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Undeceptions with John Dickson

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Every week on Undeceptions we’ll explore some aspect of life, faith, history, culture, or ethics that is either much misunderstood or mostly forgotten. With the help of people who know what they’re talking about, we’ll be trying to ‘undeceive ourselves’ and let the truth ‘out’.

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  1. 70. The Artist

    · 1 h 08 min · S6 E10

    This episode was sponsored by Zondervan’s new book The Beauty Chasers by Timothy Willard. Visit the undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook,…

  2. 69. Trans Gender

    · 1 h 23 min · S6 E9

    This episode was sponsored by Zondervan's new book Religious Freedom in a Secular Age by Michael F. Bird. Visit the undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on…

  3. 68. Question Answer VI

    · 58 min · S6 E8

    This episode was sponsored by Zondervan's new book Typology-Understanding the Bible's Promise-Shaped Patterns: How Old Testament Expectations are Fulfilled in Christ by James M. Hamilton Jr. Visit the undeceptions.com…

  4. 67. On Suffering

    · 1 h 13 min · S6 E7

    This episode is sponsored by Zondervan's new book Malestrom: How Jesus Dismantles Patriarchy and Redefines Manhood by Carolyn Custis James Visit the undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for…

  5. 66. The Vikings II

    · 1 h 00 min · S6 E6

    This episode is sponsored by Zondervan's new book The Sexual Reformation by Aimee Byrd. Visit the undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter…

  6. 65. The Vikings I

    · 1 h 18 min · S6 E5

    We're launching our longboats on to the seas of myth and popular culture… and discovering over two in-depth episodes what we can actually say with some confidence about the Vikings - their origins, exploits, culture,…

  7. 64. Kingdom Come

    · 1 h 05 min · S6 E4

    What happens beyond death is one of those areas—like the idea of a Rapture prior to a Second Coming—where myths have crept into popular Christian thought which have little connection either with the Bible or with what…

  8. Introducing: Small Wonders with Laurel Moffatt

    · 15 min · Trailer

    The Joshua Tree National Park in California is a good starting place for Laurel Moffatt's reflection on our struggles to see the light. The park is full of interesting characters as well as a compelling number of…

  9. 63. With Keller

    · 1 h 05 min · S6 E3

    Tim Keller is the founding pastor of New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church and the author of several New York times best-selling books. It's also fair probably fair to say that he is something of a Christian prophet…

  10. Become an Undeceiver

    · 1:09 · Bonus

    This season, we’re launching Undeceptions Plus which offers exclusive bonus content to members - who we’re calling our ‘Undeceivers’. For a small monthly fee - just AU$5 a month - you can unlock uncut interviews, extra…

  11. 62. Science Wars

    · 1 h 09 min · S6 E2

    This episode was sponsored by Zondervan’s new book Religious Freedom in a Secular Age by Michael F. Bird. Visit the undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on…

  12. 61. Emperor Constantine

    · 1 h 17 min · S6 E1

    This episode was sponsored by Zondervan's new book Rembrandt is in the Wind by Russ Ramsey. For the full show notes for this episode head to Undeceptions.com.

  13. No Coward single

    · 26 min · Bonus

    Greg Sheridan is one of Australia's most influential foreign affairs analysts, as well as an acclaimed author. In short, he's not afraid of sharing an opinion. He and John Dickson take a stroll through his latest…

  14. Transforming Tales single

    · 16 min · Bonus

    Undeceptions is proud to announce that the popular podcast, With All Due Respect, is joining the network as of today. To mark the occasion hosts Megan Powell du Toit and Michael Jensen have crafted a single about the…

  15. Life's Variations single

    · 12 min · Bonus

    It's our first season in the run down to Season 6 of Undeceptions, and John Dickson asks friend of the show Laurel Moffatt to share some uncommon wisdom earned from teaching her daughter music during the COVID…

  16. The Log In Our Eye

    · 14 min · Bonus

    John Dickson's Bullies and Saints is a super-podcast providing excerpts of the book by the same name - a no-holds-barred look at the best and worst of church history. In this final episode of the Bullies And Saints…

