Jason Smyth is one of the greatest para athletes of all time. The Derry born sprinter has the distinction of never having tasted defeat in a major Para- Athletics event since his debut at the 2005 European Championships in Espoo, Finland. Jason has represented Ireland at 3 Paralympic Games including Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016. Jason won gold medals in all three of his Paralympic Games do date winning the 100m in the T13 classification at each event and in the 200m in both 2008 and 2012 before the event was excluded from subsequent games. Jason has been the most consistent performer in the world for the past 15 years and he is the World Record holder on both the 100m and 200m events. Jason competes in the T13 category for athletes that have a Visual Impairment. Honours: 2005 European Champion Espoo 100m 2005 European Champion Espoo 200m 2006 World Champion Assen 200m 2006 World Champion Assen 100m 2008 Paralympic Champion Beijing 100m 2008 Paralympic Champion Beijing 200m 2012 Paralympic Champion London 100m 2012 Paralympic Champion London 200m 2013 World Champion Lyon 100m 2013 World Champion Lyon 200m 2014 European Champion Swansea 100m 2014 European Champion Swansea 200m 2015 World Champion Doha 100m 2016 Paralympic Champion 100m 2017 World Champion 100m 2017 World Champion 200m 2018 European Champion 100m 2018 European Champion 200m 2019 World Champion 100m Follow him here: https://twitter.com/smyth_jason?lang=en

Welcome to More Christ. We seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions. In this one hundred and third episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by Professor Nancy Pearcey. Nancy Pearcey is a bestselling author and speaker. A former agnostic, she was hailed in The Economist as “America’s pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual.” Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Times, First Things, Human Events, American Thinker, Daily Caller, The Federalist, CNSNews, and Fox News. She has appeared on NPR, C-SPAN, and Fox & Friends. She is currently a professor and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University. Pearcey’s books have been translated into 19 languages and include Total Truth, The Soul of Science, Saving Leonardo, Finding Truth, Love Thy Body, and The Toxic War on Masculinity. For more, please see: https://www.nancypearcey.com/ https://twitter.com/NancyRPearcey Author: Nancy Pearcey | Evolution News

In this episode, Glen Scrivener, an ordained Church of England minister, discusses topics like the origins of equality, the corruption of Christianity, the revolutionary nature of compassion, and the potential for Christian faith in a post-Christian culture.

Welcome to More Christ. We seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions. In this one hundred and first episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by once again by the delightful Dr Os Guinness. Os Guinness is an author and social critic. Great-great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, he was born in China in World War Two where his parents were medical missionaries. A witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949, he was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951 and returned to Europe where he was educated in England. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his D.Phil in the social sciences from Oriel College, Oxford. Os has written or edited more than thirty books, including The Call, Time for Truth, Unspeakable, A Free People’s Suicide, The Global Public Square, Last Call for Liberty, and Carpe Diem Redeemed. His latest book is Signals of Transcendence: Listening to the Promptings of Life. We will focus predominantly on this work in this episode. Since moving to the United States in 1984, Os has been a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies, a Guest Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum and the EastWest Institute in New York. He was the lead drafter of the Williamsburg Charter in 1988, a celebration of the bicentennial of the US Constitution, and later of “The Global Charter of Conscience,” which was published at the European Union Parliament in 2012. Os has spoken at many of the world’s major universities, and spoken widely to political and business conferences across the world. He lives with his wife Jenny in the Washington DC area. If you would like to learn more, please see the links here: Os Guinness – A quiet voice on behalf of faith, freedom, truth, reason and civility Amazon.co.uk: Os Guinness: Books, Biography, Blogs, Audiobooks, Kindle

Welcome to More Christ. We seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions. In this landmark one hundredth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by former guests and friends Thomas and Lou to celebrate the life and work of our friend, Matt Miller from Logos Made Flesh. If you would like to learn more about these gentlemen, please see the links below: Dr Louis Markos - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Louis-Markos... Thomas, formerly of Storytellers and now of the Armchair Historian -    / @storytellers1     / @thearmchairhisto...   Matt's Logos Made Flesh -    / youthnation1  

