for KING & COUNTRY singer Joel Smallbone talks about Drummer Boy, the Revolutionary War musical he co-directed with his brother Ben, in New Zealand cinemas from 13 November.
Mr Smallbone reflects on eight years of setbacks, from a studio pitch derailed by the pandemic to cutting a song he loved, and explains how a film about two brothers on opposite sides of the battlefield helped him and Ben rebuild trust after drifting apart. He unpacks the film’s message that forgiveness is revolutionary, exploring characters who are outwardly free but inwardly enslaved, and argues its themes of identity and being all one in Christ come through naturally rather than feeling preachy.
Chapters
0:41 What is Drummer Boy?
1:48 Premiere night in Auckland
2:40 A film of failures
4:45 The cast & the song that got cut
6:31 Stepping in front of the camera
9:20 Forgiveness is revolutionary
10:50 Faith in the 1700s
12:13 A promise to musical sceptics
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Mountain of Hope: Fundraising at the Summit
Orphans Aid International’s Sue Van Schreven reflects on 22 years of caring for vulnerable children. One of them is the first girl to come into the charity’s Romanian home in 2004. She was abandoned in a hospital as a baby and is now married with a family of her own.
Sue looks back on Mountain of Hope, the documentary that follows a team of 15 up Mount Kilimanjaro to mark the charity’s 15th anniversary, with a stop at its Imuka family strengthening project along the way. She also gives an update from Nepal, where flooding has left extended families caring for orphaned children. As the focus moves from emergency aid to long-term rebuilding, she warns that the trafficking of girls and boys is now the region’s biggest threat.
Chapters
0:00 Orphans Aid International turns 22
0:45 First children now raising families
1:51 Changing a child’s destiny
3:19 The Mountain of Hope documentary
4:43 Visiting the family strengthening project
5:48 Update from Nepal
6:02 Helping families after the floods
7:11 Wraparound care & the trafficking threat
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Sue looks back on Mountain of Hope, the documentary that follows a team of 15 up Mount Kilimanjaro to mark the charity’s 15th anniversary, with a stop at its Imuka family strengthening project along the way. She also gives an update from Nepal, where flooding has left extended families caring for orphaned children. As the focus moves from emergency aid to long-term rebuilding, she warns that the trafficking of girls and boys is now the region’s biggest threat.
Chapters
0:00 Orphans Aid International turns 22
0:45 First children now raising families
1:51 Changing a child’s destiny
3:19 The Mountain of Hope documentary
4:43 Visiting the family strengthening project
5:48 Update from Nepal
6:02 Helping families after the floods
7:11 Wraparound care & the trafficking threat
#OrphanCare #Nepal #HumanTrafficking #Kilimanjaro #Romania
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Is Human Worth Just a Spreadsheet Calculation?
Brendan Malone joins Andrew Curtis to unpack a US genetic screening company’s claim that it can now test IVF embryos for a child’s future risk of depression.
Mr Malone warns that what once seemed like dystopian science fiction is being normalised, and argues that this kind of screening revives the logic of eugenics, a movement he says rebranded rather than disappeared after Nazism. He contrasts a utilitarian view of human worth with the Christian conviction that every person bears the image of God, drawing on C.S. Lewis’s warning about science without moral restraint and highlighting how AI could amplify the problem. He also questions whether depression can be reduced to genetics at all, pointing to a crisis of meaning and the breakdown of family and community as deeper causes.
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0:13 Screening embryos for depression
1:36 The real history of eugenics
3:43 A world with no room for God
5:15 Image of God vs utility
7:13 Where AI comes in
8:21 Conscience and what depression really is
10:44 What 90s sci-fi predicted
#IVF #Eugenics #Bioethics #HumanDignity #AI
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Click HereMr Malone warns that what once seemed like dystopian science fiction is being normalised, and argues that this kind of screening revives the logic of eugenics, a movement he says rebranded rather than disappeared after Nazism. He contrasts a utilitarian view of human worth with the Christian conviction that every person bears the image of God, drawing on C.S. Lewis’s warning about science without moral restraint and highlighting how AI could amplify the problem. He also questions whether depression can be reduced to genetics at all, pointing to a crisis of meaning and the breakdown of family and community as deeper causes.
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0:13 Screening embryos for depression
1:36 The real history of eugenics
3:43 A world with no room for God
5:15 Image of God vs utility
7:13 Where AI comes in
8:21 Conscience and what depression really is
10:44 What 90s sci-fi predicted
#IVF #Eugenics #Bioethics #HumanDignity #AI
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Gunpowder Plot: The Liberties We Take for Granted
Malcolm Falloon of the New Zealand Christian Network unpacks the history behind the 5th of November, from the 1605 plot to blow up England’s parliament to the 1881 government raid on Parihaka.
Mr Falloon argues Guy Fawkes Night is now best understood as a celebration of hard-won freedoms against tyranny and foreign powers, including the separation of religion and politics. He highlights how Te Whiti and Tohu led Parihaka in peaceful but determined resistance to land confiscation, before government troops arrested its leaders on the same date. Weighing up whether bloodshed is ever required for political change, Mr Falloon points to the sacrifice of Christ rather than revolutionary violence, and suggests that lighting fireworks in an era of government overreach may itself be a quietly subversive act.
Chapters
0:00 Why celebrate Guy Fawkes?
1:10 The 1605 gunpowder plot
3:34 Is bloodshed needed for change?
4:16 Influence on Gandhi and King
5:01 The example of Jesus
7:17 Guy Fawkes or Parihaka?
8:34 Northern hemisphere customs
#Parihaka #GuyFawkes #NewZealandHistory #ChristianFaith #NZ
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Click HereMr Falloon argues Guy Fawkes Night is now best understood as a celebration of hard-won freedoms against tyranny and foreign powers, including the separation of religion and politics. He highlights how Te Whiti and Tohu led Parihaka in peaceful but determined resistance to land confiscation, before government troops arrested its leaders on the same date. Weighing up whether bloodshed is ever required for political change, Mr Falloon points to the sacrifice of Christ rather than revolutionary violence, and suggests that lighting fireworks in an era of government overreach may itself be a quietly subversive act.
Chapters
0:00 Why celebrate Guy Fawkes?
1:10 The 1605 gunpowder plot
3:34 Is bloodshed needed for change?
4:16 Influence on Gandhi and King
5:01 The example of Jesus
7:17 Guy Fawkes or Parihaka?
8:34 Northern hemisphere customs
#Parihaka #GuyFawkes #NewZealandHistory #ChristianFaith #NZ
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