Bridging Beliefs: A Dialogue Between Christian and Atheist Perspectives

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

Talbot, Church, Christianity, Christian, Culture, Biola, Sean Mcdowell, Religion & Spirituality, Scott Rae, Think Biblically

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🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This week, we have an excerpt of a recent event that Sean participated in with atheist journalist Adam Davidson. The two dialogued about their perspectives on issues like cancel culture, perceptions of evangelicals, and the importance of civil discourse. Highlighting areas of both agreement and disagreement, this episode demonstrates the value of thoughtful dialogue between differing worldviews. This discussion was moderated by Sean's "End the Stalemate" co-author, Tim Muehlhoff. =========...

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0:00.0	Welcome to a special episode of the Think Bibly Podcast. I'm your host Sean McDowell.
0:06.4	Today's conversation is actually a conversation that I had hosted by
0:10.5	Biola Professor Tim Neulhofhoff with an atheist journalist who's written for the New York Times,
0:16.6	the New Yorker, Planet Money, he helped create, and he's a friend of mine, and this was a part of a two-hour live stream we did through
0:25.8	Biola based on my new book with Dr. Meelhoff called End the Stalmate. For the
0:31.5	first part we talked about the book and then in the middle we
0:34.0	tried to model a civil thoughtful conversation between a Christian and an atheist and
0:39.4	then we took a live Q&A at the end. This is the middle portion where Tim hosts a conversation that Adam
0:46.5	and I have and we get into a lot of areas we have in common, areas in which we differ,
0:51.4	we talk about cancel culture, his perception of evangelicals and more.
0:55.5	I think you're really, really going to enjoy it.
0:58.2	So this is a special episode of the ThinkBiblic podcast brought to you by Talbot School of Theology at
1:04.5	Biola University. Enjoy. I want to bring you in but Tim you're going to kind of
1:09.2	of lead this time between us so take it away and welcome Adam at the same time.
1:14.0	Adam is so fine to meet you for the first time virtually.
1:17.0	Yeah, it's really great to be here.
1:20.0	Yeah.
1:21.0	When may I say they are an amazingly attractive man?
1:24.0	Yes, I think that one thing you and I can agree on is
1:28.0	Yes, and I've got to get that.
1:30.0	Are freakish, yeah.
1:32.0	I'm getting glasses like that brother. Yeah.
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