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The astonishing technological progress humans have made sometimes raises the warning that we shouldn’t be “playing God”. Nick Spencer from Theos think tank disagrees. In their book Playing God: science, religion, and the future of humanity, Nic
Bill Bennett, director of the film The Way, My Way and Camino legend Johnnie Walker Santiago reflect on the spiritual riches of going on pilgrimage. “I see this walk as an 800km long cathedral”. So says Australian filmmaker Bill Bennett in the
This dreaded disease seems to strip away everything that makes us, well, us. A chaplain and a psychiatrist remind us of the human at the centre of the diagnosis.---The ‘d’ word – dementia – is one that everyone fears. It seems to strip away eve
Mercy Aiken tells Life & Faith of the joy-filled, yet painful life of Palestinian Christian, Bishara Awad.Bishara was a child in Jerusalem when his father was shot and killed during the Israeli-Arab war of 1948. The story of his life and that o
Asuntha Charles has lived in some toughest places in the world. And she’s loved it. Long As a young woman, Asuntha Charles stubbornly defied her culture to advocate for vulnerable women and girls. That determination never left her as she ded
War correspondent Janine di Giovanni has covered the near-extinction of the ancient Christian communities of the Middle East. --- “They’ve survived plagues, they’ve survived pillages, they’ve survived raids, they’ve survived purges – and they
CPX writers talk about how they’re hoping to breathe new life into a very old story. --- Get a glimpse into the CPX writers’ room as Simon, Natasha, Justine and Max talk about what they’re writing about Easter, or how they go about working out
We explore the spiritual needs of people in intensive care in hospital, or behind bars. --- “I went to see this lady and as soon as I walked in, she actually said, ‘f*** off, I don’t want to have anything to do with you people’.” Chaplaincy in
For decades now in the West, religion has been on the retreat. In places where, 50 years ago, going to church on a Sunday was just what you did, we’ve had generations now for whom that would be a very foreign concept. Justin Brierley is an aut
Sarah Williams explains how the mother of modern feminism fell off the pages of history.---After her death in 1906, Josephine Butler was described as one of the “few great people who have moulded the course of things”. (For the record, she was
Reflections on a human experience that’s at once routine and exceptional; both very costly and very good. --- Life & Faith has covered many stories relating to birth over the years – incredible stories of courage and heartbreak, difficult decis
…of which CPX’s Justine Toh is first and foremost. ---In the lead up to Easter, Justine is giving up not only sugar, but her ignorance about all things Lent. She speaks to Catholic theologian Matt Tan, who goes by Awkward Asian Theologian on so
20 years on from the founding of Facebook, what role do these platforms play in our lives? --- February 4 marked 20 years since Mark Zuckerburg launched the site that was initially known as The Facebook from his Harvard dorm room, so this seems
Anglican Priest David Pileggi talks about what Christmas means in his town of Jerusalem in the midst of war. ---Anglican priest David Pileggi has lived in Jerusalem for over 40 years. In that time he has seen a lot, but recent events in Israe
British journalist David Goodhart on the Anywhere-Somewhere divide challenging national unity abroad and at home.---Is Australia polarised? The country is no UK roiled by Brexit, or US torn apart by the election of Donald Trump to the American
Our cultural narrative says there is no supernatural or transcendent realm. The CPX team wants to break that spell. ---Seen & Heard is back – and this time, the team have disenchantment in their sights, or the belief that there is no more super
A new book tells the stories of people whose encounters with New Atheism set them on the path to Christianity. --- “He said, I’ve been a scientist all my life and I was an atheist – quite a happy atheist, you know, I wasn’t particularly lookin
This week marks 60 years since the death of CS Lewis and that seems like an appropriate moment to return to a very popular episode from a couple of years back.---A lot of people know the date 22nd of November 1963 because that's the date that P
Seeing war up close and surviving nonetheless leaves its mark.---Andrew Hastie would not be the first person to join the defence force out of both a hunger for adventure and deep-seated sense of duty.After a distinguished career in the army, in
Hope feels scarce, but it’s not lost – and it’s within our power to be people of hope. ---“I certainly have clients who are in their twenties who are saying to me, I will not have children because look at the world! So, the question is, where
Why have conspiracy theories gained so much traction? And are Christians more prone to believe them? --- “I’d like to say that it’s all intellectual, but I don’t think it is.” The belief that behind the visible mechanisms of society, powerful
Why might someone who’s not religious want to send their kids to a faith-based school?---“Teachers are one of the few groups of people in society who can tell other people what to do in their discretionary time and – by and large – they obey.”
We’ve heard of burnout and PTSD but what about “moral injury”, that’s affecting soldiers and also Covid-19 health workers? ---“Soul sick”. That’s how some of the literature describes the effects of “moral injury” on people. Perhaps we’re more
Australians are used to filling in forms that ask whether they have Aboriginal or Torres Strait heritage. But not many of us have contact with people from the farthest northern reaches of our country. ---This week on Life & Faith we talk with
A detective and a scholar tackle the question: why are we all so obsessed with crime stories?---“When I was a child, not everything was a detective story. Now it is, on television. And it’s almost as if we all want to know, we want to know the
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