95bFM: That's The Spirit

Professor Peter Lineham talks all things spiritual and/or institutional religion.

That's The Spirit: October 13, 2025

Peter Lineham phones in to speak with Matthew about the theological and religious beliefs of the Taliban. Whakarongo mai nei. 

10-13
14:06

That's the Spirit: October 6, 2025

Peter Lineham phones in to speak with Matthew about the theological and religious beliefs of the Taliban. Whakarongo mai nei. 

10-06
12:18

That's The Spirit: September 22, 2025

Professor Emeritus Peter Lineham phones in to discuss the protesting priests in Pōneke, why they were chained together outside Nicola Willis' office, as well as other protesting clergy members in the UK who've faced arrest in the past several months. Whakarongo mai nei!

09-22
10:40

That's the Spirit: September 15, 2025

Peter looks into the secular turn of American neo-con and right wing social media influencers' rhetoric. Peter traces this turn by looking at Charlie Kirk as a case study, Kirk was fatally shot last week at Utah Valley Univeristy in the United States. 

09-15
15:31

That's the Spirit: September 8, 2025

Crawley and Peter Lineham discuss Newsboys singer Michael Tait's fall from grace following accusations of sexual assault as well as the parallel industry of secular Christian music in the United States. 

09-08
15:43

That's The Spirit: September 1, 2025

Peter is on the line to discuss his recent inquiry into the right wing trajectory of evangelicalism and it's followers in the United States over the previous century. Peter focus' particularly on the political differences between father and son Billy Graham and Franklin Graham, and the ideological differences between evangelical public figures and the general public. 

09-01
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That's the Spirit: August 25, 2025

Professor Emeritus Peter Lineham phones in for the weekly check-in on the metaphysical and esoteric world. This week Peter covers the life of the recently deceased James Dobson. An influential figure in American evangelical Christianity and a driving force behind turning evangelicals into a political bloc. 

08-25
30:00

That's the Spirit: July 21, 2025

Today Peter Lineham calls in to talk about the recent death of Protestant Minister John MacArthur.

07-21
12:22

That's The Spirit: July 14, 2025

Professor Peter Lineham discusses the recent statement from the New Zealand Jewish Council on rising antisemitism, instances of antisemitism in Aotearoa, defining hate speech in religious terms, and how antisemitism and criticisms of the Netanyahu government and Israel can be conflated. 

07-14
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That's The Spirit: June 30, 2025

Professor Emeritus Peter Lineham phones in to catch us up on the recent Destiny's Church march, their flag-burning activities and also the large statue of Guru Rinpoche set to be installed in the Waiwera Valley. 

06-30
15:26

That’s The Spirit with Peter Lineham: 23 June, 2025

Oto and Peter had a kōrero about Shia Islam, the differences between it and the more widely followed Sunni sect and it's role in Middle-Eastern geopolitics.

06-23
14:43

That's The Spirit: June 16, 2025

Peter Lineham phones in to catch up Crawley and us listeners about his recent travels to China and the ways in which religions are currently practiced in China. 

06-16
15:23

That's the Spirit: May 26, 2025

Peter Lineham discusses the place of state-integrated religious schools within New Zealand's schooling system and the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that prevents Catholic from recieving subsidaries. 

05-26
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That's The Spirit: May 19, 2025

Peter Lineham discusses the place of state-integrated religious schools within New Zealand's schooling system and the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that prevents Catholic from recieving subsidaries. 

05-19
14:35

That's The Spirit: May 12, 2025

This week Peter Lineham phones in to chat about the topic on everyone's mind (in theological and liturgical circles) - the new pope!

05-12
12:40

That's the Spirit: May 5, 2025

Peter Lineham phones to chat with Crawley about the Jains, the sixth-largest religion in India. 

05-05
12:24

That's The Spirit: April 28, 2025

Peter Lineham phones to chat with Crawley about the Jains, the sixth-largest religion in India. 

04-28
19:28

That's the Spirit: April 14, 2025

Associate Professor Peter Lineham joins Matthew Crawley this Easter week to discuss religious footwashing.

04-14
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That's The Spirit: April 7, 2025

Associate Professor Peter Lineham joins Matthew Crawley this Easter week to discuss religious footwashing.

04-07
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That's the Spirit: March 31, 2025

Peter and Oto discuss the U.S.-based Zizian group recently linked with six deaths - are they a cult? A religion? And what role does AI and a infamous copypasta email meme play in the groups' ideology? And how did this all lead to mutliple murders?

03-31
12:19

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