Spiritual Practices

New Zealander Grace Adams escaped the infamous Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, but her sister Rebecca was among the 76 people who died there in 1993. Grace says Rebecca's memory drives her work… Audio

This Roman Catholic Mass from the Auckland Cathedral of St Patrick and St Joseph has Pa Peter Tipene as celebrant.  Audio

The Catholic church in Sydney this week began the formal process for the beatification of Australian Eileen O'Connor, who co-founded the religious order Our Lady's Nurses of the Poor - also known as… Audio

Christchurch's Anglican Bishop Victoria Matthews speaks out for the first time since announcing she was stepping down after leading the Christchurch diocese for 10 years. Video, Audio

Asne Seierstad is an accomplished writer, journalist and war correspondent, well known at home in Norway and abroad. She covered the Chechen war, the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, the fall of… Audio

Bob Roth has been teaching transcendental meditation for over 40 years. Audio

Tara Westover's memoir begins with scenes from her Mormon childhood in an isolated mountain valley in Idaho. The youngest of seven, she was home schooled by her mother, a midwife. Her father, obsessed… Audio

Award winning Indian-Samoan artist Tiffany Singh installs two massive and ground-breaking art works for the launch of Te Papa's new Toi Art Gallery. She uses the arts as a vehicle for health and… Audio, Gallery

An Auckland woman says she wants the Catholic Church to acknowledge her father was a priest who broke his vow of celibacy. The woman, who RNZ has agreed not to identify, has broken a half century of… Audio

A former bishop of Waikato has just been welcomed into the Church of England in a ceremony with a Maori twist. Two Maori priests travelled all the way to England to help conduct Dr Helen-Ann Hartley's… Audio