Still Unbelievable!

Episode 135 - Allan Chapman - The Victorians and the Holy Land

In this episode of Still Unbelievable! Matthew chats with Allan Chapman, who teaches history of science at Oxford University, and has written extensively on history and science, including the relationship between the two. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a founder member of the Society for the History of Astronomy. He is the author of several books, i...

Episode 134 - Apostate - Jo Lloyd Johnson

In this episode of Still Unbelievable, Matthew chats with Jo, one of the contributors of the book Apostate, Stories of Deconversion. Jo is already an author and has written her own memoir of deconstruction. Please be aware that this conversation touches on sexual violence from the opening minutes, but it is not all that is talked about, other topics are covered as well. Jo's book does talk a...

Episode 132 - How to Kill God the easy Way

In this episode of Still Unbelievable!, Matthew chats with Alan Bondar about his provocatively titled book, How to Kill God the Easy Way. We enjoyed this book and recommend it to anyone who is seeking to engage with a critical review of Christian apologetics. If you have any sympathies for Christianity and it's proponents, then this book will challenge those thoughts. If you have doubts abo...

In December 2024 Matthew asked Amy and Greg who made them experts on what makes someone a Christian. They answered.

In this episode Matthew takes their answer and explains why he's unimpressed. Especially because of the way their comments negatively affect LGBTQ+ people and those who want abortion to be a valid choice.

1) The Jan 2025 episode being responded to

https://www.str.org/w/-strask-who-made-you-the-experts-on-what-makes-someo...

1) Full text of the ruling

https://supremecourt.uk/cases/judgments/uksc-2024-0042

2) legal cheek commentary

https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/04/supreme-court-rules-woman-has-biological-meaning/

3) Lauren on the T Elders podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO4_9hJCQFI

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Mark's account is chapter 16, it is the earliest, and also the shortest.There are no angels, no soldiers, Jesus is not there. Women are the only witnesses, besides the unidentified young man.Verse 9 onwards, reads differently, it contradicts the fear and silence of the women it includes hints and pointers to events described in greater detail in the other gospels. It's almost as though it was added after those stories were written....

The deaths of JesusMark 15 21-41Being the earliest account, we would expect Mark to be the simplest, with the least detail.This account contains the key elements we are familiar with, Simon of Cyrene (who the hell is this guy anyway and why is he not mentioned anywhere else?) It feels like this is an inserted character to help create the narrative of Jesus being special. Even with early accounts we have suspicious detail. Has anyon...

Did Jesus really wash his disciples feet?Christian apologists like to make a point of the gospels being written by eye witnesses and that being written close to the original events makes then less likely to be polluted by the passage of time. The issue with this is that we don't know who wrote any of the gospels. That aside, using the logic that earlier is better, we should expect to see progression of the story, we should expe...

This bonus episode of Still Unbelievable! is the audio part of a video uploaded to the ReasonPress YouTube channel. All episodes of Still Unbelievable now also get uploaded to YouTube, and as a bonus, we also do a few videos that, for practical purposes, are available on YouTube only, link in the show notes. As a special treat for this easter, there will be additional videos on our channel addressing issues with the Easter story.

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In this episode of Still Unbelievable! Matthew is in conversation with Phil from the flawed theology podcast. Phil is a fellow contributor of the Apostate book that is now available and tells the stories of 21 people who have left Christianity. Links in the show notes for the book and Phil's podcast content.

1) Apostate

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPNBSCBG

2) Flawed Theology podcast

https://www.flawedtheologypodcast.com/

3) Capitol riot...

In this episode of Still Unbelievable! Matthew reviews another conversion story. This one features Daniel, who is known as Darwin to Jesus on that hive of shitiness formally known as Twitter. Daniel's takes on matters of religion and atheism are bad, so bad that there are many who actually think he's a troll parodying the worst of religion. Our confidence that he is a real Christian is about 90%, the 10% in reserve is because there...

In this episode of Still Unbelievable, Matthew interviews Tim, who is a fellow contributor to the book Apostate.

See the below for links to the book, other podcasts and items mentioned in this discussion.

1) Buy Apostate

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPNBSCBG

2) Matthew on the Graceful Atheist

https://gracefulatheist.com/2019/06/20/matthew-taylor-confessions-of-a-young-earth-creationist/

https://gracefulatheist.com/2023/12/30/matthew-taylo...

In this episode of Still Unbelievable, Matthew welcoms back friend of the podcast, Clint Heacock to talk about Clint's book, Not so Shiny not so Happy People and Apostate and the process of writing and publishing.

See the show notes for links to the books and to Clint's podcast, dismantling doctrine.

1) buy Not So Shiny Not So Happy People

https://amzn.eu/d/eKzA4se

2) Buy Apostate

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPNBSCBG

3) buy Stil...

In this episode of Still Unbelievable, Matthew chats with Liz Charlotte Grant. Liz's book, Knock at the Sky is recommended for anyone who considers themself a doubter, questioner or deconstructor. It is a book that will bring a new perspective to female characters in genesis. We appreciated Liz's book and found her witty and engaging to converse with. We have no doubt you will enjoy this conversation. As always, links to topics we ...

In this episode of Still Unbelievable, Matthew interviews Sarah Bacaller. This is an exciting episode because it is the first official episode celebrating the launch of the book Apostate. Sarah has organised 21 different people who each recount some of their recovery from Christianity. There will be more episodes that discuss the book, including interviews with contributors. To buy the book, see link 1 in the show notes, Sarah's bo...

In this episode Matthew comments on a two part series of Christians talking about deconversion.

It really is as bad as you think it will be, and is one reason why Christians are spending far too much time talking and not enough time paying attention. The episodes are from the Apologetics Radio show and were published in 2021.

1) the original episodes

https://apologetics.com/deconversion/

https://apologetics.com/deconversion-part...

Apologist Vince Vitale did a review of a Free Will debate, see the link no 1 in the show notes. The original debate is at link 2. Matthew reviews Vince's review because there are some Christian justifications for free will that simply do not make any sense.

1)

https://www.premier.plus/unbelievable/podcasts/episodes/christian-philosopher-vince-vitale-stunned-by-free-will-showdown-alex-oconnor-vs-alex-carter

2)

https://www.premier...

In this episode of Still Unbelievable! David from Skeptics and Seekers joins Matthew to discuss, and answer, 3 questions that Cameron Bertuzzi posted onto his Capturing Christianity channel. We're unimpressed by these questions because we think they reveal an attempt to trap atheists into a specific answer, and as such they are not good faith questions. This is why our discussion of the questions run to an hour. This is the edited...

Episode 122 Bekah McNeel - This Is Going To Hurt

In this episode of Still Unbelievable! We welcome back Bekah McNeel. Bekah is a journalist and author. We interviewed Bekah for her first book, Bringing Up Kids when Church Lets You Down in Episode 91, see link in the show notes. In this episode Matthew talks with Bekah about her next book, This is Going to Hurt: Following Jesus in a Divided America. See the show notes for more ...