Oran and Luke look at the life of Joseph, what we know from Scripture and what we can imagine reading between the lines and both share their thoughts around how Jesus interrupts Joseph’s life with both challenges and goodness.

Caro looks at the parable of the persistent widow alongside the other passages of the scripture that sit alongside this gospel reading in the church lectionary. Through the readings we listen to how the Bible is in conversation with itself and what common threads we can see through the passages.

Brooke Prentis helps us read this parable through Aboriginal eyes and highlights for us some of the many persistent Indigenous voices crying out for justice in these lands now called Australia.

Too often our faith life/spirituality is reduced to obedience-disobedience, saying yes or no to God. But our lives and our hearts are more complex than that. Caro offers a way for us to pay attention to the resistance we might feel in areas of spirituality, and invites us to ask a deeper question of what we might be protecting, and what Jesus might be inviting us to.

The only way we have ever been able to describe the Kingdom of God is through metaphor. In this episode, Oran looks at ways different people, and people groups, have reimagined the Kingdom of God. He discusses the need for an ever maturing understanding, so the church can better reflect the Kingdom and identify it in the world.

Caro shares some of her own experience with healing and out of that talks about the tensions of an over simplistic theology of healing. She shares how holding onto faith, hope and love might be a path between certainty and cynicism as we wrestle with our hopes for healing and the suffering we see in our world.

Shane Clifton shares with us how his reading of this passage has changed over time including both before and after an accident left him with quadriplegia.

Please be advised that explicit language had been used in this episode.

We use the story in John 8 to bounce into a discussion on shame. 3 people in our church (Lynda, Michael and Fyona) bravely and vulnerably share their own experiences and insights into shame in their lives.

Please be advised that explicit language had been used in this episode.

Caro, Oran and Becca have a conversation about Jesus' final words to the woman in our text this month 'go and sin no more'...we throw around some ideas about these words, how they can be read problematically and then also how they might be read as instruction and permission and promise.

Caro looks at this passage of the attempted stoning of the woman through the lens of mercy. Showing us how Jesus reveals the character and nature of God as mercy, and what it might look like for us to recognise the divine pauses for mercy in our lives.