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That's The Spirit

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

That's The Spirit: 10 November, 2025

That's The Spirit: 10 November, 2025 That's The Spirit: 10 November, 2025, 29.36 MB
Mon 10 Nov 2025

Peter discusses the beatification of first green fairy and founder of the religious order Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion, catholic nun Suzanne Aubert. Whakarongo mai nei!

That's the Spirit: November 3, 2025

That's the Spirit: November 3, 2025 That's the Spirit: November 3, 2025, 20.23 MB
Mon 3 Nov 2025

Peter Lineham has returned! This week in the metaphysical and esotric world, Peter catches us up on his recent guest lectures and critiques recent U.S.-based reports that religion is on the rise. Whakarongo mai nei!

That's The Spirit: October 13, 2025

That's The Spirit: October 13, 2025 That's The Spirit: October 13, 2025, 25.84 MB
Mon 13 Oct 2025

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

That's the Spirit: October 6, 2025

That's the Spirit: October 6, 2025 That's the Spirit: October 6, 2025, 22.52 MB
Mon 6 Oct 2025

That's The Spirit: September 22, 2025

That's The Spirit: September 22, 2025 That's The Spirit: September 22, 2025, 19.56 MB
Mon 22 Sep 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!

That's the Spirit: September 15, 2025

That's the Spirit: September 15, 2025 That's the Spirit: September 15, 2025, 28.44 MB
Mon 15 Sep 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. 

That's the Spirit: September 8, 2025

That's the Spirit: September 8, 2025 That's the Spirit: September 8, 2025, 28.81 MB
Mon 8 Sep 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. 

That's The Spirit: September 1, 2025

That's The Spirit: September 1, 2025 That's The Spirit: September 1, 2025, 28.84 MB
Mon 1 Sep 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. 

That's the Spirit: August 25, 2025

That's the Spirit: August 25, 2025 That's the Spirit: August 25, 2025, 54.93 MB
Mon 25 Aug 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.