Why I Am Not an Atheist w/ Christopher Beha

Why I Am Not an Atheist w/ Christopher Beha

July 14, 2026 · 1h 49m · Episode 79

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Christopher Beha discusses his journey back to Catholicism and the philosophical influences that shaped his views in the context of atheism.

In his masterful book Orthodoxy , G. K. Chesterton writes of an English yachtsman who set off to find a new island in the South Seas and, through slight miscalculation, landed confused and red-faced in merry old England. Award-winning novelist Christopher Beha can relate to that man. Drawn from his Catholic roots into the heady philosophy of Locke and Hobbes, Kant and Rousseau, Nietzsche and Heidegger, he found brilliant thought but also a glaring incompleteness. Join Christopher Beha and I as we discuss his tumultuous journey home to Catholicism in his riveting book Why I Am Not an Atheist on The Evangelization & Culture Podcast . Stay up-to-date with the latest episodes of The Evangelization & Culture Podcast biweekly on WordOnFire.org , on YouTube , or wherever you get your podcasts. You can get more content like this in the quarterly print journal of the Word on Fire Institute, Evangelization & Culture .

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