{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Where Ya From? Podcast","title":"54. \"Faith, Apologetics, and the Future of Christianity\" with Justin Brierley","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3925,"description":"How do we know the Bible to be true? Popular British apologist, author, and podcaster Justin Brierley desires to answer this question head-on. Growing up in a Christian home, his life-changing experiences serving across Africa, and even his personal doubts about faith led him to wonder where genuine Christian theology starts and how we share those things in a predominantly secular society. This idea led to his passion for Christian apologetics, inviting non-Christians into positive conversations, and the hope he has for a revival in the years to come.\n\nGuest Bio:\nJustin Brierley has been working in radio, podcasting, and video for two decades. He cohosts the Re-enchanting podcast for Seen & Unseen and is a well-known speaker and broadcaster. Justin founded the popular Unbelievable? faith debate radio show and podcast, and has also hosted the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast. \nJustin’s first book, Unbelievable? Why, after Ten Years of Talking with Atheists, I’m Still a Christian, was published in 2017. His latest book, The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God, has just recently been released. Justin and his family live in Surrey, England.\n\nNotes & Quotes:\n\nChristianity lifts rather than crushes different cultures around the world when, in its best forms, Christianity can liberate and bring out God’s diversity in a way that honors and transforms people in where they are and the culture that they’re part of.\n\nChristianity without emotion would be pretty soulless. If it’s purely intellectual, you're getting the balance wrong. At the same time, I think to a large degree, we weren’t catechizing Christians anymore with what they believed and why.…They [the church] didn’t know how to respond to this sudden upsurge in quite militant Atheism…. It forced the church to pick up its Thomas Aquinas again and start reading C. S. Lewis again and everything else.\n\nThe New Atheists had come along and said, “God doesn’t exist. Science is our best route to understanding the world.” What...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/vNJR9-jrGkP-l9c8OETnwha4gatuxWLvnXpjNTAQm3M/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wMDBh/N2FmNjc2MTEyZTAx/MGUyZmIyMGM5OTYz/ZmI1Zi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}