Talking to a Sceptic

Two people. Thirteen conversations. No easy exits. The Sceptic arrives with the objections most people think but don't say: Why do the wicked prosper? Why does God hide? Why would anyone worship an execution device? Why not just prove it? The Believer doesn't offer answers from a pulpit—they answer from a pub stool. With metaphors, counterattacks, the occasional self-inflicted wound, and a refusal to pretend the hard questions aren't hard. Talking to a Sceptic is a book of dialogues that move through the sharpest fault lines of Christian faith: death and resurrection, theodicy and suffering, the reliability of a morally messy Bible, the logic of forgiveness, the silence of God, the absurdity of the Trinity, the optics of the cross. Each chapter is a standalone conversation. Each one ends where conversations with these questions actually end—not resolved, but moved. Sometimes by an inch. Sometimes by more. The writing is dry, funny, and unafraid of the objections. The Believer loses points. The Sceptic doesn't always concede. The arguments aren't dressed up to look stronger than they are. What's here is what faith actually sounds like when it's in the room with genuine doubt—not performing for an audience of the already-convinced, but earning every response in real time. This is not a theology textbook. It's not a devotional. It's a conversation for people who want to think, not just believe—and for people who want to doubt with a little more company. For the person who can't stop asking. For the believer who needs language for what they already know. For the sceptic who keeps turning up anyway, which is—as the final chapter quietly notes—a kind of staying.