Richard Johnson Lectures

About Richard Johnson Lectures

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.

Publisher

Centre for Public Christianity

Category

religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Aug 2022

Latest episode

24 Oct 2025

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Oct 2025

   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 politics make bitterness the last real human emotion. He offers an antidote: imagination, re-enchantment, reconnecting with God, and human lives committed to doing the little things of the everyday. --- Stan is a public intellectual, writer, journalist, and, latterly, theologian. He has over 30 years of experience in radio, television, and current affairs, including as a foreign correspondent for CNN and the ABC. As a proud Wiradjuri man, Stan has grappled, publicly, and movingly, with the ongoing legacy of dispossession in Australia and the challenges faced by Aboriginal Australians. His lectures, books, and columns reveal an astonishing array of references, all delivered with poetic insight. These days, he is a distinguished professor at Charles Sturt University, and you can catch his columns in The Saturday Paper. His latest book is Murriyang: Song of Time. --- Check out CPX’s other podcast, Life and Faith (https://cpx.podbean.com/), a weekly conversation about the beauty and complexity of belief in the 21st century. If you’d like to know more about CPX, our website is publicchristianity.org (https://publicchristianity.org/)

2. 

   24 Oct 2025

   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 last real human emotion. He offers an antidote: imagination, re-enchantment, reconnecting with God, and human lives committed to doing the little things of the everyday. --- Stan is a public intellectual, writer, journalist, and, latterly, theologian. He has over 30 years of experience in radio, television, and current affairs, including as a foreign correspondent for CNN and the ABC. As a proud Wiradjuri man, Stan has grappled, publicly, and movingly, with the ongoing legacy of dispossession in Australia and the challenges faced by Aboriginal Australians. His lectures, books, and columns reveal an astonishing array of references, all delivered with poetic insight. These days, he is a distinguished professor at Charles Sturt University, and you can catch his columns in The Saturday Paper. His latest book is Murriyang: Song of Time. --- Check out CPX’s other podcast, Life and Faith (https://cpx.podbean.com/), a weekly conversation about the beauty and complexity of belief in the 21st century. If you’d like to know more about CPX, our website is publicchristianity.org (https://publicchristianity.org/)

3. 

   18 Nov 2024

   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 crisis unprecedented in human history, Tim points to the critical need for solidarity - with the earth, our home, and with each other. Tim’s literary career spans 40 years and 30 books for adults and younger readers. His books have been translated into 29 languages and won numerous awards including the Miles Franklin Literary Award four times and he has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Tim is also the writer, narrator, and executive producer of the nature documentary series Ningaloo that screened around the world in 2023. Tim lives in Western Australia. --- Check out CPX’s other podcast, Life and Faith (https://cpx.podbean.com/), a weekly conversation about the beauty and complexity of belief in the 21st century. If you’d like to know more about CPX, our website is publicchristianity.org (https://publicchristianity.org/)

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