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Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 20 min
Unbelievable? 8 Oct 2011 - Old Testament Grill-a-Christian with Peter J Williams
BOOK NOW: The UK Reasonable Faith Tour with William Lane Craig is one week away 17-26 Oct http://www.premier.org.uk/craig Peter J Williams is the Warden of Tyndale House, Cambridge and a first class scholar of both Old and New Testament. He takes n...
Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 20 min
Unbelievable? 1 Oct 2011 - Craig, Lennox, Habermas & PJ Williams - Apologetics conference preview
BOOK NOW: The UK Reasonable Faith Tour with William Lane Craig http://www.premier.org.uk/craig Watch the video preview at http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=pQifJkVCFaQ On this week's show: We look ahead to the Bethinking National Apologetics Day...
Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 20 min
Unbelievable? 24 Sep 2011 - Understanding Jesus - listener Q&A
BOOK NOW: The Reasonable Faith Tour with William Lane Craig 17-26 October 2011 http://www.premier.org.uk/craig Peter S Williams is a Christian philosopher and apologist. His latest book Understanding Jesus brings together lines of evidence for a ph...
Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 20 min
Unbelievable? 17 Sep 2011 - Can an atheist believe in meaning?
COMING SOON: Book into the UK Reasonable Faith Tour with William Lane Craig http://www.premier.org.uk.craig Geoff Crocker is a former Christian, now atheist. However, he says he still believes in Spirituality even as an atheist and that believing ...
Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 20 min
Unbelievable? 3 Sep 2011 - Islam, conversion & apostasy
Book Now for October's UK Reasonable Faith Tour with William Lane Craig http://www.premier.org.uk/craig Today's show: Patrick Sookhdeo converted from Islam to Christianity as a young man. He has since gone on to represent the rights of persecuted C...
Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 21 min
Unbelievable? 10 Sep 2011 - William Lane Craig Q&A & Tour preview
William Lane Craig is coming to the UK from October 17-26 2011 for a series of debates and lectures countering atheism and presenting strong rational grounds for belief in God. Book now for the Reasonable Faith Tour at http://www.premier.org.uk/crai...
Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 20 min
Unbelievable? 27 Aug 2011 - Bart Ehrman on his loss of faith
Bart Ehrman is James A Gray Distingushed Prof of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is well known as a Bible scholar who has thrown doubt upon the reliability of Scripture with bestselling books "Misquoting Jesus...
Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 21 min
Unbelievable? 20 Aug 2011 - Dialogue with an ex-Christian
Rebekah Bennetch lives in Saskatoon, Canada. She grew up in a Christian family. Her dad is a pastor, and other family members are involved in Christian ministries. She professed faith from a young age, went to Bible college, atteneded church and ...
Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 20 min
Unbelievable? 6 Aug 2011 - Bart Ehrman & Darrell Bock on "Forged"
Sceptical Bible scholar Bart Ehrman's latest book "Forged" claims that many of the writings of the New Testament are falsely attributed to apostles such as Peter and Paul. He claims that they were not written by them and that a deliberate deception...
Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 19 min
Unbelievable? 13 Aug 2011 - Hitler & Stalin's regimes
Critics of Christianity sometimes make the case that Hitler was a Christian and that it influenced the Nazi regime. Is that true? Critics of atheism sometimes make the case that Stalin's atheism was a driving motivation for his murderous regime. ...
Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 20 min
Unbelievable? 30 Jul 2011 - Does Religion make people kill?
On Fri 22 July 2011 tragedy struck Norway as Anders Breivik detonated a bomb in Oslo and shot dozens of people ont he island of Utoya. Soon afterwards news media were referring to Breivik as a "Christian fundamentalist" But was he a Christian and d...
Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 19 min
Unbelievable? 23 Jul 2011 - Is there justification for abortion?
Recent statistics on abortion in the UK saw just under 190,000 abortions in 2010. Figures were also released for late abortions carried out because of physical and mental disability. Dr. Wendy Savage of Doctors For A Woman's Choice On Abortion has ...
Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 20 min
Unbelievable? 9 Jul 2011 - Grill a Christian round 4
Scottish pastor and apologist David Robertson returns for a show interacting with three UK atheist listeners of the show. "Hasn't the experience of common morality around the world shown that we have no need of a divine law giver?" asks Jim. Andrew...
Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 20 min
Unbelievable? 16 Jul 2011 - Debating Nazi Ideology
Richard Weikart is a Christian and professor of History at California State University. He has drawn controversial conclusions regarding the role of Darwinism in providing a rationale for Hitler's Nazi ideology. Hector Avalos is an atheist and Profe...
Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 54 min
Unbelievable? 5 Jul 2011 - William Lane Craig vs AC Grayling debate on God & Evil
William Lane Craig & AC Grayling debated at the Oxford Union in 2005. Does the existence of evil and suffering in the world preclude the existence of the Christian God? Book for the UK Reasonable Faith Tour 2011 Info at http://www.bethinking.org/cr...
Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 20 min
Unbelievable? 25 Jun 2011 - Atheist delusions - David Bentley Hart vs Terry Sanderson
Many new atheist writers have claimed that a new age of enlightened secular rationalism has rescued Western civilisation from the stranglehold of backwards and archaic Christian influence. David Bentley Hart says those who make such claims are suffe...
Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 20 min
Unbelievable? 18 Jun 2011 - Is a secular society a more tolerant one?
This week we air a debate that recently took place on whether Britain's increasingly secular society is thereby a more tolerant one. Does secularisation bring a level playing field for everyone, or are Christians now being marginalised for their be...
Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 21 min
Unbelievable? 11 Jun 2011 - Unbelievable? the Conference
"Unbelievable? The Conference" is available now on DVD - http://www.premier.org.uk/dvd Justin introduces two elements of the conference. Professor John Lennox, Scientist and Christian apologist gave the opening address "What are we apologising for?"...
Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 19 min
Unbelievable? 4 Jun 2011 - Making the resurrection add up
"The Easter Challenge" is regularly issued by atheists and sceptics. Can Christians provide a coherent account the events of the resurrection of Jesus that harmonises the apparent differences between the four Gospel accounts? Jay Smith is a Bible s...
Jun 23, 2014 · 1 hr 20 min
Unbelievable? 28 May 2011 - Can Christian morality inform secular society?
Lord Richard Harries is a life peer in the British House of Lords and the former Bishop of Oxford. His book "The Re-enchantment of Morality" has been shortlisted for this year's Michael Ramsey Prize for theological writing. He argues that Christian...