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
- 255
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
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
Doing public theology on Aboriginal land
National NAIDOC Week has its roots in the public theology of William Cooper, but what does it mean to do Christian theology on Aboriginal land?
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Thu 11 Jul 2024
Exploring religion in Japan
Over 600,000 Australians visited Japan in 2023, and most of them visited a temple or shrine — even though they wouldn’t normally do that back home. But what's the etiquette when visiting a sacred pla…
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Thu 04 Jul 2024
Aboriginal ministry — the who, what and how
Christians often use the word "ministry" to describe the work of the clergy, but in Aboriginal contexts, its meaning is more expansive. There are hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peo…
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Thu 27 Jun 2024
How can we find spiritual community?
How do we make and find meaning alongside one another, in community?
We live in a society that's becoming increasingly atomised in all kinds of spheres. But what might it look like if we, instead, …
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Fri 21 Jun 2024
Chinese wisdom for turbulent times
What does it mean to live skilfully in a world that's constantly changing? And what wisdom can Chinese philosophy offer to this question? We meet a philosopher and a master calligrapher, who have a g…
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Thu 13 Jun 2024
Embracing silence in a noisy world
Today, we're taking a break from all the noise and distraction – to pay attention to the quality of silence. Why is so precious in so many of the world's spiritual traditions? And where, or how, do …
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Thu 06 Jun 2024
Cultivating curiosity with Amy-Jill Levine
How do you cultivate curiosity? That mindset has propelled Amy-Jill Levine through a lifetime of discovery. She's learned about all kinds of things, but especially about sacred texts, and the people …
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Thu 30 May 2024
From Iraq to Alice Springs — a pilgrim for peace
When Donna Mulhearn quit her job to go travelling, she found herself on an unusual path. First, to an Irish monastery, then to Baghdad during the Iraq War where she volunteered as a human shield. Lat…
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Thu 23 May 2024
Queer flourishing as resistance with Benjamin Oh
"It's not coming out, but inviting in." For Benjamin Oh, storytelling is an act of courage and hospitality, sharing his multilayered identity: gay, Chinese, Catholic. Benjamin has been an advocate fo…
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Thu 16 May 2024
Rethinking prosperity
How much stuff is too much? It's a question rarely asked here in the 'Lucky Country', but it has become central to the life of Jonathan Cornford, a political economist and theologian exploring new wa…
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Thu 09 May 2024
The science and spirituality of mindfulness
The nature of consciousness is a subject of enormous interest to both science and religion. Modern, secular mindfulness techniques have their foundation in ancient Buddhist thought, but it's only rec…
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Thu 02 May 2024
The stories that stick with us — Keerthik Sasidharan and the Mahābhārata
Keerthik Sasidharan grew up with stories from the great Indian epics. They fired his imagination, and they've stayed with him through all kinds of changes — including moving from India to New York Ci…
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Thu 25 Apr 2024
Hope and healing in Rwanda and beyond
Thirty years after the Rwandan genocide, Rwandans are working towards a better future for the country, and each other — including the perpetrators of the violence. Also, an Australian doctor works ti…
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Thu 18 Apr 2024
Navigating faith over a lifetime
What role does faith play over the course of a lifetime? Three Christian women, each from a different generation, engage in an honest conversation about faith.
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Thu 11 Apr 2024
Ramadan — Seeking the divine in times of suffering
How can one nurture the soul? Or seek the divine in times of suffering and violence? These aren't new questions, but as 1.9 billion Muslims approach the peak of Ramadan, we meet a poet and a professo…
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Thu 04 Apr 2024
Imagining Jesus on screen and in literature
Jesus is a film star. He’s graced the big screen since the beginning of cinema — you can probably picture him: robed and long-haired, but that’s only one way to imagine Jesus. In fact, the conversati…
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Thu 28 Mar 2024
Rituals of repair, of politics and ourselves
Rituals mark moments moments throughout our lives, big and small. They are also used to draw attention to political injustice and social inequality, to express lament and to reorient the participants…
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Thu 21 Mar 2024
Habit and the spiritual life
Perhaps you've heard it said, "We are what we repeatedly do". The early Christian ascetics knew this, but you don't have to be a monk to cultivate good habits, replace bad ones, and — hopefully — bec…
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Thu 14 Mar 2024
The drag queen and the hymn writer — Queering Christian music
Flamy Grant is a drag queen who made a splash in the Contemporary Christian Music industry, charting on Billboard and iTunes' Christian charts. Previously, powerful gatekeepers at Christian record la…
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Thu 07 Mar 2024
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