Between Times Podcast

Jasper Knecht speaks with Greg Restall, Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, about some of the lessons he's learned from years of teaching philosophy, and what they reveal about disagreement and faith.

Jasper Knecht speaks with Andrew Errington, Rector of Newtown Erskineville Anglican Church in Sydney, about his article 'On Speaking Freely', exploring what genuine freedom of speech requires and where the Christian tradition of parrēsia speaks into our current crisis of public discourse.

Jasper Knecht speaks with Jonathan Chaplin, Honorary Fellow at Wesley House Cambridge, about his article "Secularism: Defining our Terms, Finding our Way", exploring what the term actually means and where Christianity stands in relation to it.

In this first episode of Between Times, Jasper Knecht sits down with Jared Michelson, Gifford Fellow at the University of St Andrews, to explore one of the most contested virtues in contemporary public life: tolerance. The conversation begins with the origins of Between Times and the rationale behind its first issue, Responding to Secularism, before turning to the question of what it means to truly tolerate those we disagree with, how Christians should engage an increasingly secular culture, and whether the church is equipped to model something better than the polarisation defining our moment.