Unbelievable?

Presented by Ruth Jackson

Every Saturday from 6pm - 7pm

Classic Replay: A convert and skeptic in Narnia - Holly Ordway & Laura Miller

21 Feb 2023
01:01:14

Classic replay from the archives. Former atheist Holly Ordway came to Christian faith via poetry and literature. She tells her story and explains her passion for literary apologetics.   Laura Miller is an online literary critic and an agnos.....

Sexuality, Gender & Identity: 2 views on LGBT and the church - Andrew Bunt & Charlie Bell

17 Feb 2023
01:36:58

Andrew Bunt, Emerging Generations director at Living Out and author of 'Finding Your Best Identity', is a same-sex attracted Christian who has chosen celibacy and believes marriage is male-female. Charlie Bell, a gay Anglican vicar who also works a.....

Classic Replay: The Pope’s astronomer - Fr Guy Consolmagno

14 Feb 2023
54:50

From May 2013: Brother Guy Consolmagno has an asteroid named after him! The planetary scientist for the Vatican talked to Justin about his journey of faith, his scientific research and answered questions from listeners on the interaction of science.....

Death to Deconstruction: Josh Porter & Jon Steingard on whether exvangelicals can reconstruct their faith

10 Feb 2023
01:45:00

Punk singer-turned-pastor Josh Porter charts his own journey of reconstructing his Christian faith in the book 'Death to Deconstruction: Reclaiming faithfulness as an act of rebellion'. He discusses deconstruction, the Bible, the problem of evil an.....

Classic Replay: The outsider test of faith - John Loftus & Randal Rauser

7 Feb 2023
01:00:13

Another classic show from the archives. Randal Rauser is a Christian, John Loftus is a former-Christian-now-atheist. They co-authored the book “God Or Godless? debating 20 controversial questions.” They joined me for two discussions. In his “Ou.....

Uninvented: Are the stories of Jesus too unusual to have been made up? Mike D’Virgilio vs Matthew Taylor

3 Feb 2023
01:38:48

'You just can't make this stuff up!' That, in a nutshell is the contention of Mike D'Virgilio's book 'Uninvented: Why the Bible could not be made up and the evidence that proves it'. He says that the life of Jesus doesn't read like made up stories,.....

Classic Replay: Did Adam & Eve exist? Peter Enns, Fuz Rana & Denis Alexander

31 Jan 2023
01:08:17

From the archives: Do science and genetics support the existence of a 'first' human couple? How should we interpret the first chapters of Genesis? Do we need a historical Adam & Eve to make sense of sin and salvation? Three Christians discuss...

Miracle healing - does it happen today? Craig Keener, Peter May & Joshua Brown (Plus Alanzo Paul on Reboot)

27 Jan 2023
02:05:46

Can a skeptical doctor be persuaded that there is medical evidence for modern day healing? Craig Keener, author of 'Miracles Today', returns to the show to debate one of his fiercest critics Peter May, a retired medical doctor who says he has n.....

Classic Replay: Kermit Gosnell and the abortion debate

24 Jan 2023
01:06:20

In 2013, in the USA Kermit Gosnell, was being tried on counts of murdering children born alive in illegal late-term abortions at his unsanitary practise in Philadelphia. Dr Trevor Stammers is a Christian former GP who refused to personally refe.....

ChatGPT, AI and the future - John Wyatt Q&A on living faithfully in a technologically confusing world

20 Jan 2023
01:20:40

Justin and Ruth were joined by research scientist Dr John Wyatt on a live show to talk about AI, robotics and technology. Listeners asked questions about machine consciousness, the potential dangers of AI and how to raise children in a tech world. .....

Classic Replay: Rob Bell & Andrew Wilson on God, homosexuality and salvation

17 Jan 2023
01:07:38

In this week’s classic replay we go back to when Rob Bell returned to Unbelievable? 2 years after his debate on the controversial best-seller 'Love Wins'. He talked about life after Mars Hill Bible Church and his then-latest book 'What we talk .....

Paranormal hauntings and exorcism - a Christian and skeptic in discussion.

13 Jan 2023
01:26:24

Matt Arnold, editor of the Christian Parapsychologist Journal and Dr Cal Cooper, a psychologist and paranormal researcher, speak to Justin about how they interpret account of ghosts, exorcism and apparitions as a Christian and skeptic.   Fo.....

Classic Replay: Creating life in the lab: Adam Rutherford & Fuz Rana

10 Jan 2023
01:03:10

In this classic show from the archives, atheist scientist Adam Rutherford and Christian biochemist Fazale (Fuz) Rana of Reasons To Believe, discuss the scientific advances in attempting to create simple synthetic life in the laboratory and how this.....

Tim Keller Q&A on cancer, prayer and forgiveness

6 Jan 2023
01:23:34

Tim Keller is a renowned thinker, writer and speaker who has been dubbed New York's 'pastor to skeptics'. In a live online show hosted by Ruth Jackson and Justin Brierley he answers audience questions on his journey with pancreatic cancer, his tran.....

Classic Replay: How did life begin? Fuz Rana vs Adam Rutherford

3 Jan 2023
01:03:10

Was the emergence of the first self-replicating organism a result of design or the blind forces of nature? In today's show from the archvies, Adam Rutherford is an atheist scientist whose book "Creation: The Origin of Life" claimed to show...