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Richard Johnson Lectures
by Centre for Public Christianity
The Richard Johnson lecture is an annual public event that seeks to highlight Christianity’s relevance to society and to positively contribute to public discourse on key aspects of civil life.
Episodes
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Against Bitterness: Q&A Session with Stan Grant
In this episode, you'll hear the Q&A session following Stan Grant’s 2025 lecture, Against Bitterness: how do we live with suffering? Theologian and writer Stan Grant delivers a searing diagnosis of our times where chronic loneliness, runaway technological development, and fractious identity...
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Against Bitterness: how do we live with suffering?
In this episode, you'll hear Stan Grant’s 2025 lecture, Against Bitterness: how do we live with suffering? Theologian and writer Stan Grant delivers a searing diagnosis of our times where chronic loneliness, runaway technological development, and fractious identity politics make bitterness the…
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Exiles at Home: Q&A Session with Tim Winton
In this episode, you'll hear the Q&A session follwoing Tim Winton’s 2024 lecture, Exiles at Home: what our contempt for nature is costing us. Writer and activist Tim Winton reminds us that life on earth is a gift, a miracle we often fail to honour or even recognise. As we face an ecological…
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Exiles at Home: what our contempt for nature is costing us
In this episode, you'll hear Tim Winton’s 2024 lecture, Exiles at Home: what our contempt for nature is costing us. Writer and activist Tim Winton reminds us that life on earth is a gift, a miracle we often fail to honour or even recognise. As we face an ecological crisis unprecedented in human...
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Rediscovering Hope: Q&A Session with Leisa Aitken
In this episode, you'll hear the Q&A session that followed Leisa Aitken's 2023 lecture titled, Rediscovering Hope. How we lost it. How we get it back? You can hear her lecture in an earlier episode of this podcast, but here is Leisa, with Simon Smart, digging deeper into the topic. --- Leisa is a...
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Rediscovering Hope. How we lost it. How we get it back?
In this episode, you'll hear Leisa Aitken's 2023 lecture, Rediscovering Hope. How we lost it. How we get it back? The future feels tenuous these days, uncertain … overwhelming, even. Hope might be scarce, but it's not lost. At least not with Leisa Aitken is our guide. Leisa is a clinical...
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Out Of Sight: Q&A with Scott Stephens
In this episode you’ll hear the Q&A session that followed Scott Stephen’s 2021 lecture titled… Out Of Sight: Attentiveness in a Dismissive Age You can hear his lecture in an earlier episode of this podcast, but here is Scott, with Simon Smart, digging deeper into the topic. --- Scott is the ABC’s...
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Free To Be Me? Q&A with Sarah Irving-Stonebraker
In this episode you’ll hear the Q&A session that followed Sarah Irving-Stonebraker’s 2020 lecture titled… Free To Be Me? The Forgotten Story of Religious Liberty You can hear her lecture in an earlier episode of this podcast, but here is Sarah, with Simon Smart, digging deeper into the topic. ---...
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Crossing the Great Divide: Q&A with Tim Dixon
You can hear his lecture in an earlier episode of this podcast, but here is Tim, with Simon Smart, digging deeper into the topic. --- Tim is co-founder of More in Common, an international initiative which has published some of the world's leading research on the drivers of polarisation and social...
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Where Did I Come From? Q&A with Nick Spencer
In this episode you’ll hear the Q&A session that followed Nick Spencer’s 2018 lecture titled… Where Did I Come From? Christianity, Secularism, and the Individual You can hear his lecture in an earlier episode of this podcast, but here is Nick Spencer, with Simon Smart, digging deeper into the...
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Is Christianity Bad News for Women? Q&A with Amy Orr-Ewing
In this episode you’ll hear the Q&A session that followed Amy Orr-Ewing’s 2017 lecture titled… Is Christianity Bad News for Women? You can hear her lecture in an earlier episode of this podcast, but here is Amy, with Simon Smart, digging deeper into the topic. --- Amy is a Senior Fellow at the...
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The Myth of Religious Violence: Q&A with William Cavanaugh
In this episode you’ll hear the Q&A session that followed William Cavanaugh’s 2016 lecture titled… The Myth of Religious Violence You can hear his lecture in an earlier episode of this podcast, but here is William, with John Dickson, digging deeper into the topic. --- WIlliam is Professor of...
