Jacques and Greg talk about the Department of Basic Education’s intention to strengthen the comprehensive sex education curriculum, and the fearmongering that has provoked amongst [some of] the religious right.
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Comprehensive sex education: the kids are all right
Greg and Jacques talk about consent, how kids are more sexually active [and aware] than most fear-mongers acknowledge, and how communication between parents and kids is vital.
Blasphemy at Grantleigh, and religious privilege
Greg and Jacques talk about the recent outrage regarding “blasphemy” at a Curro school, where a final-year student depicted Jesus [and/or God] as Ronald McDonald.
Rugby World Cup, transformation, and the hopes of a nation
Greg and Jacques talk about rugby [which Jacques knows little of], home advantage in sport, and whether the “Rainbow Nation” has been reincarnated.
Marching for change: gender-based violence
In this episode, Greg and Jacques talk about whether it makes any [practical] difference when people take to the streets to protest against outrages like gender-based violence. Musical interludes are edits of Soixante-8 by Obsibilo (under Creative Commons license 3.0) https://media.blubrry.com/squarebrackets/p/squarebrackets.co.za/audio/GBV_protest_final.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 29:05 — 33.3MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | […]
The threat of Greta Thunberg [and climate change]
This episode is about Greta Thunberg, who is managing to annoy many people [including some who agree with her] with her activism on the topic of global warming.
Spanking, the nanny state, and a little god
Does the ConCourt judgment that parents can’t spank their children violate religious and other freedoms?
Assisted dying, autonomy and possible abuse of the right to die
Greg and Jacques talk about the power of myth in relation to the perceived value of life, and whether the right to die is open to abuse for personal [or State] gain.
Assisted dying and Sean Davison
Greg and Jacques talk about assisted dying, and the case of Sean Davison, recently sentenced to 8 years of house arrest (with 5 years suspended) for his assistance in the deaths of 3 individuals.
Babelfish interviews Jacques Rousseau
Kirstine Kærn of the Babelfish podcast in conversation with Jacques Rousseau, who was never a Methodist minister [but who nearly became a different sort of priest].