Sunday Sanctuary

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Friend of the show Rev shared vulnerably about his challenging year and the awe and wonder he discovered in his children’s choice of the worst-looking Christmas tree 🎄

🎧 Listen to Finding Wonder Where You Least Expect It on Sunday Sanctuary at the link in bio or wherever you get your podcasts.

A benediction for Christmas Eve by Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie from 'The Lives We Actually Have' ✨⁠
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T'was the day before Christmas 🎄, and all through the house
Many a creature was stirring, even the mouse
The jobs were all done in a hurry, but also with care
In the hope that some peace soon would be there
In the evening, with all now safely snug in their beds
As hopes for some joy and wonder danced in their heads.

Petra's guest this episode is one of our favourite reverends, Spanky Moore. He very graciously shares about what his year has been like, and how in the midst of it all he has still been able to find moments of wonder, joy, and peace.

Whether you hear this episode on Christmas Eve or come to it in the new year, we hope that it might inspire some ways for you to find the wonder and joy present in your life as it is ✨

🎧️ Listen to Finding Wonder Where You Least Expect It on Sunday Sanctuary at https://linktr.ee/petrabagust or wherever you get your podcasts.

Kia ora, Producer Sam here! If you've been around long enough you might have noticed that I love to use songs as sacred texts in the show when the artists will let us.

You shouldn't be too surprised to hear then that I threw together a last minute Sunday Sanctuary inspired Christmas playlist!

It's full of songs that sound tracked Christmases at my parent's place growing up, new favourites, underrated gems, and even one or two performed by friends of Sunday Sanctuary! (I'm looking at you and .)

The link to the playlist (Spotify only sorry) is in our bio. Enjoy 🎄

A benediction for the waiting, written by ✨

🎧 Listen to Stuck in the Waiting Room on Sunday Sanctuary at https://linktr.ee/petrabagust or wherever you get your podcasts.

We all have something in our lives that seems to be taking it's sweet time to arrive or happen. What are you waiting for? You could be waiting for any number of things, but on this episode of Sunday Sanctuary, Petra explores what is to be found within the time of "not yet."

Petra is joined first by Matt Renata, a youth worker and tauira (student) of indigenous theology. Matt shares part of his and his wife Rachel's six year journey towards pregnancy and some of the lessons he has learnt along the way.

Then, Grace McArthur joins Petra live in studio! Long-time listeners might remember that the last time this happened was back when Sunday Sanctuary was on Today FM. The wait was worthwhile, though, as Grace comes armed with some wisdom from Brené Brown's Atlas of the Heart about how to wait well.

Strahan Coleman is Petra's final guest on this episode. As someone who has lived with chronic health issues for the last 10 years, Strahan knows a thing or two about waiting. He also makes some interesting observations about the role of artists in times when it feels like the world is falling apart.

Thank you for hanging with us during our short break. We appreciate you listening and we hope this episode was worth the wait!

🎧️ Listen to Stuck in the Waiting Room at https://linktr.ee/petrabagust or wherever you get your podcasts.

Singer-songwriter Lydia Cole joined Petra Bagust for a kōrero this episode about her experience of burnout and her journey toward healing. Here are a few more thoughts that she shared on Instagram this week 💛

"For me, burnout was the fast track to revealing everything that had been stuck in my body, mind and spirit. Everything that was unprocessed or out of alignment came to the surface with burnout. Mental health issues, physical health diagnoses, and trauma from younger years - they all surfaced at once. It may sound like an efficient way to get your sh*t sorted, but it is not ideal and I would absolutely not recommend burnout as the best path to healing because burnout creates its own symptoms and problems too. Some of mine are improving, slowly. But I’m four years in, and while I’m still doing work to recover, I’m not holding my breath on ever making it back to the health I had pre-burnout.

Still, the silver lining of burning out has been that I’m finally confronting and moving through everything that had always kept me from deep internal honesty, acceptance and recovery. Some of my deepest sore points now feel much smaller because I’m working through them and the associated fear and shame. I do wish the path had been different but I wouldn’t trade any of this."

🎧️ Listen to Burning the Candle at Both Ends at https://linktr.ee/petrabagust or wherever you get your podcasts.

We asked you, our Sunday Sanctuary community, about what the signs are for you that you need to slow down. Here are a few of your stories - and they are all so incredibly relatable. Thank you for sharing, e hoa mā 💛⁠
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🎧️ Listen to Burning the Candle at Both Ends at https://linktr.ee/petrabagust or wherever you get your podcasts.

