Death and Donuts

From bikies to baptism: Early on in life Connor experienced family breakup, became skeptical of authority, and was deeply anti-Catholic. He spent decades searching for something to believe in and discovered Christ had been waiting for him.

Daniel Erasmus has been searching for truth, beauty and goodness, his entire life. He’s tried almost everything under the sun, from partying hard, hooking up with women, to traveling. Not satisfied, and looking for something deeper, he turned to religion, from nominal protestant Christianity, he became a religious Jew, is now married to an Iranian Muslim, and has two young children. More recently he discovered Catholic Christianity and is digging into the likes of St Thomas Aquinas. A warning: this interview contains adult themes.

My mum, Julie James, was a very troubled teenager. One night some of her friends forced the drug LSD into her mouth and she began to have hallucinations of hell. The next morning she wanted to end her life but a prayer said in desperation was her first step in a 50 year journey filled with sacrificial love, joy and peace. "

Bill West stopped practising his Catholic Faith as he moved from school to full-time work. While backpacking through Asia, as a young man, he got terribly sick, and with the prospect of death, in desperation, he asked God for help. He got better and when he returned home to Australia, he re-connected with his Catholic Faith. Decades later, still working as a journalist, he decided to do a deep dive into what he believed was a medieval forgery, the Shroud of Turin.

Desmond Kon was dead for close to 30 minutes before being resuscitated. During this short period of bodily death, Desmond had a ‘Near Death Experience’ where he endured a long period of purification and was then invited by some souls to go with them to ‘another place’. He also talks about his time in the military, his conversion to Catholicism and shares some wisdom on beauty.