Christianity, Psychology and Compassion - Paul Gilbert and Roger Bretherton

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🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Is Christianity a positive force for compassion in the world? Prof Paul Gilbert and Dr. Roger Bretherton join Justin for a conversation on psychology, the brain, Christianity and what makes us choose compassion over callousness. Prof Paul Gilbert is a clinical psychologist and leading expert in the study and promotion of compassion. Dr Roger Bretherton is an academic psychologist and chair of the British Association of Christians in Psychology. For Prof Paul Gilbert http://www.compassionatemind.co.uk For Dr Roger Bretherton http://www.thecharactercourse.com Join the Ask NT Wright Anything livestream on Wed 3 June 8pm UK / 3pm EDT: http://www.facebook.com/unbelievablejb Subscribe to our newsletter and receive the free Unbelievable? e-book ‘In Conversation With…’ 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	Well hello and welcome to Unbelieveable with me Justin Briley. It's the show that aims to get
0:04.3	you thinking and brings you conversations that matter. Every Saturday here on Premiere Christian
0:09.0	Radio at our new time slot of 6pm in the evening but listen to Around the World via podcast
0:14.9	and also watch via YouTube as well and you can find all of the links from the show page at
0:20.0	premierchristianradio.com forward slash unbelievable as well as links to the newsletter,
0:24.9	the app, the ways to give and much more besides. And today's show is available over at the
0:30.5	YouTube channel. We're going to be talking about psychology, Christianity and compassion on today's
0:36.3	program. We'll have some of your feedback as well. I've been saving up quite a bit which will bring
0:40.8	towards the end of today's show. A lot of appreciation for last week's tribute to Ravi Zacharias
0:46.7	who died at the age of 74. So we'll hear some of that and also responses to earlier shows as well
0:52.8	including that one on Christendom's response to pandemic and plague which featured Tom Holland
0:58.0	Marcus Walker and Mike Byrd. A big thank you to everyone who joined me for the webinar this last
1:04.0	week. Apologetics in the era of COVID-19. Part of a series of webinars being put on by
1:09.7	Premiere Digital at the moment called From Survival to Revival. This one featured a special
1:15.4	guest including Professor John Lennox and Claire Williams from Azim as well. Really great to see
1:20.4	the questions that came in from those who participated. Thank you very much if you're with us for
1:24.9	that one. Got something special coming up this week as well. It's the Ask NT Write Anything
1:30.7	Livestream edition of the podcast. Now you may know that I host another podcast. It's called Ask
1:35.9	NT Write Anything. I sit down regularly with renowned Bible scholar NT Write to ask him questions
1:40.4	that get sent in on a regular basis. Well from lockdown we're going to be doing an edition of the show
1:46.1	on Facebook Live. You can follow along and indeed ask questions if you tune in for it. That's
1:52.4	this coming Wednesday the 3rd of June at 8pm. Just make sure you're there on the unbelievable Facebook
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