Andy Bannister recently joined Helen Lea on UCB radio for a lively discussion about sharing the Christian faith. They started talking about Andy’s book, “How to Talk About Jesus Without Looking Like Idiot”, and then the conversation went out from there! The whole of this hugely enjoyable programme is available online- click the UCB icon to get the programme.
Gavin Matthews fills in as host this week, so Andy can swap chairs for an interview about his latest book, How to Talk About Jesus Without Looking Like An Idiot. From “crunchy Christians” to comedy footnotes to Master Question-Asker, Gavin finds…
Andy is the Director of Solas and is a highly in-demand speaker, writer, and broadcaster. From universities to churches, cafes to pubs, schools to workplaces, Andy regularly addresses audiences of both Christians and those of all faiths and none on issues relating…
Andy Bannister has written three popular books; you can get any of them as a gift if you sign up to support Solas for £3 ($5) a month or more. Or you can find links to where you can buy…
South Street Free Church in Eastborne has a lively YouTube channel with loads of Bible teaching, testimonies and guests. When they interviewed Andy Bannister recently, they picked his brains on everything from Islam and the Qur’an, to communicatng truth to post-modernists!
“How can I find real happiness?” is a question that a lot of people are asking today, not least because Covid has swept away so many of the things people had assumed were certainties. Many people have had things such as assumed job security threatened along with foreign travel, much of their social lives – and so much of what makes us happy.
It was great to be with our friends at Stirling University CU for their annual houseparty – this year looking at the surprising and constatntly relevant book of Jonah.
London City Mission has a huge passion to equip its staff and supoprters to enable them to reach out to Muslims.
When Andy Bannister was a guest on one of the Release International podcast one of the things which came up was the difficult subject of understanding suffering from a Christian perspective – in a context when many of the people Release supports, suffer not because theyhave done wrong, but because they rightly identify with Jesus.
Erskine Parish Church has a lively Youtube channel. Andy Bannister was recently invited to join them for one of their “EPC Conversations”, they looked at evangelism, apologetics, Islam, and all manner of objections to the Christian faith
Speaking on the topic of science to that community was especially interesting – as it has some connections with their professional lives. So for instance when showing that science has not displaced God, I demonstrated that science actually raises religious, philosophical and moral questions, which it fails to answer
So as well as looking at the claim that Atheism isn’t a belief, we also examined the spurious claim that ‘science can explain everything’ and then the idea that “we don’t need God to be good” –
We talked about everything from the origins of the Qur’an, to the big questions around the origins of Islam, to my forthcoming book “Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?”
In this short video he talks about our partnership with the Filling Stations across the country, and the way in which Solas is happy to come and help with small meetings far from the big cities where we hold our major conferences.
“God hasn’t moved, it’s we who have at times turned our backs—and sometimes it takes something dramatic, like a pandemic to wake us up to the fact that without God, there is no hope, no meaning, and no peace. But with God, there is. In and through Jesus, we can have all of those things
