Can faith survive cancer and science? Gillian Straine & Alom Shaha

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🗓️ 13 April 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Rev Gillian Straine is an Anglican priest with a background in science. She tells the story of how she dealt with the spiritual and medical challenges of being diagnosed with cancer aged 21, as told in her book 'Cancer: A Pilgrim's Companion'. She also shares news of a free public lecture by internationally renowned physicist Marcelo Glasier in London on Tue 22 May. Atheist guest Alom Shaha is a secondary school physics teacher and engages with Gillian on the question of faith, illness and science. He shares his story of rejecting his Islamic upbringing after the death of his mother and how he fell in love with the world of science. Alom has recently authored a book of practical science experiments for kids 'Mr Shaha's Recipes For Wonder'. For Marcelo Gleiser's free Drawbridge Lecture 'Unknowns in Heaven and Earth' on 22 May https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-drawbridge-lecture-tickets-39148003733 For Gillian Straine: http://www.gillianstraine.com/my-books/ For Alom Shaha: http://alomshaha.com/books/mr-shahas-recipes-for-wonder/ For Unbelievable? the Conference 2018: http://www.premier.org.uk/justask Get signed copies of Unbelievable? the book and audiobook: http://www.unbelievablebook.co.uk Get Unbelievable? the Conference 2017 DVD/CD & Digital Download: http://www.premier.org.uk/shop For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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0:00.0	Good afternoon and welcome along to Unbelievable. The radio show and podcast that brings you
0:11.6	conversations that matter every week. Here on Premier Christian Radio as part of Faith
0:16.0	Explored and around the world listen to as a podcast. Everywhere you can think of, really,
0:20.8	and we'll be hearing all the different places and all the different comments and opinions
0:23.8	people have towards the end of today's show. As we interact with some of the listener
0:27.5	feedback from the last couple of weeks of programming. It's great to have you here. I've been in
0:33.3	different parts of the country over the Easter break speaking at Minehead for the Spring Harvest
0:39.4	Christian Festival with some apologetics seminars in the afternoons there. That was a lot of fun.
0:44.0	I'll update you a little bit on that. Also speaking to a friend in the US on their Christian radio
0:50.8	station program. So a little bit more detail on that later on in the program as well as your
0:56.3	feedback. Looking forward to today's conversation as I'm joined by Gillian Strain and Alon Shah
1:01.4	for today's program. I'll be introducing them in a moment's time. And if you'd like more
1:05.2	information on Unbelievable, all the conversations we have the resources, episodes, the ways to
1:10.1	feedback and much more besides, do go to our website. PremierChristianRadio.com slash unbelievable.
1:16.3	And there you'll find a great big link to this year's unbelievable conference as well.
1:20.7	Only five weeks away now Saturday the 19th of May going to be a fabulous day where
1:25.8	if you're a Christian interested in learning how to defend your faith and engage more
1:29.5	fruitfully with others you'll want to be there. It's our just ask theme. Asking the big questions
1:35.0	getting honest answers from real speakers and last week I played out on the show. A bit of a fun
1:40.0	promo that we've been putting out as a video in the last couple of weeks of me attempting to have
1:45.0	a dialogue conversation of the kind I have here on Unbelievable but with artificial intelligence
1:49.8	i.e. Alexa and Google speakers didn't go very well. You can listen to last week's program or
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