Extract from the final chapter of the book "The Sanity of Belief - Why faith makes sense" by Simon Edwards. A great, very readable and valuable book which you can buy in paperback or ebook version here: https://amzn.eu/1CkIRAt
Simon Edwards is a member of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics (OCCA) team, who do excellent work communicating the teachings of Jesus Christ through the big cultural questions of our day (such as science, suffering, the meaning of life, homosexuality and many more). As they say on their website https://www.theocca.org: 
"We seek to extol the credibility of the Christian faith and the person of Jesus Christ through the questions of culture, speaking in secular settings and contributing to the public discourse on religious belief."

A podcast produced and presented by Gabriel Porras, professional voice artist. You can find out much more about Gabriel here:
gabrielvoice.com
radiantwhispers.com

Music:
"Circle of life", by Letra, on artlist.io

Circle of life

The hearts true home, by Simon Edwards

A programme written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional philosopher, journalist and voice actor. 

Music:
"Gone with the winds", by Veaceslav Draganov on artlist.io

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Learn more about this URGENT topic by following these links:

The Story of Helena Kerschner, who regrets having “transitioned” as a teenager:
https://youtu.be/Ibq3ld087Y4

The Irish Bill to remove the words "woman", "mother", and more from legal language:
https://4w.pub/ireland-to-strip-maternity-law/

New Supreme Court Judge Ketanji Brown cannot bring herself to say what a woman is:
https://youtu.be/BWtGzJxiONU
…and she then refuses to answer clear questions about self-definition as a woman:
https://youtu.be/BWwx-UrL0e4

Documentary “What is a woman?” by Matt Walsh:
https://youtu.be/8wlZWZoqRlo

Disability statistics in the UK:
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9602/CBP-9602.pdf

Scotland’s Gender Recognition Reform Act (Transgender Trend):
https://www.transgendertrend.com/scotland-gender-recognition-act-reform-bill/

The SNP’s Gender Recognition Bill is a threat to women (Spiked Online):
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/03/05/the-snps-gender-recognition-bill-is-threat-to-women/

Ministers face public backlash over gender recognition reforms (The Times):
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ministers-face-public-backlash-over-gender-recognition-reform-plans-dvgljmqrf

Brit Awards 2023: Why no women were nominated for Best Artist  (BBC)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64264069

The nonsense of nonbinary (Spiked online):
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/16/its-time-to-call-out-the-nonsense-of-nonbinary/

"Toxic feminism is the ONLY kind of feminism": https://youtu.be/mOSS8yBp3go

"Biology trumps gender," says the president of the World Athletics Association:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10934773/World-Athletics-president-Sebastian-Coe-backs-FINAs-ruling-transgender-athletes-banned.html

The "triumph" of transgender athlete Lia Thomas:
https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/ncaa-title-for-lia-thomas-is-joke-with-biological-women-as-punchline-hardly-a-laughing-matter/

Transgender martial arts "champion" Fallon Fox punches her female opponent so violently that he (she) breaks her skull: 
https://www.bjjee.com/articles/transgender-mma-fighter-who-broke-female-opponents-skull-are-we-getting-too-politically-correct-with-reality/

Why female athletes should raise their voices every time a transgender athlete tries to compete against them:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sharron-davies-the-trans-debate-is-toxic-its-made-my-life-hell-but-female-athletes-must-speak-up-xllplkmp3

Toilets in new public buildings should be separate for men and women:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/02/single-sex-lavatories-mandatory-new-public-buildings/

But transgender activists consider this "transphobic":
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a40497357/new-buildings-must-have-single-sex-toilets/
 
It is "unfair" to force someone "who is already facing exclusion" to use toilets that are not "neutral" or "gender neutral":
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/17/gender-neutral-toilets-public-buildings-single-sex-uk-robert-jenrick/

The alarming "gender dysphoria" among minors, which jumped from 138 cases in 2010 to 2,383 in 2020: 
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/10/nhs-gender-identity-service-for-children-cant-cope-with-demand-review-finds

Bullying and violence against girls who dare to question the transgender agenda in their schools:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/girl-driven-out-of-school-for-questioning-trans-ideology-ls790krdh

Gone with the winds

The Disappearance Of Women

We are all surprised by the rapid advance of transgender ideas and LGBTQ ideology. Although their proposals are controversial and have no historical or scientific basis, they penetrate all layers of society. Learn how they infiltrate businesses, universities, schools and governments worldwide. 

