Atheism

Ken Myers introduces listeners to four recently released lectures, courtesy of our Partners. The lecturers are Jennifer Frey, Gary Saul Morson, N. T. Wright, and Andrew Kern. (27 minutes)

Gary Saul Morson explores the consequences of belief and disbelief in God through Russian literature. (51 minutes)

FROM VOL. 100 History professor Jennifer Burns discusses the life and legacy of “goddess of the market” Ayn Rand. (17 minutes)

FEATURED GUESTS: Jeffrey Bilbro, Daniel McInerny, Joseph Minich, Carl Elliott, Nadya Williams, and Don W. King

Joseph Minich on how the ubiquity of technology makes atheism entirely plausible

Romano Guardini on the danger of becoming like the gods we invent

FROM VOL. 38 Sociologist Craig Gay speaks of the charge that Christianity is an otherworldly religion. (12 minutes)

Ralph Wood compares Christopher Hitchens's view of the cosmos with that of G. K. Chesterton, arguing that Chesterton succeeded where Hitchens failed. (44 minutes)

FROM VOL. 98 This Archive Feature revisits two conversations, one with Roger Lundin and one with David Bentley Hart, on what makes Christian belief so implausible to non-believers. (39 minutes)

David Bentley Hart defends the naturalness of religious belief against the assertions of the Naturalists

In this Friday Feature — presented courtesy of Biola University — Carlo Lancellotti talks with Aaron Kheriaty about the central ideas in Augusto Del Noce’s writings. (43 minutes)

Three past guests on the Journal explore the meaning of freedom and some common modern misunderstandings of the concept — errors with real consequences. (22 minutes)

Ken Myers shares a summary of six recent books that we want our listeners to know about but whose authors we won’t be interviewing. (15 minutes)

Luigi Giussani on the irresistible question of God for human flourishing

David Bentley Hart on the ignorant myth that banishes the transcendent from modern public spaces

James Turner examines the ways in which the pursuit of “relevant” theology helped to make atheism plausible in Western culture

FEATURED GUESTS: Stanley Hauerwas, Clarke Forsythe, Gilbert Meilaender, Jeanne Murray Walker, Roger Lundin, and David Bentley Hart

Terry Eagleton presents a blistering dismissal of arguments made by celebrity atheists

FEATURED GUESTS: Michael Kammen, Philip Fisher, John Horgan, William Dembski, Steven Garber, Dorothy Bass, Paul Vitz, J. Budziszewski, and David Aikman