Unbelievable? Does prayer make sense? David Wilkinson vs Ed Atkinson

2015-06-06T00:00:00+01:00

David Wilkinson, Principal of St John’s College Durham and a physicist by background, addresses why prayers go unanswered in his new book When I Pray What Does God Do?.

He debates with former Christian Ed Atkinson on whether science, scripture and theology can make sense of prayer

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