the way, Elliot struggles with boredom, Tim wrestles with silence, and together they stumble into moments of wonder and humour.There are painted pebbles left for strangers, an anti-war poem crafted from museum signs, a quiz involving talking donkeys, and a reminder that sometimes the most ordinary things — dust, seeds, birds, background noise — have something to say if we pay attention.Through scripture, stories and landscapes, father and son explore how meaning emerges when we slow down, look closely, and let the world speak back.If you’re enjoying Homegrown Faith and want to support what we’re doing, you can head over to our Patreon page for bonus episodes and a bit of behind-the-scenes goodness.If signing up isn’t your thing but you’d still like to send some encouragement our way, a quick rating or review on your podcast app makes a big difference.Since the podcast is all audio, if you’d like to see what we’ve been up to, you can find photos and little glimpses of our journey over on Instagram and Facebook.And if you’d like to share your own experiences, ask us a question, or suggest a practice for a future episode, you can drop Tim an email here.Like the podcast, our theme music is also homegrown—written by Elliot and produced by our friend Wilderthorn.

It’s hard to believe, but Homegrown Faith is one year old!
 So this month, Tim and Elliot look back over twelve months of exploring spiritual practices together — from gratitude and Sabbath to activism, nature connection and pilgrimage. There...