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The Graham Joseph Hill Podcast

The Graham Joseph Hill Podcast

By: Graham Joseph Hill
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A theologian who's done the reading, following the Jesus Way through the hardest questions facing Christians and the world, with depth, honesty, and hope. I'm Graham Joseph Hill, and I research and write every episode myself, then think it through with you the way two people might talk across a kitchen table. These are long-form, deeply researched explorations of faith, justice, spirituality, culture, and the global church. You won't always land where I land, and that's the point. On each topic, I'll lay out the strongest case on every side, go deep into what the Bible and the Christian tradition actually say, draw in history, philosophy, science, and sociology, and ask what it all means for how we live now. Every episode ends where I believe the gospel leads: in hope. And I close each one by recommending three books that have shaped my thinking, in case you want to go further. We take on the questions people are genuinely wrestling with. Faith and honest doubt. Anxiety, grief, burnout, and the care of the soul. The global church, and what Majority World Christians can teach the West. Following Jesus in a post-Christian Australia. Power, gender, sexuality, and who gets to lead. Technology and the shape of the human person. Justice for refugees, the poor, the imprisoned, and the land. Science and the case for God. Politics when the nation pulls the church sideways. Indigenous justice and reconciliation. And the slow, steady work of prayer and formation. No topic is off limits. If you're looking for Christianity engaged with mind and heart together, thoughtful, fair to the people it disagrees with, grounded in Scripture, honest about the hardest things, and alive to the present moment, you'll be at home here. Graham Joseph Hill (OAM, PhD) is an Australian theologian and the author of more than thirty books, and an Adjunct Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the School of Theology at Charles Sturt University. There's a written companion to every episode at my Substack, grahamjosephhill.substack.com, so you can read along or go deeper. Follow the podcast so you don't miss an episode. If something here resonates, share it with someone who needs it. And if you've got a question you'd like me to take on, or a topic you wish I'd explore, email me at GrahamPodcast@icloud.com. Where to Listen: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GrahamJosephHillPodcastSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7aqTMTcoYPcvneL4xg4OhvApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-graham-joseph-hill-podcast/id1890838919Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-tsqgs-1534f12Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/271b0dd3-990d-41e6-b4ba-3fd4bcf78cefiHeartRadio: https://iheart.com/podcast/329136112Player FM: https://player.fm/series/3726148Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-graham-joseph-hill-podcast-6435212Boomplay: https://www.boomplaymusic.com/podcasts/143800Copyright 2026 All rights reserved. Christianity Spirituality
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  • 5. The Rumour of God: Is Secularism Actually Dying?

    5. The Rumour of God: Is Secularism Actually Dying?
    Jun 29 2026

    What happens when the story that was supposed to bury God starts to run out of road? A lifelong atheist, one of the sharpest people you'll meet, turns his coffee cup in his hands and admits he's begun to wonder whether we threw out something we needed. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, once a leading atheist, announces she's now a Christian, and Richard Dawkins calls himself a cultural Christian. And a culture that spent two centuries sure it had outgrown faith keeps finding the oldest questions surfacing again.

    In this episode, Graham explores the surprising rebirth of belief, and whether secularism is actually dying, through the lens of Scripture, theology, history, and cultural analysis. He traces a long thread of Scripture engaging a sceptical world, from Paul at the Areopagus in Acts 17, to "he has set eternity in the human heart" in Ecclesiastes 3, to the Word and the light the darkness has never put out in John 1, to the God of Isaiah who makes a way in the wilderness. He engages with voices like Augustine, Blaise Pascal, C.S. Lewis, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Lesslie Newbigin, alongside the research of sociologists like Peter Berger, Grace Davie, and Rodney Stark on the breakdown of the secularisation thesis. And he asks why the confident modern prediction that we would outgrow God has run into trouble, what kind of belief is being reborn and whether a Christianity valued only for its usefulness can hold, and where the church should look for hope when the decline in the West is real and the headline data is easy to get wrong.

    Book recommendations: "The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God" by Justin Brierley, "Dominion" by Tom Holland, and "A Secular Age" by Charles Taylor.

