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Podcast Description
The Centre for Public Christianity aims to promote the public understanding of the Christian faith employing the best of scholarship via the best of media. The Centre offers free vodcast/podcast comment, lectures and interviews, and other web based comment. For more information go to publicchristianity.org.
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Life and Faith: Rikk Watts | Rikk Watts, Professor of New Testament at Regent College, Canada, talks about the way the early Christians began to challenge the accepted wisdom of their day, and how Jesus overturns everything that we know about life. | 17 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life and Faith: Anzac Day | Justine Toh and Simon Smart discuss the significance of Anzac Day for Australians and why it is that people continue to be drawn to Gallipoli to remember the events of almost a century ago. | 28 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life and Faith: Feasting | Simon Smart and Justine Toh discuss the pleasure of eating, how our relationship with food goes beyond just using it to power our bodies and examine if there is a spiritual dimension to eating. | 28 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life and Faith: Reason and Faith | Is faith by definition irrational? Can it be rational to believe in God? With the second Global Atheist Convention around the corner, Simon Smart and Justine Toh take some time to discuss the relationship between reason and belief. | 9 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life and Faith: Easter | Why does the date of Easter change? What is the practice of Lent all about? Can we trust the historical accounts of the death and resurrection of Jesus? John Dickson and Simon Smart discuss these and other questions. | 9 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life and Faith: Decadence | Pria Viswalingam is the writer, director and presenter of the documentary Decadence: Decline of the Western World. It is set in ten countries and features leading authors and academics as it reaces the slow decline of the West. He came into CPX to discuss his documentary for our Life and Faith podcast. | 20 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life and Faith: The Church | What is the Church? Is it an archaic institution that is past its use-by date? Does it something to contribute to society still? CPX spoke to Mike Frost and Mick Martin about these questions. Mike is the vice-principal of Morling College who has done a lot of thinking and writing about what it means to be the Church in the post-modern era and Mick is Pastor of The Upper Room in North Sydney. | 13 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life and Faith: Fresh Starts | Life and Faith is CPX's weekly podcast where we discuss contemporary issues as they relate to matters of faith and belief. | 4 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can we trust the Bible? | Craig Blomberg is a distinguished professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary. In addition to writing numerous articles in professional journals, multi-author works and dictionaries or encyclopedias, he has authored or edited 15 books, including The Historical Reliability of the Gospels. He is also one of the 15 translators responsible for the NIV translation of the Bible. CPX spoke to him about the existence of Jesus, the claimed mistakes found in the New Testament and whether the Bible can be trusted. | 23 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Women in the World of the Earliest Christians | Lynn H. Cohick is associate professor of New Testament at Wheaton College. She is a specialist on the Origins of Christianity in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish worlds. Her latest book is Women in the World of the Earliest Christians and she came into CPX to speak with John Dickson on that topic. | 11 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Professor Iain Provan | Iain Provan is the Marshall Sheppard Professor of Biblical Studies at Regent College in Vancouver where he has taught since 1997. He has written numerous essays and articles, and several books including commentaries on Lamentations, 1 and 2 Kings, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs. He is also co-author of a Biblical History of Israel. He came into CPX to talk with us on a variety of topics relating to the Old Testament. | 22 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mad Bastards: Brendan Fletcher | Brendan Fletcher is the writer and director of the new Australian film, Mad Bastards, a story of Aboriginal communities in North-West Australia. He came into the CPX studios to speak with Simon Smart about the film. | 16 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Religion and politics: the search for balance | CPX talks Dr Ron Sider, Professor of Theology, Holistic Ministry & Public Policy at Palmer Seminary of Eastern University and author of Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, about religion, poverty and politics. | 20 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr Scott Rae: medical and business ethics | Scott Rae is a Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at Biola University and a fellow of the Centre for Bioethics and Human Dignity. CPX caught up with him in Melbourne at the Religion in the Public Square Colloquium put on by the Presbyterian Church of Victoria. We interviewed him on areas of medical and business ethics including abortion, euthanasia, the GFC, business and the environment. | 5 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Professor Richard Swinburne | Richard Swinburne is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many eminent books of the philosophy of religion in general and of the philosophy of Christianity in particular.CPX gathered his thoughts on the violence of the Old Testament, divine revelation, evil and whether he believes there is a renaissance of unbelief. | 19 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Professor Stanley Hauerwas | Professor Hauerwas is a theologian whose work explores the importance of virtues for living the good life as well as understanding the nature of the Christian Church and its role in the wider world. CPX interviewed him about the connections between religion and violence, the place of Christianity in the modern University, death, friendship and community. | 25 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Professor John Gascoigne: Christianity, science and the Enlightenment | Professor John Gascoigne is a teacher in the school of history at UNSW. He speaks with Greg Clarke on the impact of the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment on Christianity. | 22 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What does Easter mean to you? | Simon Smart and Greg Clarke went out on the streets to find out what Easter means to people in Australia today. | 30 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Melinda Tankard Reist: the sexualisation of girls | Melinda Tankard Reist is a Canberra author, speaker, commentator and advocate with a special interest in issues affecting women and girls. She spoke to CPX about the sexualisation of girls - how this is happening and what can be done about it. | 22 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Revolutionary Christianity and its alternatives - David Bentley Hart Interview | David Bentley Hart is regarded as one of America’s brightest theologians, who combines highly skilled and entertaining writing with expertise in literature, history, philosophy, art and culture. In this interview Bentley Hart talks about the impact of Christianity on the West, some questionable interpretations of history, suffering and the problem of evil and why he remains a believer. | 1 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 20 Episodes |
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