Within Reason

By Alex J O'ConnorSociety & Culture Philosophy

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Typical duration
93 min
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Within Reason episodes

March 01, 2025 #96 Music, Mormonism, and Peter Hitchens - 1.25m Subsrciber Q&A
A Q&A to celebrate hitting 1.25 million subscribers on YouTube.

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1 hr 2 min
January 31, 2025 #95 James McGrath: John the Baptist, the Bible's Most Mysterious Man
James Frank McGrath is the Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University. He is the author of two books on John the Baptist: "John of History, Baptist of Faith: The Quest for the Historical Baptiser", and "Christmaker: A Life of John the Baptist".

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1 hr 24 min
January 27, 2025 #94 Dan McClellan - What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?
Dan McClellan is an American public scholar of the Bible and religion. His forthcoming book, "The Bible Says So", is available here.

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1 hr 20 min
January 21, 2025 #93 The Etymology Nerd - How Social Media is Transforming Our Language
Adam Aleksic is a linguist known online as "The Etymology Nerd". His educational videos are watched regularly by millions. His forthcoming book "Algospeak" is currently available for preorder.

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1 hr 10 min
December 20, 2024 #92 Bart Ehrman - The Dark Side of Christmas
Bart Ehrman is a New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. Get Bart Ehrman's new course, The Dark Side of Christmas (affiliate link).

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1 hr 2 min
December 13, 2024 #91 Filip Holm - What is Sufism? Islam and Mystical Experience
Filip Holm is the creator and host of "Lets Talk Religion", a YouTube channel which aims to educate on the subject of religion from an academic perspective.

He joins the show to discuss Sufism, which can broadly be defined as the mystical tradition within Islam.

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1 hr 25 min
December 06, 2024 #90 Rainn Wilson - Reclaiming Spirituality From Traditional Religion
Rainn Wilson is the actor and comedian best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the The Office (US), for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

He is also the host of ‪‪Soul Boom‬, a podcast discussing spirituality, and authored a book of the same name exploring how we can use spiritual tools to help solve some of life's problems.

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1 hr 38 min
November 28, 2024 #89 The Cultural Tutor - The Philosophy and Ethics of Art
Sheehan Quirke is the Cultural Tutor, a writer with 1.7 million followers on X. His work on art, history, and architecture is some of the most widely-enjoyed in the world. He writes a newsletter called the Areopagus.

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1 hr 2 min
November 22, 2024 #88 Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Why I Converted To Christianity
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born Dutch-American writer, activist and former politician. Once an advocate for the new atheist movement, she last year announced her conversion to Christianity.

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1 hr 3 min
November 13, 2024 #87 Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle - Biblical Slaves, Women, and the Unforgivable Sin
Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle run the extremely popular online Christian ministry ‪'Give Me an Answer'‬. In this episode they discuss troubling passages in the Old Testament, New Testament sexism, Job, doubting Thomas, the unforgivable sin (blaspheming the Holy Spirit), and more.

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2 hr 47 min