Currently, I listen to podcasts sporadically. I am intending to get into The Rest is History. But the best way that I can answer today’s question is to mention a podcast that I listened to for many years – Unbelievable. It began around 2007.
It began as a radio show on Premier Radio, which featured debates between Christians and those with other perspectives. Sometimes, it featured Christians debating each other. Even the Christians had a wide range of perspectives. Many of them were more liberal in their views than I would be. But I used to enjoy listening to it every Saturday.
The show’s host, Justin Brierley, who was excellent, eventually published a book about the show and about how the various debates affected him.
Justin Brierley now has a new podcast – The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God – I listen from time to time, but I’m not quite as regular as I used to me. But maybe today’s post might motivate me to get back into podcasts. And Unbelievable is still going too – with new hosts.
I keep thinking that I’d like to listen to all the Unbelievable episodes again, from the beginning.
And a related podcast was Ask NT Wright Anything. He was an evangelical Bishop of Durham, who wrote a scholarly book arguing for the physical resurrection of Jesus. This was in contrast to a former Bishop of Durham, David Jenkins, who denied the physical resurrection back in 1984. All these podcasts largely feature people on the liberal/modernist end of the evangelical spectrum. I don’t think of myself as being at that end of the spectrum. Neither am I at the fundamentalist end. Maybe I’m somewhere in the middle. But I do like to listen to other points of view. It’s very easy to just stick with people in your own circles and disregard everyone else. But it’s a bit lazy. And now that I have more time, I like to give others a fair hearing.
I also listen to more conservative evangelicals. I’m probably quite conservative myself, despite my love for pop and rock music 😄. Here are some other Christian podcasts. Most of these would be more conservative than the folks on the “Christian” side of unbelievable debates.
- Delighting in the Trinity – Mike Reeves
- Gospel Coalition
- Ask Pastor John
- Renewing Your Mind
- The Bible Project
- 9Marks
- White Horse Inn
- The Dividing Line
- Simply Put
- Core Christianity
I never really listened to secular podcasts on a regular basis, but as I said above, I’d like to start listening to The Rest is History. I do have long audiobooks by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, but it’s nice that they’re doing the podcast too. I also used to listen to IT and eLearning podcasts, but I don’t do much of that nowadays.
I always like to close my posts with a Bible verse or a hymn. There’s nothing biblical about podcasts, but you can listen to what God has to say by listening to God’s word. David Suchet does a great job of reading Scripture. You can go through the whole Bible in a year by listening to 3 chapters a day and 5 on Sunday. For many though, some Old Testament books wouldn’t make easy listening. I have read them, but nowadays, I see them more like reference books. But you can get high level introductions to them too.
Matthew 4:4
"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God."
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