The Tearfund Australia Podcast

The Strong Roots, High Hopes season finale. Joel, Matt and Adalia answer listener questions on false hope versus high hopes, social media activism, and what they'd tell the next generation, and reflect on everything the season's guests have taught them.This episode was recorded on the land of the Wurundjeri people. We pay our respects to their elders past and present.Tearfund Australia is a movement of Christians working in partnership to end poverty and tackle injustice. Explore ⁠⁠⁠⁠Strong Roots, High Hopes⁠⁠⁠.Give monthly and put hope on repeat. ⁠Become a ⁠⁠⁠Tearfund Restorer⁠⁠⁠⁠.Share Hope: ⁠Host a Hope Stories Screening⁠ with short films featuring guests from this series: Autalaga Tuialii, Graeme Anderson and Marlon Phiri.Explore the Just Leadership Cohort

From Zambia, Marlon Phiri of ROCS shares how rural communities are meeting climate change with courage and innovation, and why Christian hope is grounded in God's character, not the weather. Interviewed by Melody Murton.This episode was recorded on the land of the Wurundjeri people. We pay our respects to their elders past and present.⁠Tearfund Australia⁠ is a movement of Christians working in partnership to end poverty and tackle injustice. Explore ⁠⁠⁠Strong Roots, High Hopes⁠⁠.Give monthly and put hope on repeat. ⁠Become a ⁠⁠Tearfund Restorer⁠⁠⁠.Share Hope: Host a Hope Stories Screening with short films featuring guests from this series: Autalaga Tuialii, Graeme Anderson and Marlon Phiri.

Dr Tanya Riches, Director of the Master of Transformational Development at Eastern College Australia, challenges the Western church's saviour complex and points us towards the tangible hope already alive in the Global South and First Nations communities. Interviewed by Melody Murton.This episode was recorded on the land of the Wurundjeri people. We pay our respects to their elders past and present.Tearfund Australia is a movement of Christians working in partnership to end poverty and tackle injustice. Explore ⁠⁠Strong Roots, High Hopes⁠.Give monthly and put hope on repeat. ⁠Become a ⁠Tearfund Restorer⁠⁠.

Pastor Graeme Anderson of Northside Baptist Church on formational church, slow spiritual growth in a fast world, the ancient practice of the examen, and why leadership might really be about learning to listen. Interviewed by Melody Murton.This episode was recorded on the land of the Wurundjeri people. We pay our respects to their elders past and present.Tearfund Australia is a movement of Christians working in partnership to end poverty and tackle injustice.Explore ⁠Strong Roots, High Hopes.Check out Graeme's book and course, Follow.Give monthly and put hope on repeat. ⁠Become a Tearfund Restorer⁠.

This week Joel McKerrow, Matthew Grayden and Adalia Ananthan sit down with Autalaga (Laga) Tuialii, a first generation Australian of Samoan descent and alumna of Tearfund's Just Leadership Cohort. Laga is a founding member of the Saltwater Alliance's Culture Keepers project and co-founder of Pacific Youth Voice Australia, interviewed by Melody Murton.Laga shares what she learned researching the mental health impacts of climate change in Fijian villages, the tension between Pacifica and Western worldviews, and why she believes hope needs both cultural connection and biblical grounding. She unpacks the difference between climate anxiety and climate courage, and why grassroots, everyday action, from life groups to clothes swaps, is where real change begins.Next week: the discipline of silence with Pastor Graeme Anderson.This episode was recorded on the land of the Wurundjeri people. We pay our respects to their elders past and present.Tearfund Australia is a movement of Christians working in partnership to end poverty and tackle injustice. Explore ⁠Strong Roots, High Hopes⁠: Strong Roots, High Hopes | Tearfund AustraliaEnquire about the ⁠Just Leadership Cohort⁠: Just Leadership Cohort | Tearfund AustraliaGive monthly and put hope on repeat. ⁠Become a Tearfund Restorer⁠: Join Restorers, our monthly giving community. | Tearfund Australia

Pastor Ray Minniecon, of the Kabi-Kabi and Gurang-Gurang nations and founder of Scarred Tree Ministries, joins Strong Roots, High Hopes for a powerful conversation on land, justice, and what he calls "pot plant Christianity", a faith that has never been planted deep in this country's soil. Interviewed by Greg Hewson and Katherine Davies.This episode was recorded on the land of the Wurundjeri people. We pay our respects to their elders past and present.Tearfund Australia is a movement of Christians working in partnership to end poverty and tackle injustice. Explore ⁠Strong Roots, High Hopes⁠Enquire about the ⁠Just Leadership Cohort⁠Give monthly and put hope on repeat. ⁠Become a Tearfund Restorer⁠

A new series from Tearfund Australia. Host Joel McKerrow is joined in-studio by Matthew Grayden and Adalia Ananthan to open Strong Roots, High Hopes, a season exploring faith, climate and justice with people on the front lines of global challenges. This episode: a poetic meditation, an honest conversation about the world's "polycrisis," and the season ahead. Recorded on Wurundjeri land. Tearfund Australia is a movement of Christians working in partnership to end poverty and tackle injustice. Explore Strong Roots, High HopesEnquire about the Just Leadership CohortGive monthly and put hope on repeat. Become a Tearfund Restorer

Strong Roots, High Hopes launches Monday, August 10. A new series from Tearfund Australia: real conversations about faith, climate and justice with elders, next gen leaders, pastors and global change-makers. Subscribe now so you don't miss episode one.This episode was recorded on the land of the Wurundjeri people. We pay our respects to their elders past and present.Tearfund Australia is a movement of Christians working in partnership to end poverty and tackle injustice. Explore ⁠Strong Roots, High Hopes⁠Enquire about the ⁠Just Leadership Cohort⁠Give monthly and put hope on repeat. ⁠Become a Tearfund Restorer⁠

In this final episode of The Table series, we wrap up our journey by looking toward the ultimate celebration: the future feast described in Revelation. Joined by Naomi Chua, we explore the "wedding feast of the lamb"—a beautiful vision of a table where every tribe, tongue, and nation finally finds their seat. Naomi helps us see that this isn't just a distant hope, but guides how we live, gather, and act for justice today.The conversation is a stirring reminder that every time we practice hospitality or work to end poverty, we are rehearsing for this great, inclusive feast. As the series concludes, we recap the calls to adventure over the past seven weeks, and take up the call to take our place -- and invite others to take theirs -- at God's table of grace and justice.Go deeper with Naomi's reflection in The Table - Tearfund's 2026 Lent devotional seriesShare the Table: Register for your Host Kit and gather around your own table to turn an ordinary meal into a moment of abundance, belonging and justice.Be part of a community of everyday Christians using their generosity to tackle poverty and bring restoration to hard places. Become a Restorer with a monthly gift.Show your support for Australian Aid by adding to our Recipe for a Safer World for All - collective advocacy makes a difference!

In this episode of The Table, we join Sam Fagan from Tearfund for a walk down the Emmaus Road in Luke 24. Together, we explore that beautiful, mysterious moment where two disciples fail to recognise Jesus until they sit down and break bread with him. Sam reminds us that often, God is hidden in the ordinary rhythms of our lives—the walking, the talking, and the eating.This conversation is a gentle nudge to slow down and look for the "sacred in the mundane." We discuss how hospitality isn't just about the food on the plate, but about the gift of presence and the intentionality of "paying attention" to the person right in front of us. It’s a wonderful call to adventure: to keep our eyes open for the unexpected guest at our own tables and to realise that when we share what we have, our eyes—and our hearts—are truly opened.Go deeper with Sam's reflection in The Table - Tearfund's 2026 Lent devotional series