Soul Search
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Soul Search explores contemporary religion and spirituality from the inside out — what we believe, how we express it, and the difference it makes in our lives
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The science and spirituality of mindfulness
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May 02, 2024 |
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The stories that stick with us — Keerthik Sasidharan and the Mahābhārata
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Hope and healing in Rwanda and beyond
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Navigating faith over a lifetime
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Ramadan — Seeking the divine in times of suffering
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Imagining Jesus on screen and in literature
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Rituals of repair, of politics and ourselves
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Habit and the spiritual life
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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The drag queen and the hymn writer — Queering Christian music
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Contemporary Christian Music — Changing culture through song
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Good karma? Taylor Swift and popular Buddhism in pop music
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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An Indigenous theological revolution
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Zen and protest in a changing climate
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Dragons in Chinese tradition — and today
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Contemplating country with Garry Deverell
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Going bush for solitude and connection
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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The isolation and imagination of the first female English author
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Wildness and wonder at the edge of Australia
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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An Unorthodox Idea — Rest is Resistance
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Journeys that change us
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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How grace changes everything
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Making art in a time of crisis
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Pasifika theologians reweaving the ecological mat
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Reading the Bible in Australia today
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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The Māori Anglican Church, Māori language and the search for justice
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Muslim Anzacs — from the Great War to today
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Awakening a wondrous world through storytelling
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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The Iona Community’s Ruth Harvey on thin places and strong communities
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Icons and iconoclasts part 2
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Icons and iconoclasts part 1
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Why do we scapegoat?
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Shakespeare’s religious world
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet at 100
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Future of religion — A changing climate
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Future of religion — From the Torres Strait to Uluru
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Future of religion — Where is Christian theology headed?
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Future of religion — Digital utopias and spiritual imagination
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Overcoming poverty and prejudice — The women creating communities of justice
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Does your religion make you laugh?
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Solitude and the ache for humans
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Making peace with mortality
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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The Dalai Lama and the Scottish hermit
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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The soul and the self
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Skin-on-skin — birth, spirituality and parenthood
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Reckoning and reconciliation at Glebe’s scarred tree
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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The great Medieval mystic and writer — Julian of Norwich
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Pádraig Ó Tuama on poetry, rage, and remaking religion
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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The sacred river
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Forest bathing and the 'more than human world'
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Religion and ecology in a warming world
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May 25, 2023 |
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Tim Winton on Ningaloo and the holiness of all that lives
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May 18, 2023 |
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The varieties of Atheism – from Dostoevsky’s Russia to now
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May 11, 2023 |
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A Voice to Parliament, a voice to the church
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May 04, 2023 |
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‘Every culture has its ghosts’ — Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Game over — death and religion in video games
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Excavating the afterlife – Ancient Egypt and beyond
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Disability and the shape of hope
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Samson and the complications of liberation
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Memorising the Qur’an in an age of distraction
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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What’s religious about Disney?
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Mindfulness in daily life: Brother Phap Hai
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Education for a different world: Muneera Bano and Mariam Mohammed
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Islam and the internet
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Stories of queer faith for WorldPride
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Queer faith and theology at World Pride
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Astronomy and the thrill of curiosity: Jennifer Wiseman and Mehmet Ozalp
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Tricia Hersey on rest, resistance and liberation
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Theology after Mabo
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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What makes a building sacred?
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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The forest makers – Tony Rinaudo and Ruth Jerotich
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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Salvaging the light: Poet and aphorist Yahia Lababidi
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Christmas on the liquid continent
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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The gospel of John and the poetry of belief
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Prayers of nomads – Valerie Browning and Mohammed Salih
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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How to have an enemy: Melissa Florer-Bixler
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Faith amid flood waters
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Finding the divine in the natural world
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Travel and transformation: Sarah Malik and Giselle Bader
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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The music of doubt, grief and transformation
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek on paradox, beauty and truth
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Sacred landscapes: The Flinders Ranges
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Women’s voices in ancient texts and Australian churches
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Danya Ruttenberg on repentance and repair
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Making fictional faiths real – invented religions
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Satanic Panic — Dungeons & Dragons and Harry Potter
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Making something of our mortality in Australia and Japan
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Sacred landscapes: the desert
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Sidney Nolan’s secret Holocaust paintings
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Life on earth, life in space
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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End of life stories
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Community and connection in a world of devices
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Aug 14, 2022 |
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How faith can help fight climate change
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Trees – conservation, culture and country
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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Silence and spiritual direction in a noisy world
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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Christian mission in a wounded world
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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Royston Sagigi-Baira: Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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ABC's 90th: Religious broadcasting in a changing Australia
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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Sacred Landscapes: solastalgia and spirituality in a melting world
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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Does Australia need a permanent basic income?
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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Joan Chittister on renewing community in a changing world
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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The forest makers – Tony Rinaudo and Ruth Jerotich
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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Theology after Mabo – Dr Anne Pattel-Gray for Reconciliation Week
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May 29, 2022 |
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What makes a building sacred?
