Engaging with spiritual questions in a culturally relevant way.

Meet Sharon

Sharon Dirckx is a speaker and author whose work focuses on responding to the spiritual and faith-related questions that people ask today.

She speaks internationally on topics such as science and theology, human consciousness, and the problem of evil. Sharon has appeared on BBC Radio 2 Good Morning Sunday and Radio 4 Beyond Belief, and has also written for The Times. She is author of the award-winning book, Why?: Looking at God, evil and personal suffering (2013), as well as Am I just my brain? (2019). Sharon’s most recent book, Broken Planet, on natural disasters, was released in February 2023.

Discover Sharon’s New Book

Broken Planet

How do we make sense of all the natural disasters and diseases in our world? Why would a supposedly good God let them happen?

Broken Planet takes an honest look at the questions we ask and recounts stories from those who have lived through disasters - Stories of hope and goodness, even in the midst of catastrophe and trauma.

More Books

Am I Just My Brain?

Looking at the brain, mind and soul to answer the question: What exactly is a human being?

Part of the Questioning Faith series.

Why?

Revised and updated, in Why?, Sharon Dirckx takes an honest look at evil and pain in our world to answer the question: Why does God allow suffering?

Speaking

Invite Sharon to Speak at your event

Sharon speaks and lectures regularly across the UK and internationally, in workplaces, universities, schools, churches and conferences.

If you would like to get in touch or invite Sharon to speak, please get in touch with us using the link below.

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Sharon Dirckx X Genesis speaking on Consciousness: What exactly am I?

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— Read more from Sharon Dirckx

Find out more through Sharon’s written articles and extracts from her books, and dive into some of the biggest questions facing faith and science.

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Join us tomorrow in Spanish and English 3:30pm Miami time, 8:30pm UK time - for discussions about brain, mind, neuroscience, consciousness, AI and more. See you there!
A pleasure to debate Mark Carew at @uniofexeter on Friday evening on the topic of science and religion. Thank you Sam and Toby from the @speakeasyexeter society for inviting us!
A privilege to speak alongside these scholars @thefaradayinstitute yesterday on Neuroscience & Religion
Excited to share that I now have my own website. www.dirckx.org. This is how the best way to reach me for work-related things. Thank you @riosummers for your amazing work in getting this up & running!