The Peter S. Williams Podcast

Edited version of a September 2024 presentation on apologetic methodology, from an online teaching session for the one semester program in Christian Apologetics at NLA University College, Norway, (includes occasional comments from my teaching colleague Bjørn Hinderaker).

In this April 29th 2024 episode of "Preparing for Careers," (available on YouTube @ https://youtu.be/CwpVM-6AV6Y?si=S_FCoY7X51ASXRfs ) New Zealand-born homeschooling parent Christine Smith interviews British philosopher and apologist Peter S. Williams about the importance of teaching the basics of logic and philosophy to all ages of homeschooling students. Also, how to prepare for a career in phil...

This episode of the Apologetics 315 Podcast, from October 2023, is re-posted here with permission. In this episode, Brian Auten and Chad Gross interview Christian Philosopher Peter S. Williams about his book An Informed Cosmos: Essays on Intelligent Design Theory. Find his resources at www.peterswilliams.com 0:24 - Intro to our guest 2:15 - About the book An Informed Cosmos 9:25 - Getting clarity...

Lecture from the October 2023 Veritas Conference in Grimstad, Norway. See: www.veritasnorge.no/

Lecture given in October 2023 to youth workers studying at the Gimlekollen campus of NLA University College, including interjections from Bjorn Hinderaker, mostly in Norwegian. With apologies for sound quality at the start.

This is the last of eleven movements in the updated and expanded 2023 recording of my From Glory to Glory suite. This piece recapitulates the theme of movement one, using it as a setting for the apostle Paul’s comparison between the sufferings of the present world and the glory of the new heavens and earth to come. From Glory to Glory is available as a high quality wav file album on Soundcloud: ht...

This is the tenth of eleven movements in the updated and expanded 2023 recording of my From Glory to Glory suite. This piece was inspired by John’s vision of the new heavens and earth in Revelation 21. The choir sing about God’s invitation to the wedding feast of the Lamb (i.e. Jesus Christ) who will wipe away ever tear from our eyes and bring “Shalom” (a Hebrew word meaning peace, wholeness and f...

This is the ninth of eleven movements in the updated and expanded 2023 recording of my From Glory to Glory suite. A setting of the Latin Kyrie, a traditional prayer for forgiveness, which in English means: “Lord, forgive us, Christ forgive us, Lord forgive us.” From Glory to Glory is available as a high quality wav file album on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/psw_music/sets/from-glory-to-glory...

This is the eighth of eleven movements in the updated and expanded 2023 recording of my From Glory to Glory suite. Based on the saying of John the Baptist: “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29), the Agnus Dei (Latin for “Lamb of God”) is a traditional liturgical chant that contemplates the meaning of Jesus’ death on the cross in light of his subsequent bodily...

This is the seventh of eleven movements in the updated and expanded 2023 recording of my From Glory to Glory suite. In the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus contemplates his calling to be crucified as a sacrifice for sin and prays that his Father might take away this cup of suffering from him. The music uses suspended resolutions and a fluctuating pattern of major and minor notes that gradually become m...

This is the sixth of eleven movements in the updated and expanded 2023 recording of my From Glory to Glory suite. An acapella setting of Jesus’ answer to a scribe’s question about the greatest commandment in Mark 12. From Glory to Glory is available as a high quality wav file album on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/psw_music/sets/from-glory-to-glory-2023 From Glory to Glory is a little under 7...

This is the fifth of eleven movements in the updated and expanded 2023 recording of my From Glory to Glory suite. The opening of John’s gospel represents God the Son as the divine logos, or rational principle behind creation. Only this logos reveals God in person through the incarnation. The lyrics combine an English translation of the opening of John’s gospel, with the Greek terms: Logos (Word),...

This is the fourth of eleven movements in the updated and expanded 2023 recording of my From Glory to Glory suite. This setting of words from Psalm 6:6 and 30:5 was composed in July 2021, as a short, stand-alone piece reflecting on the end of Covid 19 restrictions. In August 2023, I decided to add it into this suite, where it neatly represents the Old Testament experiences of exile (“By the rivers...

This is the third of eleven movements in the updated and expanded 2023 recording of my From Glory to Glory suite. This piece draws upon the opening of G.K. Chesterton’s poem “Ecclesiastes”: “There is one sin: to call a green leaf gray, Whereat the sun in heaven shuddereth.” In other words, the fundamental sin is acting as if we were wiser than God, as if moral reality should bend to our choices an...

This is the second of eleven movements in the updated and expanded 2023 recording of my From Glory to Glory suite. The angels rejoice in God’s creation of light and “dance” among the stars. "From Glory to Glory" is available as a high quality wav file album on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/psw_music/sets/from-glory-to-glory-2023 From Glory to Glory is a little under 70 min long suite of conte...

This is the first of eleven movements in the updated and expanded 2023 recording of my From Glory to Glory suite. We open with God’s existence prior to creation. A solo piano plays three musical lines, the third of which is generated from the interaction of the first two, representing the way in which God the Father is the “root” of the Divine “triad”, God the Son eternally depends upon the Father...

Lecture on the main themes of my book An Informed Cosmos: Essays on Intelligent Design Theory (Wipf & Stock, 2023) delivered 29th September 2023 at English L'Abri ( www.englishlabri.org/ ).

Teaching from the September 2023 'Worldviews & Communication' course UK study tour, delivered in London.

Teaching from the September 2023 'Communication & Worldviews' course UK study Tour, delivered at L'abri in Hampshire. Apologies for the poor sound on parts of this recording, I think I need to get a new microphone cable!

Lecture delivered online to 'Worldview & Communication' students at NLA University College on August 16th 2003, introducing a conceptual 'matrix' of concepts to be revisited in talks on the September 2023 UK Study Tour for the course. My teaching is in English, but the recording also contains some comments by my colleagues Bjorn Hinderaker and Lars Dahle in Norwegian.

The last of seven talks from my pre-forum mini-forum on 'Can we Believe in God in an Age of Science?' at the 2023 European Leadership Forum in Poland.

The sixth of seven talks from my pre-forum mini-forum on 'Can we Believe in God in an Age of Science?' at the 2023 European Leadership Forum in Poland.

The fifth of seven talks from my pre-forum mini-forum on 'Can we Believe in God in an Age of Science?' at the 2023 European Leadership Forum in Poland.