Best Kwan Lee Podcasts (2024)

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Meet the authors on the 2024 Miles Franklin shortlist 54:04

41m ago54:04

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'Flabbergasted' and 'surprised' — ahead of the winner announcement, the Miles Franklin shortlisted writers tell you about their books and what it means to be on the shortlist. The Miles Franklin is the most prestigious writing prize in Australia and is awarded to a novel of "the highest literary merit that presents Australian life in any of its pha…

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Offering Something featuring Adam Sidieri 1:20:37

1h ago1:20:37

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Tune in this week with Adam Sidieri! Offering Something with host Michael Bernier features celebrities, local stars, and humans that have an impact. This high energy and fun-loving podcast is engaging and ultra-entertaining. The guests vary from world famous musicians, to professional athletes and accomplished actors, to excelling entrepreneurs, ph…

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Offering Something featuring Maverik and Brianna Milano 1:14:15

5h ago1:14:15

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Get ready for the best laughs in this weeks episode, tune in now! Offering Something with host Michael Bernier features celebrities, local stars, and humans that have an impact. This high energy and fun-loving podcast is engaging and ultra-entertaining. The guests vary from world famous musicians, to professional athletes and accomplished actors, t…

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What I wish I knew before becoming a senior minister - with Jon Kwan and Dave Keun 30:58

1h ago30:58

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What would Dave Keun and Jon Kwan like to tell their younger selves if they could travel back in time before they took on the position of senior minister? How has their sense of ownership changed? What has been most difficult about the transition to the role? What mistakes have they made? Dave Keun has been senior minister of Kellyville Anglican Ch…

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R.O. Kwon's ambitions and desires 54:06

17m ago54:06

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American author R.O. Kwon's novel, Exhibit, explores the taboo topic of female desire; Jenny Ackland exacts feminist revenge in Hurdy Gurdy and Jessie Tu's Honeyeater is a story of translation and miscommunication. Korean-born, American author R.O. Kwon is not afraid of topic topics. She's behind the bestselling 2018 novel The Incendiaries and is c…

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Offering Something featuring Jaypluss and Kold Kwan 1:12:16

5d ago1:12:16

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Tune in this week featuring Jaypluss and Kold Kwan, this episode is so much fun! Offering Something with host Michael Bernier features celebrities, local stars, and humans that have an impact. This high energy and fun-loving podcast is engaging and ultra-entertaining. The guests vary from world famous musicians, to professional athletes and accompl…

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Offering Something featuring Michael Carabello of Santana Band 1:17:56

11d ago1:17:56

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Check out all the laughs with Michael Carabello of Santana Band, you do not want to miss this episode. Offering Something with host Michael Bernier features celebrities, local stars, and humans that have an impact. This high energy and fun-loving podcast is engaging and ultra-entertaining. The guests vary from world famous musicians, to professiona…

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Roadmap to reset Anglican Communion - with Paul Donison and Glenn Davies 31:02

5d ago31:02

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Roadmap for a reset communion - with Paul Donison and Glenn Davies The chair of Gafcon Laurent Mbunda and chair of Global South Justin Badi Arama are to meet to work out a roadmap for the resetting of the Anglican Communion. Global South Anglicans have endorsed the Former Sydney Archbishop Glenn Davies call for the communion to be reset on biblical…

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Writer to writer with Claire G Coleman and Dylan Coleman 54:06

6d ago54:06

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For NAIDOC week, Indigenous speculative fiction author Claire G Coleman chats to Dylan Coleman about her novel Mazin Grace republished as a UQP First Nations Classic. Also, Ali Cobby Eckermann and Graham Akhurst speak about their latest books. Ali Cobby Eckermann is a Yankunytjatjara woman, a member of the stolen generations, and one of Australia's…

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Offering Something featuring Paul from Slightly Stoopid and Juiceman 1:23:25

