MP3 Religious Debates, Christian Apologetics Talks, Catholic EWTN

Some audio debates, apologetics talks, conversion stories, and miscellaneous MP3 files I have found very interesting and helpful in understanding the Catholic faith.

The first set of audio are some of the better debates and Christian apologetics talks available on the Internet. Topics include commentary on the C.S. Lewis classic Mere Christianity; debates on atheism, the resurrection, and other subjects with the evangelical Christian apologist and philosopher William Lane Craig, theologian Alister McGrath, and conservative author Dinesh D'Souza; critics of the Dan Brown novel The Da Vinci Code; some creation-evolution-intelligent design discussions and debates; rare Scott Hahn, Fr. Mitch Pacwa, and Karl Keating; rare Bob Lassiter airchecks (Tampa bay talk radio); debates with Vincent Bugliosi (lawyer-prosecutor).

• William Lane Craig Debates
• Alister McGrath Debates
• Dinesh D'Souza Debates
• Walter Martin Debates
• The Problem of Evil
• Historical Jesus and Bible Reliability
• Fulton J. Sheen Talks
• Karl Keating Debates
• Da Vinci Code Critics
• Creation-Evolution Talks
• Creation-Evolution Debates
• Islam and Muslims
• Other Debates and Talks

The second set are converted MP3 audio from the popular EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network) show The Journey Home hosted by Marcus Grodi (began Sept 1997). This program is dedicated to converts (or reverts) to the Catholic faith, many from Evangelical or Fundamentalist Protestant backgrounds, and during the hour long program the converts give their personal conversion stories and reasons for becoming Catholic. I have selected the programs I believe to be most impressive and interesting -- from the guest or show content or caller questions (or a combination of all three). I especially enjoyed and have included the ones that contain some useful and well-articulated Catholic "apologetics" content in my view. See the EWTN YouTube channel for thousands of these videos and excellent Catholic programs.

For more on the Catholic faith see the Apologetics, Philosophy, and Spirituality articles available here on this site, and many articles available from EWTN documents and Catholic Answers sites are most helpful (see links for more great Catholic sites).

Debates and Apologetics Talks on this site (right click to save, left to listen)

C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity and more

Peter Kreeft on the Existence of God MP3 (see www.PeterKreeft.com)
Peter Kreeft on C.S. Lewis MP3
Philip van der Elst on C.S. Lewis MP3

C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity COMPLETE AUDIOBOOK MP3
C.S. Lewis The Problem of Pain COMPLETE AUDIOBOOK MP3
Hear C.S. Lewis from 1944 speak on Beyond Personality MP3

William Lane Craig debates

Existence of God

Debaters	Year	Topic	Quality
Craig vs. Frank Zindler	1993	Atheism vs. Christianity
Craig vs. Paul Draper	1997	Existence of God
Craig vs. Peter Atkins (round 1, there is a more recent 2nd debate)	1998	Evidence For/Against Existence of God
Craig vs. Antony Flew	1998	Does God Exist?
Craig vs. Keith Parsons	1998	Why I am/am not a Christian
Craig vs. Eddie Tabash	1999	Secular Humanism vs. Christianity
Craig vs. Massimo Pigliucci	2001	Does the Christian God Exist?
Craig vs. Victor Stenger (round 1)	2003	Is There A God?
Craig vs. Austin Dacey (round 1)	2004	Does God Exist?
Craig vs. Austin Dacey (round 2)	2005	Does God Exist?
Craig vs. John Shook	2008	Existence of God
Craig vs. Victor Stenger (round 2)	2010	Existence of God
Craig vs. Lawrence Krauss (round 1, there is a 3-part debate 2013 below)	2011	Is There Evidence for God?
Craig vs. Stephen Law	2011	Does God Exist?
Craig vs. Peter Millican	2011	Does God Exist?
Craig vs. Alex Rosenberg	2013	Is Faith in God Reasonable? (with commentary)
Craig vs. Sean Carroll	2014	God and Cosmology

Buy the William Lane Craig vs. Christopher Hitchens Debate! DVD/CD © 2009 Biola University

Resurrection of Jesus

Debaters	Year	Topic	Quality
Craig vs. (Robert) Greg Cavin	1995	Resurrection ("Jesus twin" debate)
Craig vs. John Dominic Crossan	1995	Historical Jesus and Resurrection
Craig vs. Gerd Ludemann (round 1)	1997	Resurrection
Craig vs. Robert M. Price	1999	Resurrection
Craig vs. Marcus Borg	2001	Resurrection (with additional commentators)
Craig vs. Gerd Ludemann (round 2)	2002	Resurrection
Craig vs. Hector Avalos	2004	Resurrection
Craig vs. John Shelby Spong	2005	Resurrection
Craig vs. Bart Ehrman	2006	Resurrection (also debate transcript)
Craig vs. James Crossley	2007	Resurrection
Craig vs. Roy Hoover	2008	Resurrection
Craig vs. Richard Carrier	2009	Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?

