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November 28, 2010

Photographer, Ken Duncan

He's created some of the most evocative photographs of our nation. This week, Ken Duncan shares stories and insights from his three decades behind the camera, and why he still says he's an 'average photographer with a great God'.

November 23, 2010

TV Review - An African Journey With Jonathan Dimbleby

For the average western television viewer Africa must seem like a gigantic open wound. Almost every time it features in our small screens it is in the contexts of desperate poverty or deplorable violence - and that's just the people....

November 21, 2010

Philip Yancey on 'What Good is God?'

It's easy to say that God is good when life is humming along well. But what if your best friend is murdered, or you're jailed for believing? This week best-selling author Philip Yancey joins us with some answers.

Book Review: Conversations With God

A review of Neale Donald Walsch's, "Conversations with God", reviewed by Kara Martin I first became aware of this book while I was befriending parents in the oncology ward at the Children's Hospital. During the long hours waiting for treatments...

The Push for Gay Marriage

There's been a huge push for the legalisation of gay marriage this week... Greens MP Adam Bandt had a motion passed in Federal Parliament (73 votes to 72), calling MPs to consult their electorates on the issue... Thousands of people...

November 14, 2010

Second Opinion - Helping An Overweight Friend

Matt's friend, Greg, is seriously overweight. The two guys have been mates for years: they grew up together and went to the same school. Greg was always a bit chubby as a kid and a teenager, but Matt always just...

Joni Eareckson-Tada on Overcoming Pain

Joni Eareckson-Tada's story is well known. What you may not know is that Joni's faced many challenges since. Hear her amazing insights on turning pain around for good this week.

November 8, 2010

TV Review - Rake

This is a new legal series with the hero - or should I say anti-hero - being a self-destructive barrister. Cleaver Greene (Richard Roxburgh) is a divorced irresponsible parent with money issues and questionable moral standards...Hence the title 'Rake'.

Second Opinion - Helping My Grieving Friend

Janie wants advice on how to help a grieving friend. Last year her close friend Marian lost her younger sister to cancer. Now it's coming up to the one-year anniversary of the death. Should she raise it and talk about it with Marian? If so what should she say?

Book Review - "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout

A review of Elizabeth Strout's "Olive Kitteridge". Reviewed by Kara Martin Elizabeth Strout won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction last year for this novel in short story form. Olive Kitteridge is a complex woman: a Maths teacher, wife, mother...

November 7, 2010

Steve Biddulph on Manhood

According to Steve Biddulph, most men today live behind masks. Behind any success are feelings of being lost and lonely. Steve says those feelings are down to our incomplete idea of manhood. He'll join us this week with some solutions.

November 5, 2010

Film Review: The Social Network

That much-talked about movie, about the birth pains of the worlds biggest social networking site, has hit Australia... It's called simply "The Social Network"; It's a fascinating portrayal of Facebook's controversial founder Mark Zuckerberg, And film critic Ben McEachen is impressed....

November 1, 2010

Unashamedly Spiritual...

Open House Volume 3 is here!   Drawn from our best Open House interviews, featuring internationally-renowned authors like Alain De Botton, Donald Miller and Marilynne Robinson to X Men producer Ralph Winter and former Mob member Michael Franzese; from...