The Ex-atheist & the Ex-Christian – Holly Ordway & Vanessa James

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🗓️ 8 July 2016

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Holly Ordway is Professor of English and Director of the M.A. in Apologetics at Houston Baptist University. She was a happy atheist, but was converted to Christianity through apologetics and her love of literature. Vanessa James is a musician who was a committed Christian until a few years ago when she lost her faith and became an atheist. Both stories don’t quite finish there however, as you’ll hear in this programme as they dialogue on the pros and cons of atheism, Christianity and our search for meaning, beauty and truth. For Holly Ordway http://www.hollywordway.com Read Vanessa James’ ‘Christian Detox’ blogs at http://www.theallowed.com/ Order Unbelievable? The Conference 2016 DVD/MP3CD http://www.premier.org.uk/Shop 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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0:41.0	along to unbelievable with me Justin Briley the show that brings Christians and non-Christians together every week here on Premier Christian Radio as part of faith explored and available online of course at Premier Christian Radio dot com slash unbelievable
0:54.6	join the many people who download the program every week via podcast and what a joy
0:59.2	it was to be joined by many of the listeners both to the radio show and podcast at last week's
1:04.2	unbelievable conference 2016. It was a wonderful day, so many great speakers, so many
1:09.9	great conversations I had with many, many people.
1:13.0	Over 760 of you joined me at the brewery in London, the conference centre there, to look at our
1:18.1	theme of discovering your inner evangelist, loads of great feedback from lots of people there and of course we're making a DVD
1:24.4	CD available of the day as well so if you want to get hold of that you couldn't
1:29.2	come along but you'd like to see what happened and hear what happened on the day. You can find that
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