S2 E14. Rod Dreher: Miracles, angels and demons - why the supernatural is back
The Surprising Rebirth Of Belief In God
Justin Brierley
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🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we were not prepared for this. The venue is full. However, the mission is bigger than the room. You can still join us. Due to the incredible uptake, our responding to the Rebirth Conference will now be live streamed. Book your online pass now at rebirthconference.net. You may not be in the room, but you can still be part of the |
| 0:22.5 | response from anywhere in the world on Saturday the 22nd of November. On the live stream, |
| 0:28.5 | you'll get full access to all keynote sessions, panels and interviews with guests, including |
| 0:33.6 | John Lennox, Paul Kingsnorth, Elizabeth Oldfield and Al Gordon. |
| 0:39.3 | You can take part in the Q&A. |
| 0:42.1 | You'll get to take home recordings of all of the sessions and get a front row seat to what God is doing. |
| 0:45.7 | A rebirth is happening. |
| 0:47.6 | Let's respond together wherever we are. |
| 0:49.8 | Book your live stream pass at rebirthconference.net. |
| 1:00.6 | Well, my mother won a trip to Europe in a church raffle, and the coach stopped on the way to Paris. |
| 1:06.9 | Go look at an old church. |
| 1:08.5 | The last thing I wanted to do. |
| 1:10.4 | And nothing, Justin, prepared me for the glory of God made manifest there. |
| 1:14.6 | And all of my shallow teenage objections to God completely dissolved. |
| 1:21.6 | This all comes down effectively to this disenchantment that we sort of have inherited. |
| 1:26.6 | The new atheism. It's dead. It's completely dead. |
| 1:30.8 | Nobody is interested in atheism, but people are desperate for re-enchantment. |
| 1:34.9 | Church simply wants to stay relevant to this generation. |
| 1:38.3 | It needs to reach these young people where they're searching, |
| 1:40.9 | which is for enchantment, which is for an experience of the supernatural. |
| 1:45.1 | And I hear that there's something of a boom in Orthodox circles. |
| 1:48.3 | I do believe that there's something that the West, Western Christianity, needs, that the Christian |
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