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Towards Understanding

Towards Understanding is a full-length feature interview radio program hosted by Clayton Bjelan. The show contains a mix of interviews based around the understanding and living out of Christian faith and those just doing remarkable things in our world. It focuses on three key groups of people - The Known, The Overcomer and The Unknown. 89.9 | TheLight | PositiveMedia | LightFM | Melbourne

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42:58

J. Warner Wallace

Towards Understanding ·

2025/04/01

J. Warner Wallace is a Cold-Case Detective, Author, Speaker, Senior Fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, and Adjunct Professor of Apologetics at Talbot School of Theology, Gateway Seminary, and Southern Evangelical Seminary. Clayton chatted with Jim about his recently updated book, Cold-Case Christianity, in which he shares his story of being a devout atheist who couldn't imagine believing in the Christian faith-until he applied the same step-by-step investigative process he utilised

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23:24

Graham Jenke - honorary member of the Redback...

Towards Understanding ·

2025/04/01

In 2008, Lutheran pastor Graham Jenke met a group of bikers in a South Australian Hotel. He’s now spent over a decade sharing the gospel as an honorary member of the Redback Motorcycle Club. He shares his story with Clayton.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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31:42

Investigator V – International Justic Mission

Towards Understanding ·

2025/03/19

This week, Clayton chats to a man whose name we can’t even use… Working for the International Justice Mission… “Investigator V” spends years building cases against slave traffickers to enable governments around the world to provide true justice to those without a voice…See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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34:26

Ray Comfort - Author of Why Jesus?

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2025/03/16

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18:07

Josh McDowell - Author of Set Free to Choose Right

Towards Understanding ·

2025/03/12

Josh McDowell joins Clayton. He has authored 150 books in 128 languages, his latest is about equipping our kids to make great moral choices for life – Set Free To Choose Right. “Every Christian kid I meet will tell me what is right and what is wrong…but what almost none of them can tell me is, why is it right or why is it wrong.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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39:33

Ittay Flescher - The Holy and the Broken

Towards Understanding ·

2025/03/09

Clayton welcomed Ittay Flescher into the studio during a recent visit to Melbourne. Ittay is the Education Director at Kids4Peace Jerusalem, an interfaith movement for Israelis and Palestinians, which is a program of Seeds of Peace. He is also the Jerusalem correspondent for Melbourne’s Jewish Independent and co-host of the podcast From the Yarra River to the Mediterranean Sea. For more resources on how those in Australia & NZ can promote peace check out ittay.auSee omnystudio.com/listener

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28:07

Bonnie Hancock - Athlete & author of The Girl who...

Towards Understanding ·

2025/03/02

Bonnie Hancock completed a gruelling 12,700-kilometre journey around Australia solo in a surf ski, becoming the fastest ever paddler to circumnavigate the continent, the first Australian woman to circumnavigate the continent by paddle, and the youngest person to do so. She chatted with Clayton about how shark & croc encounters and the resilience needed in a team to achieve a feat such as this. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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18:15

Peggy Grande - EA to Ronald Reagan

Towards Understanding ·

2025/02/26

What is it like sitting outside the office of a US President?Peggy Grande,EA to Ronald Reagan, joins Clayton to talk all things politics.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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43:54

Sean Turnell - An Unlikely Prisoner

Towards Understanding ·

2025/02/23

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29:21

Dr Colin Perry Podcast

Towards Understanding ·

2025/02/19

How would your life change if you died today, but God offered you the chance to come back to earth? Hear Colin Perry’s story.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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39:59

Strahan Coleman - Author of Thirsting

Towards Understanding ·

2025/02/16

Strahan Coleman is a writer, poet, and musician living in New Zealand. Through years of chronic illness, Strahan discovered a friendship with God filled with vulnerability, honesty and unceasing prayer, and now spends his time teaching and providing spaces of deep, rich, Spirit-led prayer for others. He joined Clayton to talk about his latest work, Thirsting: Quenching Our Soul’s Deepest Desire.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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25:18

Amy Kurravilla Podcast

Towards Understanding ·

2025/02/14

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32:06

Dr Gary Chapman - Author of 5 Love Languages

Towards Understanding ·

2025/02/09

In the lead up to Valentine's Day, Clayton had a chat to Dr Gary Chapman, who has recently re-released his book 5 Love Languages, which is famous world-wide both in the church and marketplace. Thanks to Dr Chapman, 'love language' has become a popular catch phrase around the world! Hear Gary share with Clayton about the love-languages and their relevance to marriage, family and workplace relationships.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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33:58

Anne Hegerty

Towards Understanding ·

2025/02/05

Anne Hegerty, star of quiz shows The Chase, has a chat with Clayton about living with Asperger’s syndrome and how this influences her Christian faith intellectually rather than emotionally.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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37:29

John Dickson: Australian Historian

Towards Understanding ·

2025/02/02

Aussie historian John Dickson had a chat to Clayton about his move to America and the influence he expects to have over there with his work as an author, speaker, historian, and media presenter. John specialises in understanding the historical Jesus and history as related to Christianity.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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45:07

David Bennett – Author of ‘A War on Loves’

Towards Understanding ·

2024/12/18

David Bennett, author of ‘A War on Loves’ shares his story on being a gay activist discovering Jesus.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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26:09

Julia Baird - Author and Journalist

Towards Understanding ·

2024/12/15

Julia is a well-known author and journalist and she chatted to Clayton about her newest book - Bright Shining - and what grace looks like in our world, and how we recognise it, nurture it in ourselves and express it, even in the darkest of times. Julia comes from a family that has had a high public profile in Australian life - with a father and brother in NSW politics and herself in news and journalism.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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29:12

Jean Paul Samputu Award-winning Ruwandan, musician,...

Towards Understanding ·

2024/12/12

Clayton chats with Jean Paul Samputu, an incredible man who survived the Rwandan genocide and then helped change the country by publicly forgiving the man who killed his father.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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36:10

Helen Taylor - Vice President of Impact for Exodus Cry

Towards Understanding ·

2024/12/08

Helen Taylor, the Vice President of Impact for Exodus Cry, spoke to Clayton about the international organisation committed to abolishing sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. Exodus Cry fights trafficking in three major ways: shifting culture (mostly through film and media); launching viral advocacy campaigns, such as the global #Traffickinghub movement to hold Pornhub accountable; and reaching out to victims and survivors of sexual exploitation, providing direct assistance and trauma

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16:11

Joni Erickson Tada - Quadriplegic

Towards Understanding ·

2024/12/04

A quadriplegic since the age of 16 from a diving accident, Joni Erickson Tada has been an inspiration for millions around the world as she shares her struggles and faith in God.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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