In this week's episode of Speaking of Social Justice, we bring to you a special post-pentecost reflection where Dr Michael Walker challenges the myths of modern freedom and fulfilment. Speaking from the historic St Peter’s Church in Surry Hills, where Mary MacKillop and Eileen O’Connor once prayed, Michael explores how social media-fuelled consumerism has seduced us into lifestyles of overwork, isolation, and ecological harm.
Marking 10 years since the promulgation of Laudato Si’, this episode unpacks what it means to live well without living large. Drawing from Catholic tradition, Scripture, and his own lived experience of giving up his car, Michael makes a passionate and practical case for “the grace of enough”; where deeper relationships, radical simplicity, and spiritual clarity offer a more life-giving path than lifestyle creep ever could.
From Viktor Frankl to Francis de Sales, copper mines to Instagram influencers, this episode is a tour de force on faith, consumption, and what it really means to follow Christ in a world addicted to more.
