Unbelievable?

Presented by Ruth Jackson

Every Saturday from 6pm - 7pm

Alister McGrath on John Polkinghorne, Shelby Abbott on doubt and Mark Clark on Jesus

19 Mar 2021
01:38:19

Justin and Ruth present 3 interviews in this week's show.    Alister McGrath, Prof of science and religion at Oxford University talks about the life and legacy of physicist-priest John Polkinghorne who has passed away aged 90. Justin also presents a...

Classic Replay: Divorce and remarriage – David Instone-Brewer and Andrew Cornes

16 Mar 2021
01:06:58

This week we look at two different Christian views of Divorce and Remarriage. Andrew Cornes is part of the clergy team at All Souls Eastbourne.  He holds to the traditional understanding that Jesus taught divorce is only permissible for adultery, and...

Is free speech on campus being cancelled? Julia Rynkiewicz, Ryan Christopher & Alison Scott-Baumann

12 Mar 2021
01:21:19

Julia Rynkiewicz was suspended from her midwifery course at Nottingham University because of her support for the pro-life organisation Students for Life.    Justin is joined by Julia along with Ryan Christoper of ADF UK who fought and won Julia’s cas...

Classic Replay: Professor Alister McGrath interview

9 Mar 2021
01:02:02

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, have been bestsellers. In this wide-ranging interv...

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

5 Mar 2021
01:30:17

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 Vince Bantu of Fuller Theological Seminary and Dr A....

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

2 Mar 2021
01:10:54

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 debate with audio clips from the speakers a...

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

26 Feb 2021
01:21:53

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 psychologist Dr Diane Langberg, a specialist in tra...

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

23 Feb 2021
01:06:16

‘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 years later revealed his true identity as Robin Parr...

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

19 Feb 2021
01:19:23

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 the problem of the prosperity gospel in churches....

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

16 Feb 2021
01:03:58

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 merely regarded as an ‘elevated’ being? Was high C...

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

12 Feb 2021
01:34:37

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 need ot take the supernatural seriously. Atheist skep...

Transgender people and the church – Preston Sprinkle and Christina Beardsley

5 Feb 2021
01:29:06

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: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the...

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

1 Feb 2021
01:05:04

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 eyewitness accounts and should be regarded as fundamenta...

Is the Bible as bad as atheist memes claim? Dan Kimball vs Michael Wiseman

29 Jan 2021
01:32:20

The online atheist world is awash with memes that critique passages from the Bible.  Dan Kimball is the author of the new book ‘How (not) to read the Bible: Making sense of the anti-women, anti-science, pro-violence, pro-slavery, and other crazy soun...

Classic Replay: The Gospels as eyewitnesses Part 1 – Richard Bauckham and James Crossley

26 Jan 2021
01:02:51

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 eyewitness accounts and should be regarded as fundamenta...