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The Graham Joseph Hill Podcast

The Graham Joseph Hill Podcast

By: Graham Joseph Hill
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Summary
 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.Graham Joseph Hill Christianity Ministry & Evangelism Spirituality
Episodes
  • Phones, Prayer, and Sabbath: Digital Monasticism

    Phones, Prayer, and Sabbath: Digital Monasticism
    8 Nov 2026
    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 EarleyEmail us at GrahamPodcast@icloud.comSee my Substack:https://grahamjosephhill.substack.com/Podcast links:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GrahamJosephHillPodcastSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7aqTMTcoYPcvneL4xg4OhvApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-graham-joseph-hill-podcast/id1890838919Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-tsqgs-1534f12Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/271b0dd3-990d-41e6-b4ba-3fd4bcf78cefiHeartRadio: https://iheart.com/podcast/329136112Player FM: https://player.fm/series/3726148Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-graham-joseph-hill-podcast-6435212Boomplay: https://www.boomplaymusic.com/podcasts/143800
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    1 hr and 10 min
  • Exodus 1 to 18 Explained: I Have Heard Their Cry

    Exodus 1 to 18 Explained: I Have Heard Their Cry
    2 Nov 2026

    How Exodus 1 to 18, from slavery in Egypt to the Red Sea, reveals a God who hears the cry of the oppressed and comes down to save.

    It’s a birthing room in the Nile Delta, and two midwives are kneeling beside a Hebrew woman in labour. They’ve been ordered by the king of Egypt himself to kill every baby boy they deliver, and the baby that arrives is a boy. They wrap him up, put him in his mother’s arms, and go home, and when Pharaoh demands to know why the Hebrew boys are still alive, they look the most powerful man on earth in the eye and spin him a story. Exodus gives us their names, Shiphrah and Puah, and never once tells us the name of the Pharaoh. Does God hear the cry of people crushed under someone else’s power, and if he does, what does he do about it?

    In this episode, Graham walks through Exodus 1 to 18, from slavery in Egypt to the edge of Mount Sinai, picking up where the Genesis episodes left off, with Joseph’s coffin in Egypt. He traces the story through the women who outwit Pharaoh, God’s name revealed at the burning bush, the plagues, the Passover, the crossing of the sea and the Song of Miriam, and bread from heaven in the wilderness. He shows how the book is built around one word, “know,” running from Pharaoh’s “I do not know the Lord” to a God who makes himself known. He faces the hardest questions directly: the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart, the death of the firstborn, and whether the exodus really happened, weighing Israel Finkelstein against James Hoffmeier and the Merneptah Stele. He engages voices like Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Jon Levenson, Terence Fretheim, and Robert Allen Warrior, alongside the spirituals of enslaved Africans, Harriet Tubman, and the blackbirding of Pacific Islanders to Queensland. Reading Exodus against an age that tells every story as liberation while fifty million people live in modern slavery, he shows that freedom in Exodus means being set free from Pharaoh to serve God. He also offers a three-week reading plan and practical steps on modern slavery, Sabbath, and courage. And he asks what it means that the God who heard Israel’s groaning still hears ours.

    This is the first of two episodes on Exodus, part of a series on the podcast that takes whole books of the Bible one at a time, following three episodes on Genesis. If you’d like to go through Scripture this way day by day, the companion devotional series, Dwelling in God’s Word, walks book by book from Genesis to Revelation. You can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHWR9FRX

    Book recommendations: “The Message of Exodus” by Alec Motyer, “The Book of Exodus” by Brevard S. Childs, “The Mission of God” by Christopher J. H. Wright, and "Digital Monasticism" by Graham Joseph Hill..

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    1 hr and 8 min
  • Exvangelicals and Deconstruction: Still Watching the Road

    Exvangelicals and Deconstruction: Still Watching the Road
    26 Oct 2026
    Why are so many people leaving evangelical Christianity, and how can Bible-believing Christians respond with both truth and love?It’s seven minutes past eleven on a Tuesday night, and a father in Sydney’s west is sitting on the edge of his bed, reading a text from his twenty-four-year-old daughter for the fourth time. She led worship at youth camp and went on a mission trip to Fiji at sixteen, and now she’s writing to say she’s done with church and isn’t sure she believes any of it anymore. Please don’t send me sermons, she writes, I just need you to still be my dad. He types four replies and deletes them all. When people we love walk away from the faith that raised them, what’s really happening, and how does a church that believes the Bible respond like Jesus?In this episode, Graham explores the exvangelical movement and the wider wave of deconstruction and dechurching, from Joshua Harris and Hillsong’s Marty Sampson to the fall of Mars Hill and the research behind The Great Dechurching. He shows that people leave for very different reasons: some drift away, some stop believing, and some are hurt by abuse, hypocrisy, or politics. He traces the long history of leaving and returning, from Augustine and his mother Monica, through the Victorian crisis of faith, to Billy Graham and his friend Charles Templeton, and he points out that some exits, like Bonhoeffer’s Confessing Church, were faithful protests. He reads the Scriptures where Jesus watches disciples walk away in John 6, condemns religious leaders who crush people in Matthew 23, and tells the story of the father who runs in Luke 15. He also faces the hard question of what happens to those who leave. He engages voices like Charles Taylor, Henri Nouwen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lesslie Newbigin, Peter Berger, and Alisa Childers, and presses his own case from both sides: from exvangelicals who say the theology itself is the problem, and from evangelicals who think the church has gone soft. He then gives practical help for parents and friends of those who’ve left, for people in the middle of deconstructing, and for churches that want to notice their empty seats. And he asks what it looks like to keep watching the road for the ones who’ve walked away.Book recommendations: “The Great Dechurching” by Jim Davis and Michael Graham, “A Church Called Tov” by Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer, and “When Faith Fails” by Dominic Done.Email us at GrahamPodcast@icloud.comSee my Substack:https://grahamjosephhill.substack.com/Podcast links:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GrahamJosephHillPodcastSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7aqTMTcoYPcvneL4xg4OhvApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-graham-joseph-hill-podcast/id1890838919Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-tsqgs-1534f12Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/271b0dd3-990d-41e6-b4ba-3fd4bcf78cefiHeartRadio: https://iheart.com/podcast/329136112Player FM: https://player.fm/series/3726148Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-graham-joseph-hill-podcast-6435212Boomplay: https://www.boomplaymusic.com/podcasts/143800
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    1 hr and 8 min
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