Covid-19 is one of the most serious and challenging issues to face our world at present. Millions of people have been infected and over 2 million people have died in this pandemic. There is no question that Covid-19 is one of the most serious medical, scientific and social challenges our world has faced for a century. Yet Dr.
In 2014 the famed atheist Richard Dawkins once tweeted:
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
Indeed atheist blogger Bob Seidensticker says something similar in an article, Your Religion Is a Reflection of Your Culture—You’d Be Muslim if You Were Born in Pakistan
It’s tough being a leader in a time of crisis.
There is no question that Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is facing a crisis. In fact it’s been described as a one-in-100 year event as Coronavirus cases in Victoria continue to rise.
In a now deleted Instagram post, Hillsong singer/songwriter Marty Sampson claims that ‘he is genuinely losing his faith’. He outlines a series of doubts and topics and issues obviously important to him and his faith and laments that ‘no one talks about it’.
Jesus is the question
Verse 1
And Jesus said, I want to ask you a question.
What’s your name?
Why are you terrified?
Who touched my clothes?
Where have they laid him?
How many loaves do you have?
Verse 2
And Jesus said, I want to ask you a question
Do you have eyes and not see?
Can the blind lead the blind?
Who do people say that I am?
But what about you,
who do you say I am?
Verse 3
And Jesus said, I want to ask you a question
I love a good Netflix binge! Simone Biles (Olympic Gymnast)
1. We are story animals
We love TV shows. Popular television shows entertain, enthral and fill in a Friday night. Indeed, watching TV is Australia's most popular after dinner activity. We love stories.
Author Yann Martel (author of Life of Pi) says, “Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.”
‘Change today, buy fairtrade’.
This pithy motto encapsulates the vision of Fair Trade—that the developing world can indeed be changed through individual purchasing decisions. Indeed Fair Trade is at the heart of my family story - I grew up in the 1980's selling Fair Trade products with my mum in markets across North Shropshire in the UK.
Christmas is a joyous and fun occasion. Our guest for the most recently broadcast Bigger Questions, Mikey Bayliss, shares how he loves Christmas so much that he even sleeps under the Christmas tree!
The recent terrorist bombing in Manchester has raised big questions of how we should respond to Islamic extremism. The latest Bigger Questions conversation featured Islamic scholar Dr. Bernie Power. We asked Bernie some bigger questions about how to understand Islamic extremism:
The latest Bigger Questions conversation featured infectious disease physician Dr. Justin Denholm, He is Medical Director of the Victorian Tuberculosis Program and is also an author of current World Health Organization guidelines on latent tuberculosis infection and ethics.