Insight with Karl Faase

Hosted by Karl Faase, Insight delves into the big themes of life, faith, and culture through the power of story. Each conversation opens a window into the experiences of everyday people, leaders, thinkers, and creatives who have navigated life’s challenges and found hope along the way. Rooted in a Christian worldview but open to all, Insight aims to spark thoughtful reflection and encourage deeper engagement with the world around us.

Insight with Karl Faase is a religion podcast hosted by Karl Faase, with 29 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Karl Faase hosts Insight with Karl Faase, a religion show with 29 episodes published.

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  Episode #29

  Katy Faust: From Anonymous Blogger to Global Voice for Kids

  Sep 23, 202633 min

  Katy Faust’s own childhood - her parents’ divorce, split households, and years of quietly people-pleasing the new partners - sits behind the things she now advocates for in public. In this wide-ranging conversation, she traces that story through her conversion to Christianity, the rage that turned her into an accidental activist against gay marriage and the step to start an anonymous blog that attracted a lot of hate. Eventually, her identity was revealed and her greatest fears came true - they went after her family and her church. This is when the elders decided that she should “go big” rather than stop. This was the beginning of her public advocacy - standing against some of the big culture war issues of our day: gay marriage, divorce, abortion, and reproductive technologies on behalf of children. She is the founder of Them Before Us - an organisation that fights for children’s right to their mother and father in courts, culture and legislatures. In this interview, Katy shares her hard-won thoughts on marriage, motherhood, and the cost of telling the truth. About Katy Faust Katy Faust didn’t set out to become an activist. She was a pastor’s wife and stay-at-home mother when cultural conversations around marriage and family began to shift dramatically. As debates intensified, one question kept surfacing. Who is speaking for the children? That question led Katy to launch an anonymous blog defending the rights of children in marriage and family policy. What began as a small online voice quickly gained traction. Within a few years she was writing for national publications, speaking around the world, and eventually founding the global children’s rights movement Them Before Us. Today, Katy is a leading voice in the conversation about marriage, family, and child-centred policy. Key Moments & Highlights - Katy shares her “three staples of a child’s social-emotional diet” - mother’s love, father’s love and stability - The honest admission that as a child she learned to “people please” the new partners entering her parents’ lives, just to keep them close - Why it took her four years after becoming a Christian to "love God with all my mind," especially on sexuality and morality - "I don’t have mums. I have a mother and a father like everybody else" — Katy on why she distinguishes her mother’s partner from her mother - The moment the gay marriage debate made her angry enough to start writing — and why she published anonymously out of fear for her family - Being doxxed by a rival blogger who traced her IP address to her husband’s church, flooding it with fake reviews and SEO attacks - Her church elders’ choice to "go big" rather than ask her to stop, and the trip to Australia — meeting MPs and Millie Fontana — that followed - Walking onto Lateline with Tony Jones on no sleep, after reading a verse from Deuteronomy, in what became the most-watched clip in ABC history - Why she started Them Before Us in 2018 to give children formal representation in courts and legislatures, and the "change hearts, change laws" strategy behind it - Inside This Is a Child, the documentary built from her ARC speech and filmed partly in Australia Find Out More Olive Tree Media: www.olivetreemedia.com.au Watch+ Platform: www.olivetreemedia.com.au/watch Daily Nudge: www.dailynudge.org Special Thanks To Excelsia University College Christian Finance Vision Christian Media

