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In this talk I link the Easter Journey of Christ, Michael Jackons’ life story and why the Peter Pan syndrome is destroying discipleship.

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This podcast is the second part of a series on training young adult leaders today. In this episode, I talk about the way we view God today, this view I call the post-Christianity trinity, which is a kind of mutant form of the trinity in which consumerism becomes a folk religion, radical individualism is our god, and God is a kind of fuzzy entity something akin to the force from Star Wars, or a benevolent old butler. I discuss how understanding this view point helps us as leaders, but also acts as a warning to how our view of God can be compromised.

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This is the first episode in a series that I will be doing on training young leaders in their twenties, using my book the Trouble with Paris as a guide. In this episode i discuss the reason why so many young leaders encounter difficulties in their twenties and I discuss how understanding how our culture has influenced our expectations of life is crucial to leadership development. I also of course talk about Paris Hilton and how watching TV for seven months straight almost sent me insane.

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This podcast is from a talk that I gave at the So Sexy it Hurts Event held at Mayfield Baptist Church in Newcastle a couple of weeks ago. Sorry, but the final couple of minutes are missing. In this talk I discuss the way in which we view ourselves has radicaly changed, the origins of the myspace shot, how everything is now porn, why everyone is a personal PR firm, why ’sexy’ has become the 21st century adjective of choice and why the image of God is so important to life today. (Those with a keen ear for regional Australian accents will note how with my Melbourne accent I mispronounce Newcastle, thus offending the locals throughout my talk.)

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In this episode, I meander along discussing spiritual expereinces amongst the unchurched, why we often feel dislocated in our lives, connecting with God’s pathos, evangelism as explaining the human condition, our inner longings, and just how far you can see from my office.

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Contemporary culture has changed how we view time. This in turn affects our expectations from life. In this episode I discuss how MTV changed how we all view time, the symbolism behind Lot’s Wife turning to salt, and how to create a small media circus at your local mall. Listen if you have time.

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In this episode I discuss the effect that Choice Anxiety is having on all of us. I also discuss the choice between Romantic Comedies and staring and the headrest in front of you on longhaul flights. I also discuss how washing powder makes you freak out in the supermarket isle, why the idea of marriage is so scary to so many and other such wonders of the modern age. Of course the discussion leads to the place of biblical faith in an age of Choice anxiety

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Can you use facebook without creating a hyperreal version of yourself? To what extent can you let your facebook page define your identity? Does facebook create a new age of radical accountability or a new arena for showing off? How does facebook affect our faith? All this and more in today’s podcast. (If you listen really carefully you might hear a safeway truck backing up and dropping off a shipment of ham in the loading bay behind my office.)

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This is a talk that I did this week at a Salvation Army Conference for youth workers from all over Australia and New Zealand. In this talk I discuss the post-Christian trinity, Abraham, Youth Culture and the incredibly short distance that I had to travel to this event.

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This episode features a radio interview that I did in which I discussed the way that consumerism operates as a religion in our culture today.

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