Wilderness Conversations

Kevin Dennes is a founding member of the church or ecclesia that meets at Riverwood. He was born between the wars during the Great Depression and became a Christadelphian just after he was married. He shares his story with us on Wilderness Conversations.

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Ron Cowie lives in Adelaide and is a member of the Christadelphian church or ecclesia at Enfield.

Ron was in Sydney recently presenting a series of studies entitled, “Life under Gods Holy Law”

One of the criticisms of the Bible and in particular the Law of Moses is that it has a poor view of women – many have claimed that the law is Misogynistic.

An extreme case is made by the feminist – Taslima Nassin who says: “I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas.”

Is this claim justifiable?

Ron makes the argument that whilst it is true that women have been and still are seriously mistreated under the guise of religion, women were elevated and protected under Gods law.

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Gary Steel lives in Sydney and for many years has been a member of the Christadelphian Church or ecclesia at Riverwood.

Over the last few years, Gary has been thinking and speaking about Faith in a world that doesn’t believe. Recently Gary did a talk entitled “The Philosophy of Faith”. What does Gary mean by philosophy and what does it say about faith?

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Terry Nutter was born in California in 1949, was raised in a Roman Catholic household, was drafted and fort in Vietnam and subsequently travelled still undecided on the direction his life would take. In 1976, he was in Bogotá Columbia and his life changed forever.

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Andrew Bramhill lives near Birmingham and since 2011 as been the editor of the Christadelphian magazine. Andrew joins Wilderness conversations and talks about the work of the Christadelphian Office.

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In late November 2020, the Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill 2020 was introduced to the Victorian Parliament.

What does this bill mean for people of faith? 

This Wilderness conversations episode is a different format – instead of a conversation we have a monolog.

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Robert Crawford lives in the Hunter Region, north of Sydney and is member of the Christadelphian Church or ecclesia at Toronto.

Two years ago Rob was about to spend the Australia Day long weekend with some friends when Rob had an accident. He was fortunate to survive. In fact some would say it was a miracle he survived. Rob tells his story and shares some of the challenges he faced during his ongoing recovery.

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Christopher Kelly lives in Melbourne and for many years has been a member of the Christadelphian Church or ecclesia at Canterbury.  In his day job he is a forensic accountant specialising in fraud investigation. 

Recently Chris wrote an article that was published in two parts, in the November and December Christadelphian magazine. The article was entitled, The Trinity – A Colossal fraud.

We speak with Chris on Wilderness Conversations.

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Peter Heavyside lives in Hong Kong and for many years has been a member of the Hong Kong Christadelphian community.

A couple of years ago Peter published a book entitled “Genesis 1-2: A Harmonised and Historical Reading”

In the preface Peter speaks of three different but related values

First as a defence of the integrity of the scriptures against liberal critical handling which claims to identify historical errors or failures of historical accuracy,

Second as a sound exposition of aspects of Genesis 1 & 2, and 

Thirdly as an illustration of how to deal with “problem” passages.

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Colin Byrnes lives in Sydney and for many years has been a member of the Christadelphian Church or ecclesia at Castle Hill.

A couple of years ago Colin published a book entitled “God Christ Man Woman”

In the introduction he writes; “This is written by a Christadelphian for Christadelphians but anyone else is a welcome reader. It was born out of the evangelical feminism that began to seriously bite in various churches in the early 1980s. It was inevitable that this would soon have an impact on the Christadelphian movement. Male leadership has been the norm since the inception of the movement and continues to be so. However, a small minority of brothers and sisters in the ecclesial world has challenged male leadership.”

Colin draws our attention to the balance so well presented by John Carter in his book on Ephesisans: “It is noteworthy that the emphasis is placed on the duty each has to perform, and not on the right to be expected from the other. The husband is not told to exact submission, but to love. The application of each of them to their own duty helps the other to do his (or her) part.” (John Carter – The Book of Ephesians).

Colin speaks with Wilderness Conversations.

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