Still Unbelievable!

Episode 155 David and Matthew Current Events July updateMatthew is joined by David from Skeptics and Seekers for another roundup of what's been going on.https://skepticsandseekers.squarespace.com/

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Episode 149 – On Genuinely Seeking God

Also known as teenager God, who doesn’t want to come downstairs — apparently He loves you, but He’s not coming out of His room.

In this episode Matthew addresses one aspect of the hiddenness of the Christian god — specifically the claim that people only fail to find God because they never *truly* sought Him.

1. Sean McDowell’s original video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RvABkX8LnM

2. Greg Ganssle (Biola University)
https://www.biola.edu/directory/people/greg-ganssle

3. J.L. Schellenberg – Divine Hiddenness Argument (overview)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/divine-hiddenness/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hBpZ-ystOg&list=PLKuMaHOvHA4qePAEaCyr77IieZRtuqEYm

4. works by Justin Barrett and Pascal Boyer
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9fdfa5e2-249c-46fd-87da-0d13b60c3c37/files/m7e131b8b0742d6390becc105d9845469?utm_source=copilot.com
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/2153599X.2025.2474404?utm_source=copilot.com

In this Episode of Still Unbelievable, Matthew chats with David from Skeptics and Seekers, see link in the show notes.
David and Matthew are going to do a regular catchup to talk about current events and a lot of nonsense. This first chat is over 3 hours and covers politics, DNA, family ancestry, Matthew reveals that he's discovered a dark secret in his family, you have to listen to find out what that is, moving house, apologetics and a few other things.
As always, leave your thoughts and suggestions in the comments or email reasonpress@gmail.com.
Enjoy!

Skeptics and Seekers
https://skepticsandseekers.squarespace.com/
Matthew's DNA traits reveal video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qO8drPlx7w

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Apostate book:
https://amzn.eu/d/9RIUZYx
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EP148 - Tiffany Yecke Brooks - To Rebehold the Stars

In this episode Matthew is in conversation with Tiffany Yecke Brooks, author of To Rebehold the Stars — a book that doesn’t shy away from the hardest questions about faith, silence, identity, and the stories we tell ourselves about God. Tiffany invites us into a space where certainty dissolves, where divine silence feels indistinguishable from absence, and where the work of knowing one’s authentic self can be both unsettling and necessary.

She challenges us to interrogate our assumptions: about spirituality, about the body’s role in emotion and trauma, about whether mystical experiences require anything supernatural at all. This is a book that pushes us out of our comfort zones — not to destroy faith, but to examine it honestly. We're grateful to have Tiffany here to explore these tensions, and to talk about what it means to rebuild meaning when the old frameworks no longer hold.

1) To Rebehold the stars
https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802884367/to-rebehold-the-stars/
https://www.tiffanyyeckebrooks.com/books

2) 2014 Aalto University Study
https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/finnish-research-team-reveals-how-emotions-are-mapped-in-the-body

3) The Body Keeps The Score
https://www.besselvanderkolk.com/
https://www.simplypsychology.org/the-body-keeps-the-score-summary.html

4) Apocrypha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrypha

5) The Maccabees
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10216-maccabees-books-of

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Apostate book: https://amzn.eu/d/9RIUZYx

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Episode 147 James McGrath - Beyond Deconstruction.

In this episode of Still Unbelievable! Matthew is in conversation with James McGrath about his book, Beyond Deconstruction. James extolls us all to be kind and considerate when facing the deconstruction of cherished beliefs. In a world where the extremes are becoming more fractured and the calm middle seems to no longer exist, James reminds us that progress is only made when we actually stop and consider our fellow humans and appreciate beauty and the nuance of existence.

1) Beyond Deconstruction - Building a More Expansive Faith - James F. McGrath
https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467468817/beyond-deconstruction/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Deconstruction-Building-Expansive-Faith/dp/0802884598

2) James F. McGrath
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2025/03/are-you-losing-your-faith.html
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/
https://blue.butler.edu/~jfmcgrat/

3) Walter Wink
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Wink

4) James with Alex on John the Baptist
https://youtu.be/WqkkfnlttOI?si=3xCBb_t5LIk8D6sw

5) YouTube Interview with James on Deconstruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4lG6QtDF3Q

6) Ryan Burge, Scholar of Religion and Politics
https://www.drburge.com/

7) Deconstruction & Support Communities
- Recovering From Religion — https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org
- The Clergy Project — https://clergyproject.org
- Reclamation Collective — https://www.reclamationcollective.com
- Religious Trauma Institute — https://www.religioustraumainstitute.com
- The Liturgists Community — https://theliturgists.com
- Exvangelical (Podcast + Community) — https://exvangelicalpodcast.com
- Almost Heretical (Podcast + Discord) — https://almostheretical.com
- The Deconstructionists Podcast — https://thedeconstructionists.com
- Oasis Network (Secular community gatherings) — https://www.oasisnetwork.com

United Kingdom
- Humanists UK — [https://humanists.uk]
- Faith to Faithless (Humanists UK) — [https://faithtofaithless.com]
- The Sea of Faith Network — [https://www.sofn.org.uk]

United States
- Recovering From Religion — [https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org]
- The Clergy Project — [https://clergyproject.org]
- Oasis Network — [https://www.oasisnetwork.com]
- Reclamation Collective — [https://www.reclamationcollective.com]
- Religious Trauma Institute — [https://www.religioustraumainstitute.com]

Canada
- Centre for Inquiry Canada — [https://centreforinquiry.ca]
- Canadian Unitarian Council — [https://cuc.ca](https://cuc.ca)
- Local Humanist Groups (via Humanist Canada) — [https://www.humanistcanada.ca]

Australia
- Humanists Australia — [https://humanistsaustralia.org]
- Rationalist Society of Australia — `https://rationalist.com.au` - Atheist Foundation of Australia — `https://atheistfoundation.org.au`

Still Unbelievable! book: https://amzn.eu/d/fmsN1Cw
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