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  Episode #28

  Sheridan Voysey: Learning To Let Go Of A Decade-Long Dream

  Sep 16, 20261h 4m

  How do you learn to let go of a dream - one that you have prayed for, hoped for and worked towards for more than a decade? Sheridan Voysey's story is marked by dreams - some that came to pass, and others that he had to let go of. As he shares his story with Karl, he speaks of his childhood in Queensland, how he started in radio broadcasting and the life he and his wife Merryn built. He then explores the infertility journey they endured, and what it took for them to walk away from a dream and a future they both so desperately longed for. He shares some of the highlights of his career, the low points of his personal life and how God has used both him and Merryn since their move to Oxford (literally, in life-saving ways)! About Sheridan Voysey Sheridan Voysey is the author of nine books, a presenter on BBC Radio 2's Pause for Thought, and the founder of the Friendship Lab, a charity tackling adult loneliness. Born in Brisbane to English parents, he spent the 1990s and 2000s building a career in Australian Christian radio, eventually hosting the nationally syndicated Open House on Hope 103.2 Sydney to audiences of around 100,000 listeners a week. Key Moments & Highlights Growing up the only child of English parents in Brisbane A secret teenage career as a graffiti artist under cover of night His parents' ten-year, ultimately door-slamming break from the Jehovah's Witnesses, sparked by his mother's search for the true identity of Jesus across three different Bibles A cryptic two-week wait for a letter that led him, almost by accident, to discover the Bible college and the radio station he needed were right next door to each other Marrying Merryn and the ten years of "expectation, disappointment" that followed - special diets, healing prayer, IVF, and a two-year wait for a foster placement that never came The devastating Christmas Eve phone call revealing a pregnancy that never was and the decision to leave Australia's "promised land" for an unknown season in Oxford Five years of quiet grief in the UK, rebuilt around two verses in Ephesians and the realisation that his identity had to be rooted somewhere deeper than his career Merryn's key involvement with develoiping the worlds second COVID vaccine at the height of the Pandemic Founding Friendship Lab after a retreat-room conviction that loneliness needed more than another book - it needed a movement to bring the 25% of adults with no close friends down Find Out More Olive Tree Media: www.olivetreemedia.com.au Watch+ Platform: www.olivetreemedia.com.au/watch Daily Nudge: www.dailynudge.org Special Thanks To Excelsia University College Christian Finance Vision Christian Media

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  Episode #27

  Glen Scrivener: It's Not My Life Given to Jesus, It's His Life Given For Me

  Sep 9, 20261h 2m

  Two days after Glen Scrivener prayed a reckless, bravado-filled prayer — “God, if it means knowing you better, then bring on the suffering” — his girlfriend left him, his UK visa was refused, and a long-hidden family secret that would end his parents’ marriage broke into the open, all in the same week. In this vulnerable and insightful conversation, Glen tells the whole strange, funny and painful story of his life, faith, and ministry, and the times when God came and found him. From praying a Gethsemane-style prayer every day as a teenager, to a cricket career that fell just short of an Oxford Blue, to a father whose long-hidden affairs shaped Glen’s own image of God, and the years he and his wife Emma spent walking through her life-threatening battle with anorexia — Glen’s life has been marked by one recurring, helpful reminder: I am not Jesus. Listener note: this episode discusses eating disorders. Please take care while listening. About Glen Scrivener Glen Scrivener is the CEO of Speak Life, a UK-based evangelistic ministry with roots stretching back to 1952. Raised in Canberra, Glen studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford, where he played cricket at a high level before walking away from a faith he says he’d never really understood as a teenager. He returned to faith in his early twenties through a friend’s simple invitation to read Luke’s gospel, and went on to work at All Souls Langham Place in London and study at Oak Hill Theological College. He is the author of The Air We Breathe and lives in the UK with his wife Emma and their two children. Key Moments & Highlights His grandmother, then General Secretary of the NSW Communist Party, walked forward and gave her life to Christ at Billy Graham’s 1959 Sydney crusade Speak Life spent 28 years as “an evangelistic organisation with no evangelist” after founder Eric Hutchings died in 1982, until a legacy left in 2010 funded Glen’s role. As a teenager, Glen prayed to give his life to Jesus “again and again,” checking a bathroom mirror for a halo that never came — a striving he now traces to misreading Gethsemane as a call to copy Jesus rather than be rescued by him. A hidden family crisis — his father’s repeated affairs, uncovered when Glen was seven — shaped a vision of God as distant and unreachable: “you can knock, knock, knock on heaven’s door, nobody’s home.” The moment everything flipped: a friend reading Gethsemane with him said, “Glen, you are not Jesus in this passage — you are Peter,” and Glen realised the gospel was Christ’s life given for him, not his life given to Christ. Two days after praying “God, bring on the suffering” from Philippians 3:10, Glen’s girlfriend left him, his UK visa was refused, and the full extent of his father’s affairs came out — all within the same week. Glen and his wife Emma walked through her life-threatening battle with anorexia in their early marriage, including twelve years of infertility, before welcoming their daughter Ruby and adopting their son JJ. Reflecting on his father’s death eighteen months ago, Glen says that despite everything, his dad “handed on to his kids a better inheritance than he had himself.” Why Glen believes even secular values like human rights and equality are “supernatural” borrowings from the Jesus story — not conclusions nature or reason could reach on their own. Resources Mentioned The Air We Breathe — Glen Scrivener A New Name — Emma Scrivener (memoir on her experience with anorexia) 321 Course — Speak Life’s online gospel course Find Out More: Olive Tree Media: www.olivetreemedia.com.au Watch+ Platform: www.olivetreemedia.com.au/watch Daily Nudge: www.dailynudge.org Special Thanks To: Excelsia University College Christian Finance Vision Christian Media

