Food is a basic need, but also more than just a way of nourishing the body. The food on our plates and the drinks in our cups tell us all kinds of things about who we are and what we believe.

Where do you feel like you belong? A sense of belonging can change or be refined throughout our lives, and through experiences like travel or creating art. On Soul Search, we examine the complexities of belonging, and what it is that makes us feel at home — or far from it.

Disability is an all-of-us thing. Almost everyone will experience disability — in our communities, and, with time, directly in our own bodies.

Today, we're taking a break from all the noise and distraction – to pay attention to the quality of silence. Why is it so precious in many of the world's spiritual traditions? And how do we find it?

An artist shares her encounter with a transforming silence in Antarctica, and a Quaker shares her habits around seeking silence. 

When was the last time you felt at home? Was it something about the place, how people treated you, or perhaps something more internal? Award-winning poet Miriam Wei Wei Lo explores a longing for home through her poetry, and why homes can be complicated.

Anyone who has raised kids knows it's hard work. We do our best, but it can confront us with how we were raised ourselves. Steve Biddulph is one of the world's best known parenting educators, and now in retirement, Steve has been reflecting on anxiety, the value of spirituality, and the challenges of masculinity today.

What do the mystics have to teach us about healing our external — and internal — landscapes?

The way we imagine the future matters. Not only does it change how we feel, those feelings change how we live today — and that might just change how things actually turn out!

Imagine living life without money — cutting up your credit card, closing up your bank account, and finding new ways to feed and clothe yourself. On Soul Search, we examine what it might look like to step away from the cycle of getting and spending, and towards a gift economy.

The novelist Patrick White once said yes, religion was behind all his books – but his religious and spiritual identity was far from straightforward. In the final instalment of the Big Questions in Books series we explore the (sometimes ambivalent!) Australian expressions of the sacred in literature, from Helen Garner to Tim Winton.