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MANNACAST: Manna Gum's Podcast series
Conversations about a vision of life that is truly good news for us, for our neighbours, and for the world. On the MannaCast we discuss the intersection of Christian faith, ecology, and economics.
AUDIO: Rethinking Prosperity
Jonathan Cornford is interviewed by Meredith Lake on ABC Radio National's Soul Search program.
"How much stuff is too much? It's a question rarely asked here in the 'Lucky Country', but it has become central to the life of Jonathan Cornford, a political economist and theologian exploring new ways of thinking about money and consumption."
VIDEO: Towards a Downshifting Economy
Jonathan Cornford, public lecture at the Southern Cross Community Church, 4 June 2023. This lecture is an exercise in new political imagination, arguing that downshifting the Australian economy to a lower consumption, higher well-being model is not only desirable but also well within reach.
AUDIO: Seeking the Simple Life
Jonathan Cornford is interviewed by Meredith Lake on ABC Radio National's Soul Search program. They discuss place, ecology, household economics, simple living and Christian community.
VIDEO: The Gospel in a Consumer Culture
Jonathan Cornford, ‘Faith-Thinking’ Public Lecture, 14 August 2019, Whitley College, beginning with Rev Simon Holt launching Coming Home: Discipleship, Ecology and Everyday Economics.
VIDEO: Kingdom Gardeners
Kingdom Gardeners – Faith, environment and mission (an event hosted by A Rocha and Interserve Australia, June 2019)
VIDEO: Our Place
This short video was made for the Tearfund staff day in 2021. The Cornford family reflect upon how they think about their home as a site for God’s work of healing and restoration.
AUDIO: What is overseas aid worth?
Listen to a discussion on ABC Radio National's Big Ideas program between Anglican Archbishop, Dr Philip Freier, Jonathan Cornford from Manna Gum, and Valerie Browning, an Australian-born midwife who has lived in the Horn of Africa for 35 years. (7 Jun 2012)
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