Helen Shield ventures into soup kitchens and domestic violence shelters, to find out how a variety of people, young and old, have become homeless.
Helen Shield ventures into soup kitchens and domestic violence shelters, to find out how a variety of people, young and old, have become homeless.
Ed Dobson took his faith to the extreme when he spent a year living like Jesus. We’re talking food, clothing, attitudes, and listening to all four gospels on his iPod every week. Hear how it changed his life.
Big Love – Season 3 Rating: MA Distributor: SBS Release Date: Tuesdays, 8:30 pm Bill Paxton stars as Bill Hendrickson, a former fundamentalist Mormon cult member who is now making his way as a businessman outside the confines of the compound he grew up in. His three wives run an integrated family spread over three adjacent homes, methodically… Continue reading The Big Picture – Polygamy and Reconciliation
Extra-terrestrial spies visiting earth. Mass delusion of the human race and an alien plot to take over the world. Sounds like a TV storyline that would have done well in decades past. And indeed it did. Back in the 80s the sci-fi series “V” attracted more than 40 million viewers. But the producers of the… Continue reading TV Review: Aliens Return to Earth in V
Have you ever wondered why fashion changes so quickly? Why a pop star can be the hottest thing one week, and old-hat the next? And why it’s almost impossible to keep up with technology? The minute you’ve figured out how to use the latest gadget, it seems a newer, “cooler” one has superceded it. According… Continue reading Our Search for Meaning in all the Wrong Places
Writer and church pastor Ed Dobson had been a Christian for most of his life, when he decided to try something completely different. He would attempt to live like Jesus. Inspired by the Jewish writer AJ Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically, Dobson set out do the Christian equivalent of what Jacobs did.… Continue reading Ed Dobson – My Year Living the Life of Jesus
Bebo talks about his song Britney, and tells us if Britney Spears has heard the song yet.
Young mum Katrina chats about parenting a young child.
A few weeks back, we caught up with future trends expert Richard Watson, about what fascinating new developments we might see in 2010. Well we have so much fun every time we talk to Richard – that we decided to make him part of the furniture. We’re starting a new segment called Future Files, named… Continue reading Future Files #1: Society and Culture
India is a nation known for its incredible religious diversity. Four major world religions began there – Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddism and Jainism. While the nation also has one of the biggest Muslim populations in the world, when it comes to Christianity, there are states where nearly the whole population are believers and yet other states… Continue reading Global Christianity #5: India
The Good Wife CHANNEL: Network TEN TIME-SLOT: Sundays, 8.30 pm RATING: M Australians are taking a shine to a new American television series that suggests the ideal wife is one who knows how to keep her distance from her husband’s mistakes. The Good Wife, produced by Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions centres on the trials – literally… Continue reading The Big Picture – The Good Wife Review
A.J Jacobs is a writer who likes to take his research to the extreme. In his book The Know It All, he set out to become the world’s smartest person by reading the encyclopaedia from A to Z. Then in The Year of Living Biblically, he attempted to follow the Bible as literally as possible… Continue reading The Year of Living Biblically
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