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May 22, 2022 |
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Sorrow in solidarity — Poetry and suffering from Ukraine to Australia
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May 15, 2022 |
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Salvaging the light: Poet and aphorist Yahia Lababidi
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May 08, 2022 |
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New lease on life – Korean Buddhist arhats, and a Bosnian Muslim celebrates Eid
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May 01, 2022 |
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Making peace with our unpeacefulness: Claude AnShin Thomas' path from war to Zen Buddhism
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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Victory over death – Easter in art from Caravaggio to Colin McCahon
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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Faith amid flood waters
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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Recipes for Ramadan and female solidarity in Afghanistan
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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Gods: from Ancient Greece to the Antipodes
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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Art after religion? Artmaking as a spiritual practice
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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Hirini Kaa: Māori and Christian ideas of the sacred, reciprocity, and spiritual flourishing
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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International Women's Day: Liberating religion from Australia to West Papua
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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Reflections on Lent and what ‘living with COVID’ means for the spiritual life
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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Prayer, Peacemaking and Reconciliation: Desmond Tutu's life and legacy
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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Remembering Thich Nhat Hanh: Founder of engaged Buddhism and father of mindfulness
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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Re-enchanting China: The resurgence of popular religion
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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The word and the pen: Writers on faith, fiction and grace in the ordinary
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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Kate Bowler on Mennonites, megachurches, and why there's no cure for being human
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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The wisdom of deep listening: Miriam Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann and Fleur Magick Dennis
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Jan 16, 2022 |
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Seeking the simple life: from everyday economics to meditation
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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The Muslim Cameleers: The lives and legacies of Australia's little-known outback pioneers
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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Casper ter Kuile: How everyday practices build joyful belonging
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Dec 26, 2021 |
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Jane Goodall on humanity and hope
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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How's your soul? A look back at 2021
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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From Sri Lanka to Australia: how women are remaking Buddhism
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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Love, Beauty and Solitude: Translating Rilke with Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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Much Ado About Religion
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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Making peace with our unpeacefulness: Claude AnShin Thomas' path from war to Zen Buddhism
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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Life as we think it: poetry and philosophy for the everyday
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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Forgiveness up close: a look at mothers and daughters, Kierkegaard, hope and humility
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Sacred landscapes: suburbia
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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Sacred Landscapes: solastalgia and spirituality in a melting world
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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Sacred landscapes: snow and the high country
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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Elaine Pagels on secret gospels, grief and religion
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Church and State in Germany: Political Theology from Karl Barth to Angela Merkel
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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Saints, bullies and believers
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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700 years of Dante and The Divine Comedy
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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Short-Distance Relationships: Soulmates
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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Short-Distance Relationships: Strangers
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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Short-Distance Relationships: Siblings
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Aug 22, 2021 |
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Jane Goodall on humanity and hope
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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Planting peace: from Hiroshima to Pine Gap
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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Why atheism is more than mere unbelief
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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The secret paintings and spiritual courage of Hilma af Klint
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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The Muslim Cameleers: The lives and legacies of Australia's little-known outback pioneers
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Jul 18, 2021 |
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Indigenous theologian Garry Deverell on grounded spirituality
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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Heal Country: NAIDOC week with Brooke Prentis and Aunty Rev Denise Champion
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Jul 04, 2021 |
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A jump, a kick and a prayer: Religion at the Olympics
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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Sacred Landscapes: the mountains and spiritual freedom
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Jun 20, 2021 |
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Sacred landscapes: the forest as mirror and sanctuary
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Jun 13, 2021 |
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Sacred landscapes: religion and ecology around the Pacific
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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The wisdom of deep listening: Miriam Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann and Fleur Magick Dennis
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May 30, 2021 |
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Seeking the simple life: from everyday economics to meditation
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May 23, 2021 |
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Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev on karma, the pandemic, and politics in India
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May 16, 2021 |
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Alexander Hamilton and the religion of the American Revolution
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May 09, 2021 |
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The Pope and the working man’s paradise: Rerum Novarum at 130
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May 02, 2021 |
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Green Buddhism with Professor Stephanie Kaza
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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How the Tibetan Book of the Dead resonates with the living, plus the global ethics of Hans Küng
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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Poetry and worship with Sara Saleh, and Turkish Sufi Cemalnur Sargut
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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Art at the edge of time: Makoto Fujimura, plus the 2021 Blake Prize
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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Remembering for the future: Danielle Celermajer and Michael Twitty for Pesach
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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The invisible beast: slavery today and in history
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Mar 21, 2021 |
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What is our life for? Henry David Thoreau’s search for justice
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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Mending the world: Eva Cox and Gemma Dashwood for International Women’s Day
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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I believe? Ben Myers on creeds in the contemporary world, Lent and Bob Dylan
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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From Crikey! to Karma: Religion in Aussie English
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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Tradition and change: From Lunar New Year to Basant Panchami, plus religion & sex
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Feb 14, 2021 |
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New Norcia’s nuns and the riddle of reconciliation
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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Casper ter Kuile: How everyday practices build joyful belonging
