David Robertson discusses faith, culture and politics from a Christian perspective
Episodes
Friday Oct 25, 2019
Friday Oct 25, 2019
1) Migrant Deaths - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50159748
2) A tragic day for Northern Ireland – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryGpFVezxfU
3) Trudeau wins…The first minute of this -
4) Rapists can identify as Female….Progress?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-forces-let-rapists-record-their-gender-as-female-d7qtb7953
5 ) Australia’s Giant battery – https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-49202175
6) Kelloggs –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6EcMSWRpms
8) The Neutral Speaker – https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_con
9) Chick- Fil –A – There was a sound clip of this on the BBC but I could not find it…
10) Sir Brian Soutar – https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/sir-brian-souter-makes-massive-109m-donation-as-charities-experience-perfect-storm-1-5030766
11) Paula White – https://theweeflea.com/2019/10/21/paula-whites-new-book-something-greater-is-revealing-disturbing-and-depressing/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy_m93qKmsE - play all of this…
12) John Macarthur - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeNKHqpBcgc the first minute…
13) 9 year old ronan Martin at Boston conference – The power of music – wow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRhgERhMcGg&feature=youtu.be
14) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFxOaDeJmXk Stairway to Heaven
Friday Oct 18, 2019
Friday Oct 18, 2019
- Nobel Peace Prize Winner – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4BH08ja-jY
2) President Trump and the Kurds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG5696HUTqI
3) Polish Elections - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50037654
4) International Pronouns Day
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/a-transphobic-crime-wave-has-hit-oxford/
https://twitter.com/iainmacwhirter/status/1184532861317210113?s=20
https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1184489076008853506?s=20
5) Democrats Intolerance -
Beto O’Rourke - https://twitter.com/LyleShelton/status/1182505860813086721?s=20
Elizabeth Warren – Just marry one woman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ekEId2B84E
6) Chinese Control of Corporations – Hong Kong
7) Climate Change Hypocrites - https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/lewis-hamilton-and-the-unbearable-climate-change-hypocrites/?sfns=mo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2w2bCMhc9k -
8) Anna McGahan -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S-tZI4t0BU&fbclid=IwAR0oANWwW4HDWRegtJeX7tXmKuugAtX1czckNhwFMzdoWsN7VyqpbKy5Ta0 Can you play the first minute of this?
9) Christian Misuse of the Internet - https://theweeflea.com/2019/10/16/christians-please-stop-breaking-the-ninth-commandment-on-social-media/
10) Top 20 Books you have lied about - https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/best-books-most-read-uk-war-peace-lie-1984-a9145946.html
11) Japan v. Scotland – Can you play some of this – perhaps the ending when they have victory? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ekEId2B84E
Quote of the week –Sadio Mané
"Why would I want ten Ferraris, twenty diamond watches, or two planes? What will these objects do for me and for the world? I was hungry, and I had to work in the field; I survived hard times, played football barefooted, I did not have an education and many other things, but today with what I win thanks to football, I can help my people. I built schools, a stadium, we provide clothes, shoes, food for people who are in extreme poverty. In addition, I give 70 euros per month to all people in a very poor region of Senegal which contributes to their family economy. I do not need to display luxury cars, luxury homes, trips and even planes. I prefer that my people receive a little of what life has given me".
Friday Oct 11, 2019
Friday Oct 11, 2019
Hong Kong - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49949548 Use something from the first clip?
Terrorist Attacks….https://www.bbc.com/news/49921145
Extinction Rebellion – https://twitter.com/i/status/1181551386401607680
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=uMU3N6VFS-A
Abortion - - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NWXpOwG9ZU
The Chinese in Angola - https://www.facebook.com/188625661189259/posts/2751590204892779/
The Turks in Syria – https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/world/middleeast/turkey-attacks-syria.html
Transmania -
Australian Transgender - https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/transgender-children-should-undergo-irreversible-surgery-without-their-parents-permission-or-counselling-psychologists-say/ar-AAI7xSx?ocid=sf&fbclid=IwAR3O49KRr25lQP42RH0sAzrxff7TgvHF7olj_ecjEScdmZUcRPo_I-dWmGE Can you play the news clip in this…?
EU – The Will of the People - https://twitter.com/i/status/1181811529840304128
Lies – .https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=2zop60f9DPA
Thought for the Day – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9kK7LtftBU
Ginger Baker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt51rITH3EA
Quote of the Week…
"It's a gift from God. You've either got it or you haven't. And I've got it: time. Natural time."