Programme written, recorded and presented by Gabriel Porras, a professional communicator at gabrielvoice.com and radiantwhispers.com

Music: "Balance" by Invisible Choirs at artlist.io

If you are interested in this topic, listen to "If gender is fluid, why not also age?" and "The Disappearance of Women", both available on radiantwhispers.com, YouTube, SoundCloud and all podcast platforms. Comment, share and subscribe.

Cover:
“The judgment of Paris”, by Enrique Simonet (1904)

Links:

Stonewall's "Champions of Diversity" programme:
https://www.stonewall.org.uk/join-diversity-champions-programme

The UK's "Top 100 Employers of 2023" list: 
https://www.stonewall.org.uk/top-100-employers/full-list

There is an extraordinary BBC Radio Ulster podcast entitled "Nolan Investigates", which published in October 2021 a revealing 10-episode series detailing Stonewall's influence on public institutions across the UK. It is a masterclass in in-depth journalism and took them eighteen months of research to achieve, but what a triumph of professionalism, intelligence and dedication! All BBC material has territorial restrictions, so you may be unable to access it outside the UK. Try here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09yjmph/episodes/downloads

Happily, a feminist group called "Fair Play for Women" has taken on the great task of preparing detailed transcripts of the key points of each episode for all to read and quote from. You can find the transcripts here:
https://fairplayforwomen.com/stonewall-transcripts/

Balance

How The LGBTQ Agenda Is Forced On Us

Paul Kingsnorth is an English intellectual and environmentalist who has written novels, essays and poetry, contributing to publications such as The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Le Monde, New Statesman, Granta and BBC Radio and Television. His spiritual quest was passionate and diverse. As he says, The Cross and the Machine is "an essay-length account of my journey from atheism to Orthodox Christianity, via Buddhism, witchcraft and other strange twists." 
It is a beautiful, lyrical and revealing text.
The Cross and the Machine originally appeared in First Things magazine: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/06/the-cross-and-the-machine

To read more from Paul Kingsnorth, visit his website paulkingsnorth.net and his YouTube channel. 

Programme recorded, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional broadcaster at gabrielvoice.com and radiantwhispers.com.

Music: 
The Last Train, by David Roy, on artlist.io
Morning Mist, by We Dream of Eden, on artlist.io

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The Last Train

The Cross And The Machine, by Paul Kingsnorth

A billion women live under the shadow of Islam today (that's almost one in eight human beings walking the planet today). And all the evidence from fourteen centuries of Islamic history and theology points to the uncomfortable fact that Islam hates women. We examine numerous texts from the Qur'an and hadiths of Sahih al-Bukhari to illustrate the thesis. 

Credits and references:
Programme written, produced and hosted by Gabriel Porras at gabrielvoice.com and radiantwhispers.com

Cover:
Carte Portale 532 - Jeunes Filles Arabes, by Lehnert & Landrock at zeno.org/bildpostkarten/m/

Music:
"Broken", by Michael Vignola at artlist.io
"The Art of Listening", by Gnawledge, from their album Granada Doaba at freemusicarchive.org

Texts quoted from the Koran: 
Distribution of inheritances: 4:11 and 12.
Islam is the "perfect" religion for all mankind: 5:3 
What to do with women "who commit unlawful sexual acts" (and those who are raped): 4:15 and 24:2 
Men are superior to women: 4:34

Commentaries (tafsir) of Al Qurtubi, Al Tabari, Ibn Hajar:
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Wife_Beating_in_the_Qur%27an

https://www.al-islam.org/tags/tafsir

Hadiths of al-Bukhari:
Most of the inhabitants of Hell are women, and they are deficient in intelligence and devotion:
Sahih Bukhari 1:6:301

It is not permissible to mourn a woman for more than three days:
Sahih Bukhari 1:6:310

Not to whip the wife as a slave:
Sahih Bukhari 7:62:132

The beaten woman who sought help from Aisha:
Sahih Bukhari 7:72:715

Hadith on the benefit of drinking camel urine:
Sahih Bukhari, Hadith: 233, and Sahih Muslim, Hadith: 1671.

