Eager Feet

Here is an excerpt from the final draft of Robert's thesis on friendship: 'Spiritual love not only makes us stronger for the other, equipping us with a preparedness to go beyond our normal limits for her, it also renders us more relative and receptive, blossoming all the way to eventually regarding the other as another self.'  This quote forms the basis for our discussion on friendship. Enjoy!

Logan Moffat is a full-time portrait artist. Our discussion is inspired by his award-winning piece 'Stitch' which can be viewed at https://www.loganmoffat.com/paintings#/stitch/ The themes touched on in this podcast include faces, tattoos, pain,  meditation, reality and manipulation,  being an artist, interpretation, the limits of language,  Neuralink, cave drawings, and the search for meaning.

Cameron sits down with Engineering PhD student Emmanuel Flores to discuss holistic education, its importance and implications for the next industrial revolution. You can view Emmanuel’s recently published paper on this topic at https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2351978920316024

We discuss Sweden's response to Covid-19, their all-cause death rates so far compared with 2018, and the potential negative effects of a full scale lockdown. See the Facebook post that sparked this conversation here: https://www.facebook.com/jonno.kennerley/posts/10158388340494445  

Cedric is DRS at Sancta Maria College, Auckland, currently taking a sabbatical to complete his Graduate Diploma in Theology. In this episode we discuss what it means to be a person, the challenges to upholding a coherent anthropology in our times, and how we can work towards a constructive re-presentation of personhood.

Jonathan Gill is a Doctoral student in English Literature at the University of Auckland. The focus of his thesis is the concept of 'nothing' in Shakespeare's King Lear. This podcast will explore this theme in conjunction with Cameron Surrey's work on the risen-wounded Christ.

We join Theology PhD student Christian Parker to discuss Derrida and how his deconstruction of gift-giving and forgiveness can help point towards a deeper understanding of both.

We discuss Eleanor's research of the phenomenon of the York mystery plays and explore the themes of faith and embodiment.

Today we discuss what it means to be 'worthy of blame' with Auckland PhD student Thomas Yates. This is a philosophical discussion which later on branches into Christian theology.

Lay chaplain Cameron Surrey speaks with Ph.D student Mark Bond about his doctoral thesis. The subject matter moves from the 1950s movie 'The Hitchhiker' to philosophical reflections on the other as a 'mirror'.