ArticleThe CPX team is thrilled to announce that this year’s Richard Johnson Lecture will be delivered by one of Australia’s best-known and most acute public commentators, Professor Stan Grant.
AGAINST BITTERNESS
How do we live with suffering?
Wednesday 22 October 2025
7:30pm-9pm
Chatswood Concourse
Tickets are $30 each and are now available. Get in early to avoid disappointment!
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Professor Grant is no stranger to suffering, or to controversy. As a foreign correspondent, author, and theologian, and as a Wiradjuri man who has frequently spoken up on Indigenous issues and experiences – and worn the resulting criticism – few people are in a better position to appreciate the sting of loss and injustice, and where a genuine way forward out of catastrophe is to be found.
If you listened earlier this year to Simon Smart’s interview with him on our Life & Faith podcast, you’ll have heard Professor Grant speak powerfully about having gone through a serious spiritual re-awakening, and how it has changed his sense of the world and his place in it. This year’s Richard Johnson Lecture offers us all the possibility of moving beyond the corrosive effects of suffering and injustice, to a place of healing.
The Richard Johnson Lecture is an annual event that CPX runs to highlight the contribution that faith has to make to the public conversation, and to our collective life. We can’t imagine a subject or speaker more likely to fit that bill in 2025! We can’t wait to see you there.