Derren Brown & Rev Richard Coles: Can we have meaning without God?

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🗓️ 6 July 2018

⏱️ 87 minutes

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In the third Big Conversation episode, Justin is joined by illusionist Derren Brown and popstar-turned-media-priest Rev Richard Coles. In a wide-ranging conversation they tell their respective stories of moving away from and towards Christian faith. Drawing on his book Happy: Why more or less everything is absolutely fine, Derren makes the case for living a fulfilled life as an atheist in the absence of God. Richard draws from his experience of ‘meeting the resurrected Christ’ as they discuss suffering, death and ultimate meaning. The Big Conversation is produced in partnership with Templeton Religion Trust. For Big Conversation videos, updates and bonus content sign up: http://www.thebigconversation.show Register for Unbelievable? the Conference USA, Portland, Sat 1 Sep https://westsideajc.org/unbelievable-conference For Derren Brown: http://derrenbrown.co.uk For Richard Coles: http://www.richardcoles.com/ Get signed copies of Unbelievable? the book and audiobook: www.unbelievablebook.co.uk For more faith debates 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	Premier Podcasts
0:07.0	Unbelievable with Justin Briarly
0:15.0	Welcome along to Unbelievable, the show from Premier Christian Radio here in the UK broadcasting
0:20.7	around the world as a podcast and bringing you conversations that matter between Christians
0:25.6	and skeptics every week. I'm Justin Briarly, thrilled to be bringing you today the third
0:30.4	episode of our big conversation series. It all launched four weeks ago with a very
0:35.0	popular debate between psychologist Jordan B. Peterson and atheist Susan Blackmore
0:40.4	and the second episode with Harvard, atheist Stephen Pinker and Christian thinker Nick Spencer
0:45.1	has also been getting a lot of engagement since we released it. Well, today's big conversation
0:50.5	is between two Brits, Illusionist and Mentalist Darren Brown, a star of stage and screen who
0:55.6	was once a Christian. He'll be in dialogue with former pop star turned Christian priest
1:00.2	and broadcaster Reverend Richard Coles. I'll be introducing them and the subject very shortly.
1:05.4	But if you're new to all this, the big conversation is a video series from unbelievable in which
1:10.5	I'm sitting down with some of the biggest thinkers in the Christian and atheist world to
1:14.1	talk about science, faith, philosophy and what it means to be human. So the first three
1:18.5	episodes are available now to watch as videos at the big conversation website. Can I encourage
1:24.4	you to go and watch and share the video of today's discussion. And while you're there,
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