More Christ

Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this twenty fifth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by the inspirational Christian gentleman, Calvin Robinson.   Calvin is a teacher, a writer, a political commentator and an ordinant. He has written for several publications including The Telegraph, The Daily Mail and Times Educational Supplement. Calvin recently appeared on Good Morning Britain, triggering Piers Morgan, and is a campaign champion to defund The BBC.

Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions. In this twenty fourth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by the incomparable Nancy Pearcey. Nancy is the author of Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality. Her earlier books include The Soul of Science, Saving Leonardo, Finding Truth, and two ECPA Gold Medallion Award Winners: How Now Shall We Live (co-authored with Harold Fickett and Chuck Colson) and Total Truth. Her books have been translated into eight languages. She is professor and scholar in residence at Houston Baptist University. A former agnostic, Prof. Pearcey has spoken at universities such as Princeton, Stanford, USC, and Dartmouth. She was highlighted as one of the five top women apologists by Christianity Today and was hailed in The Economist as "America's pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual."

Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this twenty sixth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by the stellar Dr Scott Yenor.  Dr Scott Yenor is a Professor of Political Science at Boise State University, where he teaches political philosophy. He lives in Idaho, USA with his wife, Amy, and his five children.   Scott is the author of Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought (2011) and The Recovery of Family Life: Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies (2020).

Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this twenty third episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by the delightful Dr Mark Dooley.   Mark is an Irish philosopher, writer and newspaper columnist. A specialist in continental philosophy, theology and the philosophy of religion, he is the author of several books, including The Politics of Exodus: Kierkegaard's Ethics of Responsibility (2001), Roger Scruton: The Philosopher of Dover Beach (2009), and Why Be a Catholic? (2011).

Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this twenty second episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by the excellent Inaya Folarin Iman. Inaya is a writer, political commentator and social campaigner.  She uses her work to explore subjects in politics and philosophy – with a particular interest in ‘big picture’ subjects such as freedom of speech and expression, democracy, liberty and human potential.  Inaya has written for The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Spectator, Spiked and several other publications.

Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this twenty first episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by William Henry Willimon. William is an American theologian and bishop in the United Methodist Church, retired, who for eight years served the North Alabama Conference.  He is currently Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry and Director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Duke Divinity School. He is former Dean of the Chapel at Duke University and is considered by many as one of America's best-known and most influential preachers.  A Pulpit & Pew Research on Pastoral Leadership survey determined that he was one of the two most frequently read writers by pastors in mainline Protestantism alongside the Roman Catholic writer Henri Nouwen.  His books have sold over a million copies. He is also Editor-At-Large of The Christian Century. His 2019 memoir Accidental Preacher was released to wide acclaim, described by Justo L. Gonzalez as "An exceptional example of theology at its best."

Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this twentieth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by delightful psychologist, Dr Richard Beck.  Richard is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Abilene Christian University.  During his teaching career Richard has been honoured as ACU Teacher of the Year, Honours Teacher of the Year, and has won the College of Arts and Sciences Classroom Teaching and Faith Integration awards.  Outside of the classroom, Richard travels the world as a sought after speaker and an award-winning blogger and author.

Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this nineteenth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined once again by Professor Lou Markos of Houston Baptist University and Matt Miller of YouTube's Logos Made Flesh.  We speak about meta-narratives, meaning and identity.

Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this eighteenth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined once again by Professor Lou Markos of Houston Baptist University and Matt Miller of YouTube's Logos Made Flesh. We speak about the ultimate impotence of ideologies like Neo-Marxism and central importance of shared cultural memories.

Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this seventeenth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by the brilliant Katharine Birbalsingh. Katharine is a British education reformer and headteacher. She is the founder and headmistress of Michaela Community School, a free school (charter school) established in 2014 in Wembley Park, London.  Birbalsingh is the author of two books, Singleholic (2009) and To Miss with Love (2011), and editor of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Teachers: The Michaela Way (2016) and Michaela: The Power of Culture (2020).  She also hosts a blog, To Miss with Love, where she writes about the education system.   In 2017 she was included by Anthony Seldon in his list of the 20 most influential figures in British education, and in 2019 she was awarded the Contrarian prize.