We're back for our annual end-of-year roundup featuring the whole team, all together! In this episode, Jarrod, Zanita and Jesse talk about their favourite episodes for the year, stories in the news we wished we'd had more time to cover and what's in store for 2025.

If you've been a faithful listener this year, we'd also like to say thank-you for enabling us to have conversations that matter. We wish you a very happy Christmas and New Year. We'll see you in 2025.

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Road to Bethlehem is an extraordinary event that happens every year in selected locations around Australia and New Zealand. It also has just celebrated its 30th birthday. Join friend of the pod Nathan Brown as he speaks to the current director of RtB Melbourne, Alicia Ralph.

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War is more in our faces than it's ever been before. But in the face of more global conflicts, have we become almost spiritually attracted to it?

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• (00:00) - Signs Radio 217
• (03:59) - Introduction and Welcome
• (04:10) - Reflecting on Remembrance Day
• (04:43) - Exploring the Article: Do We Worship War?
• (04:53) - Edinburgh Castle and War Memorials
• (07:06) - Religion and National Identity
• (08:10) - The Decline of Religion in Scotland
• (11:34) - The Role of War in Modern Society
• (13:10) - The Human Fascination with Heroism
• (20:28) - The Dangers of Mythologizing War
• (28:23) - Conscientious Objectors and True Heroism

It's the race that stops the nation. But should we stop it altogether?

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The two topics we were all taught to avoid at the dinner table are religion and politics. Today, we're tackling both. In the light of the upcoming American election, we speak to Mark Hadley about Alex Garland's Civil War. What can it teach us about religion and politics, and how should we relate the two to each other?

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In this episode, we speak to Kelli Pepa. Kelli is a pastor, dad and former member of NZ's own Purest Form. Purest Form was one of the very first R&B groups in New Zealand and in many ways, paved the way for the modern Kiwi R&B scene. We talk to Kelli about his journey in the music industry, his background of faith and the journey that led him away from Purest Form and into pastoral ministry.

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This episode is a special one. We spoke to not one, not two—but three guests about the issues of climate change in the South Pacific.

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This episode was more difficult than most to put together. Today, we're talking to Greg Young about Ukraine and the refugee crisis that's currently going on in it.

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