335 - Justin Brierley - The Next Great Renewal
The Symbolic World
Jonathan Pageau
4.8 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Justin Brierley is a freelance writer, speaker and broadcaster who has become known for creating dialogues between Christians and non-Christians. Justin is passionate about creating conversations around faith, science, theology, and culture. Through creative use of podcast, radio, print, video and social media, he aims to showcase an intellectually compelling case for Christianity, while taking seriously the questions and objections of sceptics.
Justin has worked in radio, podcast and video for over two decades. Until April 2023 he was Theology & Apologetics Editor for Premier Christian Radio, and hosted the Unbelievable? radio show and podcast as well as the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast. Justin was also editor of Premier Christianity magazine from 2014-2018, for which he continues to contribute articles.
Original YouTube version: https://youtu.be/nIqBOQ-Vyhc
Justin’s website: https://justinbrierley.com
Surprising Rebirth Book: https://justinbrierley.com/the-surprising-rebirth-of-belief-in-god/
Surprising Rebirth Podcast: https://justinbrierley.com/surprisingrebirth/
Justin Brierley’s book on Amazon, The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again (Sep 2023): https://www.amazon.com/Surprising-Rebirth-Belief-God-Christianity-ebook/dp/B0BX14YSTH
My recent feature with Justin Brierley on the Re-Enchanting podcast brought to you by ( @SeenUnseenMag ) Seen & Unseen Magazine: https://youtu.be/ToWHWrmN2xY?si=7zU_Te_-p5aasJWm
Mentioned:
- Jordan Peterson on the Unbelievable podcast, debating with Susan Blackmore: https://youtu.be/syP-OtdCIho?si=7UFzr6K6PIluV7fO
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali's article on UnHerd magazine, ‘Why I am now a Christian: Atheism can't equip us for civilisational war’: https://unherd.com/2023/11/why-i-am-now-a-christian/
Timestamps:
00:00 - Coming up
00:44 - Intro music
01:10 - Introduction
02:49 - The rise of the Christian atheist
05:57 - Elevatorgate
11:54 - Giving Christianity a second look
14:11 - Ayaan Hirsi Ali Unherd article
14:39 - New converts
18:14 - Men's meaning crisis
21:22 - What's lying ahead
27:07 - Recapture apologetics today
29:16 - The role of artists
33:41 - Non-Christian Christian apologists
36:34 - Jordan Peterson's debate on Unbelievable
41:10 - “It depends on what you mean by ____”
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| 0:00.0 | I mean, and the interesting thing is, you know, I wrote the book, it got published in September |
| 0:04.9 | 2023, but even since publication, there's been fascinating new examples of this. So Iyan Hursiali, |
| 0:10.5 | who I'm sure you're aware of the story of, who basically wrote that viral article for Unheard, |
| 0:15.2 | as a former new atheist herself, who would come from a very, you know, come out of a very |
| 0:19.6 | fundamentalist Muslim background in the |
| 0:21.7 | past, just saying it turns out atheism cannot sustain a meaningful life and I've decided to |
| 0:28.9 | embrace Christianity. And that's just such an interesting example of, I think, the thesis of the |
| 0:33.5 | book kind of happening in real time because it feels like something's changing. You know, secular, intelligent thinkers are giving Christianity another look. |
| 0:42.3 | And I find that quite exciting. |
| 0:59.3 | This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. |
| 1:15.6 | So hello, everyone. I am very happy to be here with Justin Briarley. Most of you will know his work. You know, for many years, he was the host of Unbelievable. And he is now working on a new podcast coming out of a book called the surprising rebirth of the belief in God. And it is completely in line with all the things that we've been doing. He's talking to everybody that is around this resurgence of the belief in God. And it is completely in line with all the things that we've been doing. |
| 1:27.6 | He's talking to everybody that is around this resurgence of the belief in God, the end |
| 1:31.8 | of the new atheist, the, the surprising characters that are converting to Christianity |
| 1:36.8 | are coming close to Christianity. |
| 1:39.6 | And so, Justin, it's really great to have you with me. |
| 1:42.8 | Oh, thank you. |
| 1:43.4 | It's an absolute pleasure to be on the show, Jonathan, as a regular listener myself. |
| 1:47.9 | So thanks for having me. |
| 1:50.2 | So tell me a bit about this new project. |
| 1:53.0 | I mean, it's not that new. |
| 1:54.1 | It's been going on now for more than a year, I think. |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah, well, the book itself was published last September. |
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