Sharon Dirckx is a speaker and author whose work focuses on responding to the spiritual and faith-related questions that people ask today.
She is motivated to show how and why the person of Jesus Christ remains as relevant as ever to the pertinent questions of our time, and to do so in an engaging way.
Originally from a scientific background, she has a PhD in brain imaging from the University of Cambridge. Sharon is invited to speak and lecture across the UK and internationally, in workplaces, universities, schools, churches and conferences.
Meet Sharon Dirckx: Speaker, Author and Apologist.
Speaking.
Sharon has spoken in medical schools such as that of Ohio State in the USA, in businesses such as JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, and in both state and private school settings. Conference invitations have included the Keswick Convention, New Wine, Spring Harvest, and HTB Focus.
Sharon also works in partnership with organisations such as OCCA The Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics where she is an adjunct lecturer, and speaks regularly in her local church.
Topics of interest include the intersection of science and theology, questions of human consciousness and identity, and the problem of evil.
Sharon has appeared on several BBC programmes in the UK including Radio 2 Good Morning Sunday and Radio 4 Beyond Belief, and has also written for The Times newspaper.
Author.
Sharon is author of an award-winning book on suffering, entitled Why?: Looking at God, evil and personal suffering (IVP 2013), as well as a book on human consciousness and identity, entitled, Am I just my brain? (The Good Book Company 2019). In 2021, Sharon was a contributor to best-selling author, Lee Strobel’s book and subsequent documentary, The Case for Heaven (Zondervan 2021). Sharon’s most recent book, Broken Planet, combines real-life narrative with apologetic and scientific argument to respond to the question, “If there’s a God then why are there natural disasters and diseases?’ (IVP 2023).
“Am I just my brain?” is not simply a scientific question. It taps into questions of identity that science alone cannot answer, and to fully consider the question we will need perspectives from philosophy and theology as well as neuroscience.
from Sharon’s book on questions of consciousness, Am I just my Brain?
