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God Forbid — 248 episodes · page 1 of 3
Young earth creationism: why some Christians contest evolution
The long border dispute between science and religion
How can media gain back lost trust?
Will toleration or tribalism define this era of enlightenment?
Is tolerance really a virtue?
Secular Australia's identity crisis
Does owning property make you more moral?
Will science ever explain the self?
Voluntary assisted dying: more than a matter of life and death
The Good Mother standard: Can anyone live up to it?
The History of Time
The History of Reality: What is real and is God behind it all?
The History of Emotion: Were feelings always felt this way?
Is racism about skin colour, colonialism or wealth?
What does God expect of fathers?
Why do animals matter?
How old do you feel?
The pleasure we take in others' misfortune and what it says about us
The ideas that inspired American Christian Zionism
How should we view our relationship to work?
The seen and unseen: Belief in Jinns, Marian apparitions and Japanese yokai
Home economics: waking up from the Australian dream
Doomsday or just good planning? The ethics of prepping
Can we truly love AI? And can it love us back?
Addiction, God, and the origin of the twelve steps
Christian leaders talk war, the Pope, getting arrested, courage and empathy
Why do adults still need fairytales?
The Orthodox surge
Why are the Middle Ages are still relevant today?
Is your privacy sacred?
On judgement
Is the 21st century’s version of freedom liberating or a freedom trap?
International Women's Day special
Conversion — Why would anyone move from disbelief to belief?
The nature of evil, abuse and forgiveness
The pain of love and grief for our pets
Pawnbroking, bankruptcy, debt, usury & God!
If you could save a drowning child, would you?
The Antisemitism and Social Cohesion Royal Commission
Living simply in a complex world: how modern monks navigate AI, social media, and climate change
Coercion, control and worship: Where do we draw the line between a religion and a cult?
Did the human species invent the Bible?
Why do we fear fat?
Close encounters of the religious kind: how God and UFOs have both begun religious movements
What were the biggest religious stories in 2025? Ask the experts!
Religious Rebels 06 | Dorothy Day: Rebel for the poor, saint for the restless
Religious Rebels 05 | Malcolm X: Reborn in Mecca, killed in Harlem
Religious Rebels 04 | John Calvin: Reformed the faith, ruled with fire
Religious Rebels 03 | Táhirih: Unveiled the truth, paid with her life
Religious Rebels 02 | Giordano Bruno: Imagined the Infinite, Burned at the Stake
Religious Rebels 01 | Joan of Arc: Mystic, warrior and gender transgressor
Near-death experiences: myth or mystical?
Was Jesus a real person?
Why do human animals fly planes and build cities?
Could whales be Gods?
The ethics of witchcraft and hexing the far-right
Writing on the body: desecration or worship?
Why the origins of Christianity still matter today
Gen Y and Gen Z are finding God
God, the Big Bang & the fortunate universe
Truth and trust in a post-truth world
Can celibacy actually make us purer and closer to God?
Is God in the machine?
How should our leaders behave?
The language of God: Literacy, power, and the sacred word
Reality TV, Mormon wives, and guilty pleasures
We live in a world where horror is all too real. So why are horror movies breaking box office records?
What binds us together as Australians?
Can the Dalai Lama's Tibet ever be self-determined?
Hair...flow it, grow it, show it... as long as God allows it!
Leading with love: women are taking the church into the future
Monogamy: Is it still the gold standard of intimate relationships?
Stealing my religion: When does religious appreciation become appropriation?
Coercion, control and worship: Where do we draw the line between a religion and a cult?
Bodies bodies bodies: burial, belief and death across faith
The Devil you know: Satan’s journey from scripture to satire
BONUS: The history of the Papacy
What lies beyond the conclave for the Catholic Church
How powerful is the Muslim vote this upcoming election?
Why do we fear fat?
Week with Students: Does religion have a place in the modern Australian classroom?
Did the human species invent the Bible?
When is it okay to cut off your parents?
Doomsday or just good planning? The ethics of prepping
How are creators using TikTok to bring history to a new generation?
Pope Francis and the legacy he leaves behind
Mardi Gras special: on being gay and Godly
Religion, drugs, and the power of mind-altering substances
Close encounters of the religious kind: how God and UFOs have both begun religious movements
To bare or not to bare: why religion can't make its mind up about nudity
Living simply in a complex world: how modern monks navigate AI, social media, and climate change
The world's oldest hatred: how anti-Semitism found its way to Australia
The spirituality of fishing
The history of God
We know magic isn't real, so why does it still fascinate us?
Sawdust and the soul
Kindness — a radical idea?
Rebel fighters have overthrown the Assad regime in Syria, what does that mean for its people?
Faith, disability, and the trouble with 'healing'
Overbearing allies and Centrelink bureaucracy: what it's like having a disability in Australia