Unbelievable?

Presented by Ruth Jackson

Every Saturday from 6pm - 7pm

Are martyred apostles good evidence for the resurrection? Sean McDowell vs Paulogia

8 May 2020
01:34:02

Would the followers of Jesus have been willing to suffer and die for something they knew to be false? Can we be historically confident they were martyred at all? Sean McDowell defends his book ‘The Fate of the Apostles’ against atheist YouTuber Paul....

Where do atheists get their meaning from? Zach Broom and Michael Brady

1 May 2020
01:31:06

Zach Broom is the author of ‘Without God: Science, belief, morality and the meaning of life’ in which he claims that many of our most basic intuitions don’t make sense in the absence of God. The book is dedicated to his atheist friend Michael Brady,....

Why doesn’t God end Coronavirus and mend the world? Justin Brierley

30 Apr 2020
35:26

In a bonus mid-week episode Justin shares his own thoughts on why God doesn’t step in to stop ‘natural evils’ like coronavirus, plague and natural disasters. Read Justin’s blog on the subject: https://www.premierchristianity.com/Blog/Why-doesn-t-God-...

Is it time to end the war on drugs? Peter Hitchens vs Christina Dent. Plus William Lane Craig and Amy Orr Ewing on God, atheism and Covid 19

23 Apr 2020
01:32:50

Peter Hitchens and Christina Dent, two Christians with very different views on drug legalisation, debate whether or not decriminalisation is the way to combat drug abuse. Justin also chats with Christian thinkers William Lane Craig and Amy Orr-Ewing...

God vs Stephen Hawking – Dave Hutchings, David Wilkinson and Phil Halper

17 Apr 2020
01:36:03

‘God, Stephen Hawking and the Multiverse’ is the name of a new book by physics teacher David Hutchings and Prof David Wilkinson of Durham University. They discuss Hawking, his science, the big bang and what it means for the God question with atheist...

Is the resurrection unbelievable? Jonathan McLatchie vs David Johnson

10 Apr 2020
01:26:25

Christian apologist Jonathan McLatchie and atheist sceptic David Johnson debate the evidence for the resurrection in an Easter weekend edition of the show. For Jonathan McLatchie http://apologetics-academy.org/ For David Johnson https://skep...

John Lennox: Where is God in a Coronavirus world?

8 Apr 2020
33:12

In a midweek bonus episode Justin talks to Oxford professor and Christian thinker John Lennox about his new book ‘Where is God in a Coronavirus World?’. The normal format of the show resumes this coming weekend with a resurrection debate. For John Le...

Lockdown special feat. Nicky Gumbel, Megan Cornwell, Andrew Wilson, Esther O Reilly, Will van der Hart and NT Wright

3 Apr 2020
01:55:42

Justin speaks to Christians leaders, thinkers and theologians from lockdown in the UK and USA with a variety of responses to Coronavirus. Nicky Gumbel of the Alpha Course looks for the good coming ou of the storm, Megan Cornwell relates her Covid-19...

An evening with NT Wright live in London

27 Mar 2020
01:25:13

Justin recently hosted An Evening with Tom Wright at Westminster Chapel in London (pre-Coronavirus restrictions!). In this podcast special Tom delivers a talk on ‘Jesus, Paul and the Question of God’ and then sits down with Justin to answer audien...

Coronavirus: How will it change the church and the world? AJ Roberts, Mark Sayers and mystery guest

20 Mar 2020
01:35:36

In a special edition of the show, recorded from home, Justin looks at the present Coronavirus crisis, how the pandemic will change global society and how the church can respond. He chats with Reasons To Believe virologist AJ Roberts, church and cultu...

Antinatalism - should we let humans go extinct? David Benatar vs Bruce Blackshaw

13 Mar 2020
01:23:26

David Benatar is the world’s leading ‘antinatalist’ philosopher. His controversial book ‘Better Never To Have Been’ argues that the suffering of existence always outweighs any potential good and that it is morally wrong to bring new human beings into...

The Genealogical Adam and Eve – Joshua Swamidass and Nathan Lents

6 Mar 2020
01:32:32

Joshua Swamidass is the author of ‘The Genealogical Adam and Eve: The surprising science of universal ancestry’. He says that the book could end the war between evolution and creation as it reveals the scientific basis for why everybody on earth coul...

Origins of Life Debate Round 2 - James Tour vs Lee Cronin

28 Feb 2020
01:48:00

Prof of Nanotechnology James (Jim) Tour & Glasgow biology Prof Lee Cronin debate contemporary Origins of Life research and whether Lee’s laboratory is on the way to discovering it. You can watch/listen to the first Unbelievable? debate on this su...

God, Gay Christians and the Church - Brandan Robertson and David Bennett

21 Feb 2020
01:30:18

Two gay Christians on either side of the 'Side A and Side B’ view, join Justin to talk about their stories and why they take different views on sexuality and the gospel. Brandan Roberston is a progressive pastor of an LGBT affirming church who believ...

2 views on the God of Love and the Problem of Evil - Thomas Jay Oord and John C Peckham (+ Greg Koukl)

14 Feb 2020
01:43:06

If God is all-powerful and all-loving, why is there so much evil in the world? Two Christian thinkers with different solutions to this age-old question join Justin. Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian and philosopher who advocates a ‘non-coercive and unc...