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Stay Salty with Bec Oates

Stay Salty with Bec Oates

Bec Oates
Religion & Spirituality

“My church doesn’t talk about this stuff.” Stay Salty goes where church conversations often don’t. Bec Oates sits down with people willing to poke at the awkward, complicated and sometimes downright uncomfortable parts of faith — from justice, power and gender to leadership, culture and life with Jesus beyond the Sunday script. No beige answers. No pretending everything is tidy. Stay curious. Stay courageous. Stay salty.

7 - 6. "You Cannot Buy Faith" (Som Chanmony)
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  • 7 - 6. "You Cannot Buy Faith" (Som Chanmony)

    What happens when the Church, in trying to do good, ends up doing harm?


    Som Chanmony (Mony) is the director of Peace Bridges, a Cambodian organisation working to transform conflict, build peace, and bring reconciliation to communities shaped by generations of violence and trauma.


    Joining Bec from Cambodia, Mony shares his extraordinary insights into faith, culture, power, and the sometimes uncomfortable consequences of Western approaches to mission.


    Because the Gospel was never meant to be something we impose on others. And generosity should never come with strings attached.


    What happens when we put God in a box? When charity becomes a transaction? When we measure the success of mission by the number of conversions rather than the lives transformed?


    And what does it say about our faith when we exploit the very people we're called to love?


    As Bec reflects, "If our entry point into vulnerable communities is through vulnerable children, we have a problem."


    Perhaps it's time to stop bringing God to places where God is already at work.


    Perhaps it's time to listen, to learn, and to love without expecting anything in return.


    Because you cannot buy faith.


    And you cannot put God in a box.


    If you would like to learn more about the work Bec does with Tearfund Australia, visit: https://www.tearfund.org.au/


    And remember...


    Stay Salty.


    Produced by A. K. Chidgzey: https://www.akchidgzey.com/


    Theme music by David Chidgzey: @chidgzey

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 - 49min
  • 6 - 5. "Find Your Voice" (Kerry Hilton // Part Two)

    Kerry Hilton returns for another salty conversation with Bec, this time tackling poverty, injustice, power, privilege, and the extraordinary leadership of women.


    Drawing on decades of experience alongside women in Kolkata's red-light district, Kerry shares how the people he thought he was there to help became the very people who taught him what leadership, generosity, and the Kingdom of God really look like.


    Because poverty is about so much more than a lack of money. It's about systems and structures that deny people the freedom to flourish.


    And sometimes, following Jesus means having less so that others can have more.


    What would happen if we were willing to relinquish our power and privilege? What might the Church become if everyone was free to participate fully in the mission of God? And what could we learn if we stopped trying to lead and started listening?


    Perhaps the people we've excluded are the very people we need to lead us.


    Perhaps it's time to make room.


    And perhaps it's time to find our voice.


    If you would like to learn more about the work Bec does with Tearfund Australia, visit: https://www.tearfund.org.au/


    And remember...

    Stay Salty.


    Produced by A. K. Chidgzey: https://www.akchidgzey.com/

    Theme music by David Chidgzey: @chidgzey

    Wed, 04 Nov 2026 - 49min
  • 5 - 4. "Have Your Life Disrupted" (Kerry Hilton // Part One)

    In 1999, Kerry Hilton and his wife Annie packed up their lives in New Zealand, took their four young children, and moved to Kolkata, India. Little did they know that their new neighbours would change their lives forever.


    Kerry joins Bec for a wonderfully challenging conversation about following Jesus, loving our neighbours, welcoming the stranger, and discovering the heart of God in the most unexpected places.


    Because following Jesus was never meant to be comfortable. It's costly, it's disruptive, and it might just mean giving up everything we thought made us safe.


    But what if that's where the good life really begins?


    What if the people we think need us are actually the people we need? And what might we discover about God if we allowed our lives to be disrupted?


    Perhaps it's time to stop asking God to bring people to us.


    Perhaps it's time to go and find them.


    If you would like to learn more about the work Bec does with Tearfund Australia, visit: https://www.tearfund.org.au/


    And remember...

    Stay Salty.


    Produced by A. K. Chidgzey: https://www.akchidgzey.com/


    Theme music by David Chidgzey: @chidgzey

    Wed, 28 Oct 2026 - 39min
  • 4 - 3. "Dream Something New" (Prabu Deepan)

    CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussion of domestic violence. If this is triggering, please listen with care and caution.


    From growing up amid conflict and displacement in Sri Lanka to leading Tearfund's global work addressing gender-based violence, Prabu Deepan has a powerful story to tell.


    Prabu joins Bec for a deeply personal, challenging, and hopeful conversation about poverty, gender, violence, masculinity, and the transformative power of the Gospel.


    Because poverty is about so much more than money, and the Good News is about so much more than getting people into church.


    What does it mean to see every person as created in the image of God? What might happen if we challenged the systems and assumptions that rob people of their dignity? And what would it look like to follow Jesus in bringing people in from the margins?


    Sometimes, we need to stop picking up the pieces of our broken dreams.


    Sometimes, we need to dream something new.


    If you would like to learn more about Prabu's work in Transforming Masculinity, visit: https://learn.tearfund.org/en/resources/series/changing-gender-norms-transforming-masculinities/transforming-masculinities

    If you would like to learn more about the work Bec and Prabu do with Tearfund, visit: https://www.tearfund.org.au/


    And remember...
    Stay Salty.


    Produced by A. K. Chidgzey: https://www.akchidgzey.com/
    Theme music by David Chidgzey: @chidgzey

    Wed, 21 Oct 2026 - 48min
  • 3 - 2. "God's Story, you're in it" (Graeme Anderson // Part Two)

    Graeme Anderson returns for another crunchy, uncomfortable, saltyconversation with Bec, this time to discuss topics as wide ranging as the Gospel, leadership, taking sin seriously, and poverty. After all, should the Gospel not drive Christian leaders to take the sin of poverty seriously?


    But most importantly, that God is with us and is for us. We are participating in a story that is so much bigger, so much more eternal than we realise. And it's a story of restoration.


    This is the story. The Good News. The Gospel.


    And what is the Gospel? This is God's story and we are in it.


    If you would like to learn more about Graeme's book, check out the website: https://follow.org.au/

    And if you would like to learn more about the work Bec does with Tearfund Australia, visit: https://www.tearfund.org.au/


    And remember...

    Stay Salty.


    Produced by A. K. Chidgzey: https://www.akchidgzey.com/

    Theme music by David Chidgzey: @chidgzey

    Wed, 14 Oct 2026 - 48min
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