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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Reconciliation as a pilgrimage to justice
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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Pádraig Ó Tuama: The pain and poetry of reconciliation
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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Beyond belief: theosophy in Australia
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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Remarkable women — from Indigenous health to the Navy
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Jan 03, 2021 |
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Professor Mona Siddiqui on living gratefully
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Dec 27, 2020 |
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Soul Search special on Christmas Day
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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An unexpected Christmas
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Dec 20, 2020 |
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Stories that change us: Hanukkah, Vida Goldstein and beyond
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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'The world's largest minority' — International Day of People with Disability
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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Zen & the calligraphy of the universe with Lindy Lee, plus activist Rima Vesely-Flad
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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Pentecostalism goes mainstream
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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Your planet: from Europe’s first eco-mosque to the Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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Always Was, Always Will Be: NAIDOC Week in the Torres Strait and NSW Hawkesbury region
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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Dami Im’s pop and the Celtic roots of Halloween
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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Orthodoxy now
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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Ten years on: Mary MacKillop, the 'patron saint of trouble makers'
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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100 years of the Baha'i Faith in Australia and Buddhist mindfulness for couples
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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What monks knew about the emotions of isolation
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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The Bigger Picture: Elaine Pagels on secret gospels, grief and why religion
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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The Bigger Picture: Indigenous theologian Garry Deverell on grounded spirituality
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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The Bigger Picture: Hugh Mackay and Nyadol Nyuon on the inner self
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Sep 13, 2020 |
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The Bigger Picture: Tom Holland on Christianity and the making of the western mind
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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#religion: social media influencers of faith
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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Sasha Sagan on meaning, wonder and her father, Carl Sagan
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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Oxford mathematician John Lennox on AI, science and religion
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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Max Weber at 100: On modernity and a disenchanted world
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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Mona Siddiqui on gratitude and the way of Islam
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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Living tradition: Ivan Moody on composing Orthodox music, and Latvia’s folk revival
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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Faith in a changing world: Archbishop Glenn Davies and Archbishop Anthony Fisher
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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Stories from the sea: from ancient myths to merchant ships
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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Contemplating hope: Sarah Bachelard and David Newheiser
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Jul 05, 2020 |
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Rumi, Hafez and Sufi poetry in surprising places
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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YA author Claire Zorn on writing, mental illness and moral imagination
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Jun 21, 2020 |
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Green Buddhism with Professor Stephanie Kaza
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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L-FRESH The LION and Manika Kaur: Sacred Sounds
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Jun 07, 2020 |
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Reconciliation as a pilgrimage to justice
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May 31, 2020 |
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Beyond belief: theosophy in Australia
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May 24, 2020 |
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Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, and James Hillman in search of The Wild Soul
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May 17, 2020 |
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Spiritual impulses: Charity
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May 10, 2020 |
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Joy and stillness under stress
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May 03, 2020 |
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What can religious communities teach us about prejudice?
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Apr 26, 2020 |
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Pandemics reshaping religion
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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Easter at Botany Bay
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Apr 12, 2020 |
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Psalms and the Holy Week
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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Ancient mantras for difficult times
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Mar 29, 2020 |
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Art and activism after Christchurch
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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Pádraig Ó Tuama: The pain and poetry of reconciliation
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Mar 15, 2020 |
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Resilient women of faith
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Mar 08, 2020 |
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Japan supernatural & priests on screen
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Mar 01, 2020 |
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Compassion according to Bill Crews
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Feb 23, 2020 |
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Being Sikh in Australia
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Feb 16, 2020 |
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What lies beyond the grave? On Heaven, Hell and Nirvana
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Feb 09, 2020 |
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Reconnecting to country
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Feb 02, 2020 |
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Making Australia home
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Jan 26, 2020 |
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Self discovery — with a Hindu twist
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Jan 19, 2020 |
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Uprooting faith: Henry Olonga and Kathomi Gatwiri
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Jan 12, 2020 |
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Peaceful Eating
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Jan 05, 2020 |
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The spirituality of the sea
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Dec 29, 2019 |
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Changing tune
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Dec 22, 2019 |
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Christos Tsiolkas: Doubt on the road to Damascus
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Dec 15, 2019 |
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The practice of peacemaking
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Dec 08, 2019 |
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Silence and the inner life
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Dec 01, 2019 |
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Jung's ghosts
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Nov 24, 2019 |
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God in the golden years
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Nov 17, 2019 |
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Digitising the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Nov 10, 2019 |
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The Bab and the Buddha
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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Diving in the Deep End
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Oct 27, 2019 |
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Stoicism and the turbulent soul
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Oct 20, 2019 |
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Pentecostalism in Australia
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Oct 13, 2019 |
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Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams
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Oct 06, 2019 |
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Revisiting origins: Jesus' female disciples and Confucius in China
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Sep 29, 2019 |
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Zeal: Performing faith as a musician
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Sep 22, 2019 |
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A lesson from Elie Wiesel: how education can make us better people
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Sep 15, 2019 |