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#6 - Sam Burrows: Scientific and Religious Dogmas

In this episode we discuss religious and scientific dogmas. Our guys is Sam Burrows, who is currently a lecturer at Laidlaw College in Auckland where he teaches a mixture of theology and education papers. He is currently completing his masters in theology with a special interest in the way people understand meaning for themselves.

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#11 Jeff Thomson - New Zealand artist and sculptor

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#9 - Maria Armoudian - The Armenian Genocide

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#7 - Paul Gilberd: The New Zealand Housing Crisis: Part 1

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#3 - Zephyr Brown - Green Party - NZ 2020

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In this episode Zephyr Brown from the NZ Green Party kindly takes some time to talk about some of the issues and policies around the 2020 NZ election and referendums - Including the environment and the economy.