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  Episode #26

  Justin Brierley: Why Is Belief in God Making a Comeback?

  Sep 2, 202652 min

  Justin Brierley is the man who put doubt, dialogue and debate at the centre of Christian broadcasting with his groundbreaking UK radio show, ‘Unbelievable?’ Justin had the idea for this radio show while working for Premiere Christian Radio. He wanted to invite Christians into conversations that would help them in their real lives by showing good dialogue between non-Christians and believers. Little did he know that he would launch the show right as the New Athiest movement was kicking off and his show became a key place where these ideas could be discussed and a Christian alternative presented. In this conversation, Karl and Justin also discuss why he now believes he's watching something unexpected happen: a quiet, surprising return to faith among a generation raised on New Atheism. Justin Brierley grew up near Northampton in a charismatic evangelical family, and traces his own faith to a single night at a youth camp at age fifteen - a "road to Damascus" moment friends say they could see in him afterward. At Oxford University he studied politics, philosophy and economics, acted and led evangelistic drama, and met his wife Lucy, who went on to be ordained in ministry. After a graduate posting at Premier Christian Radio, Justin created and hosted 'Unbelievable?' for almost twenty years. He is the author of The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God (2023), and now runs the media company Think Faith, where he hosts a new dialogue show, Uncommon Ground. Key Moments & Highlights Justin traces his faith to a single youth-camp night at fifteen - a "road to Damascus" moment that changed how people around him saw him, even though his wife Lucy's own faith journey was a slow, gradual awakening At Oxford, a friend's crisis of faith — "how do you know this isn't just all in your mind?" — sent Justin looking, for the first time, into the intellectual case for Christianity Justin met Lucy while acting in a student production of Guys and Dolls, where she was doing his stage makeup and, to her lasting exasperation, he didn't recognise her at the cast party afterward The couple spent eight months of their honeymoon on a mission station in northern Namibia, teaching in a school and helping build a Sunday school from scratch The origin story of Unbelievable? — pitched almost as an afterthought to his radio director as a way to help Christians "have better conversations" with the non-Christians in their lives How a 2012 magazine interview with Mark Driscoll spiralled into a public Twitter storm and became the most downloaded episode Justin ever released Why Justin now argues the confident "New Atheism" of Dawkins and Hitchens has given way to a quieter reassessment of faith among public intellectuals like Jordan Peterson and Tom Holland The evidence Justin points to for a genuine, if early, shift: rising Bible sales in the UK, a wave of young men returning to church across Scandinavia, and record numbers of adult converts at France's Easter vigil What happened when the Bible Society's "Quiet Revival" survey data had to be withdrawn and why Justin still believes something real is happening despite the flawed numbers Inside Justin's new show, Uncommon Ground, where he opens every episode by asking guests - including Richard Dawkins and Rowan Williams - to "steel man" each other's position before they debate Resources Mentioned The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God - Justin Brierley (book) https://www.amazon.com.au/Surprising-Rebirth-Belief-God-Christianity/dp/1496466772 Uncommon Ground - Justin Brierley's current show, produced by Think Faith https://justinbrierley.com/uncommon-ground-podcast/ Find Out More Olive Tree Media: www.olivetreemedia.com.au Watch+ Platform: www.olivetreemedia.com.au/watch Daily Nudge: www.dailynudge.org Special Thanks To Excelsia University College Christian Finance Vision Christian Media