MORE CRAIG DEBATES AND TALKS

Craig on "Is God A Delusion?" with Panel Discussion 2011 MP3
Craig speaks on his debates and the "Evidence for Christianity" 2002 MP3
Craig speaks on answering skeptics (Dan Barker, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins) MP3
Craig's Analysis of the Craig vs. Carrier Debate 2009 MP3

Craig vs. Lawrence Krauss "Has Science Buried God?" 2013 MP3
Craig vs. Lawrence Krauss "Why is there Something Rather Than Nothing?" 2013 MP3
Craig vs. Lawrence Krauss "Is it Reasonable to Believe in God?" 2013 MP3
Craig Reasonable Faith Podcasts on the Krauss Debates 2013 MP3

Craig vs. Sean Carroll "God and Cosmology" 2014 MP3

Craig vs. Brian Edwards on Resurrection (U.K. radio) MP3
Craig vs. Brian Edwards on Existence of God (U.K. radio) MP3

see also these William Lane Craig and N.T. Wright books

"Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?" DVD produced by Ignatius Press

Alister McGrath debates and others

Alister McGrath "Is God a Delusion?" 2006 MP3
Daniel Dennett "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" MP3

Alister McGrath vs. Daniel Dennett on God and Religion 2006 MP3
Alister McGrath vs. Peter Atkins on God, Darwin, Humanity 2007 MP3
Alister McGrath vs. Richard Dawkins on Theism / Atheism 2007 MP3
Alister McGrath vs. Richard Dawkins the cut segment from "Root of All Evil?" MP3
Alister McGrath vs. Christopher Hitchens on Religion in Modern World 2007 MP3
Alister McGrath vs. Susan Blackmore on Is God a Delusion? 2007 MP3

Buy the Lennox vs. Dawkins debates from Fixed-Point.org

Dinesh D'Souza debates

Dinesh D'Souza vs. Michael Shermer on God, Religion, Morality 2007 MP3
Dinesh D'Souza vs. Christopher Hitchens "What's So Great About Christianity?" 2007 MP3 (see www.DineshDSouza.com)
Dinesh D'Souza vs. Daniel Dennett "Is God (and Religion) a man-made invention?" 2007 MP3

Dinesh D'Souza vs. Dan Barker on Christianity versus Atheism 2008 MP3
Dinesh D'Souza vs. Dan Barker "The Great God Debate" 2009 MP3
Dinesh D'Souza vs. John Loftus "Does the Christian God Exist?" 2010 MP3
Dinesh interview on his debate with John Loftus MP3

Walter Martin debates

Walter Martin vs. Madalyn Murray O'Hair 1968 MP3 (see www.WalterMartin.org)
Walter Martin vs. Hugh Schonfield on The Passover Plot MP3
Walter Martin vs. Van Hale on Mormonism MP3
Walter Martin vs. John Shelby Spong on The John Ankerberg Show 1989 MP3

Walter Martin vs. Fr. Mitch Pacwa on Peter and Papacy MP3
Walter Martin vs. Fr. Mitch Pacwa on Justification by Faith MP3
Walter Martin vs. Fr. Mitch Pacwa on Marian Doctrines MP3 (see www.Ankerberg.com)
Walter Martin vs. Fr. Mitch Pacwa on Confession and Penance MP3
Walter Martin vs. Fr. Mitch Pacwa on Purgatory MP3

The Problem of Evil

Doug Geivett on The Problem of Evil MP3
Answer to "Why Won't God Heal Amputees?" MP3 (from www.GotQuestions.org)

William Lane Craig vs. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong debate on Evil and Suffering MP3
William Lane Craig vs. Shelly Kagan on "Is God Necessary for Morality?" MP3

Craig vs. Sam Harris on "Is Good From God?" 2011 MP3
Craig vs. Paul Kurtz on "Goodness Without God is Good Enough" MP3
Craig vs. Ray Bradley debate on God and Hell MP3

Bart Ehrman vs. Richard Swinburne on The Problem of Evil 2009 MP3
Bart Ehrman vs. Dinesh DSouza on The Problem of Evil 2010 MP3

