Within Reason

Alex J O'Connor

  • 1 hour 1 minute
    #92 Bart Ehrman - The Dark Side of Christmas

    Bart Ehrman is a New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. Get Bart Ehrman's new course, The Dark Side of Christmas (affiliate link).

    20 December 2024, 4:53 pm
  • 1 hour 24 minutes
    #91 Filip Holm - What is Sufism? Islam and Mystical Experience

    Filip Holm is the creator and host of "Lets Talk Religion", a YouTube channel which aims to educate on the subject of religion from an academic perspective.

    He joins the show to discuss Sufism, which can broadly be defined as the mystical tradition within Islam.

    13 December 2024, 7:41 am
  • 1 hour 37 minutes
    #90 Rainn Wilson - Reclaiming Spirituality From Traditional Religion

    Rainn Wilson is the actor and comedian best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the The Office (US), for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

    He is also the host of ‪‪Soul Boom‬, a podcast discussing spirituality, and authored a book of the same name exploring how we can use spiritual tools to help solve some of life's problems.

    6 December 2024, 7:05 pm
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    #89 The Cultural Tutor - The Philosophy and Ethics of Art

    Sheehan Quirke is the Cultural Tutor, a writer with 1.7 million followers on X. His work on art, history, and architecture is some of the most widely-enjoyed in the world. He writes a newsletter called the Areopagus.

    28 November 2024, 2:58 am
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    #88 Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Why I Converted To Christianity

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born Dutch-American writer, activist and former politician. Once an advocate for the new atheist movement, she last year announced her conversion to Christianity.

    22 November 2024, 6:29 pm
  • 2 hours 46 minutes
    #87 Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle - Biblical Slaves, Women, and the Unforgivable Sin

    Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle run the extremely popular online Christian ministry ‪'Give Me an Answer'‬. In this episode they discuss troubling passages in the Old Testament, New Testament sexism, Job, doubting Thomas, the unforgivable sin (blaspheming the Holy Spirit), and more.

    13 November 2024, 3:42 pm
  • 1 hour 38 minutes
    #86 Pre-Election Podcast - Destiny on Immigration, Trump, and Voter ID

    Steven Bonnell II, known online as Destiny, is an American live streamer and political commentator. He joins me to talk about Trump, Kamala, Biden, Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Mark Zuckerberg, Voter ID, immigration, demographic change, and who to vote for in the upcoming election.

    31 October 2024, 1:44 pm
  • 1 hour 36 minutes
    #85 Magnify - 7 Translation Problems in Genesis

    Magnify is a YouTube channel of mostly short-form content, covering interesting details across history, linguistics, and religion.

    28 October 2024, 3:29 pm
  • 58 minutes 55 seconds
    #84 David Nutt - The Truth About Drugs

    David Nutt is an English neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety, and sleep. He was the UK Government's chief advisor on drug policy. He was fired in 2009 after criticising the Government's approach to drug harms.

    22 September 2024, 6:55 pm
  • 1 hour 49 minutes
    #83 Esoterica - The History of the Demiurge

    Justin Sledge is currently a part-time professor of philosophy and religion at several institutions in the Metro-Detroit area and a popular local educator. His YouTube channel is "Esoterica".

    15 September 2024, 3:54 pm
  • 2 hours 30 minutes
    #82 Joe Folley - 9 Questions Atheists Cannot Answer

    oe Folley runs the YouTube channel Unsolicited Advice. he graduated from Cambridge University with an MPhil in Philosophy, specialising in logic, in 2023.

    9 September 2024, 3:51 pm
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