Thank you for sharing your stories with us, e hoa mā 💛⁠
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🎧️ Listen to Burning the Candle at Both Ends on Sunday Sanctuary at https://linktr.ee/petrabagust or wherever you get your podcasts.

A benediction for when you’re running on fumes, from the book 'The Lives We Actually Have', written by Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie ✨

🎧 Listen to Burning the Candle at Both Ends on Sunday Sanctuary at https://linktr.ee/petrabagust or wherever you get your podcasts.

How much is left in your 'tank'? Do you feel as though you are beginning to move towards being overwhelmed or have you in fact burnt out? No matter how you are feeling, welcome. Yes, that includes you, the person who somehow still feels full of beans! What is your secret?

In this episode, Petra speaks with singer/songwriter Lydia Cole. Lydia shares the story of her journey from making a living as a musician in Berlin toher ongoing journey of recovering from burnout back home, here in Tāmaki Makaurau.

We then hear from Brad Carr, who used to lead Gracecity Church in Auckland before burning out four years ago. He kindly shares many of the lessons learnt and experiences had since.

Producer Sam flew home to Dunedin for this episode and took the opportunity to interview his dad. He provides an interesting perspective as someone who is knowingly teetering on the edge of burnout while working within a system well known for being high pressure.

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Thank you for your reflections and stories on that Reel with Sophie Gray about cheese toast, community 💛

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We asked you, our Sunday Sanctuary community, about the small ways you help yourself through a bad day. Here are a few of your stories. Thank you, e hoa mā 💛⁠
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🎧️ Listen to When Nothing's Going Right, It's Nacho Day at https://linktr.ee/petrabagust or wherever you get your podcasts.

Felt rather apt that Producer Sam showed up with (vegetarian) nachos for lunch today! Unsafe from the hands of Producer Josh, naturally 😂

🎧 Listen to When Nothing’s Going Right, It’s Nacho Day on Sunday Sanctuary at the link in bio or wherever you get your podcasts.

A benediction for when it’s just not your day ✨ Written by Petra Bagust.

🎧 Listen to When Nothing’s Going Right, It’s Nacho Day on Sunday Sanctuary at https://linktr.ee/petrabagust or wherever you get your podcasts.

The comment from that inspired this week’s entire Sunday Sanctuary episode 🫶🏼

🎧 Listen to When Nothing’s Going Right, It’s Nacho Day at the link in bio or wherever you get your podcasts.

How's your day been today? No really, has it gone well or has today just not been your day? If today has just not been going the way you'd like, this episode is for you. Nacho Day (try saying it like 'not your day') is all about those frustrating and disheartening days where the world might not be ending, but that leave you in a bad mood.

In this episode, Petra visits Sophie Gray of Destitute Gourmet and the two of them make nachos together in Sophie's kitchen. The recipe they follow is one that Sophie put together specifically for families who receive food from the Good Works Trust Food Bank, where Sophie is the General Manager.

Rev Frank Ritchie also joins us and he lets Petra in on what he does for himself on bad days and how prayer plays a part in how he shows himself some grace.

🎧️ Listen at the link in bio or wherever you get your podcasts.

We've got a brand-new episode of Sunday Sanctuary coming your way tomorrow - and there's a massive clue in this photo about what we'll be exploring 👀 Any guesses what it might be?

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✨ FEATURED ARTIST: Elliot Collins

While we're on the topic of creativity as a spiritual expression, we wanted to highlight some of our team's favourite local artists. We asked them to share some of their mahi with us, as well as how their art/craft is a spiritual expression for them.

Meet Dr Elliot Glenn Punahau Collins, PhD - an artist based Waitara in North Taranaki, with his wife (friend of the show, ) and their dog, on the whenua of Te Ātiawa. Elliot works across an interdisciplinary range of media.

Elliot's mahi explores the ideas of the present/absent texts within ‘memory markers’ in Aotearoa New Zealand as well as the motifs that represent a particular kind of meaning-making narrative. His practice draws reference to poetry and language, the naming of things, as well as memorials and messages observing the reverence of death.

'Memory markers' is a phrase Elliot conceived of to describe the range of memorials and holders of memory that are situated within the landscape that attempt either personally or publicly hold, record, and impart memory to the future.

See more of his moving work at ✨

🎧️ Listen to Art & Soul: Created to Be Creative at https://linktr.ee/petrabagust or wherever you get your podcasts.

