Christendom’s response to plague and pandemic: Tom Holland, Mike Bird and Rev Marcus Walker

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🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Historian Tom Holland, author of ‘Dominion’ recaps his debate with AC Grayling and talks about his recent article for The Telegraph arguing for the Christian roots of the response we are seeing to the Coronavirus pandemic. Also joining the conversation are New Testament scholar Mike Bird co-author of ‘The New Testament In Its World’, and Rev Marcus Walker, priest as St Bartholomew the Great, London. They discuss the history of how the early church responded to plagues and how the church is responding to this present pandemic. For Tom Holland’s book Dominion https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dominion-Making-Western-Tom-Holland/dp/1408706962 For Mike Bird https://www.patheos.com/blogs/euangelion/michael-birds-book/ For Rev Marcus Walker https://twitter.com/WalkerMarcus Support Justin’s charity head shave: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Justin-Brierley Register for ‘Apologetics in the era of Covid-19’ webinar on 28 May: https://www.premierdigital.info/28-may-special-guest-john-lennox Subscribe to our newsletter and receive the free Unbelievable? e-book ‘In Conversation With…’ https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter Support the show and receive all the videos sessions from Unbelievable? USA 2019 https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable/ For more faith debates and extra resources 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	Hello and welcome to Unbelievably with me Justin Briley the show that aims to get you thinking
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0:28.1	and today's program is available over on our YouTube channel Tom Holland, Mike Bird and
0:33.2	Marcus Walker joining me to talk about Christendom's response to plague and pandemic I'll be
0:37.8	introducing them in just a moment's time. Just a few things though for your diary yes even in
0:42.5	lockdown we are bringing you a number of interesting things online remotely the apologetics webinar
0:49.1	that I'll be hosting on 28th May that's part of Premiere's church webinar series from survival to
0:55.2	revival this one is all about unlocking apologetics in the era of covid 19 our special guest for
1:01.3	that will be Professor John Lennox alongside some brilliant other speakers as well more details at
1:06.6	premierdigital.info slash webinars that's for the 28th of May if you want to join us for that
1:13.2	there's a link to book to that as well from today's show if you'd like to go and check that out
1:18.7	and also the Ask NT Write Anything podcast is going to be doing a live stream on Wednesday the
1:24.4	3rd of June at 8 in the evening UK time so you'll be able to watch that from the unbelievable
1:30.5	Facebook page or indeed we're planning to make it available via the unbelievable YouTube channel
1:35.2	as well so where you can be part of the live audience for that around the world and even ask a
1:39.3	question yourself so put that in your diary Wednesday the 3rd of June at 8 p.m. make sure you're
1:43.8	online at the Facebook page to watch the live stream as I sit down well at least remotely with
1:50.4	NT Write I think my wife's going to join us as well and ask a few questions to so that should
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