Welcome to More Christ. We seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions. In this ninety-ninth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by Ashley Lande. Ashley is an artist and writer from the U.S.A. She has a website and blog, which you can check out at www.ashleylande.com. Alongside her wonderful writings, some of which we discussed, you can see her stunning art- filled with vibrant colours, subtle golf leaves, and captivating drawings. Ashley is post-psychedelic and has a forthcoming memoir on leaving psychedelics for Jesus, to be published with Lexham Press. For more, check out her articles here: Acidhead: God Took Me Higher • Fathom Mag The Self Destroyed — Ekstasis Magazine

Welcome to More Christ. We seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions. In this ninety-eighth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined once more by my friend, Paul Kingsnorth and Tom Holland. Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer who lives in the west of Ireland. He is a former deputy-editor of The Ecologist and a co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project. Kingsnorth's nonfiction writing tends to address macro themes like environmentalism, globalisation, and the challenges posed to humanity by civilisation-level trends. His fiction tends to be mythological and multi-layered. Follow him here: https://www.paulkingsnorth.net/https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/ Tom Holland is a British writer, who has published several popular works on classical and medieval history as well as creating two documentaries. His recent book on the history of Christianity became a Sunday Times bestseller. He is currently the host of The Rest is History, alongside Dominic Sandbrooke. For more, please see here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tom-Holland/...https://www.tom-holland.org/https://open.spotify.com/show/7Cvsbcj...

Welcome to More Christ. We seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.   In this ninety seventh episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined once more by the magnificent Catholic psychologist and prolific author, Dr Kevin Vost.  Dr Vost has written astutely about everything from Stoic philosophy to memory, to Catholic guides to loneliness, physical fitness, and St Thomas Aquinas.  We discuss his recent book, You Are That Temple: A Catholic Guide to Health and Holiness.   If you'd like to learn more about Kevin and his work, please see the links below:   http://drvost.com/ Amazon.co.uk: Kevin Vost: Books, Biography, Blogs, Audiobooks, Kindle

Welcome to More Christ. We seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this ninety sixth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by Fr. Benedict Kiely.    Father Benedict Kiely is a Catholic priest, incardinated in the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Born in London, and ordained in Canterbury, England in 1994, Father Ben has spent most of his priestly ministry in the United States.    In the summer of 2014, Father Ben perceived a call to devote his entire priestly ministry to aid and advocacy for persecuted Christians, especially in the Middle East. Founding Nasarean.org, a 501 (c) 3 charity based in Stowe, Vermont and with the permission and support of his Ordinary, Father Ben divides his time between the US, UK and the Middle East, speaking, preaching and writing, trying to focus attention on the plight of persecuted Christians around the world.    He has visited war-torn Iraq on multiple occasions since 2015, and has visited Syria and Lebanon where Nasarean is now supporting a number of family businesses.   Father Ben has appeared numerous times on national radio and television, including Fox News, the BBC and international podcasts. A noted writer, formerly the US columnist for The Catholic Times, Fr. Ben’s work has appeared in, among other publications, The Saint Austin Review, The American Conservative, The European Conservative, The Daily Caller, Real Clear Politics, National Review, First Things, The Catholic Herald and Crisis.   For more, please see:  https://www.nasarean.org/index.php

Welcome to More Christ. We seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this ninety fifth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined once more by Jonathan Pageau and Dr Spencer Klavan.    Jonathan carves Eastern Orthodox and other traditional images. He also designs products, teaches, and makes fantastic videos for The Symbolic World that explore how ancient patterns can re-enchant our contemporary life.    Please check out Jonathan's channel:   https://www.youtube.com/c/JonathanPageau    With a PhD in Classics, Spencer Klavan has recently been snapped up by The Daily Wire. He is the assistant editor of The Claremont Review of Books and The American Mind at the Claremont Institute.    Spencer's literary expertise is aided by his knowledge of many languages, including Ancient Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. As a scholar who enjoys exploring how great works of literature provide valuable insights into today's world, Klavan hosts Young Heretics every Tuesday.   Please see his website and some of his excellent articles, here:   https://youngheretics.com/  https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/au...  https://www.dailywire.com/author/spen... Show less