  17. The Not-So-Dark Ages

    · 12 min · Bonus

    John Dickson's Bullies and Saints is a super-podcast providing excerpts of the book by the same name - a no-holds-barred look at the best and worst of church history. In this episode, John up-ends a…

  18. Knights of Christ

    · 12 min · Bonus

    John Dickson's Bullies and Saints is a super-podcast providing excerpts of the book by the same name - a no-holds-barred look at the best and worst of church history. In this edition, John Dickson introduces us to two…

  19. Christian Jihad

    · 15 min · Bonus

    John Dickson's Bullies and Saints is a super-podcast providing excerpts of the book by the same name - a no-holds-barred look at the best and worst of church history. In this edition, John investigates the accusation…

  20. The Birth of Charity

    · 14 min · Bonus

    John Dickson's Bullies and Saints is a super-podcast providing excerpts of the book by the same name - a no-holds-barred look at the best and worst of church history. In this episode, John Dickson gives us an insight…

  21. Good Losers

    · 13 min · Bonus

    John Dickson's Bullies and Saints is a super-podcast providing excerpts of the book by the same name - a no-holds-barred look at the best and worst of church history. In this edition, John uncovers the character of…

  22. Peter The Hermit

    · 14 min · Bonus

    John Dickson's Bullies and Saints is a super-podcast providing excerpts of the book by the same name - a no-holds-barred look at the best and worst of church history. In this episode, John Dickson takes us to the…

  23. 60. Resting Well

    · 1 h 02 min · S5 E11

    This episode was sponsored by Zondervan’s new book Ethics Beyond Rules, by Keith D Stanglin. Visit the undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Twitter and…

  24. 59. The Refugee

    · 1 h 07 min · S5 E10

    This episode was sponsored by Zondervan’s new book ‘Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth’ by Thaddeus J Williams. Visit undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode.…

  25. Christmas Star single

    · 22 min · Bonus

    Dr. Chris Forbes brings his expertise in the Greco-Roman world to bear on why historians believe the story of the three magi and the star over a stable might actually be based in fact. Join John Dickson as these two…

  26. 58. Question Answer V

    · 1 h 07 min · S5 E9

    This episode was sponsored by Zondervan's new book Urban Apologetics by Eric Mason. Visit the undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram…

  27. 57. Jesus Philosopher

    · 1 h 01 min · S5 E8

    The cliche is: ‘faith’ is the antithesis of knowledge … of wisdom. And therefore “Christian philosophy” is an oxymoron, right? Our guests today, though are professional philosophers and they reckon that, while…

  28. 56. Paulos Apostolos

    · 1 h 02 min · S5 E7

    This episode was sponsored by Zondervan's new book Believing Philosophy by Dolores G. Morris. OUR GUESTS Douglas J. Moo is a New Testament scholar who, after teaching for more than twenty years at Trinity Evangelical…

  29. 55. Just War

    · 1 h 01 min · S5 E6

    This episode is sponsored by Zondervan's new book Person of Interest: Why Jesus still matters in a world that rejects the Bible by J. Warner Wallace. Meet Our Guests • Nigel Biggar: Regius Professor of Moral &…

  30. 54. Between Testaments

    · 1 h 14 min · S5 E5

    This episode is sponsored by Zondervan's new book Why is there suffering? by Bethany Sollereder. Download the transcript for this episode here. Meet our Guest The Rev Dr George Athas George is Director of Research…

  31. 53. Outer Space

    · 49 min · S5 E4

    Some would say that an ancient faith like Christianity won’t survive outer space -- especially as we explore further than we ever have before. This episode is sponsored by Zondervan's new book 'The Theology of Paul…

  32. 52. On Friendship

    · 54 min · S5 E3

    Download the transcript for this episode here. COMPETITION! We’re celebrating our 500,000th download this month - half a million! And so, with the help of our major sponsor, Zondervan, we are giving away a book pack…

  33. 51. Chinese Jesus

    · 1 h 01 min · S5 E2

    Download the transcript for this episode here. COMPETITION! We’re celebrating our 500,000th download this month - half a million! And so, with the help of our major sponsor, Zondervan, we are giving away a book pack…

  34. 50. Good Life

    · 1 h 00 min · S5 E1

    COMPETITION! We’re celebrating our 500,000th download this month - half a million! And so, with the help of our major sponsor, Zondervan, we are giving away a book pack of five of Zondervan’s newest titles. We’ll…

  35. Outback Christ

    · 6:08 · Bonus

    This Henry Lawson poem, though written in the Australian outback in the 19th Century, still captures what a lot of people see as wrong with Christianity and what they wish it was like.

