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Life and Faith: Anzac Day

cpx — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:20:26 +0000

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.

Life and Faith: Feasting

cpx — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:10:38 +0000

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.

Life and Faith: Reason and Faith

cpx — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:25:58 +0000

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.

Life and Faith: Easter

cpx — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:59:03 +0000

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.

Life and Faith: Decadence

cpx — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:10:25 +0000

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.

Life and Faith: The Church

cpx — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:25:27 +0000

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 and more.

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: Fresh Starts

cpx — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:41:57 +0000

Life and Faith is CPX’s weekly podcast where we discuss contemporary issues as they relate to matters of faith and belief.

Can we trust the Bible?

cpx — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:52:35 +0000

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.

Women in the World of the Earliest Christians

cpx — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:51:54 +0000

Lynn H. Cohick is associate professor of New Testament at Wheaton College. She is a specialist on the Origins of Christianity in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish worlds. Her latest book is Women in the World of the Earliest Christians and she came into CPX to speak with John Dickson on that topic.

Professor Iain Provan

cpx — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 06:44:03 +0000

Iain Provan is the Marshall Sheppard Professor of Biblical Studies at Regent College in Vancouver where he has taught since 1997 and is a specialist in the Old Testament. He has written numerous essays and articles, and several books including commentaries on Lamentations, 1 and 2 Kings, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs. He is also co-author of a Biblical History of Israel.

He came into CPX to talk with us on a variety of topics relating to the Old Testament.

Mad Bastards: Brendan Fletcher

cpx — Tue, 17 May 2011 02:21:52 +0000

Brendan Fletcher is the writer and director of the new Australian film, Mad Bastards, a story of Aboriginal communities in North-West Australia. He came into the CPX studios to speak with Simon Smart about the film.

Religion and politics: the search for balance

cpx — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:43:29 +0000

CPX talks Dr Ron Sider, Professor of Theology, Holistic Ministry & Public Policy at Palmer Seminary of Eastern University and author of Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, about religion, poverty and politics.

Dr Scott Rae: medical and business ethics

cpx — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:52:51 +0000

Scott Rae is a Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at Biola University and a fellow of the Centre for Bioethics and Human Dignity. CPX caught up with him in Melbourne at the Religion in the Public Square Colloquium put on by the Presbyterian Church of Victoria. We interviewed him on areas of medical and business ethics including abortion, euthanasia, the GFC, business and the environment.

Professor Richard Swinburne

cpx — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:30:33 +0000

Richard Swinburne is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many eminent books of the philosophy of religion in general and of the philosophy of Christianity in particular.CPX gathered his thoughts on the violence of the Old Testament, divine revelation, evil and whether he believes there is a renaissance of unbelief.

Professor Stanley Hauerwas

cpx — Wed, 26 May 2010 00:59:53 +0000

Professor Hauerwas is a theologian whose work explores the importance of virtues for living the good life as well as understanding the nature of the Christian Church and its role in the wider world. CPX interviewed him about the connections between religion and violence, the place of Christianity in the modern University, death, friendship and community.

Professor John Gascoigne: Christianity, science and the Enlightenment

cpx — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:30:21 +0000

Professor John Gascoigne is a teacher in the school of history at UNSW. He speaks with Greg Clarke on the impact of the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment on Christianity.

What does Easter mean to you?

cpx — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:16:00 +0000

Simon Smart and Greg Clarke went out on the streets to find out what Easter means to people in Australia today.

Melinda Tankard Reist: the sexualisation of girls

cpx — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:11:47 +0000

Melinda Tankard Reist is a Canberra author, speaker, commentator and advocate with a special interest in issues affecting women and girls. She spoke to CPX about the sexualisation of girls - how this is happening and what can be done about it.

Revolutionary Christianity and its alternatives - David Bentley Hart Interview

cpx — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:33:38 +0000

David Bentley Hart is regarded as one of America’s brightest theologians, who combines highly skilled and entertaining writing with expertise in literature, history, philosophy, art and culture. In this interview Bentley Hart talks about the impact of Christianity on the West, some questionable interpretations of history, suffering and the problem of evil and why he remains a believer.

Why The Road matters

cpx — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:41:22 +0000

Cormac McCarthy’s much acclaimed novel The Road has been made into a feature film starring Viggo Mortensen. Greg Clarke and Simon Smart discuss why The Road matters.