Everyday Conversations Podcast

In this week's Everyday Conversations Podcast, Jojo Ruba and Shafer Parker celebrate our 100th podcast and discuss the impact that Faith Beyond Belief has made in the past few months and what to look forward to in 2020.

In this week's Everyday Conversations Podcast Shafer Parker interviews Scott Shay.  A banker, an author and an orthodox Jew, Scott Shay has recently published In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism. In his book Scott explicitly refutes atheism’s charge that religion poisons everything and makes the case that the opposite is true.

In this week's Everyday Conversations Podcast, host Shafer Parker and his guest Georgi Boorman discuss the implications of Chick-Fil-A's recent change in course, and what it says about the individual’s freedom to bring up spiritual matters in everyday conversations

Chick-fil-A is well known in North America for its uncompromising stand in favour of Biblically-based Christian values but now, in a surprising turn of events, it announced it will no longer support charities that disagree with LGBT position

In this week's Everyday Conversations Podcast, Shafer Parker and Amy Beange discuss the significance of October 31st.

At the end of October the whole world celebrates Halloween, but for Evangelical Christians the 31st is Reformation Day, a memorial to the moment in 1517 when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany. Find out why almost everything that characterizes the best of modern Christianity traces its roots to this momentous period.

In this week's Everyday Conversations Podcast, Shafer Parker and Amy Beange discuss what science is and how modern day science has its origins in Christian principles. As well, they examine the history of science and how we went from the dark ages to the enlightenment period.

In this week's Everyday Conversations Podcast, Jojo Ruba and Shafer Parker discuss Faith Beyond Belief's upcoming Holy Land tour and what to expect when exploring the Holy Land. They discuss an area known as "The Gates of Hell" and share how Jesus and his disciples were standing right next to this area, when Jesus proclaimed to Peter that the gates of hell would not prevail against the church.

In this week's Everyday Conversations Podcast, Jojo Ruba and Shafer Parker discuss a passage from the book of Jeremiah chapter 29, on how the Jews were instructed to live while in captivity. They discuss why the Jews were told to be involved with a culture vastly different and in opposition to their own culture and values. As well, they examine how the Bible calls believers to be salt and light and to have an influence on the culture that increasingly opposes them.

In this week's Everyday conversations podcast, guest host Shafer Parker interviews Mattea Merta on how Christians should approach politics. They encourage believers to get involved and to make their voice heard so that governments create great policy.

In this week's Everyday Conversations Podcast, Jojo interviews Amy Beange and Colette Aikema, two of the newest associate speakers at Faith Beyond Belief. They discuss some of the talks they give, such as 'Christianity and History - Blessing or Plague?' and 'Unleashing Christian Sexuality'.

To learn more about some of the courses discussed in this podcast click on the links below.

Identity Project: https://www.identityproject.ca

Worldview Course: https://www.faithbeyondbelief.ca/worldview-course

In part 2 of this week's Everyday Conversations Podcast, Jojo interviews lawyer, John Carpay of the Justice Centre, who talks about some of the legal issues involved when governments try to ban a practice that is not defined clearly.