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
Religion and ecology in a warming world
Around 84% of the world’s population affiliates with a religion, so how might that matter in the Anthropocene, for the ways our species interacts with the rest of environment? And can religious belie…
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Thu 25 May 2023
Tim Winton on Ningaloo and the holiness of all that lives
Tim Winton is one of Australia’s most awarded and prolific authors. Ningaloo Reef has inspired him for decades, both in his written work and environmental activism.
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Thu 18 May 2023
The varieties of Atheism – from Dostoevsky’s Russia to now
The varieties of atheism in different times and cultures are the subject of a new book that aims to reveal just how diverse non-religious experience is.
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Thu 11 May 2023
A Voice to Parliament, a voice to the church
There’s already been a lot in the media about the upcoming referendum for a First Nations Voice to Parliament. Similar Indigenous bodies have existed in Australian churches for some time, such as the…
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Thu 04 May 2023
‘Every culture has its ghosts’ — Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka
Everyone loves a ghost story. It’s a genre that exists across history and in nearly every society. In certain forms of Buddhism, accruing bad karma puts you at risk of coming back as a horrifying and…
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Thu 27 Apr 2023
Game over — death and religion in video games
Death is a core feature of most video games — for the player’s avatar at least. In fact, games might be one of the last, mainstream cultural spaces that regularly grapple with questions of mortality …
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Sun 23 Apr 2023
Excavating the afterlife – Ancient Egypt and beyond
It's been 100 years since Howard Carter opened Tutankhamun's burial chamber, focusing the world's attention on ancient Egypt and its preoccupation with what happens after death. But can we excavate t…
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Thu 13 Apr 2023
Disability and the shape of hope
Disability theologians are asking, what does resurrection and renewal mean if Jesus’ wounds remained after he rose from the dead?
It’s a question that challenges our received notions about disabili…
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Thu 06 Apr 2023
Samson and the complications of liberation
Samson: a problematic hero from the Book of Judges, whose superhuman strength does nothing to protect him from his own flaws.
It’s a fraught story of liberation and redemption – in a manner of speak…
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Thu 30 Mar 2023
Memorising the Qur’an in an age of distraction
Every Ramadan, Muslims recite all 114 chapters of the Qur’an. That’s more than 6000 verses, all in classical Arabic. But some will not have to read it from the page – they will have it memorised. The…
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Thu 23 Mar 2023
What’s religious about Disney?
Disney is one of the world’s most pervasive story telling corporations – the creator of iconic films, beloved characters, and the most popular theme parks in the world.
After 100 years of operation,…
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Thu 16 Mar 2023
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 09 Mar 2023
Education for a different world: Muneera Bano and Mariam Mohammed
Dr Muneera Bano and Mariam Mohammed are two incredible leaders who’ve each embraced an unconventional education. Working in vastly different fields, they are both examples of women who have broken th…
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Thu 02 Mar 2023
Islam and the internet
The digital revolution has transformed our lives, including those of the world’s nearly two billion Muslims. How are Muslims using the internet to enrich their religious practise, and how can Islam h…
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Thu 23 Feb 2023
Stories of queer faith for WorldPride
In our cultural moment, the relationship between religion and sexuality is fraught for a lot of people. In public and political discourse, even the terms religion and sexuality suggest conflict, pain…
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Thu 16 Feb 2023
Queer faith and theology at World Pride
It has to be said a lot of our public conversation about religion and sexuality assumes that faith and queerness are separate – even antagonistic aspects of human life. But where does that leave quee…
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Thu 09 Feb 2023
Astronomy and the thrill of curiosity: Jennifer Wiseman and Mehmet Ozalp
Looking at the stars and imagining what’s out there – and our own place in it as humans – is a theme that’s preoccupied our species across time, across cultures, and across religious traditions.
Dr …
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Thu 02 Feb 2023
Tricia Hersey on rest, resistance and liberation
Why is rest such a challenge in our culture, in our time? Tricia Hersey has made it her life’s work to advocate for rest – developing a rest practice herself, and guiding others in the same direction…
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Thu 26 Jan 2023
Theology after Mabo
The first interview in this episode with Anne Pattel-Gray first aired 29 May 2022.
The Mabo decision was a legal and cultural milestone in Australia, but thirty years on, how has it changed theology…
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Sun 22 Jan 2023
What makes a building sacred?
This episode originally aired 22 May 2022.
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, …
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Sun 15 Jan 2023
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