Towards Understanding

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  • Jason T. Smith - Author of Unlikely

     

    Jason is an accomplished physiotherapist, dynamic entrepreneur, and award-winning leadership expert in high demand. He was the CEO of Australia's largest physiotherapy network at the time, Back In Motion Health Group. He has written three books and chatted to Clayton about his latest book, Unlikely. Jason shares how is life as a businessman is intertwined with God's purposes for him.

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    43 min
  • Detective Senior Sergeant Ron Iddles

    Detective Senior Sergeant Ron Iddles

    As Victoria’s most experienced homicide detective, Ron Iddles investigated around 300 murders spanning 25 years.

     

    He became known for his tough but fair approach to solving serious crimes, even coming under fire when he used a crime scene photo of Jill Meagher while talking about community safety.

     

    Here he reflects on his involvement in a number of high-profile cases and his role as Police Association Secretary.

     

    Tune in to hear more about Ron’s life and the impact his job has had on his family over the years.

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    18 min
  • Katherine Kirkwood - Stable One CEO

    Katherine Kirkwood - Stable One CEO

    Katherine Kirwood is the CEO of Stable One.  Hear how this creative concept might just be a key to helping solve homelessness and connecting Churches together like never before.

     

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    30 min
  • Nicky Gumbel – Alpha Program

    Nicky Gumbel – Alpha Program

    Nicky Gumbel chatted with Clayton about everything to do with the Alpha program (the program that allows you to ask those ‘big’ questions about life).

    Nicky talked about the amount of countries and languages that the Alpha program is in, the strangest place that the Alpha program has run (doubt you will guess it!) and why Bear Grylls is involved in the Alpha program.

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    18 min
  • Helen Thorne–Allenson - Purity in a Porn–Saturated Culture

    Helen Thorne–Allenson - Purity in a Porn–Saturated Culture

    Helen Thorne-Allenson is the Director of Training and Resources at Biblical Counselling UK. She is an experienced speaker and writer whose recent books include Mental Health and Your Church, Hope in an Anxious World and 5 Things to Pray for a Suffering Friend. Clayton and Helen talked about Helen's new book ‘Purity in a Porn-Saturated Culture’, specifically having conversations around young females’ usage of porn. 

     

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    30 min
  • Andrew Marin - Bridging the Social Divide

    Andrew Marin - Bridging the Social Divide

    Andrew, author of Love is an Orientation, is advocates bridge building opposing world views, from the LGBTI community to the Middle East conflicts

     

    “Building a bridge is about bringing opposing world views together to figure out what it means to facilitate a new medium of engagement.”

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    26 min
  • Michael Emmett - Author of Sins of the Father

    Michael Emmett - Author of Sins of the Father

    Michael Emmett found his name in the headlines when he was caught for a drug bust in 1993. It was one of the UK's biggest at the time. While in prison, with his father in the same cell, he happened to find God, hope and, with those, a new lease of life. A transformed and loving family man, Michael is sowing seeds of hope and charity around the world. He hopes sharing his story of desperation will encourage others to step into the light and a journey of health.

     

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    40 min
  • John Boyers - Manchester United Chaplain

     

    What’s it like being chaplain to the most famous sporting club in the world, Manchester United? John Boyers chats to Clayton about this.

     

    “David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt, I knew them when they were nobody’s.”

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    35 min
  • Todd Burpo – Author of Heaven is for Real

     

    Todd tells the story of his son who was in emergency surgery at four years of age and travelled to heaven!

     

    Listen as Todd shares about his scepticism at first and tells us some of the stories that his son Colton revealed from his trip (meeting family members who past long before he was born and even a sister he had never been told about who was lost in the womb!)."

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    14 min
  • Kate Fisher, Founder of Milkshakes for Marleigh

     

    Inspired by her daughter, Marleigh, Kate is the host and producer of The Milkshakes for Marleigh Podcast where she tells the survival stories of blood product recipients. This is her creative solution to the social problem that not enough people donate blood. Marleigh became unwell at the age of three and was eventually diagnosed with Seronegative Paediatric Autoimmune Encephalitis, which is a life-threatening condition with no cure.

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    23 min

About Towards Understanding

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Towards Understanding is a full-length feature interview radio program hosted by Clayton Bjelan. The show contains a mix of interviews based around the understanding and living out of Christian faith and those just doing remarkable things in our world. It focuses on three key groups of people - The Known, The Overcomer and The Unknown.