Christendom’s response to plague and pandemic: Tom Holland, Mike Bird and Rev Marcus Walker

Historian Tom Holland, author of ‘Dominion’ recaps his debate with AC Grayling and talks about his recent article for The Telegraph arguing for the Christian roots of the response we are seeing to the Coronavirus pandemic. Also joining the conversation are New Testament scholar Mike Bird co-author of ‘The New Testament In Its World’, and Rev Marcus Walker, priest as St Bartholomew the Great, London. They discuss the history of how the early church responded to plagues and how the church is responding to this present pandemic. For Tom Holland’s book Dominion https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dominion-Making-Western-Tom-Holland/dp/1408706962  For Mike Bird https://www.patheos.com/blogs/euangelion/michael-birds-book/ For Rev Marcus Walker https://twitter.com/WalkerMarcus  Support Justin’s charity head shave: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Justin-Brierley  Register for ‘Apologetics in the era of Covid-19’ webinar on 28 May: https://www.premierdigital.info/28-may-special-guest-john-lennox Subscribe to our newsletter and receive the free Unbelievable? e-book ‘In Conversation With…’ https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter Support the show and receive all the videos sessions from Unbelievable? USA 2019 https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable/  For more faith debates and extra resources visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes