Jesus Skeptic with John S. Dickerson

Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

The Christian Research Institute

Education, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Award winning journalist John S. Dickerson joins Hank to discuss the credibility and impact of Christianity as detailed in Dickerson’s new book Jesus Skeptic. They discuss how Christianity has impacted and shaped our culture, including how followers of Jesus helped to abolish slavery, establish public education, found modern hospitals, support women’s rights, drive racial reconciliation, and fight for justice and progress in various other arenas. In a generation that wants to make the world a better place, this episode will display what humanity’s greatest champions had in common: a Christian faith.

Topics discussed include: Is the great evangelical recession global? (1:30); what if Jesus Christ had never been born? (4:05); why are so many people skeptical of Jesus and Christianity? (11:15); the role of Christians in the foundation of colleges, universities and education as we know it (14:50); political correctness in universities today and the danger of losing freedom thought (19:00); does Western society take the impact of Christianity for granted? (21:25); is Christianity a keystone species in society? (25:15); the Christian foundations of modern hospitals and healthcare (29:00); Christians and the Scientific Revolution (31:45); Christianity and women’s rights (43:45); how the Christian ethic helped to abolish slavery (46:30); was Hitler a Christian? (52:10); the importance of the Bible (56:45); predictions that Jesus made (59:50); was Jesus the most influential person in history? (1:04:40); what is the history of Christianity? (1:07:15); the origins of literacy and how society is drifting towards post-literacy (1:13:20); the importance of reading (1:17:10); what does the book of nature tell us about God? (1:24:30).

To learn more about the book Jesus Skeptic click here. https://www.equip.org/product/cri-resource-cri1912wa/

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1:01.1	every industry with literally billions being invested. So buckle up. The problem is that AI needs
1:06.7	the right data and a lot of speed and processing power. So how do you compete without cost
1:11.3	spiraling out of control? Time to upgrade to the next generation of the cloud, Oracle Cloud
1:16.6	Infrastructure or OCI. OCI is a single platform for your infrastructure, database and application
1:22.5	development with AI embedded across it all. And Oracle's offering cloud helps you address your
1:27.3	requirements for location, access and data residency. OCI provides with AI embedded across it all. And Oracle's offering cloud helps you address your requirements
1:27.8	for location, access and data residency. OCI provides blazing fast speeds for AI's demanding
1:33.6	workloads, and in the cloud when you pay by the minute, speed matters. And of course, nobody does
1:39.4	data better than Oracle. If you want OCI to help you do more and spend less, like Uber, the Premier League and Oracle
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