Love Online
Episode 10
Getting intimate
Online intimacy is a fraught topic for anyone, but most particularly for Christians who have a high view of how God wants them to protect both their hearts and bodies.
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Hope in Crisis
Tim Costello, Executive Director of Micah Australia, speaks to Christian voices around the world who are on the front-line of bringing hope and social change.
An Aussie Doctor on COVID-19 in the developing world – Dr Ian Marr
Ian never wanted to be a doctor. But after seeing the gaps in diagnostic testing available in the developing world, he pursued a career as an Infectious Disease Physician. Ian was working in Timor-Leste when COVID-19 struck, and explains the pandemic’s devastating impact on this small nation.
End COVID For All – Tim Costello
COVID-19 is not over for anyone, until it’s over for everyone. And while Australia has been a leader in ‘flattening the curve’, too many of our global neighbours are far worse off. In fact, they’re in crisis. Tim Costello talks exclusively about why Micah Australia have taken the lead on a nationwide campaign called #EndCOVIDForAll.
Hope on the streets of Lesotho – Josh and Belinda Groves
Eight years ago Belinda went to the African nation of Lesotho to help oversee national elections. After being confronted by hundreds of children living on the streets, she never came back to Australia. Josh and Belinda Groves share their story of leaving comfortable lives, to rehabilitate children living on the streets of Lesotho.
Life in Wartime
The COVID-19 epidemic has brought upon us all the moral challenges associated with living in a state of constant conflict. We have to choose how we’re going to respond to this global threat day by day, and David Robertson and Stephen McAlpine from Third Space are here to help you think through the implications of the messages we’re hearing, and how God would have us live in these challenging times.
Evangelism In Wartime
Since Jesus’ granting of the Great Commission, in season and out, His followers have sought to spread the good news. But what does evangelism look like in a world locked down by anxiety?
The Weapons of Wartime
In the penultimate episode of Life In Wartime, David Robertson and Stephen McAlpine discuss the weapons open to the Christian in trying times such as these.
Love Online
Welcome to Love Online, the podcast that aims to give you a practical Christian approach to the world of online dating. Join host Mel Wade as she ticks off all of the key issues, top questions, and common mistakes associated with pursuing a partner in the online world. Assisted by an international cast of experienced online daters and dedicated Christians, Mel and the Love Online crew get you ready to start looking for that person who will point you to the greatest person of all.
Am I just lonely?
Is there a point to dating – or am I just lonely? And if God wants me to date, what is it he’s looking for in a prospective partner?
Why date online?
So you’ve decided God’s got someone special for you out there. Why go looking for her or him online? What are the advantages to online dating?
SALT
Jenny Salt is a Christian academic, lecturer at Sydney Missionary And Bible College, and sweet-heart with a microphone. Join her on a forty minute journey into someone’s amazing and often unexpected spiritual travels. Missionaries and media makers, scientists and sportspeople, new agers and new migrants – Salt is a chance to enter into the lives of people and discover heart-warming, sometimes challenging and always extraordinary gospel stories.
Christ on COVID’s front line – Tamara
What is it like to confront COVID on the front lines of this virulent condition – in an emergency room in a Sydney hospital? How does being a Christian make a difference?
A Christian in a Muslim world – Roy
Roy’s family chose a religion because the government told them they had to. But a transformative time in university led to him choosing again – this time for himself.
Seriously Good News
Good news – seriously good news! – in under 2 minutes. You want more than just doom and gloom as you look out on the world, and Eternity News is here to help. Seriously Good News is the hope-tinged, truth-based window on Australia. All the headlines on a range of good news stories in an easily digestible file, delivered straight to your mobile device. Fast, friendly and far better for you than a daily dose of cynicism!
International Women’s Day and a Christian academic book without blokes, eco-friendly home AND church
Australia’s new wave of women Bible scholars; Man building Bible College in Nepal village; practical steps to how your household and church can care for the earth
Valentine’s gifts that actually show love, Koorong stores pop up, Aussie servant in Malawi dies
Top 5 Valentine’s Day gifts to show you others that you really care, Remembering Cherie Martin – a long-time servant of orphans in Malawi, Koorong stores pop up near you, and a special treat for newborns.
Undeceptions
Every week on Undeceptions we’ll explore some aspect of life, faith, history, culture, or ethics that is either much misunderstood or mostly forgotten. With the help of people who know what they’re talking about, we’ll be trying to ‘undeceive ourselves’ and let the truth ‘out’.
Chinese Jesus
Christianity is a ‘western’ religion and a religion of individual freedom, right? Eastern traditions emphasise family and community above the individual. The Christian mind and the Chinese mind are two venerable yet incompatible things. So, Christianity should have a problem in China. It is just one of the attempted foreign invaders. And, yet, Christianity is alive and growing in China. Is this a western-controlled religious insurgency or is there an Eastern Jesus many in the West have missed?
Good Life
We are now more able than ever to consider whether we are living a happy life. But one of our guests today – the great Miroslav Volf – reminds us that there is a difference between life going well, which triggers those feelings of happiness… and living life well. So, what is true happiness – if that’s even the right word – and how do we get it!?
With all due Respect
Less aggro, more conversation. Is it even possible to have a deep discussion without it descending into chaos? Michael Jensen and Megan Powell du Toit think yes, and want to show the rest of us how to do it. There’s plenty of things they disagree on: free will, feminism, where you should send your kids to school and what type of church you should go to. But there are also plenty of other things that they have in common. They want to talk about all these things with conviction. But they also want the conversation to be constructive. Tune in to find out if that’s possible.
How to argue
Megan and Michael investigate the key theme of their podcast: how to carry out an argument in a contentious age ‘with all due respect’.
Christian Celebrity
The Christian world is full of its own super-stars – men and women who stride the world stage with seeming significance and sometimes staggering results. Megan and Michael ask, how is a believer to respond to these luminaries?
Latest Episodes
Getting intimate
Online intimacy is a fraught topic for anyone, but most particularly for Christians who have a high view of how God wants them to protect both their hearts and bodies.
Christ on COVID’s front line – Tamara
What is it like to confront COVID on the front lines of this virulent condition – in an emergency room in a Sydney hospital? How does being a Christian make a difference?
Chinese Jesus
Christianity is a ‘western’ religion and a religion of individual freedom, right? Eastern traditions emphasise family and community above the individual. The Christian mind and the Chinese mind are two venerable yet incompatible things. So, Christianity should have a problem in China. It is just one of the attempted foreign invaders. And, yet, Christianity is alive and growing in China. Is this a western-controlled religious insurgency or is there an Eastern Jesus many in the West have missed?
Can you cat-fish?
For some cat-fishing is luring someone with false information. For others, it’s the art of polishing the apple. What is it for Christians?
A Christian in a Muslim world – Roy
Roy’s family chose a religion because the government told them they had to. But a transformative time in university led to him choosing again – this time for himself.
Good Life
We are now more able than ever to consider whether we are living a happy life. But one of our guests today – the great Miroslav Volf – reminds us that there is a difference between life going well, which triggers those feelings of happiness… and living life well. So, what is true happiness – if that’s even the right word – and how do we get it!?
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