podcast

Is the human race on an inevitable trajectory onward and upward? Not quite, says Nick Spencer.

Politics, religion, and being a good guest at dinner - or a good citizen in the public square.

The gripping, often irreverent, sometimes hilarious history of the Bible in Australian culture.

How a near-death experience helped one man embrace all of life – the beautiful, and the ugly.

Astrophysicist Jennifer Wiseman on star-gazing, human significance, and the prospect of extra-terrestrial life.

Two Aboriginal women give their first-hand accounts of growing up on Christian missions.

Social researcher Hugh Mackay on building a more compassionate and less anxious society.

The greatest facepalm of the Crusades - and more stories of crusaders turning on other Christians.

The hungry, the sick, the imprisoned - or as the Knights of Malta called them, “Our Lords the Sick”.

A confronting - and deeply personal - look at the roots of racial division in the US.