Alister McGrath on John Polkinghorne, Shelby Abbott on doubt and Mark Clark on Jesus

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🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Justin and Ruth present 3 interviews in this week's show. Alister McGrath, Prof of science and religion at Oxford University talks about the life and legacy of physicist-priest John Polkinghorne who has passed away aged 90. Justin also presents a sneak peek of his forthcoming CS Lewis podcast. Shelby Abbott talks about deconstruction and doubt in his latest book 'Doubtless: Because faith is hard’ and Canadian pastor Mark Clark presents his new book 'The Problem of Jesus'. For Alister’s tribute to John Polkinghorne https://www.premierchristianity.com/Blog/John-Polkinghorne-1930-2021-The-pre-eminent-voice-on-science-and-religion For our new C.S. Lewis podcast with Alister https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Weekday/The-CS-Lewis-podcast For Shelby Abbott https://shelbyabbott.com/ For Mark Clark http://www.pastormarkclark.com/books/ For Unbelievable? The Conference 2021 http://www.unbelievable.live For exclusive resources and to support us: USA http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow Rest of the World: https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable For our regular Newsletter https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter For more faith debates: http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UnbelievableJB Twitter https://twitter.com/unbelievablejb Insta https://www.instagram.com/justin.brierley

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0:00.0	Well hello and welcome along to this week's edition of Unbelievably, I'm Justin Briley,
0:04.1	bringing you conversations that matter at a bit of a different one this week, a variety of
0:08.7	interviews that I think you're going to enjoy. So I'll tell you all about them in just a moment's time.
0:13.8	Glad to say we've seen a lot of bookings coming in the past week for our online conference Saturday
0:18.4	15th May, unbelievable.live, learn how to tell the greatest story ever told. We are so looking
0:25.9	forward to welcoming people like NT Wright, Tom Holland, Claire Williams, Sean and Josh McDowell
0:31.7	on that day. You can be part of it too. There's going to be Q&A throughout the day,
0:35.7	loads of great interactivity, a 3D resource hub and much more besides. And you can even pay what
0:41.2	you want. We've got a premium ticket with lots of bonus stuff where you get all of the conference
0:46.0	material on high definition afterwards and more besides. But you can also do the pay what you want
0:50.8	option and of the time hopefully that will suit a lot of people out in the US as well. On Saturday,
0:56.4	the 15th of May, if you haven't booked your place, the place to go is unbelievable.live.
1:02.7	Well, no feedback on today's show because we're going a bit long squeezing in three interviews
1:08.2	on today's show. It's going to start with me catching up with Alistair McGraft, professor of
1:12.5	science and religion at Oxford University. With his reflections on the recent passing of physicist
1:18.0	priest John Polkinghorn, whose writings and ministry have been so influential in the field of
1:23.4	science and faith. I will also be hearing as part of that a sneak preview of a new CS Lewis
1:28.5	podcast that Alistair is contributing to and that'll be released in just over a week's time.
1:34.2	In the second part of this week's show Ruth Jackson catches up with Shelby Abbott. He's also
1:39.1	a new book called Doucless because faith is hard. And then in the final part of the show,
1:44.4	it's back to me in conversation with Mark Clark, pastor of the village church Vancouver.
1:49.4	And Mark has a great new book out as well called The Problem of Jesus,
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