Episode 3: TENDING TO THE SOUL IN AN AGE OF ANXIETY

Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times, by Elizabeth Oldfield (2024) / Stone Yard Devotional, by Charlotte Wood (2023) ||   What kind of people are needed at the end of the world? That’s what Oldfield asks in her book about being a grown-up in a messed-up and confusing time (like all times?); and it’s what Wood is asking too, in her novel about a woman who withdraws from her life as an environmental activist to live in a convent in outback NSW. Andrew and Tash talk about the horrors of mouse plagues, and the horrors of living with other people; the characteristic vices of our time; and the exhaustion of caring about everything that’s wrong with the world.