
John Dickson
Australian author
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Sep 1, 2026
Does History Discredit Christianity? with John Dickson - SUMMER REPLAY
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John DicksonGUEST
And should I accept anonymous tip-offs? And in the letter he says, and this is dated 112, so we're at the dawn of the second century now, He says, the only thing I can find wrong with them is they get up before dawn on a determined day and sing a hymn to Christ quasi Deo, as if God.

John DicksonGUEST
So here's a pagan acknowledging that Christians were worshipping what Pliny must have thought was just a mere human, as if a God, quasi Deo, but singing hymns to Christ as divinity.

John DicksonGUEST
We can creep then into the next century, and we have discovered, I say we, I was not involved in it, but we have discovered a hymn from the middle of the third century, so mid-200s, still a period where Christians are under massive pressure from Rome.

John DicksonGUEST
They don't own the Vatican yet, they have no treasures, but they are writing hymns, just as the New Testament period had been doing.

John DicksonGUEST
And a hymn has been found on a little scrap of paper, about 30 centimetres by 8 centimetres, found in a rubbish dump in Oxyrhynchus in Middle Egypt.

John DicksonGUEST
And it's now safely stored in a vault in Oxford, which is nice, but you can go and visit it, and I've gone and visited it many times.
Your Flood Map May Be Outdated. Is Your Home Really Protected?
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Paul CentopaniHOST
Can you kind of just go over what the latest is with that and what it would mean for real estate?
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4:29John DicksonGUEST
There's several proposals that came from that, and really, thanks for bringing that up.
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4:32John DicksonGUEST
The FEMA Review Council is looking at the functionality, the operations of the National Flood Insurance Program and assessing, is there a better way? We think, again, about that coverage gap that persists in our country.
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4:45John DicksonGUEST
What can be done, what policy reforms can be made to help narrow that gap? And one of the things that the FEMA Reform Council has looked at is taking the National Flood Insurance Program, the federal source of flood insurance, which today is by far the largest source of flood insurance in the country, and turning that into a residual market.
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5:05John DicksonGUEST
So you think about the fare plans that we see in some states or Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, the state-run insurer that operates in Florida, having FEMA at a federal level act as the backstop, if you will, for flood insurance.
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5:19John DicksonGUEST
The second proposal in the FEMA Review Council recommendations was that the NFIP program basically operate as a clearinghouse.
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5:29John DicksonGUEST
And so that there's a process whereby private carriers, private capital can remove risks from FEMA and write them with private capital.
Preaching to Uncle Bob: Evangelistic Preaching in a Post-Christian World with John Dickson
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Tim JohnsonHOST
What do you think has changed most in terms of the sorts of questions that, that people are asking?

John DicksonGUEST
Um, i- it's not so much what's changed, um, as what's been added, okay? So, um, I remember 20 or so years ago, we were told, uh, and maybe I even told people, that, uh, sort of modernist questions were gone and it's all postmodern questions now.

John DicksonGUEST
So that people used to wanna know about the historicity of Jesus and the scientific evidence for God or whatever, but, but no longer do they want that.

John DicksonGUEST
They're more interested in existential meaning, uh, questions of suffering and that sort of thing.

John DicksonGUEST
Um, what's happened is that the range of, uh, arguments against the Christian faith has just expanded.
