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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Interview: Justin Brierley – The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg interviews Justin Brierley, author of The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again, about the rise and fall of the New Atheist movement, why he thanks God for Richard Dawkins, a shift in many atheists’ view of Christianity, and more.

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You're going to be. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

0:23.0

Oh, no, no,

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Oh, oh, oh, boy.

0:27.0

Oh, oh, oh, oh,

0:30.0

a talk about a lot. All right, friends, so welcome to the show after 30 years, 33 years are here in that

0:36.7

Rooster Crow. It still makes me laugh a little bit. I have in front of me, the show standard reason by the way and this is Greg

0:44.0

Kockel your host I have in front of me a book titled the surprising

0:49.9

rebirth of belief in God.

0:53.0

And subtitle, why new atheism grew old,

0:57.0

that's a good thing in my view,

0:59.0

and secular thinkers are considering Christianity again. The author is one of my favorite guys to interview

1:06.0

or be interviewed by and we've swapped the both sides of the microphone on a number of occasions and he sounds really smart

1:14.7

because of his British accent but he also is really smart that helps. His name is

1:20.1

Justin Briarley, formerly the very the the host of the very popular

1:25.4

unbelievable podcast and Justin what a treat to have you back on board today and

1:29.8

what are you doing these days since the demise of unbelievable or whatever happened to tell us about that?

1:36.0

Well, unbelievable has not gone away. It still exists, but I've moved on to new things.

1:42.0

And yeah, it's been so long, Greg I there's a lot to catch you up on to be

1:45.5

honest since we last spoke but right yeah I I guess I guess I was on the show you know I

1:50.6

started the show and hosted it for over 17 years so it was a long running show with me at the helm and

1:57.6

Obviously we had some fantastic debates over the years so many big hitters in the world of Christian apologetics and

2:04.3

atheism and you know lots of theological debates over the years grew a really big

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