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  Jana Harmon

  Senior Fellow For Christian Apologetics, CSLI
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Jana Harmon

Senior Fellow For Christian Apologetics, CSLI

Jana Harmon, Ph.D, is the Senior Fellow For Christian Apologetics for the C.S. Lewis Institute and a Teaching Fellow for C.S. Lewis Institute Atlanta. She serves on the Atlanta Advisory Board and as an Adjunct Professor of Cultural Apologetics at Biola University. Her doctoral research studied the religious conversion of atheists to Christianity looking at the perspectives and stories of 50 former Atheists. She views apologetics through a practical, evangelistic lens. She is the host of the podcast eX-skeptic for the C.S. Lewis Institute. Jana received her PhD from the University of Birmingham, England.
 

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  Mike Bird

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Mike Bird
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Mike Bird, Lecturer , a Former atheist, tells his story of moving from a culturally-informed skepticism and caricatured Christianity to finding that perhaps his presumptions were mistaken. He is also an Academic Dean and Lecturer in New Testament at Ridley College)
 
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  Robert Kunda

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Robert Kunda
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Robert Kunda, Podcast Guest, former atheist Robert Kunda took a closer look at his atheistic presumptions, opening him to new possibilities.
 
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  Brian Causey

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Brian Causey
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Brian Causey, Financial Trader, is a director at a Seattle, Washington-based investment company. He manages a team focused on various portfolio solutions for large institutions such as endowments, foundations, and state and corporate pension funds. Over his career as a portfolio manager, he has instructed trades valued at nearly a trillion dollars. Brian is a licensed registered representative and a CFA® charterholder. Brian was not raised in the church and this is the journey of his search for truth. He is now actively involved in local ministries, has taught apologetics classes at his church, and blogs about spiritual matters. Brian and his wife, Karlie, have a son (Blaise) and live near Alki Beach.
 
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  Bruce Blackshaw

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Bruce Blackshaw
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Bruce Blackshaw, Podcast Guest, tells his story of moving from atheism as informed by science to a rational Christian faith that informs both science as well as the most profound questions of life.
 
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  Ashley Lande

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Ashley Lande
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Ashley Lande, writer, she is also an artist and  has a blog, www.ashleylande.com.  She is passionate about limning out in words and stories and images how Jesus loves us in the here and now, this beautiful and sometimes terrible place between the kingdom come and the kingdom not-yet-here.
 
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  Erik Manning

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Erik Manning
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Erik Manning, Speaker, he viewed Christianity as just a pleasant myth. But after becoming dissatisfied with his conclusions, his search for meaning led him to affirm the truth and reliability of the Christian faith.
 
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  Rob Oram

  Investigator
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Rob Oram
Investigator
Rob Oram, Investigator, As an atheist, presumed God didn’t exist until unexpected circumstances caused him to reconsider.
 
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  Matt Fincher

  Podcast Guest
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Matt Fincher
Podcast Guest
Matt Fincher, Podcast Guest, endured a tragic accident that pushed him away from God. In the years that followed, his natural curiosity and search for purpose led him to reconsider the God of the Bible.
 
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  Craig Northwood

  Podcast Guest
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Craig Northwood
Podcast Guest
Craig Northwood, Podcast Guest, thought he was too intelligent to believe in God, but after a series of sobering events, he was shocked to find himself affirming the truth of Christ.
 
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  Julie Hannah

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Julie Hannah
Author
Julie Hannah, Author,  takes an intellectual, scientific journey to discover answers to life's biggest questions and finds Christ. Julie's autobiographical book, A Skeptic's Investigation into Jesus (2020), is available on Amazon and Kindle.