Podcast Episodes

Classic Replay: Professor Alister McGrath interview

Episode 240

Alister McGrath combines a background in science with a passion for theology and apologetics. Many of his books, including ‘The Dawkins Delusion’, his critique of Richard Dawkins and the New Atheism,…

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago

Is Christianity a white man’s religion? – Dr Vince Bantu and Dr AJ Varmah

Episode 239

Why do we often picture a Caucasian Jesus with blonde hair and blue eyes? Why are many of the early church fathers depicted as white when they weren’t? Has African Christianity been hijacked?    Dr …

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago

Classic Replay: Atheist fundamentalism with Richard Dawkins, AC Grayling, Richard Harries and Charles Moore

Episode 238

Atheists Richard Dawkins and AC Grayling squared up against Christians Richard Harries and Charles Moore for a debate on the motion "Atheism is the new fundamentalism".

Justin Brierley reviews the de…

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago

The Ravi Zacharias Scandal: Dr Diane Langberg, Glen Scrivener and Steve Baughman

Episode 237

A recent report about Ravi Zacharias has shipwrecked a global ministry and the legacy of one of the most influential Christian apologists has been swept away. Justin and Ruth are joined by Christian …

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago

Classic Replay: Will everyone be saved? With Robin Parry and Laurence M Blanchard

Episode 236

‘The Evangelical Universalist’ was published in 2006. The author claimed to be an evangelical Christian who believes that everyone will ultimately be saved. He published under a pen name, but a few y…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Richmond Wandera – Christianity, witchcraft and the prosperity gospel in Uganda

Episode 235

Richmond Wandera, a pastor in Kampala, Uganda and listener of Unbelievable? talks to Justin about the history of Christian revival in Africa, elections and Covid in Uganda, witchcraft, secularism and…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Classic Replay: The divinity of Jesus with Christian Richard Bauckham and sceptic James Crossley

Episode 234

Many have suggested that Christian belief in the divinity and worship of Jesus as God was a late development, and that Jesus' early followers did not regard him as being equal with God.  So was Jesus…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Are demons and exorcism for real? Billy Hallowell and Michael Shermer

Episode 233

There’s been a rise in the demand for exorcism from church priests in recent years.  

Billy Hallowell author of ‘Playing With Fire: A modern investigation into demons, exorcism and ghosts’ says we ne…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Transgender people and the church – Preston Sprinkle and Christina Beardsley

Episode 232

Rev Christina Beardsley is a transgender priest in the Church of England and author of numerous resources on trans experience in the church.   She engages with Preston Sprinkle, author of ‘Embodied:…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Classic Replay: The Gospels as eyewitnesses Part 2 – Richard Bauckham and James Crossley

Episode 231

Richard Bauckham’s book ‘Jesus and the Eyewitnesses’ has been heralded as a paradigm shift in the way the authorship of the Gospels should be seen. Bauckham argues that the Gospels are based on eyewi…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago