Life & Faith
Summary: The Centre for Public Christianity aims to promote the public understanding of the Christian faith. The Centre offers free comment, interviews, and other web based material. For more information go to publicchristianity.org.
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Podcasts:
What has Christianity ever done for the world? We consider the way Christianity has shaped our understanding of the human person and their intrinsic worth and value.
What has Christianity ever done for the world? We look at charity, service, and humility as key contributions the Christianity has made to the contemporary world.
What has Christianity ever done for the world? In this first podcast, we discuss the great works of Western culture that have been shaped by Christianity: music, art, literature, architecture, and science.
Sydney Morning Herald economics editor Ross Gittins talks to Simon Smart about the importance of relationships in economic policy.
Justine Toh interviews Roger 8 Hiroko Seth who run an aftercare home for girls liberated from sex trafficking in India.
As World Environment Day rolls around, Simon Smart & Justine Toh discuss the Christian understanding of what it means to care for the world.
Rikk Watts, Professor of New Testament at Regent College, Canada, talks about the way the early Christians began to challenge the accepted wisdom of their day, and how Jesus overturns everything that we know about life.
Justine Toh and Simon Smart discuss the significance of Anzac Day for Australians and why it is that people continue to be drawn to Gallipoli to remember the events of almost a century ago.
Simon Smart and Justine Toh discuss the pleasure of eating, how our relationship with food goes beyond just using it to power our bodies and examine if there is a spiritual dimension to eating.
Is faith by definition irrational? Can it be rational to believe in God? With the second Global Atheist Convention around the corner, Simon Smart and Justine Toh take some time to discuss the relationship between reason and belief.
Why does the date of Easter change? What is the practice of Lent all about? Can we trust the historical accounts of the death and resurrection of Jesus? John Dickson and Simon Smart discuss these and other questions.
Pria Viswalingam is the writer, director and presenter of the documentary Decadence: Decline of the Western World. It is set in ten countries and features leading authors and academics as it reaces the slow decline of the West. He came into CPX to discuss his documentary for our Life and Faith podcast.
What is the Church? Is it an archaic institution that is past its use-by date? Does it something to contribute to society still? CPX spoke to Mike Frost and Mick Martin about these questions. Mike is the vice-principal of Morling College who has done a lot of thinking and writing about what it means to be the Church in the post-modern era and Mick is Pastor of The Upper Room in North Sydney.
Life and Faith is CPX's weekly podcast where we discuss contemporary issues as they relate to matters of faith and belief.
Craig Blomberg is a distinguished professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary. In addition to writing numerous articles in professional journals, multi-author works and dictionaries or encyclopedias, he has authored or edited 15 books, including The Historical Reliability of the Gospels. He is also one of the 15 translators responsible for the NIV translation of the Bible. CPX spoke to him about the existence of Jesus, the claimed mistakes found in the New Testament and whether the Bible can be trusted.
