With All Due Respect

The US election, a showdown between the Republican President Donald Trump and the Democrat candidate Joe Biden, has captivated Australian audiences.

This episode Megan Powell du Toit and Michael Jensen consider the take-home points from the close association between American evangelicals and the trounced Donald Trump.

To help them, they interview American author and Christian commentator Karen Swallow Prior. They then follow this up with a discussion on life in a partisan environment. And for dessert, it's time to dig back into the vaults of Hollywood's greats and consider lessons to be learned from Mr Smith Goes To Washington.

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In this episode of With All Due Respect, Megan Powell du Toit and Michael Jensen investigate what it means to lose one's religion in the 21st century.

Step one is a review of the iconic REM song, our hosts investigate what lead singer Michael Stipe was actually getting at, and then apply those findings to a loss of faith.

Step two is an interview with journalist Michael Collett who describes his own walk away from Christianity and the factors that keep him from coming back.

Step three, Michael and Megan discuss the factors that have kept them from losing their religion in tumultuous times.

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In their return episode for the fourth season of With All Due Respect, Megan Powell du Toit and Michael Jensen tackle the thorny topic of calling. 

Historically, Christians have been very strong on the idea of 'calling' - God having a specific purpose for people generally called into His kingdom. But recent decades of thought have challenged this idea.

Michael and Megan take a side each and summarise the positions, talk about Hamilton and our desire to believe in a call, and then reveal how they interpreted their own passage into ministry.

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The realities of podcasting mean that we can't always bring you everything that was said on a particular topic ... until now.

In this bonus edition of With All Due Respect, we deliver the full discussion on sex that featured in this season's final episode between Megan Powell du Toit, Michael Jensen and therapist Monica Cook.

All of your questions, answered in full. Get comfy and prepare yourself for an enthralling discussion.

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This is not click-bait. This is actually an episode about sex that is both incredibly thoughtful and intensely practical.

With All Due Respect champions Megan Powell du Toit and Michael Jensen round out season three with an all-points-considered approach to sex.

They begin the show by asking the question, "Does Christianity's knowledge of the origins of sex translate to good sex?"

Then there's a knock at the door and in walks Christian sex therapist Monica Cook to answer all the questions Christians want answered about this perplexing topic.

Finally, Michael and Megan look at the series Fleabag for everything that can go wrong with sex.

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In this episode of With All Due Respect, Megan Powell du Toit and Michael Jensen investigate the unifying anxiety that has risen to the surface of the world's collective consciousness in this time of pandemic: the fear of death.

To begin with Megan and Michael flip through the pages of the novel Lament, which reveals how closely love and agony sit together. 

Then it's time to welcome Dr. Megan Best, an expert in palliative care, who reveals the common attitudes that shape our behaviour as we approach the grave. 

And finally the WADR team ask the ultimate question of each other: what does it mean to die well?

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In this episode of With All Due Respect, Megan Powell du Toit and Michael Jensen cover the impact of COVID-19 on humanity's most precious relationships.

The WADR team kick off with a consideration of the statistics that reveal relational fault-lines developing in households across the world.

Then it's on to Baptist pastor Tony Calman and his personal experience with divorce, followed by a look at the film Marriage Story which starts after most romance films end – with a married couple thinking about divorce.

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Megan Powell du Toit and Michael Jensen firmly believe the question, 'What is truth?' is no longer something for lecturers in post-modernism to amuse themselves with.

In this episode, the With All Due Respect team tackle the post-truth world we find ourselves in. 

Starting with our favourite, 'You did what now??' segment, Michael explains why he just had to be publicly offended by President Donald Trump in the Sydney Morning Herald. Then Megan and Michael discuss the issue and ethics of truth online. And for a big finish, it's time to chime in on the new HBO documentary After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News, which has a perfect score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Michael Jensen and Megan Powell du Toit begin by asking why it is that we distinguish differently between who is and isn't my neighbour, and how that affected us during the lockdown phase of COVID-19.

They then invite Larissa Minniecon to discuss Australia's poor record for behaving like a neighbour to indigenous peoples. Larissa is a Kabi Kabi woman and a Torres Strait Islander. She helps us understand what indigenous Australians might contribute to our idea of neighbourliness.

And finally, Michael and Megan head to the movies to watch The Farewell, and discover what having a different culture has to say about the 'good' we offer our neighbours.

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This episode the With All Due Respect team address the burgeoning crisis talk that has filled audio and video streams, as well as countless social media and blog posts.

Michael and Megan suggest COVID-19 has brought out the truth in the saying, "A crisis on your part does not necessitate a panic on mine."

Together they debate the role 'crisis' has in the Christian life. Then, they provoke each other to voice an opinion on Ross Douthat's book, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success. And they round out the show with a consideration of everyone's current dystopian read, Station 11.

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