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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"We will always choose Earth" — Spiritual ecology in an age of crisis
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May 14, 2026 |
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What does pilgrimage look like today?
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May 07, 2026 |
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Vatican reporter Colleen Dulle on Pope Leo, moral leadership and the healing power of truth
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Why did an atheist spend a year as a secular priest?
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Active body, active soul — encountering the spiritual side of sports
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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What’s new about death in the 21st century?
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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The power of pure attention with Laurence Freeman
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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No really, who is my neighbour?
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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The possibilities of the gift economy
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Quitting stuff for a richer life
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Violence against women in the church
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Gender expansive Christianity
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Why are we fascinated with monsters and evil creatures?
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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The Philokalia — the book at the heart of the Orthodox world
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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How live performance connects us, body and soul
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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The discipline of inner peace
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Can video games be part of the “good life?”
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Being Aboriginal and Catholic in remote Australia
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Cyprian Consiglio on music and modern monasticism
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Dostoyevsky, love and the Russian novel
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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The Dalai Lama in music and memory
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Holocaust survivor Joe Szwarcberg on liberation and telling the truth
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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How food reveals what we believe
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Finding belonging through travel and art
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Disability and incarnation with Lorna Hallahan
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Seeking silence in a noisy world
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Poetry and the complications of home with Miriam Wei Wei Lo
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Steve Biddulph on fear, faith and masculinity today
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Medieval mystics and the climate crisis — St Francis, forest bathing and Ibn Arabi
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Imagining the future — sci-fi, doomsday preppers and hope punks
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Life without money and the possibilities of the gift economy
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Big Questions in Books – Negotiating the sacred in Australian literature
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Remembering ethologist Jane Goodall, champion of hope
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Art, music and the ecologies that make and exceed us
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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The ancients on life, death and the cosmos, with John Behr
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Peacebuilding in Jerusalem
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Big Questions in Books – The Mahabharata and its epic afterlives
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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The surprising role of grass in shaping who we are
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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A Palestinian doctor in Israel, on treating the human being
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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The science and spirituality of soil
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Death, ritual and what to expect when it’s your turn
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Seeking the wild: Alone Australia and connection to nature
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Astrology and tarot — telling the future, or connecting with the present?
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Big questions in books — H.P. Lovecraft, cosmic horror and the ineffable
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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NAIDOC 2025 – Strength, vision and legacy through prayer and art
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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The Dalai Lama's legacy for Tibetans in exile
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Finding connection and community — reflections from listeners
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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How museums hold — and provoke — questions of meaning
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Big questions in books — Jane Austen and the complications of friendship
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Peacemaking, counterpower and justice — Quaker Tim Gee
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May 29, 2025 |
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Pádraig Ó Tuama — Kitchen Hymns
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May 22, 2025 |
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Spirituality at the edge — Sacrededge 2025
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May 15, 2025 |
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What does it mean to be liberated? Holocaust survivor Joe Szwarcberg
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May 08, 2025 |
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Big questions in books — Sacredness, enchantment and the apocalypse, from Narnia to Harry Potter
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May 01, 2025 |
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The 'green' Pope Francis and his climate legacy in the Pacific
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Nicaea — The conference that changed the world
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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The Sufi soundtrack to outback Australia
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Growing spiritually strong in Central Australia — Week with Students
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Big questions in books — Ancient Chinese poetry and the nature of existence
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Exploring mercy and forgiveness in Ramadan
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Deep ecology and reconnecting with the natural world
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Being the first female rabbi of Australia’s largest Jewish congregation
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Pope Francis and the transformation of suffering
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Big questions in books — Dostoyevsky and the love that we owe
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Seeking spirituality outside of religion
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Is rest the lost secret to a good life?
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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John Butler on spirituality, creativity and meditation
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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How faith communities are navigating history, treaty and truth-telling
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Forgiveness after apartheid and the limits of remorse
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Elizabeth Oldfield describes a different way to live
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Mindfulness — the science and spirituality of an ancient tradition
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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How the Jewish Jesus helps us bridge our differences
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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What does the future of Christianity look like?
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Pursuing peace after a long year
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Have you had enough? — Contentment and the good life
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Visions of freedom — Liberation theology and Advent
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Music and the mystical with Cyprian Consiglio
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Human hope in the age of AI
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Making new realities with role-playing games and the internet
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Volunteering for a better world
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Monarchy and its religious critics
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Nuns now — the reality and future of vowed religious life
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Exploring connection through art
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Practising peace in daily life
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Play as a spiritual practice
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Food and the ordinary rituals of belief
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Forgiveness, remorse and the reparative quest after apartheid
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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"The gap that defined my life" — women advocating for women
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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How making maps makes meaning
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Unpacking white mindfulness and a white God
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Healing after apartheid
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Look up! The night sky, astronomy and awe
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Can we make meaning together anymore?
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Mindfulness in daily life — Brother Phap Hai
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Being fully alive with Elizabeth Oldfield
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Doing public theology on Aboriginal land
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Exploring religion in Japan
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Aboriginal ministry — the who, what and how
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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How can we find spiritual community?
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Chinese wisdom for turbulent times
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Embracing silence in a noisy world
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Cultivating curiosity with Amy-Jill Levine
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May 30, 2024 |
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From Iraq to Alice Springs — a pilgrim for peace
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May 23, 2024 |
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Queer flourishing as resistance with Benjamin Oh
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May 16, 2024 |
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Rethinking prosperity
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May 09, 2024 |
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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 |