Hadith on the wings of flies:
Sahih Bukhari 4:54:537 and also Sahih Bukhari 7:71:673. 

You can learn more about Bukhari here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahih_al-Bukhari

Ayaan Hirsi Ali:  
Ayaan has written several books, among them "Infidel", about her own story and her flight from Islam, and "Heretic", about the reformation that Islam needs today. Visit his website here: https://ayaanhirsiali.com
The quote read comes from:
"Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now", http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/why-islam-needs-a-reformation-now

Broken

Islam Hates Women

A lucid and easy-to-understand view of how ground-breaking Jesus' message was in his world (and ours). Jesus once said that the greatest display of love is sacrificing oneself for your friends, but by "friends," he meant every single person, regardless of our differences in nationality, race, religion, opinion, age, gender, blindness, or wisdom. Understand how and why we all fit in his comforting embrace.

Credits:
Programme produced and recorded by Gabriel Porras at gabrielvoice.com and radiantwhispers.com

Cover:
Jesus walks on the waters, image generated by artificial intelligence ai-generated-7922881_1280 at pixabay.com 

Music:
"Devotion", from The Pilgrimage Series, Part 1 on artlist.io

Text: 
"What Jesus taught and why" is a chapter from the beautiful book Jesus: a biography from a believer, by Paul Johnson. 
Copyright © Paul Johnson, 2010 ISBN 978-0-670-02159-8

Biblical passages taken from The Message, Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson

Devotion

What Jesus taught and why, by Paul Johnson

Jack and the Beanstalk,
 by Roald Dahl


This version of the classic children's story is way funnier... and it rhymes!
Roald Dahl is a genius: his plot twists are mind-blowing, and that ending too! Brace yourself for a laugh-out-loud journey.

Presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor (gabrielvoice.com).

Cover design: Ricardo Gil (ricardo@scrav.com).

Copyright Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd
Roald Dahl Nominee Ltd, 1982
Puffin Books, Penguin Random House 1984
Illustration: Quentin Blake, 1982
ISBN: 978-0-141-37885-5
(Treat yourself to a copy. It's a beautiful book!) 

Visit the great Roald Dahl's website here: www.roalddahl.com

Music: 
"Jay C”, by Synthet from the album Free Synthet! at freemusicarchive.org Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Sound effect: bbc.co.uk – © copyright BBC

Free Synthet

Jay C

Jack and the Beanstalk, by Roald Dahl

My atheist friends love to cite Immanuel Kant, David Hume and Voltaire as leading thinkers who opened new horizons for humanity, freeing it from the religious prejudices that had enslaved it for centuries. But things were very different, and the writings of these three influential thinkers provided a framework that supported the slavery and exploitation of non-European races more than anyone else. We examine the great ambiguities of the Enlightenment and the main myths of atheism, such as The Myth of Progress, The Myth of Human Rationality and The Myth of Human Goodness, with a discussion of Steven Pinker's  "Enlightenment Now".

Programme written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor (gabrielvoice.com).

Cover design: Ricardo Gil (ricardo@scrav.com).

Music: 
"Joking Together", by Michele Nobler/Memory Tapes @artlist.io
"Alive and Well", by Campagna/Hello Love @artlist.io

The inspiration for this programme comes from a debate between Steven Pinker and Nick Spencer, titled "Have science, reason and humanism replaced faith?", available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ssf5XN5o9q4?feature=shared

Nick Spencer published a well-argued article entitled "Atheist Fairy Tales: exposing secularism's major myths" on Premier Unbelievable: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/topics/atheist-fairytales-exposing-secularisms-major-myths/12200.article 

Francis Collins, the director of the Human Genome Project, published a book entitled "The Language of God", in which he makes a strong case for the existence of God.

