Matthew Dickerson is the author of several books including Hammers and Nails: the Life and Music of Mark Heard. His most recent books include: Aslan’s Breath: Seeing the Holy Spirit in Narnia which is a close reading of C.S.Lewis’s Narnia stories looking at the numerous ways Lewis seems to have been portraying the Holy Spirit; and the forthcoming book Birds in the Sky, Fish in the Sea: Attending to Creation with Delight and Wonder – a book which is a close reading of both nature and scripture and which ends with a poem responding to and inspired by the journals of Mark Heard. He has also published two novels of medieval historical fiction, the first of which Mark Heard read and responded to as part of a conversation between Dickerson and Heard. The second and more recent of these, titled The Rood and the Torc: the Song of Kristinge, Son of Finn, explores the spiritual and artistic value of songwriting as vocation, and is still available today.

Dickerson teaches at Middlebury College in Vermont. Though most of his teaching load is in the area of computer science, he still finds time to teach occasional courses on the writings of C.S.Lewis and J.R.R.Tolkien. He lives on a wooded hillside with his wife of more than 35 years.

Reverend Daniel Bradshaw returns to talk about the nature of a testament to the nature of God, the million coincidences that produced life on Earth, multiverses, the purpose of life when humans are considered no different from bacteria and the science of the drumming of the rock band Petra.

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Rev. Daniel Bradshaw discusses with us the history of the relationship between science and Christianity, the controversy over the Ark Encounter in Eastern Kentucky, Darwinism verses Intelligent Design, Richard Dawkins, dialogue between believers and atheists and the ethics within a world view in which humans are not made in the image of God.

Original musical interludes provided and written by Grey Wood Wrapped In Wire

The song Orphans of God used with permission from Dan Russell and Fingerprint Records

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