This week we welcome Sherron Watkins to the couch. She blew the whistle on the fraudulent accounts of Enron, and wound up centre-stage in one of history’s biggest corporate collapses. This Sunday night she’ll explain the price of telling the...
Over the years, a number of studies have been conducted on prayer and whether it can be proven to improve physical health. The results have been mixed and often contradictory. Now two Australian researchers have come to the conclusion that,...
Who are Australia’s most trusted people in 2007? That’s the subject of a new survey which has found we trust The Wiggles more than John Howard, and farmers more than business executives. It also found that politicians, journalists, lawyers, real...
Louise recently caught up with her friend, Stephi, who she went backpacking around Europe with when they were both younger. They drifted apart after the trip and lost contact. Since then, Louise and her husband have become Christians. They've spent...
On Friday the Prime Minister said “Indigenous people have no hope of being part of the mainstream of this country unless they can speak the language of this country.”It came after the indigenous affairs minister, Mal Brough, suggested the best...
Join me this week for the dramatic story of Stephen Lungu. Abandoned by the age of 3, on the streets by the age of 11, Stephen became a teenage drug addict and gang leader, stealing and scavenging to survive. One...
In May 1846, a guest speaker named James Caughey visited a little church in Nottingham, England. The Bible verse he chose to speak on that night was a promise found in the eleventh chapter of Mark, where Jesus says: I...
What kind of conflicts have you had to deal with in the workplace?How did you resolve it? Was it something that lasted a day…or maybe it was a workplace conflict that you had to deal with over a longer period...
Jenny's grandmother comes from Poland - she survived World War II. But Jenny's dilemma is this. She doesn't know how to respond to her grandmother's racist comments. For example she feels uncomfortable when her grandmother uses derogatory words like nigger, or...
How much money have you earned over the last year? What do you make of a group of Macquarie executives earning $200 million between them - over the last twelve months?Managing Director and Chief executive of the company, Allan Moss,...
This week on the show, Roger Corbett—former Woolworths CEO and now board member for US giant Walmart. We’ll talk about where big profit and social responsibility meet for the big-name retailers. And Martin Luther King—we’ll talk to the civil right’s...
It was a Sunday night in 2004. I was the scheduled speaker at my church and had just launched into a prayerfully-prepared, carefully-researched sermon which deep down I hoped would be blindingly insightful and occasionally humorous. I had PowerPoint slides....
Will lives at home with his parents. He's 19. He works full time and pays rent. However, he has "imposing" parents who have opinions and "rules" on everything - from what time he should be home, to how clean he...
What do you think is more important for the future of education in Australia? Should Australia be investing in Tradies…or scholars? Kevin Rudd says he’ll spend 2 and a half billion dollars on trade training centres in schools, while the...
Join me for another dose of life, faith and culture this weekend on Open House. Ruth Graham will again be our special guest… author, speaker and daughter of the most well-known Christian leader in modern times, Ruth will talk about...
It was a typical Friday in a downtown street. A non-descript man in jeans, long-sleeved T-shirt and baseball cap emerged from a Washington DC train station. He found himself a spot against a wall, just beside a rubbish bin. He...
The Australian Cricket team is in a bit of a dilemma – should it go on tour to Zimbabwe in September to play three one day games?The Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, Pius Ncube, who’s a respected human rights campaigner -says...
This week's dilemma is from Robert. He's currently renting a place, but owns a two storey property that he wants to move into. It makes financial sense for him to move in upstairs, because it will mean he won't have to...
Time magazine has released a list of the top 100 people who shape the world.How does one get on the list? You have to be a man or woman “whose power, talent or moral example is transforming our world.”The usual...