14d ago1:23:25

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Tune in to Offering Something for amazing laughs and vibes. Do not miss this episode. Offering Something with host Michael Bernier features celebrities, local stars, and humans that have an impact. This high energy and fun-loving podcast is engaging and ultra-entertaining. The guests vary from world famous musicians, to professional athletes and ac…

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How do we diagnose complex problems within our church - with Greg Lee 28:29

12d ago28:29

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All the time in church there are unexpected things happening. We or someone else makes a decision to change something which then relationally or missionally impacts another area of church life that we didn’t expect. Sometimes we put too much attention into one area of church - and now other areas are suffering. Whatever size your church is - the ch…

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Offering Something featuring Dj Deadeye, Vinyl Villain, and Solmaria 1:17:00

14d ago1:17:00

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Tune into this weeks episode with DJ Deadeye and Vinyl Villian. You won't want to miss this one. Offering Something with host Michael Bernier features celebrities, local stars, and humans that have an impact. This high energy and fun-loving podcast is engaging and ultra-entertaining. The guests vary from world famous musicians, to professional athl…

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Bri Lee and Liam Pieper take down celebrity art 54:06

13d ago54:06

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Australian writers Bri Lee and Liam Pieper's latest novels expose the unholy connection between money, art and power. Bri Lee is the author of the bestselling 2018 memoir Eggshell Skull and she's the author of two other works of non-fiction, Who Gets to Be Smart and Beauty. Her debut novel The Work is about two characters who represent old and new …

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Ministry families and adopting and foster care - with Sarah and Mat Yeo and Matthew Wilcoxen 28:06

19d ago28:06

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How do you balance the instability and chaos of external ministry with adding a foster child or adopted child to a ministry family? What are the implications of taking children in crisis into the ministry home? What motivates ministry families to become foster parents or to adopt? How do older children and the church respond? Sarah and Mat Yeo serv…

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Offering Something featuring Looper Lee Ross 1:18:40

19d ago1:18:40

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Tune in this week for laughs and fun with Lee Ross. This episode will leave you smiling. Offering Something with host Michael Bernier features celebrities, local stars, and humans that have an impact. This high energy and fun-loving podcast is engaging and ultra-entertaining. The guests vary from world famous musicians, to professional athletes and…

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Kevin Kwan wrote a book about weddings, just don't invite him to one 54:06

24d ago54:06

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Weddings of the ultra-rich get the Kevin Kwan treatment in his novel Lies and Weddings, Siang Lu's ambitious and complicated novel Ghost Cities and West Australian author Annie de Monchaux's surprising link to Hollywood. Kevin Kwan is the author behind the juggernaut trilogy that began with Crazy Rich Asians which explored the lives of the ultra-ul…

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Offering Something featuring Andrew Mutty of Beantown Greentown and JP Horrigan of Netflix The Society 1:44:45

25d ago1:44:45

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Tune into Offering Something. This week is loaded with information and laughs! Offering Something with host Michael Bernier features celebrities, local stars, and humans that have an impact. This high energy and fun-loving podcast is engaging and ultra-entertaining. The guests vary from world famous musicians, to professional athletes and accomplis…

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Offering Something featuring Boston Red Sox Sam Horn and New England Patriot Max Lane 1:14:43

28d ago1:14:43

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This episode is packed with laughs and information from the Boston Red Sox and New England Patriots. Offering Something with host Michael Bernier features celebrities, local stars, and humans that have an impact. This high energy and fun-loving podcast is engaging and ultra-entertaining. The guests vary from world famous musicians, to professional …

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Acting like men? - with Phillip Jensen, Craig Hamilton, Adrian Russell and Robin Kinstead 30:30

25d ago30:30

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What is it to be #likeaman? There are not many places in the New Testament where men are spoken to specifically. Today we are thinking about being a Christian man. In the ESV and NASB the translation of 1 Corinthians 16:13 has ‘Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong’. (ESV) But what does that mean? Dominic Steele put that que…

