"Widowed at 19 with a three year old child: it's not a recipe for happiness in anyone's book, but in a conservative farming village in south India it spells disaster."

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What do you do when someone has a different opinion than yours? Do you keep quiet, aggressively push back, or just avoid ‘those’ conversations? Why do we feel awkward when someone believes something different than us? I’m Celia Fielke from Messages of Hope and this week I’m chatting with my friend Ali Hoopman. Can we maintain relationships with people who have different values or core beliefs?

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"A doctor's job is to cure sometimes, to relieve often and to comfort always." Do you like visiting the doctor? For some people the only way you’ll get them to go to the doctor is in the back of an ambulance! Listen to Richard as he talks about the impact doctors have on our lives and how Jesus is like the best doctor we could ever have.

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Listen this week on Messages of Hope, as Celia and Richard look at the emotion of anger. Why do we get angry? Is anger a bad thing? And how do we deal with this anger?

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It’s often said that politics and religion don’t mix. Another version of that equation is that science and faith don’t mix. Listen as this week we interview Dr Graham Buxton about the relationship between science and faith. Can we have faith in science, and faith in God?

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It’s easy to think of domestic violence as only moments of anger and physical abuse but when you look deeper it’s about one person controlling the other. Listen to Celia this week as she talks with Susan and Deb about their stories of domestic violence.

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