Passions of the Soul
What cost do we pay when we remain living in self-regarding reactivity? What do we
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The Great Search
There is a strong sense that the Church is in a time of transition- preparing
The Mystical Christos
Is there an ancient path that can transform lives when we find it together, giving
Are We Too Squeamish about Atonement?
Anne Van Gend, priest, author and ministry educator, joins the podcast to explore how we
Sharing Conversations on the Way
“Am I actually allowed to ask that?” is a question I asked often in the first couple of years of the podcast. In every instance, often to my great surprise, “yes” was the answer. The roof did not cave. The sky did not fall. Whatever we mean when we use the word God, it seems that it is a mystery large enough, loving enough, and safe enough to handle a question or two. With that freedom fuelling us, the journey has been an extraordinary one.
Healing the Heart of Democracy
How do we find a way back to one another, across shrill voices and opposing
On the Way: Power and God
How do we talk about God when that word conjures a big other, looking down from a throne in the sky directing the traffic on earth? The language instead of a God who offers power “with” rather than power “over”, draws us into sacred relationship with one another and all creation.
Palestine: a humanitarian and ecological crisis
Despite the popular naming of the conflict as incredibly complex, Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh explains the model is simply settler colonialism, the same motivation and mechanisms experienced by the Indigenous people of Australia.
Domestic and Family Violence: Changing the narrative in the Church
Our culture and indeed our church so often misguidedly believe that love can still be present where one group or individual dominates another. The church has not only been silent, but in some of its teachings has actively supported structures of dominance and control.
Indigenous Spirituality and a Grounded Faith
Dr Garry Worete Deverell, a Trawloolway man from northern Tasmania, joins the podcast to explore country and kin as the building blocks of life and spirituality and the web of past, present and future which is expressed as ‘the dreaming’. Paying attention may be the first step in practising a faith that is at home in this land even as we long for the reconciliation which begins in listening to the truth of Australia’s violent colonising history.
Unashamedly Gay. Unashamedly Christian.
Coming out once is challenging, but Jayne Ozanne describes coming out three times: first as gay, then coming out as Christian to her LGBTIQ+ friends, and finally as evangelical to her Christian LGBTIQ+ friends.
The Humble Church
Bishop Jeremy Greaves chats with the Revd Prof Martyn Percy about Martyn’s new book, “The Humble Church: Renewing the body of Christ.”