John Lennox on What He Knows at 82
From The Russell Moore Show by Christianity Today, Russell Moore
May 20, 2026 · 54 min
About this episode
John Lennox reflects on his life and faith as he releases his memoir at the age of 82.
What a renowned 82-year-old Christian mathematician has to say about a life well lived. Watch this conversation on YouTube For decades, Oxford mathematics professor emeritus John Lennox has stood in lecture halls, debate stages, and university classrooms making the case that Christianity is not a retreat from serious thought but an invitation into it. He has debated some of the world’s best-known skeptics, from Richard Dawkins to Christopher Hitchens. He taught mathematics at Oxford. He smuggled Christian teaching behind the Iron Curtain. And now, in his eighties, with his health declining and his world physically growing smaller, he has written a memoir looking back on the strange providences that shaped his life. In his new autobiography, My Story: A spiritual and intellectual autobiography, Professor Lennox reflects on growing up amid sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland, actually hearing C. S. Lewis lecture at Cambridge (literally!), being followed by the KGB, and learning over time that saying “I don’t know” can sometimes open deeper doors than feigning certainty. If you’ve ever wondered whether intellectual seriousness and deep Christian conviction can actually coexist…
People in this episode
Host: Russell Moore
Guest: John Lennox
Topics covered
- Christianity
- mathematics
- intellectual thought
- biography
- faith
- debate
Keywords
- John Lennox
- Christianity
- biography
- Oxford
- C. S. Lewis
- debate
- faith
- intellectual thought
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Oxford, Christianity Today
Books & works: My Story: A spiritual and intellectual autobiography
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