Christmas Special – Dean Mayes, Jess Lester and Rupert Shortt share their stories

Unbelievable?

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 21 December 2019

⏱️ 99 minutes

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In a special holiday edition of the podcast Justin is joined by three friends of the show to share their stories. He also announces the date of Unbelievable? the Conference 2020 – with NT Wright as keynote speaker. Sat 9 May. Put it in your diary! Australian listener Dean Mayes explains how the show had moved him away from atheism towards opening up the God question. Jess Lester, deputy editor of Premier Youth and Children’s Work magazine, tells her story of working in tabloid journalism and coming to Christ after rejecting God as a teenager. And Rupert Shortt, author of ‘Outgrowing Dawkins’, talks to Justin about responding to the world’s most famous atheist. For Dean Mayes https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Unbelievable-blog/Don-t-call-me-a-Christian-yet-but-I-m-starting-to-see-a-purpose-in-the-Universe For Premier Youth and Children’s Work magazine https://www.youthandchildrens.work/Get-a-free-copy For ‘Outgrowing Dawkins’ by Rupert Shortt https://spckpublishing.co.uk/outgrowing-dawkins 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 along to Unbelievably, I'm Justin Briley and today on Radio and Podcast
0:18.9	Bring You, an especially festive edition of the program, dispensing with our usual
0:23.5	debate format to bring you.
0:24.9	A few people's different stories, it's if you like Justin and friends of Christmas
0:29.8	on this week's edition of Unbelievably.
0:32.2	So I'm going to be joined by friends talking about their journeys and also a perennial
0:36.9	favourite of course Richard Dawkins I'll be introducing my guests shortly.
0:40.7	Just a bit of housekeeping up at the beginning of today's show, a reminder that it's your last
0:44.6	chance really, this weekend to get that Christmas bundle to Conference DVDs from Unbelievably,
0:50.7	plus the unbelievable book signed by myself.
0:53.5	All available at a bargain bundle price at premierChristianradio.com forward slash unbelievable.
0:59.5	Go to the show page there, click on DVD download, that'll take you to the premier shop page
1:03.8	where you'll be able to see that bundle available this Christmas if you want to get that for
1:08.7	the apologetics lover in your life.
1:10.5	The unbelievable Christmas bundle too.
1:13.0	Unbelievably, conferences on DVD, or digital download plus the signed book from unbelievable.
1:17.6	Again, premierChristianradio.com forward slash unbelievable, click on DVD download.
1:22.7	My other very, very exciting piece of news is that I've got a date for your diary for
1:28.1	2020.
1:29.1	And when I say I've got a date for your diary, that usually means only one thing.
1:32.7	Unbelievable, the conference.
1:33.7	That's right, we're back in London at Central Hall Westminster on Saturday, the 9th of May.
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