Bleeding Daylight

Are science and faith really at odds? Richard Krauland spent more than 40 years unsure about God and for a time called himself an atheist. In 1994, a night spent reading the Gospel of Matthew changed his mind, his heart and his behaviour. He went on to lead a billion-dollar-plus company while living with lifelong illness and surviving a car accident that left him temporarily paralysed from the neck down.

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Brian Gray's story doesn't follow a tidy redemption arc. Told at just four years old to "go fight your own battles," he spent the next decades doing exactly that, spiralling into addiction by fifteen, a broken marriage, and eventually five years in prison. It was on a beach in Hawaii, charging at a man with a shotgun and begging to be shot, that everything changed. Brian shares the raw, unflinching details of that pivotal moment an...

Michael Dittman builds telescopes for NASA by day and has spent the last nine years processing a decade of chronic pain, a shattered family and his daughter's four overdoses into a story of hard-won redemption. In this conversation he talks candidly about the gap between knowing the right theological answers and actually experiencing the delight of an intimate relationship with Jesus, tracing how thirty years of striving, shame and...

Jason Tatlock grew up as a pastor's kid before spending thirteen years in academia, eventually earning a PhD studying ancient Israel. Alongside his wife Krista, he now co-leads King on a Hill Ministries, shepherding pastors across India, Uganda, Pakistan and Kenya, and has recently released a new devotional called With. In this conversation, Jason talks about how his scholarly love of the ancient world and biblical languages deepen...

Dr David Pendergrass is a pastor, biblical scholar and pastoral counsellor with a PhD in historical theology, and in this episode he talks with Rodney Olsen with striking honesty about the doubt that has shaped nearly 30 years of ministry. David shares the story of his dramatic call to ministry as a teenager, then walks through the two seasons in his life when he walked away from faith intellectually, driven by a deep fear of being...

Brett Knight has spent his career standing in the space between justice and grace. A former criminal defence attorney who later became an ordained pastor and author, Brett has watched the drug epidemic up close from both sides of the courtroom. In this conversation with Rodney Olsen, he traces his own faith journey from head knowledge to a genuine relationship with Christ, and shares the pivotal moment as a prosecutor when he asked...

Michelle Konson built what looked like a picture-perfect life: a career as a corporate attorney in South Africa, a loving marriage, and four children. But underneath the surface, she was quietly unravelling, using survival strategies she'd developed as a child to try to control a world that no longer responded to control. In this honest conversation, Michelle traces her path from unrecognised childhood patterns to a genuine reckoni...

Garvin Antoine grew up in Trinidad in a home marked by poverty, an alcoholic father and very little guidance about what life ahead would demand of him. It wasn't until he was much older that he learned his father had been thrust onto the streets at just ten years of age, a discovery that dissolved years of bitterness in a single conversation. Around the same time, Garvin discovered he had twin brothers he'd never known existed, a r...

Jodi Cowles has lived more than half her adult life outside her homeland, working across seven countries and three continents as an author, publisher and entrepreneur. In this episode of Bleeding Daylight, she talks candidly about growing up with what she calls a "flannel graph" version of Jesus, a one-dimensional God who couldn't hold up against grief, doubt and real life questions. Jodi shares how the death of her young brother, ...

Moriah Hagel is an author, speaker and co-founder of the Seasons Young Adults Conference. Her journey into writing began not with a plan of her own but with a Bible study on a college campus where she felt anything but settled. In this episode, she traces the path from that first unplanned teaching moment through to her three books, First and Forever: Singleness in Ephesians, Alignment: God's Will or Mine, and her latest release, T...

Matthew Wingo left a high-flying corporate career to pour his life into helping men find freedom from the patterns that once controlled him. In this episode, he takes us through the shattering of two marriages, the "hidden orchard" of secrets he tended in the dark, and the moment a 12-step recovery programme helped him finally connect the dots of his own story. With honesty and humour, Matthew talks about shame, obedience, and the ...

David Small's life reads like a movie script. He grew up dreaming of coaching ice hockey, worked as director of hockey operations for Team Canada West, and scouted for the Los Angeles Kings, before spending over a decade with the Free Burma Rangers in one of the world's most forgotten wars. He's walked through minefields, been bombed and mortared, and written a bestselling book, Nameless Faceless People: Ten Years with the Free Bur...

In 2008, host Rodney Olsen travelled to Haiti with a group of Australian radio presenters, including Az Hamilton, on a trip organised through Compassion Australia to witness their work releasing children from poverty. What began as an eye-opening visit to local projects quickly turned into a fight for survival as food riots erupted across Port-au-Prince, trapping the group between barricades, armed mobs and gunfire-like explosions ...

Sheila Krygsheld has spent years helping everyday Christians move from simply believing to truly understanding why they believe. A former college religion professor, wife, mum and grandmother of six, Sheila is the author of What Makes You Say That? How to Study What You Believe So You Can Share It with Others. Her journey into apologetics began not in a classroom, but in crisis, when her daughter's traumatic brain injury forced her...

Jim Burgoon is a speaker, author, certified leadership coach, military veteran, former pastor and host of the Unshakeable Life podcast. Behind those titles is a man who has lived through childhood trauma, complex PTSD, chronic illness and devastating loss, including the deaths of his mother and sister within six months of each other and his wife's suicide attempt soon after. In this conversation, Jim shares how he moved from believ...

Robert Ruesch has been putting words to paper since the mid-1960s, but nothing prepared him for the story he'd one day write with his daughter. Growing up at the world's largest YMCA resort in the Colorado Rockies, surrounded by college professors, world travellers and breathtaking mountain views, Robert's love of storytelling took root early, sparked by a school bully and a creative writing class years later. He went on to become ...

We live in the most connected era in human history, yet loneliness has become a defining crisis of our time. In this episode, Rodney sits down with Keith Spurgin, international speaker, church planter, and author of Unknown: Finding Connection in a Disconnected World, to get to the heart of why genuine community is so hard to find and even harder to build. Keith traces his own story from a childhood encounter with Jesus on a farm, ...

Gary Janzen grew up in a construction family with an expected future mapped out for him, but God had very different plans. From managing a sporting goods store to pastoring youth, taking teenagers to Mexico for eleven summers, and eventually ministering in Rwandan orphanages still raw from the wounds of genocide, Gary's journey is marked by a willingness to say yes to God at every turn. He shares how a young Rwandan man named Jacks...

Dr Mike Ayers grew up without a present or affirming father, but instead of repeating that cycle, he dedicated decades of his life to understanding what intentional fatherhood actually looks like. Drawing on his background as a researcher, a pastor of 25 years, and a dad of three, Mike shares the framework behind his upcoming book Father Friend,  a research-backed guide built around seven core competencies to help dads show up...