The Return of Religious Belief
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For decades now in the West, religion has been on the retreat. In places where, 50 years ago, going to church on a Sunday was just what you did, we’ve had generations now for whom that would be a very foreign concept.   Justin Brierley is an author and very popular podcaster. For 17 years he hosted a podcast called Unbelievable where he would bring together atheist and Christian thinkers for civil and robust discussion. He presided over conversations with some of the world’s great minds for these dialogues and modelled a brilliant way to disagree civilly.   Justin has just published a book called The Surprising Re-birth of Belief in God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again. He detects a shift in the air and the possibility that the thoroughly secular vision of the world might not be cutting it for people today. Is that his imagination or might there be something to this?  --- Explore:  Justin’s latest book: https://justinbrierley.com/the-surprising-rebirth-of-belief-in-god/  And the podcast at:  The Surprising Rebirth podcast: https://justinbrierley.com/surprisingrebirth/  Sign up for CPX's regular email newsletter to find out more about our work.
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