Joking Together

The Daydreams of Atheism

Reducing the conflict in Gaza to a question of Palestinian-Israeli differences is an unforgivable mistake. The conflict that has been raging in Gaza for decades is the conflict between Islam and world civilisation, that is, between Islam and you and me, and each and every one of us who are not yet under Islam: not only Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Newagers and Hindus. Also homosexuals, transsexuals, feminists, atheists, agnostics, science, education, technology and progress and welfare for all. All this is lost if Hamas wins, and Islam advances.

Programme written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, at murmullosradiantes.com. 

Cover created by Ricardo Gil, ricardo@scrav.com
Image by Vectonauta at www.freepik.es

Music: 
"Gone with the winds", by Veaceslav Draganov (Picture) on artlist.com.
"Jericho at Dusk", by Alon Peretz (Three Middle Eastern Cities), on artlist.com
"Ruhi", by Meriem Ben Amor, on artlist.com

Links and references:
On how Hamas rewards its soldiers with girls as young as nine years old, see these photographs: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hamas-wedding-girls/

On Islam's hatred of women, and how it promises a paradise of luxury and sex to Hamas soldiers and Islamism, listen to these past episodes:
"Islam hates women": https://soundcloud.com/murmullosradiantes/el-islam-odia-a-las-mujeres
"Is paradise a luxury brothel?": https://soundcloud.com/murmullosradiantes/el-paraiso-es-un-burdel-de-lujo
On the dangerous stupidity of the masses:
https://soundcloud.com/murmullosradiantes/el-peligro-de-la-estupidez-mr-sc-esp

A long and detailed collection of Hamas abuses on this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Hamas#Press_restrictions

On the despicable sexual violence of Hamas’ attack on 07 October: https://youtu.be/2l3EbRiDATE?feature=shared

Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of one of the founders of Hamas, appears in multiple YouTube videos, such as this one:
https://youtu.be/H9WEcvrWvyo?feature=shared
His experiences and perspectives on the workings of Hamas appear in a book entitled "Son of Hamas": 
https://amzn.eu/d/ff29BB7
and a film entitled "The Green Prince": 
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B00YRUA3QU/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r
 
On Hamas soldiers shouting "Allah is victorious" as they behead and rape innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023: https://youtu.be/SmivUM0tlwc?feature=shared

A passionate article by Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, which inspired me to write this episode: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20126/hamas-nazis

Photos of Mufti Husseini reviewing troops and having tea with Hitler can be seen here: https://youtu.be/ou0EgaK49Ak?feature=shared

If Hamas Wins, We All Lose

Every year, Christmas is the greatest celebration around the globe. No other event makes us get together as families and friends like Christmas. And yet, Christmas is also the worst time of the year for millions of lonely, hurting people. Commandeered by businesses and restaurants, Christmas celebrations often obscure Christ, whose birth is the original and best reason to celebrate Christmas. Find out why the birth of Christ deserves to be celebrated with all your heart.

Programme presented and produced by Gabriel Porras at gabrielvoice.com and musmullosradiantes.com

Text: Nicky Gumbel
Nicky Gumbel is the creator of the Alpha Course, which is a beautiful and warm introduction to Christianity. Over 26 million people have taken the Alpha Course in over 100 countries. Nicky graduated in Law at Cambridge and in Theology at Oxford. He worked as a barrister before becoming a writer and preacher. 
Join an Alpha Course near you here: https://alpha.org.uk/try
You can also do it online.

Cover created by Ricardo Gil, ricardo@scrav.com with AI at www.bing.com by Microsoft

Music: 
"Handpanophone" by David Charrier is from his album Ephemeral on artlist.io.
Sound effect: 
Clean high bell ring, license Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://orangefreesounds.com/

Handpanophone

Why celebrate Christmas?, by Nicky Gumbel

All we have to comfort, guide us and sustain us in this straggling path called life are the radiant whispers that we grasp as a distant “sunrise of wonder” in our spiritual practice, in great works of literature, music, art, and in nature and blue skies. These are the Radiant Whispers. That's what this podcast is about. We will talk about culture and society, about ancient and modern history, literature and art with dramatized readings of poetry, fables, theatre, novels and stories. Subscribe -let's find radiant whispers everywhere.

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