It was four years in the making, but Sydney composer James Humberstone and writer Nigel Featherstone hope their new song cycle will help bring healing to people suffering isolation and depression as the result of traumatic experiences of many kinds.

Cryptocurrency is the next big new thing in fundraising. The security and other features provided by blockchain will be a game changer for Australian charities giving them access to new sources of funding and improved public accountability. "Tokens for Humanity" is Australia's first blockchain charity. Co-founders Bryce Thomas and Fredrick Brien explained all to Open House host, Stephen O'Doherty.

Reading to young children is the best gift you can give them. It improves their maths as well as literacy, language and problem solving according to a major new Australian Catholic University study.

Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide, Phillip Wilson, has been found guilty of concealing his knowledge of offences committed in the 1970's by a notorious paedophile priest. Jesuit Priest, lawyer and high profile political and social justice advocate, Frank Brennan, pleaded with Wilson to resign yet the Archbishop refuses. Is the Archbishop's intransigence further evidence that the Catholic Church hierarchy just don't get the mess they are in following the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse?

To be afflicted by hope seems a contradictory term. How could hope, so full of promise, joy and anticipation be an affliction? Being afflicted by hope is a term Baptist Minister, theologian, author and social commentator, Reverend Michael Frost used recently on his blog.  He describes this malady as something that can particularly strike men in their sixties. On Open House, Michael Frost discussed the issue with Stephen O'Doherty.

The federal government is moving closer to getting a Modern Slavery Act. A welcome move as that is. the Australian Law Council is concerned that there are key provisions missing in the draft laws. President of the Law Council explained the shortcomings to Stephen O'Doherty on Open House.

We love the relaxation and excitement of travelling the world. But in our rush to see the world, it could be that we forget the impact, for good or ill, on our spiritual life. Do we make packing our Bible as important as taking enough socks? 'Travelling the World as Citizens of Heaven' a new book by Reverend Stephen Liggins examines many of those questions.

The Charity Dignity Ltd is taking a 'housing first' approach to homelessness. Operating for just two years they now have the capacity to provide meals, a warm bed and hot shower to 200 people a night. CEO and co-founder, Suzanne Hopman.

An important new report asks questions and finds answers as we prepare to educate children for the age of technology. Lead researcher Professor John Buchanan says employers have to get skin back in the game for the 80 p% of children who don't go to university and that creative problem solving is all well and good but it needs context.