About this episode

Roxane Salonen and Rob Port engage in a dialogue exploring faith and atheism.

Rob Port is a reporter and a columnist for the Forum Communications Company, as well as host of the Plain Talk podcast. But beyond that, he's a husband and father who tilts conservative politically, and yet not so much that he'd always identify as a Republican. While he grew up in a Christian home, Rob doesn't practice any faith, nor does he believe in God. Today, Rob and I will share the mic to toss each other a host of questions relating to faith, or lack thereof, to probe each other's minds a bit, and, hopefully, along with our different perspectives, reveal a few places of convergence. SHOW NOTES: Rob Port's "Plain Talk" podcast: https://www.inforum.com/podcasts/plain-talk Plain Talk, Episode #273 with Rob, Roxane and Devlyn Brooks (Dec. 2021): "Is America's Religious Decline Good or Bad?" https://open.spotify.com/episode/5KO0mX0VTHxU1J1VaCuo3j Roxane's "Living Faith" Forum column that followed: https://www.inforum.com/opinion/columns/salonen-does-faith-mean-loss-of-freedom "Who is Jesus? An atheist, a Lutheran and a Catholic answer," Dec. 20, 2024, "Matters of Soul Importance" podcast with Rob and Devlyn Brooks…

People in this episode

Host: Roxane Salonen

Guest: Rob Port

Topics covered

• faith
• atheism
• Christianity
• politics
• religion
• dialogue

Keywords

• faith
• atheism
• Christianity
• dialogue
• politics
• religion

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Forum Communications Company

Books & works: Plain Talk, Living Faith, Matters of Soul Importance

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