The Panic Room - Episode 20
Atheists ain’t got no songs? Where do we get our inspiration for music? Can we plumb the heights and depths of human experience and human emotion without some sort of spiritual connection? Where does music and creativity come from?
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David Robertson is an experienced presenter and debater on the place of the Christian faith in the public sphere, a prolific blogger at The Wee Flea and he was the minister at St Peter's Free Church in Dundee, Scotland for 27 years. David joined City Bible Forum in 2019 to lead a new initiative called Third Space.
Stephen McAlpine works as part of the Third Space Ministry at City Bible Forum. He writes and speaks on matters of culture, theology and the church, and blogs at stephenmcalpine.com. Stephen and his wife Jill have been involved in church planting in Perth for more than a decade, while Jill also runs a Clinical Psychology practice and trains churches and other organisations in establishing good models of pastoral care. They have two children, Sophie and Declan. He recently published his first book, Being the Bad Guys from the Good Book Company.
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Tim Hawkins, the American Christian Comedian, wrote a few atheist worship songs, of course from Christian worship songs. I am sure you can find them on YouTube. And the line about no atheists in foxholes is attributed to a Catholic priest while on Bataan in WWII. He survived the death march, but, I think I remember this right, he was being transported to Japan and the ship went down. Nevertheless, he did not survive the war - (reference: Abie Abraham's book "Oh, God, Where are You?"
Tim Hawkins, the American Christian Comedian, wrote a few atheist worship songs, of course from Christian worship songs. I am sure you can find them on YouTube. And the line about no atheists in foxholes is attributed to a Catholic priest while on Bataan in WWII. He survived the death march, but, I think I remember this right, he was being transported to Japan and the ship went down. Nevertheless, he did not survive the war - (reference: Abie Abraham's book "Oh, God, Where are You?"