On the Way Podcast
Religion & Spirituality
About
A podcast exploring the deeper mysteries of faith, meaning, and beauty. Based at St John's Cathedral in Brisbane, the podcast invites others into conversation who are also "on the way"; seeking a transformative spirituality and inclusive faith that speaks to real issues of today. Together we seek to make meaning and articulate a Christianity that expresses the liberating and life-giving message of the Gospel in our time.
Episodes
- Kwok Pui-Lan: The Colonial Mind
Dr. Kwok Pui-lan joins the On the Way Podcast to discuss the persistent effects of colonialism beyond historical narratives. She highlights its influence on contemporary relationships and social structures, emphasizing the need for awarene…
- On the Way: The Weight of Everything
Peter, Dom, and Sue discuss coping with current global events, acknowledging feelings of despair due to violence and societal shifts. They explore navigating these times through life-affirming practices, community support, and a spiritual…
- Jeff Chu: Good Soil
Jeff Chu, author of 'Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand,' shares insights from his time at Princeton's
- John Na'em Snobar: Peace with Justice
John Na'em Snobar, a Palestinian Christian and former Australian Diplomat, shares his experiences from diplomatic circles and Israel/Palestine. He discusses how speaking truth, including naming antisemitism and the impact in the region, is…
- Peter Kline: The Double Bind of Being Human
Dr. Peter Kline rejoins the podcast to explore the unresolvable tensions of the human condition, focusing on the conflict between desire and morality. The discussion covers why balance is unhelpful and how freedom and joy can be found with…
- Jim Schirmer: Integrating wellbeing, therapy and the soul
While society has advanced in its understanding of mental health, with advances in treatment, wider awareness and a reduction in stigma, there seems to be no abating of the mental health crisis. Tracing the history of modern psychotherapy,…
- Iain McGilchrist: The Sense Of The Sacred
Anyone who describes an experience with the sacred will find themselves often struggling for words because they find the sacred is not a 'thing', nor a set of beliefs, but rather an encounter in open and vulnerable relationship which requi…
- Donna Ladkin : The Leadership Moment
So often we think of leaders as born rather than made, or at least as having some kind of specialist predisposition such as charisma or perhaps an extraverted, more dominant personality. Dr Donna Ladkin joins Dom, Peter and Sue to explore…
- Beth-Sarah Wright: the Dignity Lens
What if dignity is a way of seeing that changes the kind of attention we pay to each other and to our world? Authenticity, human dignity and the courage to confront difficult truths are a common thread in the writing of Dr Beth-Sarah Wrigh…
- Spiritual Misfits, On the Way (LIVE at 'Words for Those Who Wander')
A special cross-over podcast episode between Spiritual Misfits and On the Way, recorded at 'Words For Those Who Wander' at West End Uniting Church in Brisbane. In this conversation, Will Small, Dom Fay, Sue Grimmett, and Peter Catt e…
- Wil Gafney: Reading and Seeing from the Margins
We do everything we do in this world through our embodiment. There remains a pervasive myth that we move through this world working and creating without leaving any trace of our own lived experience upon our moving and interacting, comment…
- Meg Wheatley: Restoring Sanity
After 50 years of working with leaders globally, Margaret Wheatley, argues that leadership has never been more difficult. In the face of a multicrisis of climate and human created catastrophes, Meg points to the compelling need to awaken t…
- Lamorna Ash: A New Generation's Search for Religion
Exploring a curious story that she thought might be “knotty and weird”, of two comedians from her student days who converted to Christianity and decided to become Anglican priests, journalist Lamorna Ash unearths a recurring ph…
- Parker J. Palmer: Everything Falls Away
"Sooner or later, everything falls away." With these words, author Parker J. Palmer begins his much-loved poem exploring the landscape of loss, grief and letting go. In this conversation, Parker reads the poem and reflects on the transient…
- Pádraig Ó Tuama: The Room Next To Belief
Alongside being the title of Pádraig Ó Tuama's recently released collection of poetry, Kitchen Hymns is also an informal term referring to the hymns sung in Irish homes that weren't allowed in formal church contexts, du…
- Barbara Brown Taylor: Rediscovering Reverence
