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 12 Mar 2017
Indigenous Christian artists from across Australia celebrate the bicentenary of Bible Society Australia in a new publication, Our Mob, God's Story.
Bible Society's CEO, Greg Clarke discusses the changes in communicating the Gospel with indigenous Christian minister and artist, Max Conlon.
Includes the words of 14 contributing artists.
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Sunday 5 Mar 2017
The first woman to be both theologian and co-creator of a robot, Dr Anne Foerst believes humanoid robots are not only loveable, they can teach profound truths about the human condition and spirituality.
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Sunday 26 Feb 2017
When chronic pain ended the hopes and dreams of a young New Zealand sportswoman, she turned towards Buddhism and became the founder of an international organisation, Breathworks, which manages chronic pain.
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Sunday 19 Feb 2017
The son of Christian missionaries, Huston Smith was called 'Religion's Rock Star' when he pioneered the comparative study of the world's religions, but in his early days experimented with LSD in the hope of having a mystical experience.
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Sunday 12 Feb 2017
Thousands of people consult psychics in Australia every week looking for help in their relationships. Does it mean they're losing control of their lives?
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Sunday 5 Feb 2017
Film noir meets comic book art, in a documentary about Melbourne's celebrated bohemian couple, Mirka and Georges Mora, who escaped the Nazis in cloak and dagger operations and a secret ingredient - mayonnaise!
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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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