How is culture preserved from one generation to the next – what happens when a generation fails to tell the story?

Hear not only how amazing it is that we’ve built a culture that actually believes people have ‘human rights’ in the way it does, but also how rare this view of life has been in history.

Hear about the ‘democracy of the elite’ found in Greece and Rome – and the contrast to the values our own democratic freedoms are built upon today.

Hear the conclusion of secular historian Tom Holland about just who a European is – after decades of study of ancient European history.

Hear the core idea that, in our own cultural history, seeded the idea that every human being might have intrinsic worth, and therefore also have rights that need protecting.

Take a look at the 10 Commandments with new eyes – to consider not only what they tell us not to do, but what those prohibitions achieved within culture for the poor, weak and vulnerable.

Take a look at two other of the 10 Commandments, to see how these seemingly simple prohibitions achieved profound and wide reaching results for the poor, weak and vulnerable.

Hear about a template for ‘modern democracy’ that has been overlooked in recent times, but which was well-known and studied by those who have worked to establish our freedoms in history.

Hear the simple teaching from Jesus that challenged the approach of nearly all Governments prior – laying a path for what we have today.

Hear how a small group of radicals chose to live as if individual human worth (rights) were real – in contrast to the practices of an empire.

Hear how ideas of a moral law that is above everyone, (and therefore the idea that people have inalienable rights irrespective of status) seeped even into Government – making a protection of the rights of even the common people a possibility!

Hear how and when an objective basis for believing in the rights and freedoms of the common people was established in Ireland – changing their history to this day.

Hear how and when an objective basis for believing in the rights and freedoms of the common people was established in England – shaping the history that followed, which ultimately affected us!

Hear about a ‘charter for freedoms’ established in a crazy time achieved something profound – resulting in its later labelling as ‘the birthplace of modern democracy’!

Hear how an objective basis for common law, and a belief in the rights and freedoms of common people came about in Geneva – affecting Europe so much that Calvin is widely recognised as the most influential thinker in the shaping of modern life in Europe!

Hear how these same freedoms became established in Scotland, resulting in confidence coming even to the commoners to stand up boldly vocally against the tyranny of powerful leaders!

Discover what the battle now celebrated as ‘Independence Day’ in America was about – while noting that this positioned them as plausibly as the most free nation, and certainly as the most generous nation, in all of human history!

Hear how a radical Christian belief in human value, and therefore of equality and of human rights, enabled a Treaty that would never have been proposed or offered otherwise.

Hear where and when the idea of religious freedom was first agreed upon in New Zealand, and exactly where these freedoms are enshrined in law here today.

Hear about the unexpected topic of this first Parliamentary debate, to consider how they understood the connection of Christian religion to our values – with the comparative silence on this matter today in view.

Hear the conclusion of an in depth study that sought to discover what led a culture to eventually embrace democratic freedoms – as contrasted with the many nations that do not.

Hear something of the origins of the values found in this widely accepted declaration, as well as of the existence of alternative declarations from people who know this.

See again how, without a basis for believing in individual human rights, those rights invariably become diminished, and then discarded by the common people.

Consider the values that are necessary to constrain capitalistic freedoms – which enable the wealth of a society, from the greed that otherwise takes over, leading to a failure in the system, and a loss of prosperity for all.

Hear about the unimaginable suffering that resulted from people who believed themselves to be doing good, but whose core ideas rejected the basis from which the value of every human life can be argued. The end therefore now justified the means. By pulling down instead of building up they ruined their own freedoms and prosperity. The sobering reality is that this has happened many times in recent history – with almost 70 examples of socialism in the history books applied to gain power by people carrying the ideals of fascism or communism in the past 100 years alone.