This week we spoke to both a photographer, and a child protection activist, about the Australia Council's draft new rules, about including children in photography and art - particularly naked children. Let’s hear your views. • How do you feel about the idea of parent permission being required to use children in any photographic image? • Photographers say it could kill off street photography … And people who make documentaries could be virtually paralysed by such a rule. • Ken Duncan has been...
Tonight’s dilemma is from Stephanie. She’s a young Christian woman, a uni student, and a youth leader in her church youth group. Stephanie’s started to make some good friendships at uni, and at work. She really wants to start connecting with these new friends, but is finding it hard to spend time with them outside of work and uni classes. She’d like to go out and socialize with them, be part of their lives - but due church activities, she’s...
Are you organised and analytical, a leader, high achiever and a perfectionist? Do you write lists, take initiative, and take on tasks because “no-one else can do it properly”? If so, you’re probably a “firstborn”... And according to psychologist Dr Kevin Leman, you can be a firstborn even if you weren’t the eldest child in your family... Intrigued?... Kevin’s the author of The Birth Order Book, and his latest offering is a book called The Firstborn Advantage.... He spoke to...
“Truth Resounding through Music”... A review of Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the Word of Music, by Jeremy S. Begbie. Review by Kara Martin Jeremy Begbie is an academic, a theologian and a musician, and has written this book to answer the questions: what is music? How does it work? What does it do to us? And what do we do to it? He is an excellent communicator, managing to go into great technical depth, while still choosing wonderful anecdotes...
This week we heard from the national leaders of four key church denominations in Australia. We asked them to answer the question, "What might God be saying through this Global Economic Crisis?" PASTOR BRIAN HOUSTON - NATIONAL PRESIDENT, AUSTRALIAN CHRISTIAN CHURCHES The Bible says in the book of Hebrews that “Things that can be shaken will be shaken… The things that are being shaken are the things that are made” man made systems such as the stock markets and...
The Global Economic Crisis has now been called the worst financial downturn since the great depression. While the experts can tell us what’s gone wrong and what might happen next, there’s one viewpoint we haven’t yet heard—the divine viewpoint. What could God be saying to us through the crisis? We’ve invited the national leaders of eight Christian denominations to pray, study and reflect. Over the next two weeks you’ll hear what they believe God might want us to know. Also...
Tonight’s dilemma comes from Michelle. She works in shop that has a lot of regular customers, who she gets to know quite well. Recently one of her regulars was in the store with her preschool-aged daughter… The little girl told Michelle a story indicating that her daddy was hurting her mummy. The mum quickly brushed it off and told her daughter to be quiet; said “don’t be a bigmouth”, and said nothing more about it. Now, Michelle is stuck wondering...
Tonight we spoke with author Jim Burns about his book Teaching Your Kids Healthy Sexuality. He talked about the vital topic of how, and when, parents should raise the sexuality topic with their children. What was your experience in learning about the "birds and the bees" from your parents? Did they speak to you about it, or avoid the topic? Did you have a positive or a negative experience of sex education? Are you a parent? If so, let us know...
The US presidential election has been a tremendous road show, full of twists, turns and drama, with big budget campaigns and big budget coverage. But there was one moment in the Presidential race that had the jaws of many technology-tragics dropping, and that was when CNN spoke to a reporter supposedly live via hologram. There she is, talking with the presenter, as a hologram, right in front of him. CNN have subsequently gotten a wrap over the knuckles as, in fact, the...
