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Faith Lab

Christianity's hardest objections have surprising answers

Faith Lab

Nate Hanson

Tim Mackie, Bible, Biblical Archaeology, Faith And Doubt, Resurrection, Humble Skeptic, Mike Licona, Biblical Scholarship, Christian Faith, Bible Podcast, Old Testament, Ancient History, Church History, Gary Habermas, Bible Evidence, Rebecca Mclaughlin, Theology, Alisa Childers, Reconstruction, Faith Deconstruction, Philosophy, Christianity, Shane Rosenthal, Apologetics, Scripture, Early Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, N.t. Wright, Gospel Reliability, Jesus, Deconstruction, Bible History, New Testament, Biblical Scholars, Society & Culture, Richard Bauckham, Francis Chan, Historical Jesus, Bible Study, Christian Podcast

4.6583 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Rebecca McLaughlin joins Faith Lab to confront Christianity’s hardest objections and ask whether Christian faith can actually stand up to serious scrutiny.

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If you want to say, I don't believe in Christianity because I believe in the equality of all human beings.

0:37.4

And I've

0:37.6

seen, you know, here are examples of self-declared Christians acting in ways that denigrate people

0:43.4

from other racial backgrounds or acting in ways that denigrate women or acting away, you know,

0:47.1

fill in them. I want to say, yeah, the reason you know that's wrong is actually because of

0:50.9

the Bible. And if we throw the Bible out and if we throw Jesus out,

0:55.4

we're not left with a more secure sort of secular foundation for our deep moral beliefs

1:01.1

like the equality, universal human equality, like care for the poor, like the equality of men

1:05.0

and women, like the fact that the strong and the rich and the powerful don't have the right

1:07.9

to trample on the weak and the poor and the marginalized.

1:09.9

Hi friends, it's Nate. And today we're joined by Rebecca McLaughlin. She's a Christian

1:14.0

apologist with a PhD from Cambridge and she spent years engaging the toughest objections to

1:19.7

Christianity for both skeptics and believers and herself sometimes. In this conversation, we talk about

1:25.8

why Christianity doesn't fall apart under honest

1:28.5

questioning, even in a culture that assumes faith can't survive scrutiny, and why Jesus still

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