Unbelievable?

In a holiday special, Justin presents the audience Q&A panel session from Unbelievable? USA at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa. He is joined by Ruth Jackson, Mary Jo Sharp, AJ Roberts, Brian Brodersen, John Lennox and Bobby Conway as they take a variety of questions from the audience. In the final segment of the show, Justin sits down with Mary Jo Sharp to talk about her journey from atheism to Christian faith and her new book ‘Why I Still Believe’. Support the show and as a thank you we’ll send you all the videos sessions from Unbelievable? USA 2019 https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable/ For Mary Jo Sharp https://confidentchristianity.com/why-i-still-believe-book/ For more faith debates and extra resources visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable  Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

In a special holiday edition of the podcast Justin is joined by three friends of the show to share their stories. He also announces the date of Unbelievable? the Conference 2020 – with NT Wright as keynote speaker. Sat 9 May. Put it in your diary! Australian listener Dean Mayes explains how the show had moved him away from atheism towards opening up the God question. Jess Lester, deputy editor of Premier Youth and Children’s Work magazine, tells her story of working in tabloid journalism and coming to Christ after rejecting God as a teenager. And Rupert Shortt, author of ‘Outgrowing Dawkins’, talks to Justin about responding to the world’s most famous atheist.     For Dean Mayes https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Unbelievable-blog/Don-t-call-me-a-Christian-yet-but-I-m-starting-to-see-a-purpose-in-the-Universe  For Premier Youth and Children’s Work magazine https://www.youthandchildrens.work/Get-a-free-copy  For ‘Outgrowing Dawkins’ by Rupert Shortt https://spckpublishing.co.uk/outgrowing-dawkins  For more faith debates and extra resources visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable  Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes 

Prof Richard Swinburne is one of the most influential Christian philosophers in the world. In his new book ‘Are we Bodies or Souls?’ he sets out his argument for the existence of the soul. Luke Janssen has a background in science and theology. In his new book ‘Soul-Searching: The Evolution of Judeo-Christian Thinking on the Soul and the Afterlife’ he makes the case that our experience of personal identity can be explained through physical brain processes. However, he does not believe this contradicts Christianity. For Richard Swinburne’s ‘Are we Bodies or Souls?’ https://global.oup.com/academic/product/are-we-bodies-or-souls-9780198831495   For Luke Janssen’s ‘Soul-Searching’ https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Searching-Evolution-Judeo-Christian-Thinking-Afterlife/dp/1532679815   For more faith debates and extra resources visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable  Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes, Podbean, Spotify or Stitcher

Historian Tom Holland debates atheist philosopher AC Grayling in a lively edition of The Big Conversation.  They discuss whether Christians preserved or destroyed classical thought and whether the West owes its values of human dignity and equality to Greek and Enlightenment thinkers or to the Christian revolution. For AC Grayling’s ‘The History of Philosophy’ https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Philosophy-C-Grayling/dp/0241304539  For Tom Holland’s ‘Dominion’ https://www.amazon.com/Dominion-Christian-Revolution-Remade-World/dp/0465093507   For The Big Conversation Season 2: www.thebigconversation.show  For more faith debates and extra resources visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable  Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes, Podbean, Spotify or Stitcher

Justin re-airs a classic show from 2010 in which Peter Hitchens debates with atheist scientist Adam Rutherford about his book The Rage Against God. Peter shares why his journey from atheism back to Christianity was so different to his famous anti-theist brother Christopher, and debates morality, abortion and more with Rutherford. To support Unbelievable? and receive our USA conference on video: https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable/  To subscribe for the advance video of Tom Holland & AC Grayling: https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievable-Newsletter   For The Big Conversation Season 2: www.thebigconversation.show   For more faith debates and extra resources visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable  Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes, Podbean, Spotify or Stitcher

Can chemistry crack the mystery of the origin of life? Or does the information required for Life to begin point beyond naturalistic explanations? Justin is joined by Perry Marshall who has established the $10m Evolution 2.0 Prize for anyone who can show a natural explanation for life. Lee Cronin of Glasgow University is confident that his experimental research could win it. Denis Noble also joins the conversation as they discuss the nature of life and whether current evolutionary theory can account for its origins. For Perry Marshall’s Evolution 2.0 Prize: https://evo2.org/  For Lee Cronin: http://www.croninlab.com/  For Denis Noble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Noble  To subscribe for the advance video of Tom Holland & AC Grayling: https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievable-Newsletter  For The Big Conversation Season 2: www.thebigconversation.show  For more faith debates and extra resources visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes 

Recorded in front of a live audience in California, Justin hosts a discussion between Christian thinker Prof John Lennox and YouTube personality Dave Rubin in the 4th episode of The Big Conversation Season 2. They discuss the meaning crisis in culture, Jordan Peterson, the search for God, and why Dave Rubin says he no longer considers himself an atheist. The audience follow up with questions on Jesus, evidence, suicide and abortion.  For The Big Conversation Season 2: www.thebigconversation.show  For more faith debates and extra resources visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

Just swaps his moderator’s chair for being a debater in this week’s live show recorded in front of a student audience at Oxford University.   He engages atheist Stephen Woodford who runs the YouTube channel Rationality Rules on the question ‘Is it rational to be a Christian?’ For Stephen Woodford: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqZMgLgGlYAWvSU8lZ9xiVg To subscribe for the advance video of Rubin & Lennox: https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievable-Newsletter For The Big Conversation Season 2: www.thebigconversation.show   For more faith debates and extra resources visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

The mystery of mind and consciousness are causing some philosophers to move away from physicalist explanations to theories such as ‘panpsychism’. Philip Goff is a consciousness researcher whose new book ‘Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a new science of consciousness’ defends panpsychism. He engages with Christian thinker Sharon Dirckx who has a background in neuroscience. Her new book ‘Am I Just My Brain?’ aims to show why consciousness points towards God. For ‘Am I Just My Brain?’: https://www.thegoodbook.co.uk/am-i-just-my-brain  For ‘Galileo’s Error': http://www.philipgoffphilosophy.com/books.html  For The Big Conversation Season 2: www.thebigconversation.show    For more faith debates and extra resources visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable    Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter   Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

Arguably, no individual has influenced the course of history more than Jesus of Nazareth. But, can we trust the accounts of his life, death and resurrection? In this latest episode of The Big Conversation from Unbelievable? leading sceptical New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman engages with noted Cambridge University Bible scholar Peter J Williams who defends the reliability of the accounts. For Peter J Williams ‘Can We Trust the Gospels?’: https://www.thegoodbook.co.uk/can-we-trust-the-gospels  For Bart Ehrman: https://www.bartdehrman.com/  For The Big Conversation Season 2: www.thebigconversation.show  For more faith debates and extra resources visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable  Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or via Itunes