This week Sam and Daniel are joined by Professor A.C. Grayling.

Together we talk about history, ethics, morality, and religion. This is an insightful conversation and one that I found helped to link some major areas together now that I am on the other side of religion.

A.C. Grayling's Bio: Anthony Clifford Grayling CBE FRSA FRSL is a British philosopher and author. He was born in Northern Rhodesia and spent most of his childhood there and in Nyasaland. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college in London.

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Resources mentioned in/after this conversation:
The Good Book by A.C. Grayling 
The God Argument by A.C. Grayling
The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey
Father and Son by Edmund Gosse

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On the 3rd of Dec 2021, Ben Watkins and Trent Horn engaged in a formal Devil's Advocate Debate on the subject of Abortion. This was a live event where viewers questions were asked on YouTube.

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This week Sam and Daniel are joined by Professor Dale C. Allison Jr.

We take a look at Professor Allison's beliefs and work, as well as what he thinks it is possible to know about this world and the claims the Bible makes. This is a really refreshing conversation and sees Dale C. Allison balance faith, searching and knowledge in a really impressive way.

Dale C. Allison's Bio: Dale C. Allison is an American New Testament scholar, historian of Early Christianity, and Christian theologian who for years served as Errett M. Grable Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Early Christianity at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He is currently the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament Studies at  Princeton Theological Seminary.

You can find/follow Dale C. Allison Jr here:  
Princeton Theological Seminary

Resources mentioned in this episode:  
The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus
Night Comes: Death, Imagination, and the Last Things
The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, History

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This week Sam sits back down with Roger Bretherton to look at certainty and what Roger holds as his bedrock to his faith.

Is a relational faith enough? Can it be pinned down? What would undermine this? Is there a circle that one can enter to start to know God? Is it someone's fault if they can't or don't believe in God?

We close with a challenge for Roger to complete to push into this more effectively in the next conversation.

*Note* I was wrong about where the verses about a hanged man being cursed are found in the OT, it's actually within Deuteronomy 21:22-23.*Note* 

Roger's Bio: Dr Roger Bretherton is Principal Lecturer for Enterprise in the School of Psychology at the University of Lincoln. He worked as a clinician, manager and trainer in the NHS for over a decade, and joined the University of Lincoln in 2007, where he specialises in coaching and positive psychology.

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Welcome to the first instalment of 'The Ehrman Episodes'!

To kick things off, Bart and Sam take a whistle-stop tour of the stories surrounding the Birth of Jesus in anticipation of his upcoming all-day webinar. Did the Christmas Story Really Happen? The Birth of Jesus in History & Legend.

Webinar Details:

On the 5th of Dec, Bart Ehrman is running an all-day webinar dedicated to looking at the Christmas story and if it really took place.

If you sign up before midday (EST) on the 28th of Nov, you can access this all-day webinar for $39.95. It then goes up to the regular price of  $49.95.

Even if you can't attend this all-day webinar, you will still have lifetime access to the recordings when you sign up. You can still sign up and access the recordings after the all-day webinar has taken place on the 5th of Dec.

Please use the following link to sign up for Bart's all-day webinar, as it  helps my channel financially and also means it is easier to get Bart  back on in the future: https://www.whenbeliefdies.com/webinar1

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This week Daniel and Sam sit down and try to bottom out the concept and phenomenon that is purpose.

The video version of this conversation can be found here on our YouTube channel 12 hours after the audio version goes live.

This is an honest exchange of ideas between two individuals who find themselves within a post-Christian space. We hope it enables those of you who are like us and want to begin to work these deeper questions through to some sort of healthy conclusion.   

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This week Sam and Daniel are joined by Dr Joshua Bowen. Josh runs a  YouTube Channel 'Digital Hammurabi' with his wife Megan, and is often engaging with Christians, agnostics and atheists online about the Hebrew  Bible and ancient Near Eastern culture.

In this conversation, we dive into why Josh is writing his books, why he engages with individuals online and what made him begin to question,  and then ultimately give up his Christian faith.

Dr Josh's Bio: Dr. Joshua Bowen graduated from the Johns Hopkins  University in 2017, with a Ph.D. in Assyriology. He wrote his dissertation on the lamentational liturgies of the city of Kiš, and specializes in the Sumerian language. Joshua was awarded the Deutscher  Akademischer Austauschdienst (D.A.A.D.) and Fulbright scholarship during the 2014-2015 academic year, allowing him to spend the year in  Tubingen, Germany, working with Dr. Konrad Volk on his dissertation project.

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Resources mentioned in this episode:  

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This week Sam is joined by Daniel and together they reflect on hell, judgement, heaven and the afterlife.

There is a lot in this conversation that might be hard to listen to, but what we hope is for this conversation to enable people to create a  space and resource to reflect on what they believe, why they believe it and how they can begin to work it through, where that is required.

The resources mentioned in this episode:  
Recovering from Religion
The Secular Therapy Project
The Clergy Project
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife by Bart D. Ehrman

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Sam is joined once again by Roger Bretherton and together they look further into who Jesus is and what it means to have and hold a faith in the person of Jesus (or John).

Roger's Bio: Dr Roger Bretherton is Principal Lecturer for Enterprise in the School of Psychology at the University of Lincoln. He worked as a  clinician, manager and trainer in the NHS for over a decade, and joined the University of Lincoln in 2007, where he specialises in coaching and positive psychology.

You can find/follow Roger here:  
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This week Sam and Daniel are joined by Sharon Dirckx.

Sharon is a Senior Tutor at OCCA The Oxford Center for Christian  Apologetics. Originally from a scientific background, she has a PhD in brain imaging from the University of Cambridge and has held research positions at the University of Oxford.

In this conversation, we look at consciousness and Qualia. Qualia are defined as individual instances of subjective, conscious experience.

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

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