All Unbelievable? articles – Page 12
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ShowsUnbelievable? Christmas special
We look back over 2020 and share some of our highlights, favourite clips and lessons we’ve learnt along the way. Plus, author Nick Page debunks some Christmas myths and we hear stories of people who came to faith largely through apologetics.
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ShowsUnbelievable? The Christmas story: fact or fairytale? Lydia McGrew vs Jonathan Pearce
Atheist blogger Jonathan Pearce is the author of ‘The Nativity: A Critical Examination’. He believes the birth narratives in Matthew and Luke are pious fiction. Christian thinker Lydia McGrew, author of ‘The Mirror or the Mask?’ defends the historicity of the Nativity accounts.
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ShowsUnbelievable? William Lane Craig answers your questions on God, universalism and the best atheist arguments
Renowned Christian philosopher William Lane Craig joins Justin and Ruth for a live-stream show taking audience questions on salvation, God, atheism, evidence, and much more.
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ShowsUnbelievable? Is the God of the Bible a capriciously malevolent, misogynistic, sadomasochistic bully? Dan Barker vs Martin Kuhrt
Richard Dawkins famously describes the God of the Old Testament as ‘jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully’.
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ShowsUnbelievable? When leaders fall. Karen Swallow Prior & RC Sproul Jr on recent high-profile moral failings
In recent years, numerous high-profile Christian leaders have resigned following revelations of moral failure, including Carl Lentz, Jerry Falwell Jr and Bill Hybels. Others have posthumously been subject to allegations of sexual misconduct, including Jean Vanier and Ravi Zacharias (an independent investigation is ongoing).
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ShowsUnbelievable? Intelligent Design on trial. 15 years on from Kitzmiller-Dover – Mike Behe and Joshua Swamidass
In 2005 a high profile trial saw the Dover School District taken to court for promoting Intelligent Design (ID) as an alternative theory to evolution in classrooms. 15 years on Mike Behe a prominent biochemist and ID advocate who took the stand as a defence witness, talks about what the case meant for the ID movement.
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ShowsUnbelievable? Was Jesus a great moral teacher or something more? Julian Baggini and Skye Jethani
Atheist philosopher Julian Baggini and Christian author Skye Jethani discuss whether the teachings of Jesus Christ can be separated from his claims to divinity.
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ShowsUnbelievable? Conversion and de-conversion: Why atheists become Christians and Christians become atheists. Jana Harmon and Joel Furches
Justin talks to Jana Harmon about her PhD research on adult atheist conversion to Christianity and presents stories from her new ‘Side B Podcast’. Joel Furches, who is researching de-conversion, also joins the conversation.
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ShowsUnbelievable? Is raising kids Christian indoctrination?
Richard Dawkins once said that bringing up children in a particular faith is tantamount to child abuse. We invited humanist Hannah Timson and Christian Tim Alford to discuss this issue.
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ShowsUnbelievable? Prof Alister McGrath answers your Qs on science, faith, doubt, CS Lewis, Dawkins and more
Oxford professor Alister McGrath recently joined Justin, Lucy and Ruth for a livestream to take listener questions on science and faith and to talk about his new memoir ’Through a Glass Darkly’.
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ShowsUnbelievable? Is Critical Race Theory compatible with Christianity? Neil Shenvi & Rasool Berry
‘Critical Race Theory’ is a way of understanding racism through the dynamics of oppressed and oppressor groups. Neil Shenvi believes its worldview is at odds with the Gospel and is concerned at its embrace in evangelical circles. Rasool Berry, teaching pastor at The Bridge Church NYC believes many Christians are overreacting to CRT. While not adopting it wholesale, he believes CRT can help Christians in the pursuit of reconciliation and justice. At the end of the show Justin is joined by new team member Ruth Jackson to talk about future plans for Unbelievable?
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ShowsUnbelievable? Should Christians vote for Trump? Eric Metaxas vs David French
Christian commentator David French debates Christian radio host and author Eric Metaxas on whether Christians should vote for Donald Trump in the US Elections in November.
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ShowsUnbelievable? Where is God in all the suffering? Amy Orr-Ewing and Jon Steingard
Amy Orr-Ewing, co-director of OCCA and author of ‘Where Is God In All The Suffering?’, discusses the problem of pain with Jon Steingard, whose own doubts around Christian faith were triggered by seeing the suffering of children in Uganda.
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ShowsUnbelievable? Debating Wrath, Sin and Penal Substitution – William Lane Craig and Greg Boyd
Did God punish Jesus in our place on the cross? William Lane Craig’s new book ‘Atonement and the Death of Christ’ is a major new defence of Penal Substitutionary Atonement. He discusses the doctrine of atonement with Greg Boyd who has been a critic of PSA and an advocate of the Christus Victor view of the cross.
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ShowsUnbelievable? The Reason For God - Tim Keller debates atheist Norman Bacrac
In this ‘classic replay’ Justin shares the 2009 radio debate in which New York pastor Tim Keller defended his best-selling book ‘The Reason For God’ opposite UK atheist Norman Bacrac.
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ShowsUnbelievable? Coronavirus conspiracies, politics and rebel churches – Mark Sayers, AJ Roberts, Ruth Jackson and Lucy Brierley
Six months on from Justin’s first lockdown show looking at Coronavirus he’s joined again by virologist AJ Roberts from California, Australian church and culture guru Mark Sayers, his wife Rev Lucy Brierley and new Unbelievable? team member Ruth Jackson.
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ShowsUnbelievable? Is free will an illusion? And does it matter? Dan Barker vs Braxton Hunter
Notable atheists like Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett claim we live in a deterministic universe and that free will is an illusion. But does losing human free will pose a problem for justice, morality and even the very act of reasoning itself?
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ShowsUnbelievable? The Great Awokening, Cancel Culture and JK Rowling: David French and Jonathan Pearce
Is a quasi-religious left wing ‘cancel culture’ shutting down free speech, or is the right wing just as much to blame?
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ShowsUnbelievable? Is the UK Church racist? Chine McDonald, Gavin Calver and Joe Aldred
In the second of two shows dealing with racism and the church, Justin Brierley hosts a discussion on the UK Church between Chine McDonald of Christian Aid, Gavin Calver of The Evangelical Alliance and Bishop Dr Joe Aldred of Churches Together in England.
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ShowsUnbelievable? Racism, white supremacy and Black Lives Matter: George Yancey and Drew Hart
Is the approach and ideology of Black Lives Matter and anti-racism advocates such as Robin DiAngelo, a help or a hindrance in combating racism in the USA?
