The Doubts Aloud Podcast!
Join us as we allow doubts to be voiced regarding faith, religion and worldviews. Two of us have been Christians and none of us believe, so our current conclusion is that the doubts regarding Christianity are justified, but we are keen to question ourselves and hear Christian arguments and hear from Christian guests. Our background means that our conversation with Christianity will tend to dominate over other faiths.
We are Frances Janusz, Andrew Whyte and Ed Atkinson. We value the use of reason and evidence to assess matters of faith and worldview. (Should we doubt those assumptions?). We will consider philosophy, theology, Biblical Studies, human experience from the thinking layman’s viewpoint. We greatly value respect for those we disagree with and engaging in discussion. Meet us all in person at the monthly Unbelievable Christian and Skeptic Discussion Group in central London
https://www.meetup.com/Unbelievable-Christian-and-Skeptic-Discussion-Group-London
Andrew Whyte one of the hosts of Doubts Aloud has his own "Christian Diversity" YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIyesuRCrlRFYCYs_XMDKhd_MAyeF8esH
For those not familiar with the Christian Premier Radio Unbelievable Show that we praise, it is podcast as “Unbelievable?” and on the web:
https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable
Andrew’s appearances on Unbelievable were 31/10/2009 on the Return of Jesus, 26/04/2014 with Greg Boyd on Doubt and 10/07/2015 with Nabeel Qureshi on Christian Diversity.
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Episode 104 - Is Faith just pretending to know? Part 1
Show Notes
Is faith “complete trust or confidence or something or someone” or “belief without evidence” which implies “pretending to know things that you don’t know”? That was the Unbelievable debate over a decade ago which has stayed in Ed’s mind ever since. He has long thought it over, wondering whether the truth is more nuanced than those extremes. He did a Bible study on it, which will be Part 2, but here in Part 1 we discuss that Unbelievable debate, the idea of ‘blind faith’, Kierkegaard’s ‘leap of faith’ and how we find the concept used in Christian preaching.
Links:
The Unbelievable? Show
Search for Peter Boghossian vs Tim McGrew 24 May 2014
Kierkegaard and faith, here’s a good intro video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgwzVN1Rnpg
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6 Sept 2026
Episode 103 - An Anatomy of a Discrepancy
Show Notes
The inconsistencies between the two NT narratives of Judas Iscariott’s death has long been a ‘poster child’ of bible contradictions. We are prompted to cover it by an excellent video recently released by CJ Cornthwaite who suggests the actual reasons for the differences between the narratives. We discuss CJ’s work and try to complement it by digging deeper into: the sport of harmonisation, the third account of the death given by Papias, the OT allusions and a surprising feature of the bible translations.
Links:
The video recently released by CJ Cornthwaite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy6GctdghpQ
The article by Rendel Harris on the failure of harmonization:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/477430
A link for the Papias text:
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/tag/judas/
The legend of Ahiquar and the death of Nadan:
https://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe264.htm
Audrey Conrad on the OT allusions, bible refs: Ps. 41:9, John 13:18 & 2Samuel 17:23
in "The Fate of Judas" (Toronto Journal of Theology [7] 1992)
How to look at the Acts version of the death in all English translations:
https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Acts%201%3A18
(search in the page for ‘hang’)
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4 Aug 2026
Episode 102 - The mysterious world of the Trinity
Show Notes
Andrew has noticed that debates within Christianity on the Trinity have become much more prominent recently. We go back even to the Old Testament and cover the 1stC AD, Church Fathers, Council of Nicaea, the Reformation, and more recent debates following the story. We marvel at how differences in interpretation have been so divisive, for example how Arian and his views which nearly became Orthodoxy were later so roundly condemned.
Links:
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/trinity/
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