The Spirit of Things - ABC RN Podcast
1) Royston Sagigi-Baira: Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!
In this special NAIDOC episode, guest host Brooke Prentis chats to singer Royston Sagigi-Baira about growing up in the remote community of Old Mapoon on Tjungundji Country in Western Cape York.
2) ABC's 90th: Religious broadcasting in a changing Australia
Religion, like the media, is changing fast in Australia. What does this mean for the national broadcaster as it reflects and informs Australian life? Plus, the war chaplain turned journalist who becam...Show More
3) Sacred Landscapes: solastalgia and spirituality in a melting world
Glaciers matter to the people who live near them – but how do these communities respond as more and more ice melts away? A priestess of the Icelandic religion of Ásatrú explains how ancient Norse myth...Show More
4) Does Australia need a permanent basic income?
What would you do if you knew you had an unconditional, permanent, adequate income that would cover all your basic expenses… no matter how much or how little work you did? It’s an idea that has the ba...Show More
5) Joan Chittister on renewing community in a changing world
Joan Chittister found her community as a teenager, seventy years ago, when she joined the Benedictine sisters in Pennsylvania. For decades she has devoted herself to renewing community in and beyond t...Show More
6) The forest makers – Tony Rinaudo and Ruth Jerotich
What does it take to re-green a desert? As it turns out, sometimes what you need is already in the ground right under your feet. Tony Rinaudo went to Niger as an agriculturalist and missionary and – a...Show More
7) Theology after Mabo – Dr Anne Pattel-Gray for Reconciliation Week
The Mabo decision was a legal and cultural milestone in Australia, but thirty years on, how has it changed theology? For decades Dr Anne Pattel-Gray has been calling for racial justice in and through ...Show More
8) What makes a building sacred?
Have you ever found yourself in a place where heaven and earth seem to meet? Sacred architecture and aesthetics can make a person experience the numinous, even in a building not set aside for a religi...Show More
9) Sorrow in solidarity — Poetry and suffering from Ukraine to Australia
What do we do with suffering – as we experience it ourselves, and in the world around us? Meredith Lake explores solidarity in the midst of violence, both through activism and poetry.
10) Salvaging the light: Poet and aphorist Yahia Lababidi
Can literature somehow bridge the visible and invisible realms? Meredith Lake speaks with Egyptian-American poet and aphorist Yahia Lababidi, whose work ranges across cultures, traditions and genres.