Podcasts

Community or Chaos

Community or Chaos Weekly Podcast

Community or Chaos is a wide ranging weekly discussion with a studio guest, hosted by Marvin Hubbard on Otago Access Radio. The title comes from the final book by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., published in 1967, which examined the civil rights movement, economic inequality, and race relations, urging a choice between global cooperation or destruction.

Community or Chaos is supported by a grant from the Quaker Education and Testimonies Fund (QETF).

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You can also listen to Community or Chaos broadcasts live on Tuesdays at 11am (NZ Time) at https://oar.org.nz/listen-live/

 

Podcasts and Radio Interviews

Interview with Anne Goodman: Anne was invited to be interviewed on Access Radio about her experience with Quakers and who Quakers are. Anne was accompanied by Liz Bridgeman as a support person. https://accessmedia.nz/Player.aspx?eid=b9d59c15-2d71-4eaf-86bf-599c529d8620

Interview with Merrall MacNeille and Elizabeth Thompson on the theme of truth and integrity on Otago Access Radio's Radio Church programme, broadcast on in August 2020. https://player.accessmedia.nz/Player.aspx?eid=c133bd5a-2b2c-415b-86b3-fb05e027519a 

Quaker Flower delivery under threat: a RNZ Morning Report short item broadcast on 19 December 2016 about Mt Eden Meeting's posies for prisoners at https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/201828236/quaker-flower-delivery-tradition-under-threat 

Quaker Acres: Listen to a RNZ Country Life programme broadcast 23 January 2015 about the Quaker Settlement in Whanganui at https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/countrylife/audio/20164664/quaker-acres 

Kevin Clements (a conscientious objector to war): Listen to a RNZ talk by Kevin Clements on Anzac Day, 25th April 2014, at https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/anzacday/audio/2593694/professor-kevin-clements 

Murray Short: Listen to a RNZ radio interview featuring Murray Short , on 30 May 2010. The interview is currently at https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/spiritualoutlook/audio/2356510/spiritual-outlook-for-30-may-2010.

 

 

Limits to Growth and Energy Crisis - Nathan Surendran

This Community or Chaos podcast was first broadcast on 24 March 2026.

Nathan Surendran is Chairperson of the Wise Response Society. He specialises in biophysical economics, energy systems engineering, and resilience planning. Marvin and Nathan talk about the connection between ongoing Climate Change e.g. Global Heating and the goal of GGT economic growth, plusTrump's fuel crisis.

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Nathan Surendran

Quakers Today - Tim Gee, Interview February 17, 2026

Tim Gee is General Secretary of the (Quaker) Friends World Committee for Consultation

Tim Gee


Tim has taken part in nonviolence civil disobedience around Climate Change and economic justice. He is the author of a number of books:  Counter-power: Making Change Happen, You Can't Evict an Idea: What Can We Learn From Occupy?, Open for Liberation: An Activist Reads the Bible, and Why I Am a Pacifist: A Call for a More Nonviolent World.  

This Community or Chaos podcast discusses about what Friends (Quakers) may have to offer at a time of extreme social, political and environmental crisis. Can Quakerism offer a spiritual foundation for spiritual seeking, when the foundations are shaking?

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Tim Gee interview 17 February 2026
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