Spiritual Practices

Founded in 2002 by migrant women, the NZ Sikh Women's Association provides support for ethnic minority community families experiencing domestic violence in Auckland South and Manukau Counties… Audio

David Kukutai Jones is a healer, maker of rongoa, librarian and the Chairman of the Māori Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender gathering - Hui Takataapui 2014 which this year was hosted at… Audio

With an Anglican Mum and Ringatu Dad where's the middle ground if you're having a religious calling? Maraea Rakuraku catches up with Anglican priest Chris Huriwai who left for Jerusalem via America… Audio

If you want to say your daily prayers or read the Bible, but don't have the right books, the Internet has an answer for you. Audio

Dr Joseph Bulbulia studies why people turn to religion and how their interaction with their chosen belief system affects their behaviour, their health, their ability to recover from adverse events and… Audio

He's an artist who seems to enjoy the macabre in his paintings, and it's won him a big prize. Audio

Indian music, food and dance lit up Wellington recently when a renowned dance troupe from northeast India helped celebrate the annual Diwali Festival of Lights. Lynda meets award winning international… Audio

How do you survive one moment in your life where you almost die as a result of a horrific attack? Simonne Butler knows how. Audio

Pioneering Maori novelist and short story writer who writes about his early life for the first time in Maori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood. Audio

Would you live in a haunted house? Justin Gregory asks why people avoid - or are attracted to - scary places. Audio

Pope Francis recently condemned capital punishment and life imprisonment as inhumane. This week on Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint, Wayne questions whether, when it comes to executions, the west has… Audio

Exploring end-of-life care for Māori patients and their whānau. Audio

Britain's most senior Catholic cleric has insisted Pope Francis's drive to make the Roman Catholic Church more welcoming to gay people will not be halted by a backlash from conservative bishops. Audio

Lisa Thompson meets Buddhi Wilcox, a Northland Hare Krishna devotee who has so far delivered 70,000 hot meals to school children, in his bid to try and tackle child poverty in his region. Audio

Adura Onashile is the co-creator and performer of HeLa, a solo show about the woman whose cancer cell sample, taken without her permission, was used as the raw material for some of the most important… Audio

The Catholic Church in New Zealand says the Vatican's more accepting attitude towards gay people won't change the church's stance on same-sex marriage. Audio

Wayne looks at Dunedin's Calvinist past and the lampooning it received from one of the country's best known poets. Wallace follows up with the decidedly un-Calvinistic theologian, Sir Lloyd Geering. Audio

Britain's foremost scholar of world religion, author of Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence, and founder of the Charter for Compassion. Audio