In this episode, you'll hear the Q&A session that followed Leisa Aitken's 2023 lecture titled,

Rediscovering Hope. How we lost it. How we get it back?

You can hear her lecture in an earlier episode of this podcast, but here is Leisa, with Simon Smart, digging deeper into the topic.

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Leisa is a clinical psychologist who's been counselling and teaching for more than 25 years in workplaces, hospitals, and private practice. She recently completed a PhD on the shifting grounds of hope through Western history and philosophy, theology, and psychology.

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Check out CPX’s other podcast, Life and Faith, a weekly conversation about the beauty and complexity of belief in the 21st century.

In this episode, you'll hear Leisa Aitken's 2023 lecture,

Rediscovering Hope. How we lost it. How we get it back?

The future feels tenuous these days, uncertain … overwhelming, even. Hope might be scarce, but it's not lost. At least not with Leisa Aitken is our guide. Leisa is a clinical psychologist with 25 years’ experience in her field and she's just completed a PhD on Hope. For those feeling hopeful, and perhaps especially for those who are not, this is a great talk to hear – hope from the perspective of psychology, philosophy, and theology.

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Leisa is a clinical psychologist who's been counselling and teaching for more than 25 years in workplaces, hospitals, and private practice. She recently completed a PhD on the shifting grounds of hope through Western history and philosophy, theology, and psychology.

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Check out CPX’s other podcast, Life and Faith, a weekly conversation about the beauty and complexity of belief in the 21st century.

In this episode you’ll hear the Q&A session that followed Scott Stephen’s 2021 lecture titled…

Out Of Sight: Attentiveness in a Dismissive Age

You can hear his lecture in an earlier episode of this podcast, but here is Scott, with Simon Smart, digging deeper into the topic.

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Scott is the ABC’s Religion and Ethics online editor, and the co-host, with Waleed Aly, of The Minefield on ABC Radio National. His book On Contempt is published by Melbourne University Press.

Read Scott Stephens’ Uncivil Wars, written with Waleed Aly for the Quarterly Essay

Check out CPX's other podcast Life & Faith, a weekly conversation about the beauty and complexity of belief in the 21st century.