Salt – Conversations

In this episode, Jenny invites onto the show passionate Christian environmentalist and overseas mission worker, Tony Rinaudo. Tony is a man overflowing with excitement and enthusiasm for the path God has led him down - including the journey that led him to discover an underground forest. Some who've crossed paths with Tony have called him crazy. But if he is, he’s crazy about Africa, the environme...

Jenny's guest in this episode is James Lane, a man charged with bringing the Gospel to sceptical teens. James has made a mission out of talking to our high school kids about Jesus – something that would scare the life out of most of us. But his greatest struggle was an unexpected unravelling of his life that left him gasping for grace. LINKS Salt is proudly brought to you by Sydney Missionary and...

In this episode, Jenny introduces us to Elizabeth Spencer, an everyday woman whose family life is a tribute to God’s amazing grace. Elizabeth has found deep and abiding love – not once, not twice, but three times in her life. Two husbands, both with significant challenges. But above and beyond them, a Lord who will not let her go. LINKS Salt is proudly brought to you by Sydney Missionary and Bible...

Kicking off Salt Season 7, Jenny introduces us to the CEO of Anglican Aid, Tim Swan. From his earliest years, Tim had a sense that God had a plan for him. It began with music, moved into mission, and has brought him to a place where he now gets to meet tens of thousands of new Christians every year. LINKS You can see all of the projects Tim is involved in by visiting the Anglican Aid website . Sal...

Jenny Salt returns for a seventh season of the Salt podcast - a wonderful way to discover how God’s good news has shaped the lives of celebrated individuals and everyday Christians. Press play to hear about the highlights waiting for you in the coming weeks. Salt is part of Hope Podcasts , hope-filled productions made possible by Hope 103.2 FM.

For the finale of Salt Season 6, Jenny introduces us to Anthony Brammall. Anthony's experience of God's grace at a young age took him and his family to an unpredictable and sometimes dangerous country. There, he spent years in cross-cultural ministry learning how to introduce the gospel to people dedicated to an array of alternate religions. But his continuing scholarship would later lead him to t...

Jenny Salt speaks to Emily Maurits about her sister's life-threatening condition that first left her helpless, then led her - despite all her questions - to a greater trust in the goodness of God. Emily grew up in a Christian home, loving to read and with a passion to write. What she ended up writing about, though, was something she would never have wished on anyone. Her first book became an endea...

Jenny's guest in this episode is Kathy Notley, who shares what it is like to go searching for the family you've lost and find a stronger connection than you ever thought possible. Kathy's childhood was idyllic - a close family with loving parents and so many memories of family holidays, playing with neighbours, and a home that everyone wanted to visit. Then, at 17 years of age, her world fell apar...

In this episode, Jenny Salt takes us into the life of Sharon Hall, a self-effacing woman whose life is a testimony to what God can do with a willing pair of hands. Sharon grew up with an open-air preacher for a dad and a piano-accordion-playing mum, and God was always a big part of her childhood. She dreamt of going to Africa as a missionary teacher, but God had other plans and took her to green h...

Jenny Salt introduces us to Geoff Harper, a self-effacing Irishman with a love for the last book of the Bible most Christians get around to reading. Geoff grew up an evangelical in a country steeped in Roman Catholicism. One thing he was certain of, his life would not be one spent in ministry.  But God had other ideas, and when Geoff found his true path it was a journey into the heart of the Old T...

Jenny Salt is joined by Alison Chambers, a mother to three adult children, a wife to a cardiac specialist, and a trained physiotherapist. But just those details wouldn't be enough to know her. Alison is an actor with a capital 'A'. As a child, Alison dreamed of acting and it became a driving motivation for most of her life. It's taken her on to the stage on countless occasions and into the storyli...

Jenny Salt meets Linda Chan, whose parents grew up under the turbulent and cruel regime of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge. They came to Australia hoping for a better life, but for Linda, turbulent and cruel is how she describes the childhood that followed. A troubled home life, school bullying, and third-degree burns to 90% of her body combined to make her life a complete misery. But when Linda discovered...

