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  Jana Harmon

  Teaching Fellow
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Jana Harmon
Teaching Fellow
Jana Harmon, Ph.D, is a Teaching Fellow for C.S. Lewis Institute Atlanta and serves on the Atlanta Advisory Board and serves 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 Side B Stories podcast for the C.S. Lewis Institute. Jana received her PhD from the University of Birmingham, England.
 
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  Jack Barsky

  Speaker
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Jack Barsky
Speaker
Jack Barsky, This true spy story had a very humble beginning in the most backward corner of the old East Germany. Smarts and hard work got Jack out into the world, where he started a career teaching chemistry and math at a well-known university. Then his life took a fantastic detour – Jack was recruited by the KGB and infiltrated into the US where he spent ten years spying for the Soviet Union. He “resigned” from the KGB and was eventually discovered by the FBI. Today, Jack is a law abiding patriotic American citizen who is taking advantage of one last chance to live a normal life. He is now taking his story and his vast experience on both sides of the iron curtain to live audiences.
 
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  Mary Poplin

  Professor
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Mary Poplin
Professor
Mary Poplin, Professor, was spiritual, not religious and sampled many ideologies until a vivid dream made the Jesus of Christianity undeniable to her. She is also the author of Is Reality Secular? Testing the Assumptions of Four Global Worldviews, Finding Calcutta: What Mother Teresa Taught Me about Meaningful Work and Service, and Highly Effective Teachers of Vulnerable Students: Practice Transcending Theory.
 
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  Daniel Rodger

  Podcast Guest
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Daniel Rodger
Podcast Guest
Daniel Rodger, Podcast Guest, used to subscribe to a culturally informed form of atheism because he had grown up in it. In the Side B Stories podcast, he shares about his journey from atheism to faith in Christ, which has transformed his life.
 
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  Nikki Naparst

  Podcast Guest
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Nikki Naparst
Podcast Guest
Nikki Naparst, Podcast Guest, a Jewish atheist, wanted nothing to do with Jesus until an unexpected spiritual experience caused her to question all she believed as real and true.
 
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  Stuart McAllister

  Apologist
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Stuart McAllister
Apologist
Stuart McAllister, Apologist, is an itinerant speaker and writer. Since becoming a Christian in his home country of Scotland in 1977, he has traveled the globe, first smuggling bibles and other Christian resources behind the Iron Curtain. Throughout almost forty-five years of ministry, he has spoken to business groups, medical professionals, and government and community leaders. He has been a frequent contributor to many publications over the years. He has contributed chapters in the books Beyond Opinion (Thomas Nelson, 2007) and Global Missiology for the 21st Century (World Evangelical Fellowship, 2000). He and his son, Cameron, have co- written a book, Faith That Lasts: A Father and Son on Cultivating Lifelong Belief , which was published in 2021.
 
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  Ted Cabal

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Ted Cabal
Author
Ted Cabal, Author, was searching for something to satisfy him in life. In the Side B Stories Podcast, Dr. Ted Cabal shares about his wandering journey that led him the long way home to a Person who had been waiting for him all along.
 
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  Philip Vander Elst

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Philip Vander Elst
Author
Philip Vander Elst, Author, is a freelance writer and lecturer who has spent nearly 30 years in politics and journalism. He describes his "journey of discovery" from atheism to an intellectually-grounded Christian belief.
 
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  Warren Prehmus

  Podcast Guest
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Warren Prehmus
Podcast Guest
Warren Prehmus, Podcast Guest, is a former atheist who was a guest on the Side B Stories podcast, where he shared about how his life was turned around from a place where he thought he had everything figured out, to a place where he realized his need for God.
 
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  Mary Jo Sharp

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Mary Jo Sharp
Author
Mary Jo Sharp, Author, is a former atheist who was a guest on the Side B Stories podcast, where she shared about how her life was marked with apatheism, the apathy to theism which believes God doesn't exist and religion is irrelevant, but that despite this she was able to move toward a strong belief in God that shapes her whole life.
 
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  Frank Federico

  Historian
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Frank Federico
Historian
Frank Federico, Historian, is a former atheist who was a guest on the Side B Stories podcast, where he shared about how his training and upbringing led him to think of Christianity as a myth or legend. His story also talks about how he was able to move from a skeptical view to an acceptive view of Christianity.