The Graham Joseph Hill Podcast
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Graham Joseph Hill is an Australian theologian, the award-winning author of more than 30 books, and a recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to theological education. On this podcast, he explores the questions that matter most for Christians today. What can Majority World Christians teach the Western church about mission? How do we follow Jesus faithfully in a post-Christian Australia? What does the Bible say about power, gender, and who gets to lead? How do we hold Christ at the centre when nationalism pulls the church sideways? How should we respond to AI, secularism, and shifting culture? What does a resilient Christian community look like in fractured times?
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A pastor-theologian following the Jesus Way through the Bible and the hardest questions facing Christians and the world. I’m Graham Joseph Hill (OAM PhD), and every second episode works through a book or passage of Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation. The episodes in between take on a topic: faith and doubt, grief and burnout, the global church, justice, gender, technology, science, and politics. Each one is deeply researched, fair to every side, and ends in hope with three book recommendations. Questions or topic ideas? Email GrahamPodcast@icloud.com.
What monks and nuns can teach Christians about phones, prayer, Sabbath, and attention in a scrolling age.
It’s Anzac Day in Sydney, and a cup of tea is going cold on the desk as one social media account after another disappears. Each platform asks the same thing in a friendly little box: are you sure? Afterwards there’s a stillness in the house, and the strange sense of walking back into a room that’s been empty for years. What would it take to build a monastery inside an ordinary life, a life with a job, a family, and a phone in its pocket?
In this episode, Graham explores the themes of his new book, Digital Monasticism: Ancient Wisdom for a Scrolling Age (Cascade Books). He starts by explaining what monasticism is, what digital monasticism means, and what it might look like for ordinary people. Drawing on Erving Goffman, Christine Rosen, Gloria Mark, and Sherry Turkle, he names the deeper shift underneath our screen habits: the loss of the inner room, a self with no backstage. He traces how Christians have rebuilt the monastery for their own moment, from Pachomius and Benedict to the Beguines of Bruges, the Book of Hours, the Christukula Ashram in South India, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s call for a new monasticism. He opens Jesus’ words about the inner room in Matthew 6, Daniel’s open windows, the unforced rhythms of Matthew 11, and the Sabbath as freedom from Pharaoh’s brick quotas, alongside Augustine, Pascal, Brother Lawrence, Walter Brueggemann, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and James K. A. Smith. He takes on the hardest objections head-on: a Filipino student whose phone is her only link to her mother, Luther’s struggle with monastic striving, the critics of Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option, and the argument that tech companies, more than individuals, should carry the burden. He also offers simple practices for this week, and finds hope in a garden where the risen Jesus calls a grieving woman by her name. At its core, the episode asks where your attention is forming you, and who is waiting for you in the inner room.
Book recommendations: “Digital Monasticism: Ancient Wisdom for a Scrolling Age” by Graham Joseph Hill, “The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man” by Abraham Joshua Heschel, “The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction” by Justin Whitmel Earley
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