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Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch and his fear of mediocrity 54:06

28d ago54:06

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Two authors at the top of their game: Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch reveals how his award winning novel Prophet Song came into being and Booker longlisted author Karen Jennings' complicated love letter to South Africa. The Irish writer Paul Lynch is the reigning Booker winner and won the prize for his beautiful, brutal fifth novel Prophet Song. It…

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Offering Something featuring Veterans Northeast Outreach Center and CNA Stores 1:24:59

1M ago1:24:59

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Tune into Offering Something with the great people of VNOC of Haverhill, MA and CNA stores...This episode is filled with great information! Offering Something with host Michael Bernier features celebrities, local stars, and humans that have an impact. This high energy and fun-loving podcast is engaging and ultra-entertaining. The guests vary from w…

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Strategies to increase the retention of the children of members - with Al James 26:16

1M ago26:16

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There are three different ways that the adult population of churches can grow: Adults being saved. Christians transferring from another congregation within your denomination of switching from another denomination. Children of members growing up in the church and taking on their parents faith for themselves. Most evangelical churches - even growing …

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Jeanette Winterson and Kate Grenville on the gift of writing 54:35

1M ago54:35

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Jeanette Winterson asks how AI will give new meaning to ghost stories and Kate Grenville reflects on a lifetime of writing and how accepting failure has been key to her success. Jeanette Winterson is best known for her novels Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, The Stone Gods and Frankissstein. Her long fascination with mortality, religion and technolo…

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Offering Something featuring Peter and Meghan of Pomodori NBPT 1:19:06

1M ago1:19:06

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Tune into Offering Something featuring Peter Nikolakopoulus, owner of Pomodori, Newburyport, and Meghan Folan of Beefie Boys food truck. This episode is absolutely hilarious. Connect with Offering Something NOW! Instagram: @offering.something Youtube: @enjoymichaelbernier Offering Something is sponsored by the good people at... Enjoy Your Life Bran…

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What morality should we teach artificial intelligence? - with Stephen Driscoll 24:37

1M ago24:37

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A new massive ethical question has risen up with the advent of artificial intelligence. How will people decide what kind of morality to give to their artificial intelligence creations? There will need to be a morality. But what should it be? The market is already making different choices. Elon Musk has said he wants the AI behind X (formerly Twitte…

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Celeste Ng — "Every one of my books starts with a question" 54:23

1M ago54:23

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American author Celeste Ng shares how her latest novel Our Missing Hearts explores one of her deepest fears. Celeste Ng is known for her dark realist novels, Everything I Never Told You, and Little Fires Everywhere (which was adapted to the screen in 2020). Our Missing Hearts is set in a dystopian, near future America, where anti-Asian sentiment ha…

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Getting high quality preaching from trainee ministers - with Toby Neal 28:05

2M ago28:05

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How can a senior minister best train junior preachers (student ministers and assistant ministers) in preaching? There’s a tension we all feel: we want to be a training church raising up the next generation of leaders and yet we also want to make sure that the quality of what happens in our gatherings is high. We don’t want a Sunday morning ‘plane c…

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Shankari Chandran, Stuart Turton and Julie Janson on refuge, failure and outlaws 54:06

2M ago54:06

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Shankari Chandran's follow up to her Miles Franklin award winning book, British author Stuart Turton's complicated murder mystery and Julie Janson's ironically named novel Compassion. Shankari Chandran won the 2023 Miles Franklin for her novel Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. Her new novel Safe Haven asks readers to confront the reality of Australia'…

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The traumatic implications of artificial intelligence - with Stephen Driscoll 29:51

2M ago29:51

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Artificial Intelligence is an oncoming tsunami that will catch all of humanity off guard. It is a change more like a wheel than a typewriter. But what will this do to our sense of self? Stephen Driscoll, in ‘Made in our Image - God, artificial intelligence and you’ says artificial intelligence may do great harm - giving more power to sinful people,…

