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Jerry Johnston Interviews Miguel Farias – Nones Researcher

Four scholars are researching, in four different countries, profiling nones. A compilation of their landmark research, along with other researchers, will be presented in Rome in 2019. Why are people religiously disaffiliating? What is the difference in non-believers in Japan as opposed to Denmark, or Brazil in contrast to the United States? What are the actual catalysts of unbelief? There is obvious diversity in different nations…

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Jerry Johnston Interviews Philosopher Richard Swinburne

The unreported good news: the past 50 years have been an incredibly fruitful period in the philosophy of religion. Now, established theists teach in many of the most renown universities of the world. The catalyst of the movement — Richard Swinburne, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Over the last 50 years,…

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Cristie Jo Johnston asked Richard Dawkins about Psalm 14:1

Professor Richard Dawkins, English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, author, emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, continued his filmed interview with Dr. Cristie Jo Johnston, Professor of Theology at Houston Baptist Univesity. She asked a daring question, “The Bible says that anyone that says in their heart there is no God they are a fool.  What do you…

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Jerry Johnston asks Richard Dawkins, “Do you have a degree in theology?”

I asked Richard Dawkins permission when we were filming in Oxford, England. He consented. Quoting his detractors, without the slightest bit of cynicism, I posed the question to @RichardDawkins, “Do you have a degree in theology?” “Are you proficient in Hebrew or Greek?” Dawkins’ answered, “Of course not.” How then do you write an accurate critique of the theology of the Bible…

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Jerry Johnston interviews Richard Dawkins

Maybe @RichardDawkins was right when he told me that his book, The God Delusion, among other similar titles of the same genre, is to be credited for the decline of Christian faith in America. Richard Dawkins met Cristie Jo Johnston and me on his bike at our hotel in Oxford, England recently. Together we walked…

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Jerry Johnston interviews Saint Andrews’ Professor N.T. Wright

Everything in Christianity hinges on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Sociologist Rodney Stark, PhD, told me yesterday that no one in human history made the impact of Jesus Christ. The absolute axis of the Christian faith rests on the resurrection. In Gospel narratives we observe the behavior of the closest followers of Jesus before His…

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