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Ask NT Wright Anything #139 Q&A on New Creation & Salvation with Pastor Miles McPherson Pt 1

2022-10-13T17:00:00Z

NT Wright was interviewed by Pastor Miles McPherson at Rock Church San Diego. They talk about Tom’s work to redescribe the gospel in terms of new creation, and what that means for the concept of ‘getting saved’. Recorded in 2019.

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Matters Of Life & Death: Embryology 2: Psalm 139, reconsidering ‘ensoulment’, the language of right and wrong, and co-operation with evil

2022-10-05T17:00:00Z

Building on last week’s whistlestop tour through the latest ground-breaking embryo research, in this episode we consider what we should do as Christians about all this.

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Unbelievable? Church abuse, leadership scandals & RZIM: Rachael Denhollander, Amy Orr-Ewing, Mike Cosper & Diane Langberg

2022-09-23T17:00:00Z

Justin Brierley was joined by four guests and hundreds of attendees for a live webinar event Falling From Grace: Addressing power, leadership and abuse in the church.

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Matters Of Life & Death: Genetics 2: Whole genome sequencing, Gattaca, de-identification versus anonymity, and Big Data Towers of Babel

2022-08-17T16:55:00Z

In this episode we pick up our conversation with clinical geneticist Melody Redman to talk about a new NHS programme in England which is piloting whole genome sequencing of newborn babies.

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AI won’t overthrow humanity but it could radically undermine it

2022-08-16T08:30:00Z

Erik Strandness on the promise and perils of AI following The Big Conversation between Lord Martin Rees and Dr  JohnWyatt

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Matters Of Life & Death: Genetics 1: Rare diseases, libraries of recipe books, BRCA1, and precision medicine

2022-08-10T16:55:00Z

Each of us carries around in our cells about 20,000 different genes – a unique set of biological code which shapes how our bodies develop.

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Moral Machines: How do we build robots that know right from wrong?

2022-08-03T11:27:00Z

Deep-fakes, Turing Tests and chatbots - AI systems are becoming ever more human-like. Robotics expert Prof Nigel Crook says we need to make sure they are moral too.

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My Fair LaMDA: Why Google’s ‘sentient’ AI is not conscious, it’s just another computer programme

2022-07-29T10:55:00Z

Peter S Williams draws on philosophical arguments and a Big Conversation on AI and Robotics to show why recent claims of a ‘sentient’ AI are still in the realm of science fiction.

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Lee Strobel on the Case For Heaven PLUS Alister McGrath, Lisa Fields, Jeff Vines and Sharon Dirckx conference preview

2022-04-22T18:21:00Z

Justin interviews some of the contributors to Unbelievable? 2022 including theologian Alister McGrath, African-American apologist Lisa Fields, US pastor Jeff Vines and neuroscientist Sharon Dirckx. Lee Strobel also chats to Justin about his new documentary film The Case for Heaven

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The surrogacy industry: John & Tim Wyatt on the ethics of paying for pregnancy

2022-03-11T20:01:00Z

This episode was recorded shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine. Prior to the outbreak of war, Ukraine’s lax surrogacy laws have made it a major destination for so-called ‘reproductive tourism’ for infertile and same-sex couples who wish to have a baby.

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Unbelievable? Nick Bostrom and Ros Picard - God, AI & the future of humanity: Is technology the key to immortality?

2021-04-24T00:00:00Z

Episode 2 | Season 3 of The Big Conversation. Prof Nick Bostrom, director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University and Prof Rosalind Picard, director of the Affective Computing Research Group at MIT debate the philosophical and spiritual questions raised by AI. Could AI become conscious? Are we living in a simulation universe? Could technology be the key to immortality?

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Why it is high-time the Church learns to fully embrace the internet

2017-12-13T00:00:00Z

Rev Jim Keat believes that the internet is changing the way that we do Church – and that’s a good thing

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I attended an online church, here’s what happened

2015-11-04T00:00:00Z

Everyday Church, a London based UK church has launched an experimental ‘online congregation’. Could this be the future? Sam Hailes logged on to see what church in the digital age might look like

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Is Facebook A Good Place To Defend Your Faith?

2013-05-24T00:00:00Z

I love Facebook, Twitter and social media – it’s a great way to connect with people online. But there’s also a danger. Sometimes the anonymity of the computer or smart phone screen means we can end up saying things to people we wouldn’t necessarily say to their ...

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Why Science (And Google) Won't Answer All Your Questions

2013-05-20T00:00:00Z

I saw a sign on a church notice board recently; it said: There are some questions in life that can’t be answered by Google. It made me laugh, but I was also tempted to change one word so that sign ...