Towards Understanding

Towards Understanding

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Towards Understanding episodes

  • Josh McDowell - Author of Set Free to Choose Right

    Josh McDowell joins Clayton. He has authored 150 books in 128 languages, his latest is about equipping our kids to make great moral choices for life – Set Free To Choose Right.

    “Every Christian kid I meet will tell me what is right and what is wrong…but what almost none of them can tell me is, why is it right or why is it wrong.”

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    19 min
  • Ittay Flescher - The Holy and the Broken

    Clayton welcomed Ittay Flescher into the studio during a recent visit to Melbourne. Ittay is the Education Director at Kids4Peace Jerusalem, an interfaith movement for Israelis and Palestinians, which is a program of Seeds of Peace. He is also the Jerusalem correspondent for Melbourne’s Jewish Independent and co-host of the podcast From the Yarra River to the Mediterranean Sea. For more resources on how those in Australia & NZ can promote peace check out ittay.au

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    40 min
  • Bonnie Hancock - Athlete & author of The Girl who Touched the Stars


    Bonnie Hancock completed a gruelling 12,700-kilometre journey around Australia solo in a surf ski, becoming the fastest ever paddler to circumnavigate the continent, the first Australian woman to circumnavigate the continent by paddle, and the youngest person to do so. She chatted with Clayton about how shark & croc encounters and the resilience needed in a team to achieve a feat such as this.

     

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    29 min
  • Peggy Grande - EA to Ronald Reagan

     

    What is it like sitting outside the office of a US President? Peggy Grande, EA to Ronald Reagan, joins Clayton to talk all things politics.

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    19 min
  • Dr Colin Perry Podcast

    How would your life change if you died today, but God offered you the chance to come back to earth? Hear Colin Perry’s story.
     

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    30 min
  • Strahan Coleman - Author of Thirsting

    Strahan Coleman is a writer, poet, and musician living in New Zealand. Through years of chronic illness, Strahan discovered a friendship with God filled with vulnerability, honesty and unceasing prayer, and now spends his time teaching and providing spaces of deep, rich, Spirit-led prayer for others. He joined Clayton to talk about his latest work, Thirsting: Quenching Our Soul’s Deepest Desire.

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    40 min
  • Amy Kuruvilla from the Ruby Road Project

    Clayton’s guest is Amy Kuruvilla from the Ruby Road Project. Through the work of the project, Amy has created curriculums for schools in India aimed at fighting gender-based violence through education. Amy shares details of the work she and the team are doing in India.

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    26 min
  • Dr Gary Chapman - Author of 5 Love Languages

    In the lead up to Valentine's Day, Clayton had a chat to Dr Gary Chapman, who has recently re-released his book 5 Love Languages, which is famous world-wide both in the church and marketplace. Thanks to Dr Chapman, 'love language' has become a popular catch phrase around the world! Hear Gary share with Clayton about the love-languages and their relevance to marriage, family and workplace relationships.

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    33 min
  • Anne Hegerty

    Anne Hegerty, star of quiz shows The Chase, has a chat with Clayton about living with Asperger’s syndrome and how this influences her Christian faith intellectually rather than emotionally.

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    34 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.