The Anchor Of The Week

Welcome  back to our worldview series! Today we’ve got a great and challenging  conversation for you. We’re sitting down with practising Hare Krishna  Ian Nene and hearing about the journey he took to adopt this worldview.  Even though his beliefs are very different than ours, it caused us to  ask some important questions: How far will we look for answers about  life?...

Memes  are so common in our online lives, they’re practically a new language  that we communicate through. But is the culture they create of turning  everything into a joke slowly turning us all into nihilists without us  even realising? Enter Helen, aka The Nihilist Potata. In today’s episode  she shares her research of how memes are shaping our culture and her  pers...

We’re  coming at you with a special episode! We’re in the middle of the World  Cup, the largest sports championship in the world, but the actual  football is being overshadowed by controversy. The host country of Qatar  and FIFA (the global governing body of football) have come under  intense scrutiny over the last years for corruption. Is corruption in  any large org...

Imagine living in a culture that has a completely different worldview from you. That’s exactly what our guest today, Rob, and his family have done. Spending years working with a Christin Development Organization in Central Asia, he has real, first-hand experience in a culture with an Islamic worldview which is very different from his own. How do you stand firm in your beliefs? How do you challenge...

Under  the long skirts, veil hair coverings and horse and buggies, the  Mennonite core beliefs really aren’t all that different from your  average Christian worldview. So how come their worldview seems so  extreme with their “simplistic” lifestyle? On today’s episode, we’re  continuing our WORLDVIEW series as we sit down with our friend and  former Mennonite, Stef. Jo...

What  happens after death? What does it mean to be a human? Is there a higher  power? How do we as people know what is right from wrong? These are the  the rapid fire questions we’re asking unsuspecting Londoners in todays  on the streets episode in our WORLDVIEW series. Join us as we learn how  the people around us see the world!   .  .  .  .  .&n...

Welcome to week two of our new series on WORLDVIEW! If you missed last week’s episode, you’re definitely going to want to go back and listen to it before jumping into today’s conversation. Why? Because last week we sat down and discussed our personal worldview, and today we’re sitting down with someone who sees the world VERY differently than us. In this series we’re learning to have conversations...

Do  you ever find yourself in a conversation that’s going nowhere because  it seems like the person is on a different planet than you? Well, maybe  they are - kind of. Today we’re kicking off a new series on WORLDVIEW,  basically the lenses from which we view, well, everything. We’ll be  answering the 7 questions every worldview must answer so we know where  we stand,...

The  recent death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has made a huge impact  on the UK. And while many have been vocal in their mourning for the  Queen, those who have chosen to take this moment in history to speak up  against the monarchy have appeared to be silenced. Could it be that  freedom of speech is encouraged until it’s against something deemed  “untouchable”?...

These  days it seems that everyone is offended by everything. So how is it  even possible to have a conversation with opposing points of view  without getting offended, defensive and turning it into an argument?  Well, that’s our mission here at The Anchor of the Week - we’re  determined to have the hard conversations without making it personal. We  always say we’re h...

We’re here with our final instalment of our series on the HUMAN LONGING, and we’re back home on the streets of London to hear from the people! We’ve been to different cities around the UK to ask the question: “what is that one thing that you’re longing for but you feel like you just haven’t reached yet?” and seeing if the answer changes depending on where we are - does environment change what we d...

We’re  BACK ON THE STREETS, or should we say beach, with our series on the  HUMAN LONGING! We’re headed to different cities around the UK to ask the  question: “what is that one thing that you’re longing for but you feel  like you just haven’t reached yet?” and seeing if the answer changes  depending on where we are - does environment change what we desire, or  are hu...

We’re here with our first on the streets episode in our series on the HUMAN LONGING! We’re headed to different cities around the UK to ask the question: what is that one thing that you’re longing for but you feel like you just haven’t reached yet? We’re seeing if the answer changes depending on where we are - does environment change what we desire, or are humans united by our universal longing? Jo...

You know those moments when you’re in bed late at night with nothing to distract you from your thoughts? We’re talking about those moments today. As humans, we all long for something, and it’s usually in these honest moments alone where we just can’t shake it. Maybe it’s an unfulfilled goal, a desire, or something that you just know you’re missing, but what is that “more” that you’re after that yo...

Today is no regular “on the streets” episode - we’re coming at you straight from the streets of Oslo, Norway to ask the locals - what is Norway REALLY like? Maybe you have an idea of Norwegian culture, or maybe the thought’s never even crossed your mind. But we’re bringing you some very different perspectives so we can see what we can learn from Norwegians - and maybe what they can leave behind. ....

We’re coming back at you from Norway! Today we’re in the southern city of Kristiansand to interview locals that are transforming their communities. Whether influencing through the halls of parliament of speaking into the lives of youth through skate culture, we interview two people who are using their skills and passions to make their city a better place. And this leads us to the question - how ar...

We’re coming at you this week with a very important episode. While filming on the streets of Oslo, we came across a protest which we naturally had to find out more about. But we weren’t prepared for what we were about to hear - there is an ethnic cleansing in Tigray, the northern region of Ethiopia. Over 500,000 civilians have been killed. Borders are controlled by the military, there is no electr...

It’s easy to get caught up in our own lives, forgetting that we’re all a part of something much bigger than ourselves - we are who we are today because of those who have gone before us and we will have an impact on those who come after us. Today, as we continue our series on TRADITION, we’re taking a more specific look at the relationship between the generations and how each generation reacts to t...

After a few weeks off, we’re back and ready as ever to continue our series on TRADITION! We sit down and dive a bit deeper into the conversation - is tradition something that anchors us to our community and values or is it keeping us from moving into the future? In fact, we realized that both Zac and Courtney had different points of view on this, so join us as we challenge our own perspectives and...

We’re back on the streets this week to hear what the people have to say!  Today we’re kicking off a new series taking a look at where we come  from and what we’re leaving behind for those to come. As an  introduction, we asked people on the streets how they view tradition. Is  tradition important? Is it helping culture maintain its roots or is it a  hindering us from movin...

If we’re being honest with ourselves, we’re rarely ever our “true  selves”. We put up facades and filters to adapt to different situations,  and in a way become a fake version of ourselves. Hey, we’re even told  to “fake it ‘til we make it”. But when have we “made it” enough to stop  being fake? Do we even know how to be our real selves? And does society  even want us to r...

Just  a few years ago, it was all about hustle - the rise and grind, getting  that bread, you name it - there was always a saying that pushed us to  work harder. Fast forward a few years, and as the pandemic forced us to  slow our pace, a whole new mindset of rest and self care took over the  mainstream. But while neither of these concepts are inherently “bad”,  falli...

Remember when we said that last episode was our final week of our series  on control? Well, we lied. When we were presented with an opportunity  to interview a police officer from the United States to see his views on  control and society, we couldn’t pass it up. A contrast to last week’s  episode where we chatted with the London Metropolitan Police, we’re  joined by Offic...

Have  you ever wondered how much is your responsibility to keep your  neighbourhood a safe place?  For today’s episode we sit down with  officer Garry Dwyer who has been a part of the London Metropolitan  Police for 40 years and who has spent the last 12 years in the role of  Community Support Officer. He shares with us his unique perspective on  how as a society...

What happens when you don’t trust the people who are supposed to keep  things under control? Just when you thought you’ve heard it all about  control, we’ve found a new, confronting rabbit hole to jump into. What  started as a preface for our next episode where we’ll be interviewing  the police (get ready for THAT), turned into a much broader question.  With so much distru...