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Sunday Morning: with Connie McLaughlin

02/02/2020

with Connie McLaughlin

BBC Radio Scotland - Sunday Morning, with Connie McLaughlin

Marking Easter Sunday by exploring the value of hope, redemption and human friendships.

Marking Easter Sunday by discussing the value of hope and human friendships. Plus the powerful redemptive story of a former prisoner who now preaches to inmates around the world.

Protests and police brutality are on the rise in Myanmar but what are the historic reasons for the unrest and what obligation does the rest of the world have regarding intervention? Connie talks to human rights defender Aung Kyaw Moe about the current situation and where his country is heading.

Actress Abbie Purvis was born with Achondroplasia, a disorder of bone growth, and has found the world judges her on her looks not on her talent. Abbie joins Connie to discuss the struggles she has faced and how her Christian faith has given her a renewed purpose in life. 

What constitutes a true friend? Connie talks to Professor Robin Dunbar, author of Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships and theologian Gina Menzies about the power lasting friendships play in our lives and their fundamental importance to our health and well-being. 

One of the enduring messages of Easter is hope but how do we stop ourselves from falling into hopelessness in a world full of existential threats like climate change and COVID 19? Dr Rebecca Ford from the University of Strathclyde, poet and performer Leyla Josephine and theologian Gina Menzies join Connie to discuss how to sustain hope in the face of a crisis.

John Lawson’s life was a spiral of violence and brutality until he ended up sentenced to five and a half years in Glenochil prison. But a chance Bible studies meeting turned his life on its head. He tells Connie how he went from a life of crime to preaching God’s message to prisoners in some of the toughest prisons in the world.

The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Passion Of The Christ, Jesus Christ Superstar - the Easter story has been told multiple times in film throughout the history of cinema. But which ones hit or miss the mark? Glasgow Film Theatre’s Paul Gallagher examines the good, the bad and the ugly representations of Jesus’ life.

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