An Upside-Down World Podcast
What does it look like to live ’upside-down’ in the chaos of our world today? Join Joel McKerrow and Gracie Naoum as they bring you... An Upside-Down World, a podcast hosted with Tearfund Australia. Interviewing local and global guests, this podcast is a deep-dive into the eight sayings of Jesus (commonly known as The Beatitudes) and how these sayings help us walk steadily through this upside-down world. Joel and Gracie hear from some truly remarkable humans as they embrace Jesus’ backwards blessings and let them shape their lives. Released through the weeks of Lent in 2022 the podcast accompanies Tearfund’s Lent series, which you can subscribe to at tearfund.org.au/the-way-of-love-lent-2022
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Episodes
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
In this episode Joel and Grace spend time sharing stories and reflecting on what they have learnt throughout the series. They share a duet poem together with music by David Andrew which ties together many of the themes discussed throughout this podcast episode. We also have a special song written by Susanna Carter in response to the podcast.
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Monday Apr 11, 2022
Monday Apr 11, 2022
Joel McKerrow and Gracie Naoum interview James Montgomery, a Tearfund staff member, working directly with our partners in the South Asia region, including Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nepal.
Grace also shares a poem backed by musician David Andrew which reflects on the life of Aberash Tagese and her daughter Radiate.
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Monday Apr 04, 2022
Monday Apr 04, 2022
Joel McKerrow and Gracie Naoum interview Jacinta Trang, a doctor working on the Gold Coast, an avid reader and an enthusiastic runner. She is passionate about creation care, community outreach as well as finding ways to address health inequities; and is on a journey of learning what God’s heart is for each of these areas.
Joel also shares a poem backed by musician David Andrew which reflects on the life of Artana, a mother in West Papua.
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Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Joel McKerrow and Gracie Naoum interview Nebiyu Haile, the director of Ellilta Women At Risk in Ethiopia. Grace also shares a poem backed by musician David Andrew which reflects on the life of Vimel in Mumbai.
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Monday Mar 21, 2022
Monday Mar 21, 2022
Joel McKerrow and Gracie Naoum interview long-time justice worker TIM COSTELLO with Joel also sharing a poem backed by musician David Andrew
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Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Todays episode is all about the Meek who shall inherit the earth. Joel McKerrow and Gracie Naoum interview Chiraphone Khamphouvong from World Renew Laos. Born in Laos and raised in the USA, before heading back to work with communities in Laos, this is a profound interview.
Grace also shares a poem reflecting on the life of Ramlal, a farmer from Rajasthan with music by David Andrew.
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Ramlal, a farmer from Rajasthan, India,
Joel McKerrow and Gracie Naoum interview indigenous elder and pastor Ray Minniecon with Joel sharing a poem backed by musician
And with a prayer from Rachel Ross, who is part of the Scarred Tree Message Stick Mob, the church community that Ray Minniecon pastors in St John's Glebe.
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Monday Mar 07, 2022
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Joel McKerrow and Gracie Naoum interview indigenous elder and pastor Ray Minniecon with Joel sharing a poem backed by musician David Andrew
And with a prayer from Rachel Ross, who is part of the Scarred Tree Message Stick Mob, the church community that Ray Minniecon pastors in St John's Glebe.
For more about TEARFUND AUSTRALIA checkout www.tearfund.org.au
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Joel McKerrow and Gracie Naoum introduce the Beatitudes with Gracie sharing a poem backed by musician David Andrew.
The second half of the episode is an interview with Hillsong Perth Pastor Tara Conradt.
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Monday Feb 07, 2022
Monday Feb 07, 2022
The trailer for the upcoming, AN UPSIDE-DOWN WORLD Podcast, brought to you by TEARFUND AUSTRALIA, with your hosts Gracie Naoum and Joel McKerrow. Starts MARCH 2nd 2022.
Grace Naoum
Grace graduated from the full-time course at Actors Centre Australia in 2013. Most recently Grace has been cast in the role of Cora in the U.S. film, NOMAD, (2021 release), played Grace Luske (lead) in the TV series Deadly Women and played Molly Sweeney in Clock and Spiel’s Production of Molly Sweeney. Grace has worked as part of the Educational Theatre Company, Poetry In Action, touring Australia for 8 months. In the past 2 years Grace has been cast in several commercials such as Google, Aussie Home Loans, Smiths Chips, Fiji Tourism, Open Colleges and Berocca. Grace has worked on a variety of short films such as Enneagrams vs COVID-19 (actor, co-writer, producer), and written and performed poetry for charity organisations, International Justice Mission and TearFund Australia.
Joel McKerrow
Joel McKerrow is an award winning writer, speaker, educator, artist, creativity specialist and, having performed for hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world, is one of Australia’s most successful, internationally touring, performance poets. Based out of Melbourne, Australia he is the Artist Ambassador for the aid and development organisation ‘TEARFUND Australia’ and was the co-founder of community arts organisation, 'The Centre for Poetics and Justice' (2010-2013). Joel was the third ever Australian representative at the Individual World Poetry Slam Championships in the USA and is a highly sought after speaker at conferences and festivals all over the world. He has four published books and four spoken word/music albums, is a successful play-wright and is a co-founder/host of the The Deep Place: On Creativity and Spirituality Podcast.