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#107 Dale Allison - Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? Jun 12, 2025

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Dale Allison is an American historian and Christian theologian. His areas of expertise include the historical Jesus, the Gospel of Matthew, Second Temple Jewish literature, and the history of the interpretation and reception of the Bible. Allison is the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary (2013- ). (Wikipedia) By Dale Allison's book, The Resurrection of Jesus, here.

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#106 Diarmaid MacCulloch - Sex and Christianity: a Tumultuous History May 29, 2025

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Diarmaid MacCulloch is an English academic and historian, specialising in ecclesiastical history and the history of Christianity. Since 1995, he has been a fellow of St Cross College, Oxford; he was formerly the senior tutor.

Buy Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity here.

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#105 John Lennox - Why Science Needs God May 22, 2025

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John Lennox is a Northern Irish mathematician, bioethicist, and Christian apologist originally from Northern Ireland. He has written many books on religion, ethics, the relationship between science and God, and has had public debates with atheists including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.

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#104 Annaka Harris - Is Consciousness Fundamental? May 04, 2025

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Annaka Harris is an American writer. Her work touches on neuroscience, meditation, philosophy of mind and consciousness. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind.

Get Annaka Harris’ documentary Lights On here.

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#103 Rhett McLaughlin - Why I Left Christianity Apr 20, 2025

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Rhett McLaughlin is a comedian best known for creating the internet’s most-watched daily talk show, Good Mythical Morning along side Link Neal; their award-winning weekly podcast The pair also host a weekly podcast, Ear Biscuits; and the instant #1 New York Times bestseller Rhett & Link’s Book of Mythicality.

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#102 David Deutsch - You're Not Smarter Than a Caveman Apr 07, 2025

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David Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford, often described as the "father of quantum computing". He is a visiting professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. (Wikipedia)

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#101 Brian Greene - String Theory, Fine Tuning, and Divine Design Apr 02, 2025

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Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, director of its centre for theoretical physics, and the chairman of the World Science Festival. He is best known for his work on string theory, especially in his book “The Elegant Universe”, which turns 25 this year.

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#100 Philosopher Shootout - 16 Thinkers, Ranked (With Joe Folley) Mar 23, 2025

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For episode 100 of Within Reason, I'm joined by Joe Folley, from the YouTube Channel "Unsolicited Advice", to tackle a completely arbitrary and ridiculous tournament of thinkers, each of whom are to some degree relevant to the show. Joe graduated from Cambridge University with an MPhil in Philosophy, specialising in logic, in 2023.

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#99 Penn Badgley - My Religious Conflicts With Playing a Killer Mar 17, 2025

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Penn Badgley is an actor best known for his roles in Netflix’s You and the popular drama series Gossip Girl. He is less known as a podcaster and member of the Baháʼí Faith, a religion which teaches that there is a historical unity between major world religions and their prophets, having itself developed out of a branch of Twelver Shia Islam in the 19th century.

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#98 Jacob Hansen - A Mormon Explains Mormonism Mar 10, 2025

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Jacob Hansen is a Mormon YouTuber at the channel Thoughtful Faith.

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