OK, the podcast feed now works. Now I guess some people are wondering ‘how on earth do I use it?’ This is a step by step instruction for pointing Apple’s iTunes to receive the podcast.

1. You will need a broadband link.
2. You will need an up-to-date version of iTunes (version 4.9 or later). You can download this here.
3. Once you have iTunes running, select from the menu: advanced – subscribe to podcast
4. In the box that opens up, type the following into the box marked “URL”:

http://virtualtheology.net/wp-rss2.php?category_name=podcasts

(Note, if if your browser is displaying the above bit of code on more than one line, *don’t* put a line break in that URL box, just keep typing it all on one line, but don’t worry if it automatically wraps in the URL box, just don’t press the return key when you type it in)

5. Click “OK”
6. On the left hand panel of iTunes (Source), you should see one called Podcasts. Click on that. You should see the podcast from virtualtheology.net in the list.
7. Click the “Update” button on the top right of the screen, which will get the latest podcast from virtualtheology.net. Of course, if it hasn’t been updated since you last did this, nothing will happen, but if a new podcast has been uploaded, you will see it being downloaded into iTunes.
8. Then either play it from your computer using iTunes, or further upload it into your iPod or other portable MP3 player.
9. You can revisit your Podcast source in iTunes to check for updates, or configure iTunes to check it in the background every hour or so.

Hopefully, that will work.