The Great Awokening, Cancel Culture and JK Rowling: David French and Jonathan Pearce

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🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Is a quasi-religious left wing ‘cancel culture’ shutting down free speech, or is the right wing just as much to blame? Christian commentator David French of The Dispatch and atheist blogger Jonathan Pearce debate JK Rowling, the Harpers letter and Cancel Culture. For David French: https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/america-is-in-the-grips-of-a-fundamentali For Jonathan Pearce: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippling/2020/07/16/cancel-culture-choose-your-narrative/ Subscribe to our newsletter and receive the free Unbelievable? e-book ‘In Conversation With…' https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter Support the show and receive all the videos sessions from Unbelievable? USA 2019 https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable/ For more faith debates and extra resources: http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Social media: Facebook, Twitter, Insta

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0:00.0	Good evening and welcome to Unbelievably with me Justin Briley. It's taken me a bit of time to get used to saying
0:05.8	Good evening instead of good afternoon since we swapped our new 6pm slot here on Premiere Christian Radio for Unbelievably but
0:13.2	Glad to have you with me for what is going to be a really interesting show on cancel culture today
0:18.4	I'll introduce my guests in just a moment's time, but you may be listening
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0:55.6	Unbelievable USA from last year. I can't believe that was nearly
1:00.2	A year ago actually that we were out there
1:02.1	It's a bank holiday weekend here in the UK means we get a little bit of extra time off just at the end of the summer
1:08.4	Probably the equivalent of something like the Labor Day weekend or something in in the US
1:13.0	But it's it's great to have you with me wherever you are listening from
1:17.5	We've got some of your feedback to those recent shows we did on racism
1:21.5	Black Lives Matter and the church so listen out for some of that towards the end of today's show
1:26.5	But for now let's get right into it as we discuss today's cultural topic
1:41.3	You're listening to unbelievable with Justin Braille
1:51.2	Really looking forward to the conversation that I'm bringing you on unbelievable today
1:55.4	I've titled it the great awokening cancel culture and the jk rowling affair now
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