Join me this Sunday for the story of Nancy Heche. After 25 years of marriage Nancy’s husband died of AIDS, the result of his secret life. Three months later, her 18 year old son was killed in a car accident....
I made a new friend last night. Merryn and I had spent a leisurely evening in Sydney’s China Town, and were walking up George Street towards the city centre. Merryn stopped in at a McDonalds to use the toilet and...
It seems that a combination of long hours, stressful work and a competitive work cultures are contributing to increasing cases of depression in the workplace, particularly in the fields of law and accounting, as we’ve just heard.Do you work somewhere...
Liz is worried about her 13 year old cousin Amala, who's from a Hindu family, who wants to become a Christian - but her parents won't let her. Amala has been invited to church and her parents don't mind her attending...
Coming up on the show this week, author, poet, eccentric, and self-described bemused Anglican Adrian Plass.Well known for his book The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, listen this Sunday for a side-splitting look at the church and its foibles, from...
One of my little hobbies is looking for God’s unseen footprints in life—hints of His presence; signs of His activity in the world. As I read news reports I often find myself asking, ‘where might God be in all of...
Five elderly residents of a Melbourne nursing home died this week – and another three are sick in hospital – after an outbreak of Salmonella over Easter.Chief executive Sharon Callister of Benetas – which runs the Broughton nursing home in...
Our dilemma tonight, concerns a guy that we’re calling Ahmed.It’s a real dilemma – although we’ve changed a couple of the details to protect his identity.But the crux of it is this.Ahmed has recently converted from Islam to Christianity.He doesn’t...
Hearing about the Virginia massacre on Tuesday was chilling enough – did we really need to see those pictures of murderer Cho Soong Hwee in an army vest waving his weapons around? He apparently went to the post office to...
Last week Andrew Bolt, a journalist with the Sun Herald newspaper, made some comments that I must share with you. Rarely has a self-described agnostic described my feelings and frustrations—and those of many I know—so well.In his article entitled ‘My...
This week’s dilemma is about Warwick – a classical musician by trade. He used to play the trombone with the Philharmonic Orchestra in London. He says he loved that job and was doing well at it, but felt God called...
On Friday, the Prime Minister told Southern Cross Radio that his initial response to the question of whether HIV positive people should be allowed into the country…is that they should NOT, except maybe in some humanitarian cases.Mr Howard said he...
Join me for Open House this week for a rare conversation with one of the most important Christian thinkers of our time—Philip Yancey.He’s explored the most basic questions and the deepest mysteries of the Christian faith, and this Sunday we’ll...
Few have captured the life of Jesus Christ as elegantly as the journalist James C. Hefley. In a paragraph he summed up Jesus’ life this way:‘Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the Child of a...
Natalie is in her early 20’s - she met and started going out with a guy last year - he proposed four months later and she accepted. She describes him as a loving, thoughtful and intelligent guy. They're planning to get...
The Prime Minister was this week encouraging us all to follow his lead, and stay in the workforce until our late 60s - in an effort to ensure Australia’s future prosperity.Mr Howard says some of us are retiring too early,...
On our Easter-flavoured show this Sunday we’ll explore a different side to the founder of the Christian faith. We’ve all heard of the Jesus who is ‘meek and mild’. But what about the Jesus who is ‘mean and wild’? Exaggerations...
‘He was always in search of something, but God knows what.’ These are the words of Terry Hicks, spoken during an interview four years ago, about his now infamous son David. They highlight the fact that before his capture in...
Michael is in a situation where he’s not sure whether his time or money is more important.He has a degree in nuclear medicine, and currently works as a vet. However he has a strong desire to help Africa, and is...
Do you think David Hicks has been treated fairly?On the one hand: • Hicks has been held at Guantanamo Bay for five years and was only recently charged.• The ‘providing material support for terrorism’ charge he’s pleaded guilty to was not even...
