Episode 149 – On Genuinely Seeking God

Also known as teenager God, who doesn’t want to come downstairs — apparently He loves you, but He’s not coming out of His room.

In this episode Matthew addresses one aspect of the hiddenness of the Christian god — specifically the claim that people only fail to find God because they never *truly* sought Him.

1. Sean McDowell’s original video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RvABkX8LnM

2. Greg Ganssle (Biola University)

https://www.biola.edu/directory/people/greg-ganssle

3. J.L. Schellenberg – Divine Hiddenness Argument (overview)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/divine-hiddenness/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hBpZ-ystOg&list=PLKuMaHOvHA4qePAEaCyr77IieZRtuqEYm

4. works by Justin Barrett and Pascal Boyer

https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9fdfa5e2-249c-46fd-87da-0d13b60c3c37/files/m7e131b8b0742d6390becc105d9845469?utm_source=copilot.com

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/2153599X.2025.2474404?utm_source=copilot.com

In this Episode of Still Unbelievable, Matthew chats with David from Skeptics and Seekers, see link in the show notes.

David and Matthew are going to do a regular catchup to talk about current events and a lot of nonsense. This first chat is over 3 hours and covers politics, DNA, family ancestry, Matthew reveals that he's discovered a dark secret in his family, you have to listen to find out what that is, moving house, apologetics and a few other things.

As always, leave your thoughts and suggestions in the comments or email reasonpress@gmail.com.

Enjoy!

Skeptics and Seekers

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Matthew's DNA traits reveal video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qO8drPlx7w

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EP148 - Tiffany Yecke Brooks - To Rebehold the Stars

In this episode Matthew is in conversation with Tiffany Yecke Brooks, author of To Rebehold the Stars — a book that doesn’t shy away from the hardest questions about faith, silence, identity, and the stories we tell ourselves about God. Tiffany invites us into a space where certainty dissolves, where divine silence feels indistinguishable from absence, and where the work of knowing one’s authentic self can be both unsettling and necessary.

She challenges us to interrogate our assumptions: about spirituality, about the body’s role in emotion and trauma, about whether mystical experiences require anything supernatural at all. This is a book that pushes us out of our comfort zones — not to destroy faith, but to examine it honestly. We're grateful to have Tiffany here to explore these tensions, and to talk about what it means to rebuild meaning when the old frameworks no longer hold.

1) To Rebehold the stars

https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802884367/to-rebehold-the-stars/

https://www.tiffanyyeckebrooks.com/books

2) 2014 Aalto University Study

https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/finnish-research-team-reveals-how-emotions-are-mapped-in-the-body

3) The Body Keeps The Score

https://www.besselvanderkolk.com/

https://www.simplypsychology.org/the-body-keeps-the-score-summary.html

4) Apocrypha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrypha

5) The Maccabees

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10216-maccabees-books-of

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