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
The forest makers – Tony Rinaudo and Ruth Jerotich
This episode first aired 5 June 2022.
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 a…
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Sun 08 Jan 2023
Salvaging the light: Poet and aphorist Yahia Lababidi
This episode originally aired 8 May 2022.
an literature somehow bridge the visible and invisible realms? Meredith Lake speaks with Egyptian-American poet and aphorist Yahia Lababidi, whose work rang…
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Sun 01 Jan 2023
Christmas on the liquid continent
The South Pacific – the liquid continent – is one of the most religious places on earth. The overwhelming majority of people identify as Christians of one kind or another – so what does that mean at …
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Thu 22 Dec 2022
The gospel of John and the poetry of belief
As people around the world prepare to celebrate Christmas, Christians turn to the Gospels to read ancient accounts of Jesus.
The gospel of John is the fourth gospel contained in the New Testament – …
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Thu 15 Dec 2022
Prayers of nomads – Valerie Browning and Mohammed Salih
The Horn of Africa is one of the hottest and poorest regions on earth, and it’s home to a semi-nomadic community, the Afar. Valerie Browning is an Australian nurse who has given up her own way of lif…
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Thu 08 Dec 2022
How to have an enemy: Melissa Florer-Bixler
Do you have an enemy? Even if you do, you might not want to admit it, or say who!
Melissa Florer-Bixler has thought a lot about enemies, especially in the political context of Donald Trump’s preside…
Thu 01 Dec 2022
Faith amid flood waters
At the beginning of 2022, flooding in South-East Queensland and the Northern Rivers of New South Wales upended the lives of thousands, including the area’s diverse religious communities. Hear how the…
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Thu 24 Nov 2022
Finding the divine in the natural world
With the latest round of UN climate talks wrapping up recently, it’s a good time to ask a fundamental question: Who are we, in relation to nature? What kinds of relationships bind us to other beings,…
Thu 17 Nov 2022
Travel and transformation: Sarah Malik and Giselle Bader
Where are you going? Journeys take many forms: Moving away from your parents’ house, being a tourist in a foreign land, or going on a pilgrimage to a site of profound spiritual significance – and all…
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Thu 10 Nov 2022
The music of doubt, grief and transformation
How important is music to you? Does it have a sacred quality in your life? From contemporary Catholic theology to the goth icon Nick Cave, music speaks to the soul in ways other media does not.
Dr L…
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Thu 03 Nov 2022
Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek on paradox, beauty and truth
Frank Wilczek is a Nobel Prize winner, and earlier this year he was named the 2022 Templeton laureate as well – a recognition of his spiritual as well as scientific curiosity.
He’s a scientist, reno…
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Thu 27 Oct 2022
Sacred landscapes: The Flinders Ranges
The Flinders Ranges in the semi-arid outback of South Australia is one of the oldest places on earth and the cradle of Adnyamathanha culture, ceremony and language.
In addition to being an ancient p…
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Thu 20 Oct 2022
Women’s voices in ancient texts and Australian churches
Women, where they speak and what they say, has been a hot topic for nearly 2000 years of Christian history. Modern moves to empower women to teach and preach in churches can seem opposed to ancient C…
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Thu 13 Oct 2022
Danya Ruttenberg on repentance and repair
In this messy old world, we all find ourselves on the receiving end of harm. But then – sometimes it’s us, we’re the one in the wrong. How do we face it?
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Thu 06 Oct 2022
Making fictional faiths real – invented religions
In the past it’s been a joke to put Jedi as your religion on the census, but there are people who practise Star Wars-inspired faiths quite seriously. It turns out, people really do take things from f…
Thu 29 Sep 2022
Satanic Panic — Dungeons & Dragons and Harry Potter
The Satanic Panic was a time of incredible anxiety in the United States – and Australia. This special feature examines how games like Dungeons and Dragons and books like Harry Potter became unlikely …
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Thu 22 Sep 2022
Making something of our mortality in Australia and Japan
Funerals have been front and centre these past few weeks. The rituals we use to memorialise the dead are only one part of the story – what about the material things we use to mark the life of someone…
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Thu 15 Sep 2022
Sacred landscapes: the desert
How do deserts shape our sense of the sacred? For centuries people have found deserts spiritually transformative – not just for individuals but for whole communities.
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Thu 08 Sep 2022
Sidney Nolan’s secret Holocaust paintings
Sidney Nolan is best known for his Ned Kelly series and Anzac portraits, but secretly, privately, he also painted around 200 works about the Holocaust. They’re now display in Australia for the first …
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Thu 01 Sep 2022
Life on earth, life in space
Is human life bound to planet earth? If so, what does that mean for our ambitions to colonise space? Even our fledgling space exploration has caused damage to the near-earth environment, so space eth…
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Tue 23 Aug 2022
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