David Wood vs. John Loftus on The Problem of Evil 2007 MP3 (see www.TheDebateHour.com)

Historical Jesus and Bible Reliability

conservative / moderate evangelical scholars

N.T. Wright on Jesus of Myth and History 1996 MP3
Craig Blomberg on historical Jesus research 2000 MP3
The Search for Jesus with evangelical scholars 2001 MP3 (see www.Ankerberg.com)
Craig Evans and Gary Habermas discuss Jesus books MP3
John Ankerberg with Gary Habermas on the historical Jesus MP3 (see www.GaryHabermas.com)
Hank Hanegraaff with historian Paul Maier on The Lost Tomb of Jesus 2007 MP3 (see www.Equip.org)

Are the Gospels Reliable? Debate on "Unbelievable" 2009 MP3
Richard Bauckham and James Crossley Debate Jesus and the Eyewitnesses 2009 MP3
Dale Allison on the Historical and Theological Jesus 2008 MP3
Timothy McGrew on the Gospels and Acts as History 2011 MP3
Paul Maier on the Real Jesus, New Evidence from History and Archaeology 2013 MP3

Why Should I Believe in Jesus? Debate on "Unbelievable" 2009 MP3
Amy Orr-Ewing Five Questions on the Bible MP3 (see www.ZacTrust.org)
Bible Contradictions and Inerrancy Debate on "Unbelievable" (2 programs) 2009 MP3

N.T. Wright vs. John Dominic Crossan 2005 dialogue on the Resurrection MP3
William Lane Craig on the Wright-Crossan Dialogue MP3

radical / liberal critics

Gary Habermas, Mike Licona, Richard Carrier on The Infidel Guy Show MP3 (see www.InfidelGuy.com)
Gregory Boyd vs. Robert M. Price on the historical Jesus 2003 MP3 (see www.Veritas.org)
Gregory Boyd and Paul Eddy discuss The Jesus Legend 2008 MP3

Bart Ehrman on Misquoting Jesus and NT Criticism MP3
Bart Ehrman interviewed by "Infidel Guy" 2007 MP3
Bart Ehrman vs. Craig Evans on "Is the NT Historically Reliable?" 2010 MP3
Bart Ehrman on Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth 2013 MP3
Bart Ehrman vs. Simon Gathercole on How Jesus Became God / How God Became Jesus 2014 MP3

J.P. Holding vs. Kenneth Humphreys on "Did Jesus Exist?" 2009 MP3
J.P. Holding vs. Richard Carrier on "Is the NT Reliable?" 2011 MP3

Earl Doherty Interview with Brian Flemming 2005 MP3 (see www.TheGodMovie.com and this review by Mike Licona)
R.G. Price on Jesus a Very Jewish Myth MP3 (see www.RationalRevolution.net)
Richard Carrier on "Why I Don't Think Jesus Existed" 2013 MP3 (see www.RichardCarrier.info)

Fulton J. Sheen -- "Life Is Worth Living" series

Sheen on Truth Claims, Revelation, Authority, Miracles MP3 (see www.SaintJoe.net)
Sheen on Creed, Christ, Trinity MP3
Sheen on Church, Peter, Mary, Womanhood MP3
Sheen on Sin, Grace, Sacraments MP3
Sheen on Last Things MP3

Karl Keating and Catholic/Protestant Debates and others

Karl Keating vs. Peter Ruckman 1987 MP3  
Karl Keating vs. Bart Brewer 1987 MP3
Karl Keating vs. Bill Jackson 1987 MP3
Karl Keating vs. Dave Hunt on Action Sixties February 1993 MP3
Karl Keating vs. Dave Hunt on Catholicism and "Early Christianity" 1994 MP3
Keith Fournier vs. Dave Hunt on "Evangelical Catholics" 1992 MP3

Scott Hahn Conversion Story (the "original" from 1989) MP3 (see www.Catholicity.com)
Scott Hahn "Answering Common Objections" COMPLETE MP3 (see www.EWTN.com)
Scott Hahn on Bible Answer Man June 1990 MP3 (see www.Equip.org)
Fr. Mitch Pacwa on Bible Answer Man July 1991 MP3

Scott Hahn vs. Robert Bowman on Justification/Salvation 1997 MP3 (see www.CatholicCompany.com) 
Fr. Mitch Pacwa vs. Kenneth Samples on Sola Scriptura/Authority 1997 MP3

Mark Bonocore vs. Matt Slick on CARM's "Faith and Reason" 2006 MP3 (see www.CARM.org)
Tim Staples vs. Mike Gendron on The Drew Mariani Show 2007 MP3 (see www.RelevantRadio.com)