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The End of Faith: Q&A with Peter Harrison
In this episode you’ll hear the Q&A session that followed Peter Harrison’s 2015 lecture titled… The End of Faith: Has Science Made Religion Redundant? You can hear his lecture in an earlier episode of this podcast, but here is Peter, with John Dickson, digging deeper into the topic. --- Peter is...
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A Public Faith: Q&A with Mirosav Volf
In this episode you’ll hear the Q&A session that followed the inaugural Richard Johnson Lecture, which was delivered in 2014 by Yale University’s Miroslav Volf. His topic was A Public Faith: Serving the Common Good, and you can hear the lecture in an earlier episode of this podcast, but here is...
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Disconnected: Q&A with Andy Crouch
In this episode you’ll hear the open Q&A session following Andy Crouch’s 2022 lecture, Disconnected: Why technology keeps disappointing us --- Andy Crouch is a partner for theology and culture at Praxis, an organisation that works as a creative engine for redemptive entrepreneurship. He is an...
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Disconnected: Why Technology Keeps Disappointing Us
In this episode you’ll hear Andy Crouch’s 2022 lecture, Disconnected: Why technology keeps disappointing us Technology promises so much — and truly has transformed our lives — but somehow it never quite delivers. Drawing on an older vision of human beings as heart-soul-mind-strength complexes,...
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Out of Sight: Attentiveness in a Dismissive Age
In this episode you’ll hear Scott Stephen’s 2021 lecture, Out of Sight: Attentiveness in a Dismissive Age We commonly hear that the times in which we live are “unprecedented”. Not entirely without justification, when we consider the proliferation of technologies that flood our waking hours. Yet...
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Free To Be Me? The Forgotten Story of Religious Liberty
In this episode you’ll hear Sarah Irving-Stonebraker’s 2020 lecture, Free To Be Me? The Forgotten Story of Religious Liberty "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion", reads the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But how did we get here? Freedom of religion - or…
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Crossing the Great Divide: Building Bridges in an Age of Tribalism
In this episode you’ll hear Tim Dixon’s 2019 lecture, Crossing the Great Divide: Building Bridges in an Age of Tribalism The Western world is seeing a collapse in people’s faith in institutions, democracy, and even each other. Societies are fractured; political norms upended. Polarising debates...
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Where Did I Come From? Christianity, Secularism, and the Individual
In this episode you’ll hear Nick Spencer’s 2018 lecture, Where Did I Come From? Christianity, Secularism, and the Individual It's obvious, isn’t it? Life should be respected. We should obey the rule of law. Humans have inalienable dignity. People are of equal worth. Freedom is good. Science is...
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Is Christianity Bad News for Women?
In this episode you’ll hear Amy Orr-Ewing’s 2017 lecture, Is Christianity Bad News for Women? The 2nd-century Greek philosopher Celsus famously dismissed Christianity as a religion of women, children, and slaves – that is to say, not to be taken seriously. But Christianity is much more likely to…
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The Myth of Religious Violence
In this episode you’ll hear William Cavanaugh’s 2016 lecture, The Myth Of Religious Violence It’s a widely held assumption in Western societies that religion has a peculiar tendency to promote violence. Indeed, much of our domestic and foreign policy assumes this – but is it a fair assumption?…
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The End of Faith: Has Science Made Religion Redundant?
In this episode you’ll hear Peter Harrison’s 2015 lecture, The End Of Faith: Has Science Made Religion Redundant? The conflict between science and religion seems entrenched, even inevitable. But is it? Peter Harrison is one of the most important scholars working in the area of science and…
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A Public Faith: Serving the Common Good
The inaugural Richard Johnson Lecture was delivered in 2014 by Yale University’s Miroslav Volf. Volf’s upbringing in Croatia as the only Christian in a school of 3,500 was pivotal in the development of his faith. A victim of intense and sustained interrogation by the government of then communist...
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Who was Richard Johnson?
Richard Johnson was the first Chaplain to the Colony of New South Wales, arriving on the First Fleet in 1788. He saw no tension between his priestly duties and his calling to serve the public good in the colony. He was perhaps Australia’s first exponent of Public Christianity! The Richard Johnson...
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The Richard Johnson lecture is an annual public event that seeks to highlight Christianity’s relevance to society and to positively contribute to public discourse on key aspects of civil life.
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