Life & Faith

Rikk Watts, Professor of New Testament at Regent College, Canada, talks about the way the early Christians began to challenge the accepted wisdom of their day, and how Jesus overturns everything that we know about life.

Justine Toh and Simon Smart discuss the significance of Anzac Day for Australians and why it is that people continue to be drawn to Gallipoli to remember the events of almost a century ago.

Simon Smart and Justine Toh discuss the pleasure of eating, how our relationship with food goes beyond just using it to power our bodies and examine if there is a spiritual dimension to eating.

Is faith by definition irrational? Can it be rational to believe in God? With the second Global Atheist Convention around the corner, Simon Smart and Justine Toh take some time to discuss the relationship between reason and belief.

Why does the date of Easter change? What is the practice of Lent all about? Can we trust the historical accounts of the death and resurrection of Jesus? John Dickson and Simon Smart discuss these and other questions.

Pria Viswalingam is the writer, director and presenter of the documentary Decadence: Decline of the Western World. It is set in ten countries and features leading authors and academics as it reaces the slow decline of the West. He came into CPX to discuss his documentary for our Life and Faith podcast.

What is the Church? Is it an archaic institution that is past its use-by date? Does it something to contribute to society still? CPX spoke to Mike Frost and Mick Martin about these questions and more. Mike is the vice-principal of Morling College, who has done a lot of thinking and writing about what it means to be the Church in the post-modern era and Mick is Pastor of The Upper Room in North Sydney.

Life and Faith is CPX's weekly podcast where we discuss contemporary issues as they relate to matters of faith and belief.

Pete Schaffler and his wife Kara work as missionaries in Madagascar. He came into CPX to discuss what Madagascar is like and why they are there.

December 21 has come and gone and the world hasn't ended. Simon Smart and Justine Toh discuss our fascination with the end of the world.