Life & Faith

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Life & Faith episodes

August 06, 2014 Life and Faith: Micah Challenge
John Beckett is the national co-ordinator of Micah Challenge Australia, which is a coalition of Christian development agencies, churches and individuals that aims to deepen people's engagement with the poor and to help reduce poverty. He joined Life and Faith to discuss the Millennium Development Goals and the fight against global poverty.
16 min
July 30, 2014 Life and Faith: War
This week marks 100 years since the start of World War I. Life and Faith discusses the process of remembering and interpreting an event on such a grand scale.
16 min
July 16, 2014 Life and Faith: Nick Spencer
Nick Spencer is the author of Atheists: The Origin of the Species. The book is a history of atheism, which examines what has driven its growth and why it is a myth that atheism emerged because the rise of science made religion obsolete. He spoke to Simon Smart about the book and the implications of belief and non-belief.
16 min
July 09, 2014 Life and Faith: Islam and Christianity
Richard Shumack recently completed a PhD in Islamic Studies and has just released a book entitled The Wisdom of Islam and the Foolishness of Christianity. He joined Life and Faith to discuss the differences between Islam and Christianity.
15 min
July 03, 2014 Life and Faith: Faith in the Public Sphere
Miroslav Volf is Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and Director of the Yale Centre for Faith and Culture. He is also the author of a number of books including A Public Faith: How followers of Christ should serve the common good. He joined Simon Smart on Life and Faith to discuss why religion cannot just be a private affair and what Christianity has to offer society generally.
16 min
June 26, 2014 Life and Faith: A Good Place to Hide
Between 1940 and 1944 an isolated plateau in France became the scene of a remarkable rescue mission. The village of Le Chambon Sur Lignon and surrounding communities, sheltered refugees from all across Europe. Their local pastor, Andre Trocme, led a secret campaign to defy the Nazis, which ultimately protected the lives of around 3,500 Jewish people. Peter Grose has written a book about Le Chambon called A Good Place to Hide and he joined Life and Faith to discuss the what drove the villagers in their rescue efforts.
16 min
June 12, 2014 Life and Faith: Claire Zorn
Post-apocalyptic fiction is all the rage in young adult fiction at the moment from Divergent to The Hunger Games. Claire Zorn is the author of The Sky so Heavy an Australian novel about living in a nuclear winter. She joined Simon Smart and Natasha Moore on Life and Faith to discuss her book.
16 min
May 21, 2014 Life and Faith: Transcendence vs Healing
Simon Smart and Natasha Moore reflected on what two recent films - a Hollywood blockbuster and a new Australian film - have to say about the human condition and what it is we think we need most.
15 min
May 15, 2014 Miroslav Volf - ReThinking Talk 4a: Elements of Reconciliation Q and A
Prof. Miroslav Volf, Director of the Yale Centre for Faith and Culture, delivered four lectures at the ReThinking: A Public Faith conference held in Sydney, Australia, in March 2014. The conference was a joint project of the Centre for Public Christianity, Arrow Leadership, and World Vision Australia.
This is the Q and A session that followed the fourth, and final, lecture of Prof. Volf's series, in which he discusses the essential elements of reconciliation.
25 min
May 15, 2014 Miroslav Volf - ReThinking Talk 3a: Religious Exclusivism and Political Pluralism Q and A (Richard Johnson Lecture)
Prof. Miroslav Volf, Director of the Yale Centre for Faith and Culture, delivered four lectures at the ReThinking: A Public Faith conference held in Sydney, Australia, in March 2014. The conference was a joint project of the Centre for Public Christianity, Arrow Leadership, and World Vision Australia

This is the Q and A session that followed third lecture from Prof. Volf. It was a Public Lecture delivered at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and filmed by ABC TV for their program, Big Ideas.
The topic was Religious Exclusivism and Political Pluralism.
29 min