In the midst of our busy lives, we can so easily miss the sacred shining through every moment. Children are instinctively drawn to bewilderment and astonishment at the wonder of life, and yet it is a way of seeing that often fades as the r…
- Rob Bell: Grief, Guilt & Growth
What do we do with the weight of the past? We so often find ourselves clinging and grasping to that which has ended, getting stuck in self-loathing and judgement over that which we regret, or becoming too cautious and comfortable to step b…
- Rowan Williams: Holy Longing
While we may struggle to agree on the answers to life's biggest questions, we are all united in asking them. It is this shared questioning that binds us as humans, with each of us carrying a deep ache for something greater, something…
- Iain McGilchrist: A Distorted Reality
What if the way our brains have evolved is inhibiting us from seeing reality as it actually is?This is the groundbreaking theory of renowned neuroscientist, psychiatrist and philosopher Dr Iain McGilchrist, whose research on the two h…
- Alexander John Shaia: Recovering The Mystical
Karl Rahner once remarked that 'the Christian of the future will be a mystic or will not exist', and it is in this spirit that friend of the podcast Alexander John Shaia joins Dom for a conversation about recovering the mystical way of see…
- Pete Rollins: Nothing Matters
Our culture constantly bombards us with products, ideas and approaches that promise to heal us, cure us, make us whole, and take away the pain of life entirely. We are led to believe that we are only one change away from the life we've alw…
- Richard Holloway: Looking for Life's Meaning
What are the biggest questions that would stay with you across your life? is there a God? Why is there something, not nothing, and what can it possibly all mean? How can we live a good life? Richard Holloway joins the podcast once aga…
- Rowan Williams: Passions Of The Soul
What cost do we pay when we remain living in self-regarding reactivity? What do we do when we find ourselves stuck, trapped by the illusory pictures we have of ourselves and unable to be a channel of life for others? Former Archbishop of C…
- John Philip Newell: The Great Search
There is a strong sense that the Church is in a time of transition- preparing to birth something new. John Philip Newell in his new book, The Great Search: Turning to earth and soul in the quest for healing and home, addresses this idea an…
- Alexander John Shaia: The Mystical Christos
Is there an ancient path that can transform lives when we find it together, giving hope and meaning? Alexander John Shaia returns to the podcast from his home in Spain to share his deep mining of the Gospel of John which he argues offer th…
- Anne Van Gend: Restoring the Story
On the Way Episode 107 Anne Van Gend: Restoring the Story Are we too squeamish about atonement? Anne Van Gend, priest, author and ministry educator, joins the podcast to explore how we tell and keep telling stories about ‘atonement’ in dif…
- Parker Palmer: Healing The Heart Of Democracy
How do we find a way back to one another, across shrill voices and opposing ideologies? How might we reclaim a democracy which appreciates the value of 'the other', creating community and living with tension in life-giving ways? With the r…
- Eleanor O'Donnell : Power & God
Australian priest, teacher and author, Eleanor O’Donnell joins the podcast to talk about the way we understand power, hierarchy and divinity. How do we talk about God when that word conjures a big other, looking down from a throne in the s…
- Palestine: a humanitarian and ecological crisis
With the UN reporting on acts of genocide in Gaza and the ongoing violent colonisation of multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-ethnic Palestine continuing, a global understanding and response to the situation is vital. Eight million o…
- Domestic and Family Violence: changing the narrative in the church
In Australia this year, one woman has been violently killed every four days. Increasingly we are aware of the way abusive behaviours form patterns over time to create and maintain power and dominance over another, whether emotionally, sexu…
- Brian McLaren: Life After Doom
We live in turbulent times. Amidst the ecological, political, and economic crises dominating news headlines, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed by a sense of doom about where this whole thing is going. Is it possible to face these very dif…
- Paul Young: Known and Loved
Amidst all our wrestling with the big questions of life, faith, and meaning, how do we move beyond our minds to a deeper, embodied experience of what it is to simply be loved? As Dom continues the podcast's Northern Hemisphere excursion, h…
- On the Way : 100th Episode!
