The Spirit of Things explores contemporary values and beliefs as expressed through ritual, art, music and sacred texts, and focusing on the nature of spiritual meaning in our lives.
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Sunday 29 Jan 2017
Psychiatrist, Tanveer Ahmed, thinks the decline of religion may be to blame for the epidemic of depression, dysfunction and drug abuse, while the lack of an over arching shared sense of meaning and boundaries is creating a fragile nation. Psychotherapist Winsome Thomas grew up in the Salvation Army but left it for an expanded spirituality which has helped her heal fragile lives including her own.
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Sunday 22 Jan 2017
In Alice Springs over a hundred people met at the Edge of the Sacred conference to foster reconciliation and deepen our connection to the land as part of an authentic Australian spirituality.
Miriam Rose Ungunmerr Baumann AO, the Rev'd Sarah Bachelard and David Tacey are guests.
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Sunday 15 Jan 2017
One of Australia's most well known composers, Elena Kats-Chernin, writes music that is often joyful, reflecting her positive spirit and her belief in 'energies', but personal tragedy has had a great effect on her style of music. Recorded with Elena at the piano.
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Sunday 8 Jan 2017
Bendy bodies are what you want, but sometimes bendy ethics get in the way of good yoga practice.
Yoga Australia met to discuss the dos and dont's of yoga practice which in some cases has resulted in the abuse of vulnerable students by unscrupulous teachers.
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Sunday 1 Jan 2017
The subject of the documentary, Grief Walker, Canadian, Stephen Jenkinson answers to Death Monger. Having spent the last 20 years helping people die, Stephen is convinced that our modern death-phobic culture invents solutions for death that just reinforce our fear of it.
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Sunday 25 Dec 2016
From the beginning, the right to be merry at Christmas came under fire from bishops and dictators. Gerry Bowler is the world's expert on Christmas and he tells the 2000 year history of denouncing and defending it.
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Sunday 18 Dec 2016
Major Australian artists and theologians reflect together on the meaning of birth and creation in the exhibition Seasons of Birth.
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Sunday 11 Dec 2016
Youth from around the world dedicated to solving religious and cultural conflicts at home and abroad shared their projects, their ideals and their challenges as they gathered in Brisbane's Centre for Interfaith and Cultural Dialogue.
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Sunday 4 Dec 2016
Poets, parsons and politicians shaped this country's culture including the prevalence of 'sacral secularity' a deeply Christian yet outwardly secular Australian society.
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Sunday 27 Nov 2016
We can only be human together...
Sixty students from three schools across Sydney gathered together for the third time in the year to learn that friendship, acceptance and compassion can cross religious and cultural lines.
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Sunday 20 Nov 2016
One of the world's oldest cities, Aleppo in North West Syria, was a cross-roads of Paganism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Will Aleppo survive the present onslaught? Former Middle Eastern diplomat and historian Ross Burns tells the story of its past and speculates on its future.
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Sunday 13 Nov 2016
Composed by George Palmer, The Faces of Mercy brings together poetry and art, choir and quartet, as well as the sublime voice of Amelia Farrugia, in celebration of the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy declared by Pope Francis.
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Sunday 6 Nov 2016
The world's first ghetto, imposed on the Jews of Venice in 1516, was very different from its current meaning. Forced to live behind a locked gate with many restrictions, the Jews of Venice were neither impoverished nor uniform, but were diverse in language and religious rites.
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Sunday 30 Oct 2016
Gretta Vosper is the United Church of Canada minister who announced she was atheist but continued to lead her congregation, West Hill Church in Toronto.
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