Jenny meets Michael Duckett, an indigenous man who has given his word to follow God and sees no reason to take it back. Michael’s life could be summed up in a word: reconciliation.  Moving in and out of a foster home as a baby and toddler he was adopted by his white foster family who raised him and cared for him as their own.   But it took hearing a “boring” sermon at the age of 17 for Michael to...

Jenny Salt talks to Dr. Justine Toh, a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity, where she speaks and writes about deciphering contemporary culture. Justine shares how she grew up in an immigrant culture that made an idol out of education and measured success in terms of career benchmarks. Her book, Achievement Addiction , examines our need to succeed, and her own struggles in...

Ed Grudier tells Jenny Salt he did not expect God to lead him to more than a decade of ministry in Turkey, testing the tempers of the police as he sought to plant a church.  Ed started his life in the middle-class suburbs of Cleveland, the so-called Bible-belt of the US.  But despite growing up in a culturally catholic household, he still managed to hold on to a secular outlook.  Yet, a single ser...

Tune in to hear Jenny Salt interview Janet Riley - a city girl with a country heart.   As a vet, Janet loved the big animals, and as a Christian, she knew the love of an even bigger God.  And it was this love that took her from regional NSW to Africa and on as she journeyed through cancer.

Andrew Miller is the international operations coordinator for Deaf Ministries International. He tells Jenny Salt how an interest in Japanese culture led to 25 years of lay leadership in an international church in Osaka. Since then he has transitioned into ministry to the silent world of the deaf community. Traveling all over the world to support DMI's ministries, he has discovered that the Gospel...

Jenny Salt welcomes Ruth France on to the show and talks to her about what brought a suburban girl to choose a life of ministry in the country.  As a young adult Ruth experienced a number of life-changing moments, including a literal bolt from the blue. But the biggest lightning strike to connect with her life was the call to mission. What began as an interest in overseas work, though, transformed...

Join Jenny Salt as she ascends the heights and plumbs the depths of church planting with veteran Adam Ramsey. Adam has been involved in church planting for 15 years, including working in Seattle in the Mars Hill church alongside Mark Driscoll.  He is also a pastor of a church that was planted on the Gold Coast in QLD, and he is the Network Director of Acts 29 for Asia Pacific - and he hasn’t hit 4...

Jenny Salt is keen to share Season 6 of Salt with her listeners, and hints at what's in store. In the meantime, there are TWO competitions to take part in: NUMBER ONE Just write a review of Salt and send us a snapshot and mail it to salt@smbc.edu.au   – it’s that simple. And the best three reviews will receive a free copy of Anthony Brammall’s new book, Never Going Home, the life story of missiona...

The Salt team is getting ready to bring you a fresh season of Salt, which will drop into your podcast app in just over a month. While you’re waiting, tell us about your favourite Salt episode.  We’ve put a little poll together of our most-listened-to shows and you could win a book just by telling us why you like the one you chose. Follow the link I want a free book and get voting. And thanks to ou...

All of the team over at the Salt Mines are hard at work producing season 6 of Salt, which will drop into your podcast app in just over a month.  In the meantime, Jenny's running a competition to help get the word out about the show, and you can help. Just write a review of Salt and send us a snapshot and mail it to salt@smbc.edu.au   – it’s that simple. And the best three reviews will receive a fr...

Graham Cole, together with his wife Jules, has been involved in Christian ministry for more than 40 years.   Jenny Salt hears how it has taken them to many places around the world, and for 20 of those years, to the Midwest of the United States.  There, they discovered a perspective on life and the love of God that reveals the future for both America and Australia. They’re back at home now, but sti...

Like most of us, Scott Lavender and his family will have reflections on 2020 and 2021 – some good, some hard. Covid has changed so much in our world. But for Scott, the last two years have contained the most excruciating pain he could imagine, alongside a host of other struggles.  But as doctors struggled to understand what was happening to him, Scott discovered that God was carrying out his own s...

Jenny Salt's guest today is David Luxford. To meet David is to meet a man who in many ways just quietly gets on with things.  No fanfare. No profile, megachurch, or fame.   But to know David is to know someone who has faithfully got on with serving the Lord for more than 50 years - through long, difficult tasks and the tragedy of death in the family - because he was challenged as a young Christian...