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Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn sequel 37:10

2M ago37:10

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One of Colm Toibin's most beloved books is Brooklyn and now he's written a sequel, Long Island. Brooklyn was first published in 2009 and it's about Eilis, a young woman who leaves Ireland for America in the 1950s. It was longlisted for the Booker Prize, won the Costa Novel Award and was adapted to the screen in 2015. Now there's a sequel, called Lo…

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Banned Books 05: Censorship in Iran 19:55

2M ago19:55

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Iran's Kafka like book censorship is causing authors to flee, including writer Shokoofeh Azar who now lives in Australia. Banned Books is a new series that looks at what's driving book bans worldwide. In this last episode, writer Shokoofeh Azar who now lives in Australia and is the author of The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree which is banned i…

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‘The hardest talk I’ve ever given: Loving God’ - with Ray Galea 27:26

2M ago27:26

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‘God wants all of me to love all of God all the time’ says Senior Pastor of Fellowship Dubai, Ray Galea. We want our staff and leaders to live and serve in ministry out of an overflow of the love of God for them. Grasping this love properly lifts our service from duty to desire. As pastors we are so committed and focused on encouraging our congrega…

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Percival Everett reimagines Huckleberry Finn 28:29

2M ago28:29

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Percival Everett, a prolific author known for his versatility across various genres and styles, reinterprets an American classic novel. Percival Everett, a prolific author known for his versatility across various genres and styles, reinterprets the American classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, James, (Pan Macmillan) shifts the focus to Huck's en…

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Banned Books 04: USA's most banned book in Australia 26:49

2M ago26:49

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Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe is the most banned book in the USA and now it's being challenged in the courts in Australia. Banned Books is a new series that looks at what's driving book bans worldwide. This episode explores Gender Queer, an illustrated memoir which details Maia Kobabe's experience of coming out as non-binary and asexual. The book has…

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Val McDermid and Jonathan Seidler on ancient queens and modern love 41:46

2M ago41:46

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Crime writer Val McDermid investigates Scotland's most famous female character to reveal a very different Lady Macbeth. And Sydney writer Jonathon Seidler delves into the story beyond the happy ending and how breakups can define a relationship. Crime writer Val McDermid investigates Scotland’s most famous female character to reveal a very different…

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Banned Books 03: Homoerotic fiction in China 18:24

2M ago18:24

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Webfiction is a gargantuan platform for writers in China but authors of male to male fiction - known as the danmei or boyslove genre - are experiencing a censorship crackdown and some writers have been imprisoned for their writing. This episode is about Occupied by Tianyi – a boyslove/danmei novel whose author was sentenced to 10 years jail in Chin…

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Pod extra — Alexis Wright wins a second Stella Prize 19:49

2M ago19:49

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Alexis Wright has won the 2024 Stella Prize, for her novel, Praiseworthy. The novel is an Aboriginal fable, about a fictional town, a haze cloud, a haze cloud, land rights, global warming, and donkeys. Judges described Praiseworthy as 'genre-bending' and 'canon-breaking'. Alexis Wright previously won the Stella in 2018 for her non-fiction collectiv…

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Inside the ‘Compelled to Resist’ movement in the Church of England - with Charlie Skrine 31:01

3M ago31:01

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“It may be that God is destroying the Church of England and who am I to stand in his way? “The real tragedy would be if, in this traumatic, confusing time, if all of the evangelicals and the broader Orthodox group fall out with each other… if we can bear with each other in our different strategies, then that will be what we need (in whatever the fu…

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Plans for Your Good: A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness - with Akos Balogh 22:27

3M ago22:27

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Australia’s former Prime Minister Scott Morrison releases a new autobiography this week where he speaks explicitly about his Christian faith, and there’s a bible quote on almost every page. Akos Balogh of Blue Fox Media joins Dominic Steele to review Mr Morrison’s new book where the former Prime Minister writes of wrestling with whether to study at…

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