Towards Understanding

Clayton was able to chat with Nicky and Sila Lee while they were visiting from the UK, promoting the marriage course, whom they are the founders and presenters of. They explain how the marriage course and the pre marriage course is a global phenomenon within the Alpha suite of resources. And give hints and tips on a great marriage - and even admit to what they need to still work on 47 years after their wedding!  

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Clayton chatted with author, critic and lecturer, Richard King, who talked about his newest book, 'Here Be Monsters: Is Technology Reducing Our Humanity?'. He spoke deeply about the fact that we are in the midst of a technological revolution and is this, therefore, changing what it means to be human? Richard challenged us, as modern societies, that we need to develop a more critical attitude to new and emerging technologies. We need, he suggests, to rethink our relationship to our tools from both individual and societal perspectives. It is not enough to let the market decide which technologies are good for us. We need to ask what we want from technology. And the question of what we want is a question about who we are.

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On Saturday, 14 October 2023, Australians will have their say in a referendum about whether to change the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. In light of this, Clayton invited two Christian Aboriginal leaders to share their views on the referendum. He spoke to Safina Stewart, a Melbourne based Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander who is the Relationships and Storytelling Coordinator for Common Grace, who explained her reasons for voting yes. He then spoke to Reverend Dr Djiniyini Gondarra, a Dhurili Nation clan leader from the Northern Territory's Elcho Island and the current chairman of the Arnhem Land Progress Association (ALPA) and the country's first Aboriginal Methodist minister. He discussed why he doesn’t believe the referendum in the current form is the right way forward.

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