Another season of Sheology, done and dusted! But before we leave you, our magnificent listeners, to enjoy the Christmas and New Year season, we just had to squeeze in another boozy live Q+A. Reflections on season three, listener questions, potential topics for the future, and some silly tech mishaps along the way - it’s all here for your listening pleasure! You can also head over to the brand new Sheology Podcast YouTube channel to watch the original stream from early December.

Fifty years ago, 88% of Australians identified with Christianity, but now it's down to 50% - and we’ve heard reports for years that church attendance is in decline everywhere. Is it possible that churchgoing is on the way out? And could this be a good thing? We enlist Gemma Bell, a passionate but sometimes-reluctant churchie with extensive experience working for and with Christian communities, to share her thoughts and maybe even convince Rubie and Biz to set aside their Sunday mornings again.

Harry Styles can’t wear a dress without ruffling feathers, and the US president passes off bragging about sexual assault as locker-room talk. We often discuss how rigid gender norms screw over women, but the blokes have it bad too - and we want to talk about it! It's Movember, so we convened a roundtable of 3 wise men - LGBTQ+ advocate Chris Csabs, youth worker & Biz’s husband Kris Adams, and Rubie’s dad Dave Hammond - to discuss their reckonings with masculinity, including lessons on gender from chur

Australian women take on between five and 14 hours of unpaid domestic housework per week, while men perform on average less than five hours per week, according to the 2016 Census. With the COVID-19 pandemic further burdening women around the world with increased housework and childcare, the gap between what women and men in straight relationships do in the home - call it the Gender Spray N Wipe Gap, if you will - seems frustratingly immovable. We discuss the challenges and why we must maintain the rage.

(Content warning - this episode contains references to sexual abuse.) In November 2017, motivated by the growing #MeToo movement, Emily Joy revealed on Twitter that as a teenager she was groomed for abuse by a youth leader. So began #ChurchToo, an outpouring from Christians around the world who had been sexually harassed or abused by other churchgoers or even church leaders. We chat to Kelly and Sarah from the All At Once podcast about how churches can enable abuse and how they're fighting for change.

Ever since the early days of colonisation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have fought to protect their country and sustain a relationship with the natural world that white folk struggle to respect - even in the face of unprecedented environmental devastation. We talk to Common Grace CEO and Wakka Wakka woman Brooke Prentis, discussing the Christian justice movement, and why First Nations leaders and lore need to be at the forefront of climate change activism.

(Warning: explicit content!) From Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion spitting horny lyrics in the hit song WAP, to 11-year-olds experimenting with twerking and tiny outfits in the film Cuties, 2020 has provided plenty of fuel for the Christian war against media depictions of women expressing their sexuality - or girls exploring theirs. We attempt to balance concerns around the hypersexualisation of women in pop culture with our frustration at the sexist - and usually racist - arguments against feminist art.

Should Christians expect financial riches from God? To launch our third season we've taken on a spicy topic: the always-provocative prosperity gospel. It’s an umbrella of Christian thinking born in the US, but familiar in Australia too, where Pentecostal megachurches love talking about abundance - whatever that actually means. We consider the role money plays in churches, what we've observed from afar, and how linking faith with financial rewards is bound to get messy.

If you missed our live episode in May, never fear - we recorded it for you! We’ve edited the discussion a little bit for length but all the best parts are there, featuring laughably sexist sermons, ABC’s controversial podcasting sketch, Beyonce, mansplainers on Twitter, Christian feminist book recs, and several other topics keeping our brains busy while we’re stuck at home.

Clear your diaries for tomorrow, Friday May 29 at 8pm AEST, cause for our third iso episode Sheology is coming to you live! Our Q&A with listeners will be broadcast over Facebook, so follow the Sheology page and get your fingertips poised to type out some juicy questions. We're not sure where the conversation will go but you can expect chat about feminism, faith, pop culture, podcasting and lockdown life. And if you can't make it, email your question instead to [email protected].