Conversion and de-conversion: Why atheists become Christians and Christians become atheists. Jana Harmon and Joel Furches

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🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Justin talks to Jana Harmon about her PhD research on adult atheist conversion to Christianity and presents stories from her new ‘Side B Podcast’. Joel Furches, who is researching de-conversion, also joins the conversation. For The Side B Podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-side-b-podcast-jana-harmon-VJUERcA6Fih/ For Joel Furches article on de-conversion: https://hubpages.com/politics/Why-do-Christians-Become-Atheists-A-Case-Study USA listeners check out our new USA website for exclusive resources: www.unbelievable.show 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 visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UnbelievableJB Twitter https://twitter.com/unbelievablejb Insta https://www.instagram.com/justin.brierley

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Unbelievably with me Justin Briley.
0:04.8	Exciting show for you today, Janna Harmon and Joel Furches on conversion and de-conversion
0:10.5	research that they've undertaken and some really interesting convert stories along the way.
0:15.9	But what a week it's been, I don't know about you but I stayed up far too late watching the
0:21.0	results of the US election come in though of course it certainly wasn't decided on the night
0:25.6	and as we record today's edition of the show the results are still essentially hang in the balance
0:31.6	so Trump obviously has done much better than the pollsters predicted but possibly not well enough
0:37.3	to clinch it though he is of course going out all out to contest the counting of the postal
0:42.2	ballots in those final swing states. Well wherever you are listening from perhaps in the US for
0:47.6	podcast my prayers are with you. More resources by the way from unbelievable for the US
0:53.9	over at our brand new US website that's unbelievable.show and with a special offer as well if you can
1:00.4	support the show for giving Tuesday listen out for more about that later on in the show.
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1:14.4	after 10 years are talking with atheists I'm still a Christian you can get them from us here at
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1:23.7	at premierchristianradio.com forward slash unbelievable apologies if you can hear my kids in the
1:30.4	background is all recorded from home not on the radio studio we're all in in lockdown mode here in
1:36.0	the UK at the moment. Last week of course Ruiz Jackson took the reins loads of response to that
1:42.0	program that she recorded with Hannah Timpson and Tim Alfred asking is raising kids Christian a
1:50.4	form of indoctrination you have responded in your droves to that and I'll find fitting as much
1:55.2	as I can of the responses towards the end of today's show right now though let's get into today's
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