Salt – Conversations

Mike Baird is one of those high-profile Christians, having been a politician for some years. His relationship with power culminated in him taking on the top job as premier in New South Wales from 2014 to 2017. 

Jenny Salt asks Mike what it means to be a public Christian. How do you live out your life as a follower of Christ in front of a watching, often critical, world?

Trigger alert: This episode contains some distressing details of assault.

Jenny Salt introduces us to Helen, a woman who has suffered much in her journey towards God.

Like most of us, Helen has a busy work life, a loving family, a close church community, and a lot of people who know and love her as a friend and sister in Christ.

Helen’s story also includes heartache and pain in the context of domestic violence and living with a major depressive disorder for most of her life. 

But ultimately, hers is a story of hope in God.

Sarah Raiter is a wife, mum, grandmother, author, artist… and grew up in a country considered extremely dangerous from a western perspective - especially for Christians. 

But for Sarah, life in Pakistan meant a childhood filled with stories of adventure, beautiful sunsets, villages, compounds, and high walls. As an adult, though, it was also the place where she both lost and found her faith.

In the end, she loved Pakistan so much that she went back and lived there with her husband and children.

Colin Buchanan is one of Australia's most beloved country music and kid's worship composers - a perfect choice for the final pre-season episode in the lead-up to next week's season 5. 

Colin's family journey spans the globe, his musical journey the breadth of this country, and his spiritual journey from darkness to light.

Join Jenny Salt as she presents a bonus-length, musical special that peers into the corners of Colin's life and comes out with a smile on its face!

When huge challenge is followed by huge challenge, how do you manage to hold on to God? As the trials mounted, Helen Thomas had to ask herself again and again, "Can we trust God with this?"

Helen Thomas is a wife and mother of four with a wonderful Greek heritage and a faith that has been with her since her teenage years. 

But when God placed his hand first on her husband, then on her children, her life entered a valley that few have to enter. 

What she found at its bottom though, was a way to hold on to her joy even in the midst of her sadness.

In the run-up to season 5, Jenny Salt shares her favourite four episodes. 

In this episode, Jenny chats with Richard Hibbert about life and ministry in Turkey and Bulgaria (among other places).

Richard impressed Jenny as someone with an ever-present taste for adventure, with wisdom to share as he contemplated life in the shadow of his own death.

Jenny Salt shares her four favourite episodes of all time as we count down the weeks to the beginning of Salt's fifth season. First off the rank...

In 1960 Ruth Myors left Australia to work as a midwife with the Somali people. For over two decades she served in a hospital in Somalia, a village in Ethiopia and a radio ministry in Kenya.

Bureaucratic decisions, coups, communist takeovers, natural disasters, sudden deaths - all disrupted plans and brought about unexpected changes in her life.

Ruth wrote about these experiences in her memoir When The Lights Go Out, and she shares them with Jenny Salt.

The new lockdown in New South Wales has hampered our ability to get all of the great stories we have lined up recorded.

But Jenny still has some great stories to share. 

Join her over the coming weeks as she delves into the Salt archives to re-share her favourite four stories from the past four seasons.

Jenny Salt is hard at work preparing season 5 of Salt, and she's wondering if you have stories to share?

Is there someone in your life whose Gospel-centred life is inspiring to you? You should let us know!

Just email your story ideas to Jenny at [email protected] and we'll see if we can include them in the show.

Jenny Salt is offering ten free books to the first ten listeners to send a picture of a Salt review to [email protected].

It's that simple!