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Free to Have Good Guests: the WADR Approach to Interviews, by Megan Powell du Toit

This week Channel 9 terminated their contract with breakfast tv host Karl Stefanovic due to his podcast featuring a man often described as a far-right extremist, Tommy Robinson. Stefanovic has responded by stating he is wanting to champion a diversity of views. Of course, his lineup isn’t that diverse. He tends to feature guests from the harder right. He is indeed making decisions about who to get on and what kind of audience he wants.

The guests podcasters choose is revealing. Taken as a whole, the guest lineup reveals to us the aims and values of the podcast. Like Stefanovic, as podcasters we come from a different medium and style of speaking. For us, our most common platform is the pulpit. Moving then to a podcast, we have learnt about podcasting through experience, through reflecting together on what we wanted to achieve and what was important to us.

My Foremothers Challenge Gender Nostalgia, by Megan Powell du Toit

On International Women’s Day, people often take the chance to post on social media about being thankful for the women in their family. Is this, though, going to cut it when we are seeing stories in the media every day about a growing misogyny among young men? And, indeed, the day wasn’t intended to be a hallmark ready holiday. It arose out of the labour movement and had goals such as women’s suffrage and rights at work. 

The 2025 Baptist World Congress Speaks Freedom by Megan Powell du Toit

This year‘s Baptist World Congress, held in Brisbane from 7-12 July, felt like a decisive moment for Baptists, giving a choice to take certain paths and not others. The Baptist World Alliance has held a world congress every five years in various countries since 1905.

Easter Poem Trilogy, by Megan Powell du Toit

Photo by freestocks on Unsplash This cycle of poems was written by Megan Powell du Toit as a reflection on an Easter miscarriage she experienced. The Long Friday Sitting at table with friendsAn unanticipated last supperIt began On a Thursday eveningWith an unwelcome prescienceWe turned our faces toward the hospital I sat, life ebbing outContinue reading “Easter Poem Trilogy, by Megan Powell du Toit”