We asked you, our Sunday Sanctuary community, about your creativity practices. Here are a few of your stories. Thank you, e hoa mā 💛⁠
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🎧️ Listen to Art & Soul: Created to Be Creative at https://linktr.ee/petrabagust or wherever you get your podcasts.

✨ FEATURED ARTIST: Rachel Soh

While we're on the topic of creativity as a spiritual expression, we wanted to highlight some of our team's favourite local artists. We asked them to share some of their mahi with us, as well as how their art/craft is a spiritual expression for them.

Meet Rachel Soh. Hailing from Singapore 🇸🇬, Rachel has been behind the lens since the early 2000s and a full-time photographer for over a decade now 📷️ From travel photography to fashion and street, Rachel creates breathtaking still images and videos with an eye for beauty and story-telling that can't be beat.

What makes Rachel truly unique is her ability to capture live concerts - both dance and music. She has traveled the globe doing this mahi and this year, shot for Parris Goebel's collaborative show with Nike Women at Paris Fashion Week - a dream come true for her.

Give Rachel a follow!

🎧️ Listen to Art & Soul: Created to Be Creative at https://linktr.ee/petrabagust or wherever you get your podcasts.

✨ FEATURED ARTIST: Janine Williams
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While we're on the topic of creativity as a spiritual expression, we wanted to highlight some of our team's favourite local artists. We asked them to share some of their mahi with us, as well as how their art/craft is a spiritual expression for them.⁠
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Meet Janine Williams (Ngāti Pāoa, Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), imagineer and one of Aotearoa's first wahine Māori urban artists. ⁠
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She is one half of and has been a member of the world acclaimed collective 'TMD Crew' since 1998, alongside her husband, Charles(Ngāti Kahungūnu, Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Whakatōhea, Ngāpuhi).⁠
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Janine works alongside major property developers, Eke Panuku, government agencies, and iwi as both an artist and creative consultant. You can see her work all around the world and locally in places like Wynyard Quarter.⁠
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In our latest episode, Janine joins us for a kōrero with Petra about creativity, her journey of reclaiming Te Reo Māori, murals, graffiti, faith and more.⁠
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Give her and Charles a follow! First photo by .⁠
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🎧️ Listen to Art & Soul: Created to Be Creative at https://linktr.ee/petrabagust or wherever you get your podcasts.

✨ FEATURED ARTIST: Holly Arrowsmith
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While we're on the topic of creativity as a spiritual expression, we wanted to highlight some of our team's favourite local artists. We asked them to share some of their mahi with us, as well as how their art/craft is a spiritual expression for them ✨ ⁠
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Meet Holly Arrowsmith, multi award-winning folk singer songwriter from southern New Zealand. In 2020 she was awarded the APRA Country Song of The Year, after receiving the Tui Award for Folk Album of the year in 2017 🏆️⁠
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Her music has been described by NPR as "utterly beautiful, anchored by a voice that pulls you close and cancels the noise outside."⁠
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In our latest episode, Holly joins us from France for a kōrero with Petra about creativity and we were lucky enough to get to hear three of her beautiful waiata - Desert Dove (her latest single), Autumn, and The Gardener 🎶 Give her a follow!⁠
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First photo taken by the incomparable Si Moore.⁠
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🎧️ Listen to Art & Soul: Created to be Creative at https://linktr.ee/petrabagust or wherever you get your podcasts.

A benediction for the spiritual expression of creativity, written by Petra Bagust ✨

🎧 Listen to Art & Soul: Created to Be Creative on Sunday Sanctuary at https://linktr.ee/petrabagust or wherever you get your podcasts.

Do you see yourself as a creative person? Sure, not everyone can be a musician or a sculptor but I wonder if your answer would change if you considered all of the things you do that aren't typically thought of as 'art'. No matter how we choose to express ourselves creatively, it says something about who we are 🙏

Petra talks to musician Holly Arrowsmith. She very generously shares for the first time about how her sense of spirituality and her faith has changed over the last 10 years, and what that means for her music 🎶

Producer Sam is out on assignment once again, this time to visit icon writer Michael Pervan. At the Studio of St John the Baptist on Auckland's North Shore, we discover how rabbit skin glue and plaster of Paris combine to help make the distinctive seen in churches worldwide.

Lastly Petra talks with internationally award winning graffiti and street artist (or "imagineer"), Janine Williams. Alongside husband Charles, she has an incredible story of following her passion from tagging fences as a teen to being paid to create works visible all over Tāmaki Makaurau ✨

🎧️ Listen at https://linktr.ee/petrabagust or wherever you get your podcasts.