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  Episode #25

  Scott Morrison: Highlights, Lowlights and The Faith That Carried Him Through

  Aug 26, 20261h 13m

  Politics has a way of reducing people to headlines - the speeches, the elections, the controversies, the moments that dominated the nightly news. But behind every public leader is a private person, carrying the weight of decisions, the expectations of millions, and quiet questions about faith, family and purpose. For Scott Morrison, one of those quiet questions came into devastating focus on a February afternoon in 2020, when a mother named Layla Abdallah stood in front of a television camera - twenty-four hours after losing three of her children to a drug-affected driver - and said: "In my heart I know I forgive him." As Prime Minister, Morrison was already carrying the country through the Black Summer bushfires, and would soon face a global pandemic that tested his leadership like nothing before it. Throughout it all, his Christian faith remained central to who he was - sometimes a source of strength, sometimes drawing intense public attention. In this conversation, Scott reflects on the experiences that shaped him long before politics, the unseen cost of leadership, and what forgiveness, uncertainty and faith under pressure have taught him about an identity that's never found in a title. Scott Morrison served as Australia’s 30th Prime Minister from 2018 to 2022, leading the country through the Black Summer bushfires, the COVID-19 pandemic and many other intense and contentious issues. Before politics, he worked as a research economist and later for Bruce Baird, entering Federal Parliament in 2007. Raised in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire in a family shaped by service rather than ambition, Morrison has spoken openly throughout his career about the Christian faith that has underpinned his life and leadership, from a youth camp in Melbourne where he gave his life to the Lord, to the Tuesday-night prayer group he kept running throughout his time as Prime Minister. He is married to Jenny, with two daughters, and today works in business advisory and geopolitics while remaining closely involved with Danny and Leila Abdallah’s 'I Forgive' Foundation. Key Moments & Highlights - The 2020 Sydney crash that killed four children and how Layla Abdallah's on-camera declaration of forgiveness “within 24 hours” stunned Morrison and the nation - Growing up as his father's unpaid “electorate secretary,” fielding constituents' phone calls before he was even a teenager - The fourteen-year fertility journey and ten failed treatments that preceded the births of daughters Abbey and Lily, including “screaming at God in the forest” in Wellington - Why he's never seen himself as belonging to a political “tribe,” and how Bruce Baird and John Anderson showed him it was possible to be a Christian, a husband and a father, and still succeed in politics. - The night he became Prime Minister through a contested leadership spill, and Malcolm Turnbull's differing account of events - Diverting the campaign plane to Tasmania on the eve of the 2019 “miracle election,” and watching both seats come in on the AEC refresh screen. - Tabling the Royal Commission report into institutional child abuse in 2018, and the moment he shut his office door afterward and wept. - Watching hospital footage from northern Italy at the start of the pandemic, and why he tuned out “ideological rubbish” about the virus being a threat to liberty Find Out More Olive Tree Media: www.olivetreemedia.com.au Watch+ Platform: www.olivetreemedia.com.au/watch Daily Nudge: www.dailynudge.org Special Thanks To Excelsia University College Christian Finance Vision Christian Media

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