Friday Oct 04, 2019
Friday Oct 04, 2019
Boris Johnson – Equality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlvK7XLNXNU
Are Religious People more Generous - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/human-flourishing/201909/does-religious-upbringing-promote-generosity-or-not?amp&__twitter_impression=true
Forgiveness – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ehaXaAOpzI
Climate Change - https://clintel.nl/brief-clintel-aan-vn-baas-guterres/
Corporate Capitalism and Communism - https://freebeacon.com/issues/bloomberg-xi-jinping-is-not-a-dictator/
Compelled Speech - https://www.christiantoday.com/article/christian-doctors-views-on-transgender-pronouns-ruled-incompatible-with-human-dignity/133342.htm
Edinburgh University Hosts Anti-Racism Event that Bans White People - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/27/anti-racism-event-hosted-edinburgh-university-bans-white-people/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_em
The Beatles – Abbey Road –
Kanye West – Adam Tyson sermon…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkqtK-bPvqM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0SWMs3hv9Yo8RHNFVNwsOm692E2lQzcIoIYQuWH9O8gYAI3Vj6yvF3xE4 Around 7 minutes on the holiness of God and sin…
The Nations Favourite Hymn - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49871456
The Sound Odyessy – Calum Martin - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm
"I used to think the top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that thirty years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy, and to deal with these we need a cultural and spiritual transformation. And we scientists don't know how to do that." Gus Speth (US Advisor on CLimate CHange)
Friday Sep 27, 2019
Friday Sep 27, 2019
1) Labour Party Conference - https://twitter.com/skynewspolitics/status/1175785245880328192?s=12
2) UK politics – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp865xUXMrg
3) EU – flag and anthem… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo_-KoBiBG0
4) Greta Thunberg – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULmk8mhiClI&feature=youtu.be
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/09/23/climate-strikers-need-to-grow-up/
5) Ethiopian Trees – https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-019-00275-x/index.html
6) Trans -
7) The Madness of Crowds. -
8) Jacob Rees Moog on abortion - https://www.facebook.com/MarchForLifeUK/videos/vb.1464101100526640/1261386747368186/?type=2&theater
9) China and the Ten Commandments.
Ry Cooder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=29&v=HEUIZWyieAk
Friday Sep 20, 2019
Friday Sep 20, 2019
Israeli Elections - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-49740981
Quantas CEO – Alan Joyce –
Richard Dawkins - Outgrowing God….
Government appoints new PM envoy for freedom of religion
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-appoints-new-pm-envoy-for-freedom-of-religion-belief
The EU Empire
https://twitter.com/tomhfh/status/1172940132455976961?s=12
Confessions of a Social Constructionist – https://quillette.com/2019/09/17/i-basically-just-made-it-up-confessions-of-a-social-constructionist/
Pride at the Proms….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49704831
Hong Kong Anthem - Music can be so powerful….https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-china-49688548/glory-to-hong-kong-singing-a-new-protest-anthem
Extinction Rebellion - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MkYgu-zMrUiiWHSU4rzkWZRicPdC2hpK/view
Praying to Plants
https://murraycampbell.net/2019/09/19/we-harvest-what-we-sow/
New Irish Arts – And Can it Be –
https://www.facebook.com/newirisharts/videos/vb.69385654537/441307693397371/?type=2&theater
Quote of the week:
Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.
Calvin - Introduction, Geneva Psalter 1539.
Friday Sep 13, 2019
Friday Sep 13, 2019
1) Mugabe – Can we being with this…just the opening minute?
2) Northern Ireland Abortion – https://www.spuc.org.uk/latest-news/latest-news/stella-creasy-do-not-consult-people-of-northern-ireland-on-abortion-legislation?fbclid=IwAR37zO4K1uKGHzdOmJWvSnON2zeAPsrX-3L73mzZizu6eCtPPXgN4G_IicQ
3) Lisa Cameron - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ecfa5038-d416-11e9-aa6d-16cb9f989e55
4) Brexit –
Bercow - https://twitter.com/labourleave/status/1171097886811181056?s=20
5) Margarett Attwood –
6) Finnish Politician - https://www.foxnews.com/world/bible-verse-lgbt-hate-crime-investigation
7) Gender neutral penguin - https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/chick-adopted-by-same-sex-penguin-couple-to-be-raised-as-gender-neutral-1-5001474
8) BBC – 100 genders –
https://stephenmcalpine.com/the-bbc-100-genders-92-league-teams/
9) School Girls protest - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtwYs6e-bNk
10) BBC – Fireman Sam – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDtlJU8e8v8
11) Melanie Phillips - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/428a40c2-d33a-11e9-9149-9833d870d22d
12) Jarrid Wilson -
The clip where he apologises.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuTuGS3hXtM
Friday Sep 06, 2019
Friday Sep 06, 2019
Shetland – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-49502204
PolicePersons in Scotland - https://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-police-will-wear-gender-neutral-baseball-caps-as-part-of-their-uniform-1-4995168
Brexit - https://twitter.com/katehoeymp/status/1168155141012434946?s=12
Philip Lee - https://order-order.com/2019/09/03/chair-lgbt-lib-dems-quits-party-philip-lee/
Australian Anglican vicars ‘marry’ - https://www.facebook.com/Prime7NewsBorder/videos/vb.136887483071463/396111501089069/?type=2&theater
End of Gay Gene theory - https://www.bioedge.org/
Chick-Fil –A banned - https://www.foxnews.com/us/chick-fil-a-kansas-university-campus
Female students given lower standards - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/29/university-makes-10-point-entry-score-adjustment-for-female-applicants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7THJ-fCqzo
Ricky Gervais - https://twitter.com/jamesmelville/status/1167716812856971264?s=12
Stormzy and Ed Sheeran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFTSK6CnECk&feature=youtu.be
Quote of the Week: "A Christian should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel. His conversation should be such that all who are about him should clearly perceive whose he is, and whom he serves; and should see the image of Jesus reflected in his daily actions." CH Spurgeon.
