Evangelical
“The Faith of Christopher Hitchens”
Christopher Hitchens and Larry Taunton seem unlikely candidates to be friends. Hitchens was a writer and avowed atheist who died of esophageal cancer in 2011. Taunton is the founder of the Birmingham-based Fixed Point Foundation. It’s an evangelical Christian organization that has sponsored debates with prominent atheists. It’s through this work the two met and became friends. Larry Taunton is out with a book called “The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World’s Most Notorious Atheist”
The Pentecostal Century
The last 50 years have seen an explosive spread of pentecostal and charismatic religion around the world. Former University of Alabama at Birmingham history department chairman David Harrell has studied and written extensively about the trend. He's on the UAB campus this week sharing his observations with students and WBHM's Tanya Ott. Click here to hear
