Spirit Lounge: Recent Episodes
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The Spirit Lounge is taking a break until November. For our final show before the break, Rachel, Claudine and Mark played clips from some our favourites of the last year.
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Craig D’Alton, vicar of St Mary’s Anglican Church in North Melbourne, talks to Claudine and Rachel about Christian voices in the plebiscite debate, Anglican attitudes to marriage equality and LGBTI...
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Claudine spoke about her visit to Bangladesh last November as part of a World Student Christian Federation program to educate young Christian women on LGBTIQ issues.
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For NAIDOC Week, Mark and Claudine talked about the impact of Christianity on Indigenous spirituality.
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On yet another cold, wet Melbourne night, Rachel and Mark talked about rain and rainbows in various spiritual traditions.
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Like many at JOY and in the LGBTIQ community, we in the Spirit Lounge have been shocked by the murder of 49 LGBTIQ people in Orlando, Florida. On Thursday 16...
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Holy day of the week was Shavuot. Mark and Rachel talked about two Christian musicians who have recently come out as gay, Trey Pearson and Tyler Glenn. They also continued...
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Rachel talks to Senar about growing up as a Muslim, coming out as gay, and celebrating Ramadan, which begins this week.
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In this show we talk about recent government apologies and religious perspectives on apologising.
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We talked to Robert Stringer and surprise guest Rowena Allen about the upcoming Daring conference held Uniting Network Australia, the national network for lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex and transgender people, their families, friends and supporters within the Uniting Church in Australia.
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As Australians prepare for a federal election, we ask: what place does religion have in politics, or politics in religion? And we look at some historical examples of how religion and politics, or church and state, have gotten tangled up with each other.
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We talked to Philip Thiel about Lutheranism in Australia, and current discussions on the role of women and LGBTI people.
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We talked to Tiffany Sparks about representing A Progressive Christian Voice on Q&A and about some of the issues that matter to progressive Christians.
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Chag sameach! Mark talked us through the story of Pesach (Passover) and the fifteen steps that make up the Pesach Seder. For next week’s show, you may want to watch...
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Holy day of the week was the Sikh festival of Vaisakhi. This led us into a discussion of different types of clothes that are significant in religion, including: The Five...
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Mark, Claudine and Rachel spent most of the show talking about one frequently asked question: the relationships between Hanukkah and Christmas, and Passover and Easter. Originally broadcast on Thursday 7 April.
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Stephen Fry has been nominated for a religious broadcasting award for an interview in which he suggested that God is evil. Rachel and Claudine asked and answered a few frequently...
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Claudine was in church for Maundy Thursday so she was replaced by a bear in the studio. Rachel read the text from the Lego Easter Story by BW Animations. There...
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Lá fhéile Pádraig sona duit! It’s still St Patrick’s Day (17 March) somewhere in the world and we learned a bit about why St Patrick is the patron saint of...
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To celebrate International Women’s Day, we talked about the Bible, women, language and gender with Emily Payne, an Anglican priest. Originally broadcast on Thursday 10 March 2016.
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Holy Days were the Bahá’í fasting days and the Hindu feast of Maha Shivaratri. Two weeks ago we discussed a few local controversies and we revisited them this week. Mentioned...
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Holy Day of the Week was St David’s Day. Nigel introduced The Junction, a new group where LGBTIQQ young adults and their friends can meet to explore Self, Sexuality and...
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Holy day of the week was Ayyám-i-Há (Bahá’i). Claudine, Mark and Rachel discussed some of the week’s hot topics, including: Sky News interview with Lyle Shelton and Jason Tuazon-McCheyne and MattGlover’s open letter to...
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Happy Year of the Monkey! We talked to Michelle Trebilcock about Lent and various Lenten practices including fasting and meditation, and some of the different meanings of purple across different...
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We started off talking about the initiative of some Australian churches to offer sanctuary to asylum seekers. Holy days of the week were Transfiguration Sunday, Shrove Tuesday/Fat Tuesday/Mardi Gras and Ash...
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Mark talked about International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 January). We then talked about some of our favourite films with religious topics or themes. Here’s some of the ones we came...
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Holy observance was the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. We talked to Srini Madhavan about his experiences growing up in a Hindu family. Originally broadcast on Thursday 21 January...
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Holy days were Maghi and World Religion Day. Claudine, Rachel and Mark talked to Fr Stuart Soley from St Mark’s Anglican Church in Fitzroy about Midsumma Mass and the parish’s...
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Holy day of the week was Epiphany. Mark and Rachel talked to Rabbi Kim Ettlinger from Temple Beth Israel, about Pride Shabbat and the Union for Reform Judaism’s Resolution on...
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Rachel and Claudine talked to Nur from Marhaba, a support group for LGBTI people from Muslim backgrounds, which recently celebrated their second anniversary. For more information, visit Federation Story and...
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