    Email us at GrahamPodcast@icloud.com

    See my Substack with an article related to this episode: https://grahamjosephhill.substack.com/

    Podcast links: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GrahamJosephHillPodcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7aqTMTcoYPcvneL4xg4Ohv Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-graham-joseph-hill-podcast/id1890838919 Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-tsqgs-1534f12 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/271b0dd3-990d-41e6-b4ba-3fd4bcf78cef iHeartRadio: https://iheart.com/podcast/329136112 Player FM: https://player.fm/series/3726148 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-graham-joseph-hill-podcast-6435212 Boomplay: https://www.boomplaymusic.com/podcasts/143800
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • 4. A Place at the Table: Singleness, Loneliness, and the Family of God

    4. A Place at the Table: Singleness, Loneliness, and the Family of God
    Jun 27 2026

    What happens when the church builds its life around marriage and the family, and treats everyone else as a guest still waiting in line? A woman, faithful for eleven years, tells her pastor she still feels like a problem nobody has worked out how to solve. A widower watches the casseroles stop two weeks after the funeral. And a church that follows a single Saviour, and learned its faith from a single apostle, keeps treating singleness as a condition to be cured.

    In this episode, Graham explores singleness, loneliness, and the church's obsession with marriage through the lens of Scripture, theology, history, and cultural analysis. He traces the Bible's surprisingly high view of the single life, from "it is not good for the man to be alone" in Genesis 2, to Paul calling both marriage and singleness a gift in 1 Corinthians 7, to Isaiah's promise of a name better than sons and daughters, to the God of Psalm 68 who sets the lonely in families. He engages with voices like Stanley Hauerwas, Henri Nouwen, Augustine, Aelred of Rievaulx, and Rodney Clapp, alongside the research of Vivek Murthy, Robert Putnam, and John Cacioppo on the loneliness epidemic. And he asks why a church that follows a single Lord treats marriage as the summit of a faithful life, how we can honour marriage and singleness together without making either one the measure of the other, and what it would take for the church to become the family God always meant it to be.

    Book recommendations: "7 Myths About Singleness" by Sam Allberry, "Redeeming Singleness" by Barry Danylak, and "Spiritual Friendship" by Wesley Hill.

    Email us at GrahamPodcast@icloud.com

    See my Substack with an article related to this episode:

    https://grahamjosephhill.substack.com/

    Podcast links: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GrahamJosephHillPodcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7aqTMTcoYPcvneL4xg4Ohv Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-graham-joseph-hill-podcast/id1890838919 Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-tsqgs-1534f12 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/271b0dd3-990d-41e6-b4ba-3fd4bcf78cef iHeartRadio: https://iheart.com/podcast/329136112 Player FM: https://player.fm/series/3726148 Listen Notes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-graham-joseph-hill-podcast/id1890838919 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-graham-joseph-hill-podcast-6435212 Boomplay: https://www.boomplaymusic.com/podcasts/143800
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • 3. The Cross and the Flag: Following Jesus in an Age of Political Idolatry

    3. The Cross and the Flag: Following Jesus in an Age of Political Idolatry
    Jun 23 2026

    What happens when the cross gets captured by the flag? A mob storms the Capitol carrying Jesus banners. A pastor watches his congregation confuse patriotism with faith. And the church faces a question it can no longer avoid.

    In this episode, Graham explores Christian nationalism and populism through the lens of Scripture, theology, history, and cultural analysis. He examines the biblical tension between the kingdom of God and the empires of this world, from 1 Samuel to the Sermon on the Mount to Revelation 7. He engages with voices like Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Karl Barth, Desmond Tutu, Stanley Hauerwas, and Raimond Gaita. And he asks what Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa teach us about the dangers of fusing faith with political power, why the gospel offends both the right and the left, and what it looks like to follow Jesus without being owned by any political tribe.

    Book recommendations: "The Myth of a Christian Nation" by Gregory Boyd, "Taking America Back for God" by Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry, and "Kingdom or Empire?" by Graham Joseph Hill.

    Email us at GrahamPodcast@icloud.com

    See my Substack with an article related to this episode:

    https://grahamjosephhill.substack.com/

    Podcast links: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GrahamJosephHillPodcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7aqTMTcoYPcvneL4xg4Ohv Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-graham-joseph-hill-podcast/id1890838919 Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-tsqgs-1534f12 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/271b0dd3-990d-41e6-b4ba-3fd4bcf78cef iHeartRadio: https://iheart.com/podcast/329136112 Player FM: https://player.fm/series/3726148 Listen Notes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-graham-joseph-hill-podcast/id1890838919 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-graham-joseph-hill-podcast-6435212 Boomplay: https://www.boomplaymusic.com/podcasts/143800
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    1 hr and 12 mins
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