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undeceive: to free from deception, illusion or error

Every week on Undeceptions, we’ll explore some aspect of life, faith, history, culture, or ethics that is either much misunderstood or mostly forgotten. With the help of people who know what they’re talking about, we’ll be trying to ‘undeceive ourselves’, and let the truth ‘out’.

HISTORY PODCAST

Jesus Quests

16 January 2023

EPISODE: 90

Question Answer VIII

9 January 2023

EPISODE: 89

First Noel

19 December 2022

EPISODE: 12 & 86

Byzantine Empire

5 December 2022

EPISODE: 84

Lewis’ Oxford

14 November 2022

EPISODE: 81

Really Old?

7 November 2022

SINGLE: Really Old?

Question Answer VII

29 August 2022

EPISODE 79

Medieval Science

25 July 2022

EPISODE 74

The Flood

11 July 2022

EPISODE 72

Good Grief

13 May 2022

EPISODE 6

Question Answer VI

9 May 2022

EPISODE 68

The Vikings II

25 April 2022

EPISODE 66

The Vikings I

18 April 2022

EPISODE 65

Emperor Constantine

18 March 2022

EPISODE 61

The Refugee

13 December 2021

EPISODE: 59

Christmas Star Single

9 December 2021

It’s Christmas time and traditionally the season when critics of the nativity story take shots at some of its more prosaic elements. But what if the star above the manger and the three wise men had a historical basis?

Question Answer V

6 December 2021

EPISODE: 58

Paulos Apostolos

22 November 2021

EPISODE: 56

66: The Apologetic Church

18 November 2021

EPISODE: 66

Just War

15 November 2021

EPISODE: 55

Between Testaments

8 November 2021

EPISODE: 54

Nine Eleven Single

10 September 2021

SINGLE

The Terror Single

6 September 2021

SINGLE

Question Answer IV

9 August 2021

EPISODE: 48

Best of Remembering Women

12 July 2021

Best of Remembering Women

The best of Old Papers

4 July 2021

The best of Old Papers

Teenage Jesus

14 June 2021

EPISODE: 44

God’s War II

31 May 2021

EPISODE: 42

God’s War I

25 May 2021

EPISODE: 41

Religious Freedom

15 May 2021

EPISODE: 40

Unknown Soldier Single

25 April 2021

SINGLE

The Troubles Single

18 April 2021

SINGLE

Canon Fodder

22 November 2020

EPISODE: 30

Bible Mistakes

19 October 2020

EPISODE: 25

Tax Free Single

4 October 2020

SINGLE

Confederate Statues Single

27 September 2020

SINGLE

Indigenous Slaves Single

20 September 2020

SINGLE

Medieval Manumission Single

13 September 2020

SINGLE

Freeing Slaves Single

6 September 2020

SINGLE

First Abolitionist Single

30 August 2020

SINGLE

Swing Low Single

16 August 2020

SINGLE

Eternal Adieu Single

25 June 2020

SINGLE

Ask Anything II

24 May 2020

EPISODE: 23

Remembering Women

17 May 2020

EPISODE: 22

Easter Myths

5 April 2020

EPISODE: 16

Pandemic Equality Single

26 March 2020

SINGLE

Pandemic Love Single

18 March 2020

SINGLE

First Church Service Single

2 February 2020

SINGLE

Ask Anything

25 November 2019

EPISODE: 11

Historical Jesus

18 November 2019

EPISODE: 10

Cybersex trafficking

20 October 2019

EPISODE: 8

Gospel truth

13 October 2019

EPISODE: 7

Moral classics

23 September 2019

EPISODE: 4

Old papers

9 September 2019

EPISODE: 2

How Christian Humility Upended the World

13 June 2018

ABC Religion and Ethics

ARTICLES

5 Minute Jesus: Redeeming the Cosmos

8 May 2022

by John Dickson So how does the Christian faith cope with the idea of extra-terrestrial life? Imagine we do discover rational life out there, or…

5 Minute Jesus: Refuge

8 May 2022

by John Dickson In my public speaking career, I've been interrupted just three times. Once in the Manning Bar at Sydney University, during my band…

5 Minute Jesus: What Jesus says about sex

5 Minute Jesus: On Sabbath Rest

8 May 2022

"I think our society is diminished by not having a shared civic day of rest."

5 Minute Jesus: Pacifist or Advocate?

10 April 2022

by John Dickson Probably Jesus’ most famous speech is the one in Matthew 5-7, the so-called ‘Sermon on the Mount’. It opens with a kind…

BOOKS | VIEW ALL

A Doubter’s Guide to World Religions

31 May 2022

The world is a very religious place. Wherever you look, people are worshipping, praying, believing, following, even dying for their faith. But are all faiths the same? Do they all call on the same God using different names?

7 Reasons to (Re)consider Christianity

27 August 2021

by Ben Shaw | Lots of people assume that Christianity is simply a nice story for kids or a niche hobby for weirdos-or worse, unattractively restrictive. In this book, Ben Shaw invites skeptical readers to think again.

Ben Shaw Funeral Booklet

24 June 2021

The Ben Shaw Funeral booklet

Bullies and Saints – An honest look at the good and evil of Christian history

9 April 2021

New Book by John Dickson

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