Frank Beckwith and Timothy George on "Can You Be Catholic and Evangelical?" 2009 MP3
Frank Beckwith interviewed by Greg Koukl on "Stand to Reason" 2007 MP3 (see www.STR.org)

Da Vinci Code critics

Darrell Bock Breaking The Da Vinci Code Workshop MP3
J.P. Holding Interview on The Da Vinci Code MP3
Carl Olson talk in Wisconsin MP3
Carl Olson talk in South Dakota MP3
Gary Habermas on The Da Vinci Code MP3 (2 parts)
Mike Licona Exploring The Da Vinci Code MP3
Amy Welborn on Decoding Mary Magdalene MP3
Vatican Radio interviews Fr. Gerald O'Collins and Amy Welborn MP3
Craig Blomberg on the Secret Gnostic Gospels MP3
Craig Blomberg on Conspiracy of a Divine Jesus MP3
Stephan Hoeller on Da Vinci Code from a Gnostic Perspective MP3
Stephan Hoeller on the Gnostic Gospels MP3
John Ankerberg with guests Unraveling Da Vinci MP3 (3 parts)

Creation and Evolution and "Intelligent Design" Talks and Interviews

Henry M. Morris Creation Talks 1990 "The Long War Against God" etc MP3 (see www.ICR.org)
Phillip E. Johnson 1991 Moody Open Line radio MP3

Kenneth R. Miller on Intelligent Design August 2005 Open Source radio MP3
Kenneth R. Miller at Case Western Reserve in Ohio January 2006 MP3
Denis Lamoureux on "Beyond the Evolution vs. Creation Debate" MP3
Francis Collins on Genetics, Evolution, and Christian Faith 2006 MP3
Cardinal Christoph Schonborn on Chance or Purpose? 2008 MP3

Karl Giberson on "Can I be a Christian and Believe in Evolution?" MP3
Zachary Moore Evolution 101 Podcast Collection MP3 (see www.DrZach.net)
The Church and Science by Thomas E. Woods, Jr MP3 (chapter from How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization)

Intelligent Design Panel Discussion Part 1 Fr. George Coyne and others MP3 (see AEI transcripts)
Intelligent Design Panel Discussion Part 2 Lawrence Krauss and others MP3
Krista Tippett interviews biographer James Moore on Charles Darwin MP3
Barry Lynn interviews Barbara Forrest on the Dover ID Trial MP3
Michael Shermer and Jonathan Wells on Why Darwin Matters and ID Debate MP3

Creation and Evolution and "Intelligent Design" Debates MP3

Henry M. Morris vs. Kenneth R. Miller 1981 Debate "Evolution vs. Special Creation" MP3 (see NCSE.com)
Phillip E. Johnson vs. Will Provine 1994 Debate "Evolution: Science or Dogma?" MP3

The Firing Line 1997 Creation-Evolution Debate MP3 (see also debate transcript)
Blind Evolution or Intelligent Design? Dembski and Behe vs. Miller and Pennock 2002 MP3

Stephen Meyer vs. Kenneth R. Miller and Lawrence Krauss 2002 MP3 (see www.ScienceFriday.com)
Stephen Meyer, Richard Sternberg vs. Donald Prothero, Michael Shermer 2009 Debate "Evolution and Origins of Life" MP3
Stephen Meyer, Michael Medved, Chris Mooney, others 2009 Debate "Signature in the Cell" MP3

William Dembski vs. Eugenie Scott on Intelligent Design 2001 MP3
William Dembski vs. Lee Silver on Intelligent Design 2005 MP3
William Dembski vs. Michael Shermer on Intelligent Design 2005 MP3

George Will vs. Cal Thomas on Intelligent Design from Nightline 2005 MP3 (see also transcript)
Michael Behe vs. Vincent Cassone on Intelligent Design 2005 MP3
Paul Nelson vs. Kenneth R. Miller on Intelligent Design 2005 MP3
Jerry Coyne, Paul Nelson, Denis Lamoureux on Evolution and Religion 2007 MP3

Richard Weikart on "From Darwin To Hitler" MP3
Richard Weikart vs. Hector Avalos on Darwin and Hitler MP3

ISLAM AND MUSLIMS

William Lane Craig vs. Jamal Badawi debate on Islam versus Christianity MP3
Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus with Nabeel Qureshi 2013 MP3

Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think 2008 MP3

Robert Spencer on Islam 2007 MP3
Robert Spencer vs. Peter Kreeft on Islam 2010 MP3
Is Islam a Religion of Peace? an "Intelligence Squared" Debate 2010 MP3

other debates and talks

theism / atheism / philosophy / faith

William Lane Craig, Daniel Dennett, Alister McGrath on Theism/Atheism MP3

Thomas Warren vs. Antony Flew on the Existence of God 1976 (4 days -- 8 hours!) MP3
Greg Bahnsen vs. George H. Smith The Case For / Against God 1991 MP3 (see www.CMFNow.com)
Cliffe Knechtle vs. Michael Newdow 2003 debate on the existence of God MP3

Mark D. Roberts vs. Christopher Hitchens on The Great God Debate 2007 MP3
Frank Turek vs. Christopher Hitchens on Does God Exist? 2008 MP3

Peter May vs. John Loftus on "Unbelievable" 2008 MP3 
Cardinal George Pell vs. Dan Barker on "Without God We Are Nothing" 2010 MP3
Tim McGrew vs. Peter Boghossian on Faith and Atheism 2014 MP3 

John Warwick Montgomery on A Lawyer Defends Christianity 2014 MP3

"New Atheism"

William Lane Craig on the "New Atheism" 2008 MP3
Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker on the "New Atheism" 2008 MP3
Keith Ward on Evolution, God, Dawkins on "Unbelievable" 2008 MP3 (see "Unbelievable" on Premier Christian Radio U.K.)

Sam Harris, Michael Shermer vs. Deepak Chopra, Jean Houston on "Does God Have A Future?" 2010 MP3
Craig, Wolpe, Geivett vs Dawkins, Ridley, Shermer on "Does the Universe have a Purpose?" 2010 MP3

Materialism / Naturalism / Secularism

Alvin Plantinga "Against Materialism" MP3
Alvin Plantinga "Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism" MP3

Matt D vs. Kristine K on Secularists and Abortion Rights debate 2012 MP3

Reza Aslan vs. Sam Harris on Religion and Secularism 2007 MP3
Chris Hedges vs. Sam Harris on Religion, Ethics, Politics 2007 MP3

Presuppositional Apologetics

R.C. Sproul on Presuppositional Apologetics MP3
R.C. Sproul vs. Greg Bahnsen on Classical vs. Presuppositional Apologetics 1977 MP3
Norman Geisler on Presuppositional Apologetics MP3

Homosexuality and Christianity

Michael Brown vs Harry Knox on Christianity and Homosexuality debate MP3
Brian Brown vs Dan Savage on Gay Marriage debate MP3

Resurrection

Michael Licona vs. Richard Carrier on the Resurrection 2004 MP3 (see www.Veritas.org)
Michael Licona vs. Dan Barker on the Resurrection 2003 MP3
Gary Habermas vs. Kenneth Humphreys on the Resurrection 2008 MP3

Nature of God

Trinitarianism vs. Unitarianism Debate 2005 MP3
Sean Finnegan vs. Brant Bosserman Trinity Debate 2008 MP3

Grant Palmer Mormon Historian on Joseph Smith, Polygamy, Changing View of God(s) MP3

End Times

Harold Camping vs. John Walvoord on Amillennialism vs. Premillennialism 1980 MP3

William Lane Craig on Catholicism and the "Coming Evangelical Collapse" MP3

Bob Lassiter Tampa Bay talk radio

Lassiter vs. Clearwater Christian College WPLP March 1987 MP3
Lassiter vs. Rabbi Jan Bresky WFLA July 1988 MP3
Lassiter vs. evangelist Ben Alexander WFLA January 1989 MP3

Lassiter $50,000 Giveaway WPLP January 1987 MP3
Lassiter "Last Show" on WPLP August 1987 MP3
Battle of the Talk Show Hosts WFLA January 1988 MP3
Lionel "First Show" WFLA October 1988 MP3

Conspiracy Debates (see also www.LooseChangeGuide.com) and other

"Loose Change" vs. Popular Mechanics 2006 MP3
"Loose Change" vs. Mark Roberts 2006 MP3

Global Warming Debate various programs 2005-2007 MP3

Bugliosi vs. Dershowitz on the O.J. Simpson Trial 1995-96 MP3
Bugliosi vs. Wecht on the JFK Assassination 2007 MP3
Bugliosi on his book Divinity of Doubt various interviews, critics 2011 MP3 ( see also my review / critique Divinity of Doubt Demolished )

Debate excerpt on Scientology and "Xenu" MP3 (see also article Catholicism and Scientology)

EWTN The Journey Home in MP3 (right click to save, left to listen)