Peter, Sue and Dom sit down to share how these many conversations across 7 years with wise and thoughtful people from around the world and closer to home have shaped their thinking and their lives. What shifts have happened in the world an…
- Rob Bell: Finding The Way Forward
Amidst the endlessly complex and varying longings, fears, passions, and possibilities that animate our lives, how do we find the courage and clarity to step into the path that’s truly calling to us? Rob Bell knows this journey well. After…
- James Hollis: The Summons of the Soul
Carl Jung once remarked that "life is a short pause between two great mysteries", and it is in the midst of this pause that each of us are given the task of creating a life of depth and meaning. But with the psychological baggage of our pe…
- Pete Rollins: Loving The Loss
Dom Fay is travelling and here once again from Pete Rollins' apartment in Belfast comes a special New Year podcast release to explore how the real object of our New Year's hopes may be found in our failure to achieve them. This is an exist…
- Wild Landscapes and Soul Work: Belden Lane
Are we drawn to landscapes that echo the symptoms of our soul? Desert spirituality knows that the God of the vast spaces is an experience of the sacred where we can find ourselves completely undone, stripped of our usual protective identit…
- Understanding desire: James Alison
Understanding human desire, the way it is caught and the way it can lead us to scapegoating and violence is foundational to understanding what it is to be human. Drawing on the work of René Girard, James Alison joins the podcast once again…
- Telling the Truth - Henry Reynolds
The Uluru Statement from the Heart urges Australia to come to terms with its history. This year the slogan, “History is calling” reminds us that the past is never the past- particularly when it has been forgotten or wilfully misunderstood…
- Indigenous spirituality and a grounded faith: Garry Deverell
How does an Indigenous person express spirituality grounded in country in the wake of colonisation and the continued colonial nature of our institutions and systems? Dr Garry Worete Deverell, a Trawloolway man from northern Tasmania, joins…
- The Science of Worship
There have been many conversations about the interface between science and theology and the rich understandings that can result. There have been few explorations, however, of the way science can inform and lend insight to our understanding…
- Mess, grace and glory: The Anglican Church in fiction as in life
It is said that stories make us what we are. If that is true, then perhaps creating stories about ourselves may help us to see more clearly who we are and who we want to become. Fictional author of the Lindchester Chronicles, Catherine Fox…
- Cruel optimism
Being aware of the water in which we swim is not always easy. Dr Peter Kline joins the conversation to help us to see more clearly the culture in which we are immersed that we may understand the way it has constrained our desire, providing…
- Live at the cathedral with Pádraig Ó Tuama
Pádraig ÓTuama joins On the Way in St John's Cathedral for a live recording of this conversation which explores the power of language to build up or destroy, open us to curiosity or shut down understanding, to wield shame or honour the bea…
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- Articulating the sacred: Steven Shakespeare
Human beings are a symbol-making, ritual creating, story-telling creatures, but how do you put words to mystery? Steven Shakespeare joins Dom, Peter and Sue to explore the art of creating liturgy and language around God and our experience…
- Unashamedly gay, unashamedly Christian: Jayne Ozanne
Coming out once is challenging, but Jayne Ozanne describes coming out three times: first as gay, then coming out as Christian to her LGBTIQ+ friends, and finally as evangelical to her Christian LGBTIQ+ friends. In this boundary crossing, J…
- The Great 100 Days Of Easter: Alexander John Shaia
How did our modern Easter come to look like it does today? Author, anthropologist, and spiritual director Alexander John Shaia returns to the podcast to explore the origins of our current understanding of Easter, as well as the call to dee…
- Spirituality, liberation and the stories that make us: Cole Arthur Riley
The way we narrate our past shapes our present and our future, but sometimes our memories are reduced by the generality of the stories we tell- stories shaped by our fears and our wounds and not faithful to the embodied particularity of ou…
- Pete Rollins: Coming home
Home is a word that carries so much longing within it. Many artists have explored the foundational homesickness central to the human experience - this sense we each carry of being disconnected or separated in some way from the home we long…