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Jan 15, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Ann Marie Debettencor |Alice Walker |Rohan Salmond |Meredith Lake
In post-apartheid South Africa, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is asking, when is forgiveness possible, and where does that leave the search for justice? These questions have sent her on what she calls the "reparative quest", seeking answers from people on opposite sides of the atrocity — including the former police colonel, Eugene de Kock, nicknamed “Prime Evil” for his role in killing and torturing activists fighting white minority rule in the country.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Meredith Lake |Alice Walker |Rohan Salmond |Ann Marie Debettencor
The development of generative AI has opened a lot of questions about who we are as humans. What makes a human, human? What do we value? What does a flourishing future for us all even look like in this new technological age? Dr Stephen Garner is a Senior Research Fellow at Laidlaw College, the largest interdenominational Christian College in New Zealand. He researches theology in dialogue with science, technology, and new media, and regularly writes and speaks about Christianity and AI.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Andrew West |Hong Jiang |Bethany Stewart |Ann Marie Debettencor
The King of Bhutan is in Australia, meeting national leaders and some of the 35,000 members of the Bhutanese diaspora. The Buddhist-majority country enjoys a reputation as the happiest country on earth — but it also faces economic and human rights challenges. Next month's presidential election has been called the most consequential in modern US history. American voters seem polarised, but political scientist Damon Linker believes that there is common ground. Buddhism, US Elections, World Politics
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Meredith Lake |Alice Walker |Rohan Salmond |Ann Marie Debettencor
In post-apartheid South Africa, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is asking, when is forgiveness possible, and where does that leave the search for justice? These questions have sent her on what she calls the "reparative quest", seeking answers from people on opposite sides of the atrocity. This includes former police colonel Eugene de Kock, nicknamed "Prime Evil" for his role in killing and torturing anti-apartheid activists.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Yumi Stynes |Hannah Achelles |Tamar Cranswick |Alex Lollback |Ann Marie Debettencor
Jill Stark spent most of her life defined by alcohol. Either as a hard-drinking party girl, spurred on by a culture of drinking as a journalist, or as the poster child for sobriety, trapped by a public identity that revolved around abstinence. Yumi and Jill talk about her journey to genuine sobriety on her own terms, and how she has learned who she is without booze.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Meredith Lake |Rohan Salmond |Ann Marie Debettencor
Maps tell us all kinds of things about the places they describe. Growing up in Central Australia, Kim Mahood was fascinated by maps. Now map-making has become a collaborative project for her and a way of honouring the complexities of remote desert life. Kim Mahood is an award-winning writer and artist, her books include Wandering with Intent, Position Doubtful and Craft for a Dry Lake. She's artist-in-residence at the Araluen Arts Centre in Mparntwe Alice Springs.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Meredith Lake |Rohan Salmond |Alice Walker |Ann Marie Debettencor
Mindfulness has become a big deal in the West — after all, it's been shown to reduce stress. But some practitioners of colour are critiquing how mindfulness has become accommodated to systems of whiteness. Similarly, postcolonial theologians are challenging Christian conceptions of God as a white man, and the consequences that has for our society. Dr Cathy-Mae Karelse is a London-based scholar-practitioner of mindfulness.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Meredith Lake |Rohan Salmond |Ann Marie Debettencor
Philosopher Soren Kirkegaard said that if he could prescribe one thing for the world, it would be silence. Today, we're taking a break from all the noise and distraction – to pay attention to the quality of silence. Why is so precious in so many of the world's spiritual traditions? And where, or how, do we find it?
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May 16, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Meredith Lake |Rohan Salmond |Hong Jiang |Ann Marie Debettencor
"It's not coming out, but inviting in." For Benjamin Oh, storytelling is an act of courage and hospitality, sharing his multilayered identity: gay, Chinese, Catholic. Benjamin has been an advocate for LGBTIQ+ people inside the Catholic Church and beyond for 20 years. Benjamin Oh is co-Chair of Equal Voices, a national ecumenical alliance of LGBTIQA+ Christians and allies in Australia.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Meredith Lake |Rohan Salmond |Ann Marie Debettencor
The Bible has been held sacred by Christians for centuries, and in the process has become one of the world’s most beguiling and disputed texts. Why do people still read it, thousands of years after it was compiled? Rev Dr Robyn Whitaker is Associate Professor of New Testament at Pilgrim Theological College, at the University of Divinity. She specialises in the Book of Revelation and the Synoptic Gospels and is the author of Even the Devil Quotes Scripture, a book about hermeneutics.