  36. Afghan Refugee

    · 21 min · Bonus

    Shabnam Safa was just 15 years old when she arrived in Australia as a refugee. As a young child, her family had fled war-torn Afghanistan to a refugee camp on the border of Pakistan where she grew up listening to…

  37. Intersectional Jesus

    · 10 min · Bonus

    Author and highly sought-after speaker Sam Allberry talks us through 'intersectionality' and ponders the wisdom and boundaries of this way of bestowing moral authority. "Just as those who stand at an intersection can…

  38. Nine Eleven Single

    · 25 min · Bonus

    Today is the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, a series of coordinated terrorist strikes in the US that killed almost 3000 people and changed the world forever. Our guest for this single, Hans Kunnen, was one of…

  39. The Terror Single

    · 8:14 · Bonus

    On the anniversary of the France's Reign of Terror, John asks where we got the idea that three centuries of the Spanish Inquisition represented the height of human cruelty. In any objective history of human violence…

  40. 49. Pro Life

    · 1 h 12 min · S4 E12

    ** We’re talking about abortion in this episode, and occasionally we mention sexual abuse and violence. Nothing graphic, we promise. But some listeners may find what follows distressing. Be safe. ** We're weighing up…

  41. 48. Ask Anything IV

    · 59 min · S4 E11

    It's this season's Q&A episode, where listeners get a chance to ask John Dickson their burning questions. This episode is sponsored by Seven Things I Wish Christians Knew About the Bible by Michael F Bird, a new book…

  42. 47. Everyday Sacred

    · 56 min · S4 E10

    Just when you imagine Christians are all so heavenly minded they’re of no earthly use … the Bible itself brings us back to the earth. That’s where the action is. In fact, the final great scene of the Bible doesn’t have…

  43. 46. The Exodus

    · 1 h 01 min · S4 E9

    The parting of the red sea is legendary today … and most people treat it as just that … legend. Like many things in the Bible, the exodus from Egypt (recorded in the book Old Testament book of Exodus) is looked on…

  44. 45. Christian Revolution

    · 52 min · S4 E8

    We all know Christianity thrives on ignorance, sunk us all into the dark ages, and has resisted human rights and equality for most of its 1500 year reign. What have the Christians ever done for us? Our guest today -…

  45. The best of Remembering Women

    · 59 min · Bonus

    John Dickson is taking a bit of a break to grieve the passing of his friend, Ben Shaw. So, in the interim, Producer Kaley and Director Mark have decided to choose their favourite Undeceptions episodes to drop into your…

  46. The best of Old Papers

    · 42 min · Bonus

    John Dickson is taking a bit of a break to grieve the passing of his friend, Ben Shaw. So, in the interim, Producer Kaley and Director Mark have decided to choose their favourite Undeceptions episodes to drop into your…

  47. Facing Death Single

    · 13 min · Bonus

    Ben Shaw and John Dickson were friends since childhood, became Christians together in their teens, formed a rock and roll band in their 20s, and went on to study theology and minister in the fields God opened up to…

  48. Unhealthy Anger Single

    · 12 min · Bonus

    John Dickson invites solicitor and social commentator Stephanie Kate Judd to offer an opinion on the sexism that simultaneously abuses and silences women. Outrage, she says, is an appropriate response to significant…

  49. 44. Teenage Jesus

    · 40 min · S4 E7

    Jesus was once a teenage boy, right? Was he a rascal? Who did he hang out with? Was he considered the ancient equivalent of a jock, a cool kid, a nerd, or something else? And how on earth did he get through the normal…

  50. 43. Big Porn

    · 56 min · S4 E6

    For every voice decrying the evils of pornography, there’s another that says it’s healthy, part of our freedom of expression, “sex positive”! So, which is it? LINKS • This epidoe of Undeceptions is brought to you by…

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