Friday Aug 30, 2019
Friday Aug 30, 2019
1) The UK – Proroging of parliament….https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-49505257/parliament-suspension-protests-in-uk-cities
2) Criticism of migration… - https://twitter.com/DevenneySDP/status/1166075587951243264?s=20
3) The Cricket – Ricky Ponting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4AgYG_GRr0&t=79s
4) Sogyal Lakar - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49505098
5) The Environment - Copper Mining in Norway - The World Tonight – Friday.
The Australian – Electronic cars in NSW have a bigger carbon footprint…remember the diesel scandal.
Amazon forest fires -
6) Slave reparations -
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/23/glasgow-university-slave-trade-reparations
7) World News - Purdue Pharma, the opioid maker, and members of the billionaire Sackler family that own the company have offered to settle thousands of lawsuits against the company for $10bn to $12bn, according to people briefed on the offer.
8) Piers Morgan -
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/HlDct_2wJXI?&start=2549&end=2696&rel=0&autoplay=1
9) Transgender Agenda - Kansas Library - https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/kansas-library-board-divided-over-banning-pedophiles-from-reading-to-kids/
Nicholas Gareth Morgan – Rugby - https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/49298550
10) Welsh Pride -
11) Aneurin Bevin –
12) Claire Smith – the dance -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=218&v=IGXgk0eYRZI
Quote of the Week:
Isaiah 40:31 but those who hope in the Lord shall renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint” Inscribed on Marnus Labuschagne’s bat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZo6_rgklxc&feature=youtu.be
May the Peoples praise….
Friday Aug 23, 2019
Friday Aug 23, 2019
1) John Lennon – Gimme Some Truth….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma1y8pN9ryA
2) ABC and Abortion….
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/bbc-reporter-stunned-as-top-us-abortionist-admits-he-kills-babies
3) Students going to Uni - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/property-and-architecture/goes-inside-londons-super-swanky-37000-a-year-university-halls/
7 of Australias main universitites are responsible for foreign students –https://www.sbs.com.au/news/over-reliance-on-chinese-students-putting-australian-universities-at-risk-report-warns
4) The Vegan Islamaphobe…. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/17/gcse-student-disqualified-zealous-examiner-mistook-vegetarianism/
5) Greta’s Song - https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/08/in-praise-of-the-bands-that-said-no-to-greta-thunberg/ the 1975 – the first 90 secs to human beings have not failed…
6) World News –
Papua New Guinea – over 500,000 civilians have been killed by Indonesias military….
Chinese Catholics - https://christianpost.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9ea99443ca7a7b6c9c7b37948&id=848d3d34d4&e=38b40306c7
5) PragerU Ten Commandments videos – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKsvLpJxVTA
6) The Christian Chess Champion - https://world.wng.org/2019/08/life_after_chess?fbclid=IwAR034tTnnLP3VUUEqjKf-9HPQtoKYlKJjjSnICy0tzBhQRlKotS1kMu5k6g
My goal is to try to realize my maximum potential, my God-given talent, which is chess.’ —Aleksandr Lenderma
7) Same Sex Songs of Praise - https://www.premier.org.uk/News/UK/Songs-of-Praise-features-same-sex-wedding
8) Yazidis in Wogga Wogga –https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0007kvl
9) Stephen Colbert – Anderson Cooper - https://twitter.com/johnpauldickson/status/1162675656129306625?s=12
Quote of the day - ‘Thank you to Wayne Allyn Root for the very nice words. “President Trump is the greatest President for Jews... Jewish people in Israel love him like he’s the King of Israel. They love him like he is the second coming of God.”’