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Unbelievable? offers a weekly podcast, blog, and video series hosted by Ruth Jackson and a team of thinkers and Christian apologists.

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May 12, 2023 · 1 hr 24 min
Is it Rational to be a Christian? - Justin Brierley vs Stephen Woodford
In 2019, Justin Brierley swapped his moderator’s chair for being a debater in a live show recorded in front of a student audience at Oxford University. He engaged atheist Stephen Woodford who runs the YouTube channel Rationality Rules on the questi...
May 9, 2023 · 1 hr 6 min
Classic Replay: A detective debates the Gospels - J Warner Wallace vs skeptics
From the archives. J Warner Wallace is a homicide detective specialising in cold case murder investigations. In his book Cold Case Christianity he shows how the same tools of investigating evidence can show that the Gospels are trustworthy accounts...
May 5, 2023 · 1 hr 20 min
King Charles and the Church: The Disestablishment Debate with Dr. Jonathan Chaplin & Catherine Pepinster hosted by Roger Bolton
This week on Unbelievable’s Coronation special Roger Bolton asks how important is the established Church of England to the fabric of life in the United Kingdom and beyond? Does King Charles as Supreme Governor of the Church of England have divine ...
May 2, 2023 · 1 hr
Classic Replay: What if we found alien life?
From the archives: The SETI programme has been listening to the universe for signs of intelligent life for over 50 years. In his book 'Science, Religion and the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence' astrophysicist Revd Prof David Wilkinson ass...
Apr 28, 2023 · 1 hr 18 min
Rod Dreher & Louise Perry • Christianity, the Sexual Revolution and the future of the West
The Big Conversation - Episode 2 | Season 5 Is post-Christendom a brave new world or a culture in collapse? Can ancient wisdom still offer answers to the modern problems of life? Rod Dreher is Senior Editor of The American Conse...
Apr 25, 2023 · 1 hr 31 min
Classic Replay: William Lane Craig debate at the Cambridge Union
In this debate from the Reasonable Faith UK tour in 2011, William Lane Craig visited the Cambridge Union. The motion under debate is "This house believes that God is not a delusion". The other debaters are Peter S Williams, Arif Ahmed & Andrew Cops...
Apr 21, 2023 · 1 hr 48 min
Is God Dead? - Dr. John Lennox and Dave Rubin’s Big Conversation
This week we play Justin Brierley's personal favourite episode: the discussion he hosted live in California, between Christian apologist John Lennox and US talk show host Dave Rubin, from 2019. Part of The Big Conversation, they discussed the quest...
Apr 18, 2023 · 1 hr 8 min
Classic Replay: 3 same-sex attracted church leaders on celibacy and ’post-gay’ identity
In light of the recent Church of England debates on gay marriage this archive show from 2013 titled "A Different Kind of Coming Out" saw Justin meet three evangelical church leaders who talked about their struggle with same-sex attraction and why t...
Apr 14, 2023 · 1 hr 35 min
Celebrating 17 years of Unbelievable? - Justin Brierley, Ruth Jackson, and Dr. Vince Vitale
The Unbelievable? show has been broadcasting for over 17 years. Justin Brierley and Ruth Jackson take a retrospective tour through highlights from the show from day one to some of the most significant debates that have been hosted, before being joi...
Apr 11, 2023
Classic Replay: Adam, Eve, Sin & Death - Young Earth vs Evolution debate
From 2013: The second of two debates in which Young Earth Creationist Andy McIntosh debated palaeontologist Robert Asher. Andy responded to a number of questions left hanging over from the previous show. Both are Christians and give their diffe...
Apr 7, 2023 · 1 hr 29 min
Bart Ehrman & Justin Bass • Did Jesus of Nazareth rise from the dead?
The Big Conversation - Episode 1 | Season 5 The rise of Christianity has shaped the modern world, but are its historical origins best explained in purely naturalistic terms, or the explanation the first followers gave – that Jesus had ris...
Apr 4, 2023 · 1 hr 5 min
Classic Replay: The rock and fossil record - Young Earth vs Evolution debate
First broadcast in 2013: The Young Earth Creation movement claim that the Bible and science show that the world is only a little over 6000 years old. Andy Macintosh is Professor of Thermodynamics and Combustion Theory at the University of Leeds. He...
Mar 31, 2023 · 1 hr 19 min
Ask William Lane Craig Anything
Renowned Christian thinker William Lane Craig answers listener questions on a live edition of the show. He responds to questions on philosophy, Adam & Eve, suffering, the worst argument for God and more. Plus we hear from Jeremiah J Johnston on the...
Mar 28, 2023 · 1 hr
Classic Replay: Greg Koukl gets grilled
First broadcast in 2013: Greg Koukl is the host of the apologetics radio show Stand To Reason which aims to equip believers with good reasons for their faith and to answer the objections of sceptics. Greg talked to three atheists on this show. ...
Mar 24, 2023 · 1 hr 27 min
A skeptical churchgoer asks ’Is Christianity too exclusive?’ Grace Hill & Eric Huffman
Show listener Grace Hill grew up in church but has always had lots of skeptical questions, especially around whether Christianity is too exclusive when it comes to honest seekers in other faiths. She recently found a church home where she could ask...
Mar 21, 2023 · 41 min
Richmond Wandera: Theological and spiritual revival in Africa
In a podcast special Justin is joined by Ugandan pastor Richmond Wandera to talk about the joys and challenges of ministry in Africa. They discuss theology, syncretism, witchcraft, secularism, prayer and revival in East Africa. The life of Richmond a...
Mar 17, 2023 · 1 hr 30 min
Optimism or extinction? What’s the future of humanity? John Hands & Perry Marshall
Secular scientist and academic John Hands has been described as a 'polymath'. His 2016 book Cosmosapiens received wide praise for its analysis of human evolution since the beginning of the universe. His new book 'The Future of Humankind' looks ahea...
Mar 14, 2023 · 1 hr 3 min
Classic Replay: Peter Kreeft’s argument from desire
CS Lewis said "If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world." Peter Kreeft is a philosophy professor and well known Christian thinker and writer. He defen...
Mar 10, 2023 · 1 hr 27 min
Where does order in nature and the cosmos come from? Stephen Meyer & Saleem Ali
Prof Saleem Ali of the University of Delaware is author of 'Earthly Order: How natural laws define human life' and describes the way order in the universe drives order in human and social settings. He engages with Dr Stephen Meyer of the Discovery ...
Mar 7, 2023 · 1 hr 4 min
Classic Replay: Does Science need God? Tom McLeish, David Hutchings & Suzie Sheehy
To honour the passing of the great scientist and Christian educator Tom McLeish, we're replaying this show first broadcast in 2017. David Hutchings is a physics teacher and prof Tom McLeish chaired the Royal Society’s education committee. Both...