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God Forbid

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Feb 28, 2025 • 54min

Mardi Gras special: on being gay and Godly

How do queer people stay faithful? And how do people raised on religion celebrate being sexually and gender diverse?
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Feb 21, 2025 • 54min

Religion, drugs, and the power of mind-altering substances

How have 'psychedelics' and recreational drugs affected (and been affected by) religion?
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Feb 14, 2025 • 54min

Close encounters of the religious kind: how God and UFOs have both begun religious movements

Believers have long looked to the heavens for meaning, believing in not only God, but UFOs as well.
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Feb 7, 2025 • 54min

To bare or not to bare: why religion can't make its mind up about nudity

Why do religions tell us to cover up? And how has this affected the way we value, judge, and sexualise our bodies in the modern world?
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Jan 31, 2025 • 54min

Living simply in a complex world: how modern monks navigate AI, social media, and climate change

From Hare Krishna to Humanistic Buddhism, modern followers of mindful traditions grapple with maintaining a connection to the world while not falling prey to its modern trappings.How do they do it? And what can we learn from them?
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Jan 24, 2025 • 54min

The world's oldest hatred: how anti-Semitism found its way to Australia

With anti-Semitic vandalism on the rise in Australia, and debate over exactly who and what is causing this surge -- how can the international Jewish community respond?
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Jan 17, 2025 • 29sec

The spirituality of fishing

Why are so many Australians passionate about fishing? Is it simply the thrill of the catch or is there something deeper that keeps us hooked?
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Jan 10, 2025 • 54min

The history of God

Just what did God look like and how did he lose his bodily self?
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Jan 3, 2025 • 54min

We know magic isn't real, so why does it still fascinate us?

Magic as we know it today is performance art, harmless entertainment –  from Penn and Teller to Siegfried and Roy, David Copperfield to Harry Houdini. But, magic, past and present, is stranger, richer and more complex than you imagine.
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Dec 27, 2024 • 0sec

Sawdust and the soul

Jesus was famously a carpenter, and many religious texts associate carpentry with wisdom, humility, and devotion. So, is there something divine about working with wood?

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