S2 E19. The Rise Of The Lapsed Atheists
The Surprising Rebirth Of Belief In God
Justin Brierley
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 94 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 |
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| 0:56.6 | I'm Giles Corrin. As restaurant critic for the London Times, I've become the most powerful critic in Europe. |
| 1:02.5 | Restaurant owners fear me because a bad review from me could shut them down, but a good one could bump up their profits by a million dollars. |
| 1:09.5 | With my researcher, Julia, I'm in North America looking for restaurants worthy of my review, |
| 1:13.6 | which could change their business and lives forever. |
| 1:17.6 | Giles Corrin is a UK journalist, newspaper columnist and food critic, |
| 1:22.6 | whose opinions on cuisine and culture have been watched and read by millions of people. |
| 1:28.7 | But at the beginning of Lent this year, his weekly column in The Times took an unexpected turn. |
| 1:36.1 | Maybe Ash Wednesday has become a kind of national coming out as a Christian day. |
| 1:42.3 | This is the BBC's Sunday show picking up on Corrin's column titled, |
| 1:47.6 | This Lent I Will Turn Atheism to Ashes. |
| 1:50.8 | In his column in The Times this year on Ash Wednesday, |
| 1:54.1 | Charles Corrin tells the story of his own waning atheism and his gradual embrace of the Christian faith. And that column has caused quite a stir, |
| 2:04.2 | as they say. Some even see it as evidence of the spiritual tide turning. In the widely shared |
| 2:13.3 | article, Corrin explained how he had been raised in a non-practicing Jewish home by parents |
| 2:19.1 | with no belief in God. Like them, Corrin had never thought of himself as religious, writing, |
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