Towards Understanding

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Towards Understanding episodes

  • Damien May from Destiny Rescue

    Damien May from Destiny Rescue
    Clayton chatted with Damien May from Destiny Rescue… he literally saves children, who have been sold into slavery around our world.  Hear his story of dramatic adventure and how his faith drives him!

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    23 min
  • Dr Andrew Browning - A Doctor in Africa


    Dr Andrew Browning is an Australian trained obstetrician who has spent his entire professional career volunteering in Africa as a medical missionary specialising in obstetric fistula surgery. Andrew is now the Medical Director for the Barbara May Foundation and joined Clayton to talk about his book, A Doctor in Africa. Andrew shares with Clayton, the obstacles he has overcome working in remote, harsh and vastly under-resourced regions, and has compelling stories of the women whose lives he has transformed forever through fistula surgery and access to free maternal healthcare.

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    31 min
  • Michael Franzese - From Mobster to Minister

    Clayton chatted with Michael Franzese, former mob boss for the Colombo crime family in New York, before an encounter with Jesus changed his life.

    “I don’t know of anybody that reached the level that I reached in that life, and publicly walked away…”

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    31 min
  • Rebecca St James and Cubbie Fink - Lasting Ever

    The 2024 Dove-award winning film “Unsung Hero” depicted the early years of Rebecca St James family life and music career. Lasting Ever brings fans up to date on Rebecca’s current life and introduces readers to her husband Cubbie Fink’s personal story. Now in their second decade of marriage, the couple join Clayton to unpack the highs and lows of their shared and individual journeys.

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    36 min
  • Ian McCormack

    Ian McCormack 
    Ian was night diving off the island of Mauritius when he was stung by 5 Box Jellyfish, which are among the most venomous creatures in the world. Ian shares with Clayton how he made it to the hospital but then died. He came back to life more than 15 minutes later and had a dramatic encounter with both Hell and Heaven and an encounter with God that transformed his life forever.
     

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    17 min
  • Jodi Rodgers of Birds and Bees


    You might recognise Jodi as the relationship specialist on the Emmy award winning TV show Love on the Spectrum (featured on ABC & Netflix). She has 30 years working within the education, disability and sexuality fields. Jodi has recently published a book internationally sharing stories from her experience working with the autistic community, called Unique - What Autism Can Teach Us about Difference, Connection and Belonging. Jodi share practical insight into how to interact with those in the neurodiverse community.

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    27 min
  • Valerie Browning - Author - Maalika


    Valerie Browning AM is an Australian nurse and Ethiopiaid's long-time project partner, She shares her extraordinary life in her gripping biography, "Maalika: My Life among the Afar Nomads of Africa". After volunteering to help the victims of Ethiopia's famine in 1973, little did she know that her life - and the lives of countless people in Afar - were about to change forever.

    She co-founded the Afar Pastoralist Development Association (APDA) and has dedicated her life for the human rights of people in one of the most remote and isolated regions of Ethiopia.

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    21 min
  • Dr James Tour


    One of the world’s top scientist, James M. Tour is a synthetic organic chemist at Rice University. Professor Tour has over 800 research publications and joined Clayton.
     
    Dr Tour explained to Clayton how he challenged ten of the world’s leading origin of life researchers to produce evidence for their theories – and all failed to produce any. He shares his journey to faith and how science and faith work together - not opposed to each other.

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    34 min
  • Sam Childers - The Machine Gun Preacher

    Whether you saw the Hollywood film about Sam’s story or not, make sure you listen as Sam talks about his life story: from being a drug dealer and incredibly violent man, his life-changes as he became a Christian and then his decision to fight against the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) to free children in South Sudan, who had been kidnapped to be part of the army.
     

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    10 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.