Soul Search
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
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 54 minutes
- Episodes
- 254
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Visions of freedom — Liberation theology and Advent
What does a future of freedom and justice look like? Recently-deceased Peruvian theologian Fr Gustavo Gutierrez spoke about liberation from all kinds of oppression and God's preferential option for t…
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Thu 28 Nov 2024
Music and the mystical with Cyprian Consiglio
Is there a mantra that helps you meditate, or perhaps some music that helps you connect with your sense of the sacred? Music has a long and intimate relationship with spirituality, and has helped peo…
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Thu 21 Nov 2024
Human hope in the age of AI
The development of generative AI has opened a lot of questions about who we are as humans. What makes a human, human? What do we value? What does a flourishing future for us all even look like in thi…
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Thu 14 Nov 2024
Making new realities with role-playing games and the internet
Embodying a character in games like Dungeons and Dragons "exercises the empathy muscle" and helps us expand our sense of self — at least according to the Dungeon Master Pastor. Even regular internet …
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Thu 07 Nov 2024
Volunteering for a better world
Volunteers make the world go round! Most people undertake volunteer work at some point in their lives, but some religious traditions particularly emphasise the importance of service to others.
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Thu 31 Oct 2024
Monarchy and its religious critics
In the wake of the King's visit to Australia, we're once again debating questions that get to the heart of Australian government and identity. These aren't just political questions — they're spiritua…
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Fri 25 Oct 2024
Nuns now — the reality and future of vowed religious life
It's becoming rare to see a nun or Catholic sister out and about, but our continuing fascination with women religious is reflected in mass media. What's it really like to be a religious sister in the…
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Thu 17 Oct 2024
Exploring connection through art
There's an intangible sense of connection and interrelationship between things that's just as important as the things themselves. Depicting these relationships in art is a perennial challenge, and in…
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Thu 10 Oct 2024
Practising peace in daily life
There can be a kind of grief and overwhelm at the violence happening in the world right now. Much of it is distressing — and often it feels like so little can be done on an everyday level. But in the…
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Thu 03 Oct 2024
Play as a spiritual practice
It's a commonly held belief that play is just for children, but for many adults it's a path to self-awareness and creativity. Play is a joyous way of spending time, and more than that, a way of being…
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Thu 26 Sep 2024
Food and the ordinary rituals of belief
Food is a basic need, but also more than just a way of nourishing the body. The food on our plates and the drinks in our cups tell us all kinds of things about who we are and what we believe.
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Thu 19 Sep 2024
Forgiveness, remorse and the reparative quest after apartheid
In post-apartheid South Africa, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is asking, when is forgiveness possible, and where does that leave the search for justice? These questions have sent her on what she calls the …
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Thu 12 Sep 2024
"The gap that defined my life" — women advocating for women
What happens when your deepest convictions aren't reflected in the society around you — how do you navigate that gap? Academic Farjana Mahbuba and entrepreneur Mariam Mohammed have been living out th…
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Thu 05 Sep 2024
How making maps makes meaning
Maps tell us all kinds of things about the places they describe. Growing up in Central Australia, Kim Mahood was fascinated by maps. Now map-making has become a collaborative project for her and a wa…
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Thu 29 Aug 2024
Unpacking white mindfulness and a white God
Mindfulness has become a big deal in the West — after all, it's been shown to reduce stress. But some practitioners of colour are critiquing how mindfulness has become accommodated to systems of whit…
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Thu 22 Aug 2024
Healing after apartheid
Do you remember the day, in 1990, when Nelson Mandela walked free from a South African prison? On Soul Search, we meet Rabbi Ralph Genende and Pearl Proud, both of whom grew up in apartheid South Afr…
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Thu 15 Aug 2024
Look up! The night sky, astronomy and awe
There’s something mystical about the night sky. The field of astronomy can veer pretty close to the big question of the origins of the universe. Staring up at celestial bodies prompts us to wonder ab…
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Thu 08 Aug 2024
Can we make meaning together anymore?
Australia is often described as one of the most multicultural societies in the world — but as our many cultures and spiritualities slam together, how do we navigate those points of difference to tell…
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Thu 01 Aug 2024
Mindfulness in daily life — Brother Phap Hai
Join Meredith Lake and Brother Phap Hai on a mindful walk around Mountain Spring Buddhist monastery – a community of mostly Vietnamese monastics in the Plum Village tradition, founded by the late Zen…
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Thu 25 Jul 2024
Being fully alive with Elizabeth Oldfield
What does it mean to be fully alive? Elizabeth Oldfield has ditched the conventional script of what life can look like — instead choosing to live in what she calls a "micro-monastery".
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Thu 18 Jul 2024
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