Big Ideas Stan Grant — when words fail us, reclaiming the language of love
Jan 29, 2026
Stan Grant, Wiradjuri academic, theologian and former journalist, reflects on language, silence and human value. He connects Simone Weil, music and compassion. He links affliction to Indigenous history and warns against performative outrage. He explores how music and silence can speak where words cannot and how technology risks silencing human voices.
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Ask The Holy Question
- Compassion begins by asking, "What are you going through?".
- Stan Grant says this question invites humility and true hearing beyond judgment.
Silence As Shared Language
- Tears and silence are our shared human language when words fail.
- Grant links this silence to the place "where the Word...was with God and the Word was God."
Weil's God Is Central
- Simone Weil's thought must be faced with her Christian mysticism intact.
- Grant argues her claim of Christ entering her body distinguishes her from mere thinkers.
