Coach and meditation teacher Luke Mclean unpacks and explores inspiring and insightful people's authentic journeys. We understand their why and the tools, teachings, people and experiences that got them to where they are today. Conscious Conversations is what I like to call soulful performance.
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Luke Mclean Podcasts
We are a group of Christian believers located in Bloomington, IL who are dedicated to growing disciples of Jesus Christ.
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Australian and international authors talk about their books and how they got published or how they self-published. Listeners, writers and readers will also hear about what's going on in our local writing community.
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You will know all of these people from their work in the public spotlight, but what you may not know is the amazing work they are doing outside of their profession, to make the world a better place.
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Pastor Brian Goke preachingBy Pastor Brian Goke
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Pastor Brian Goke preaching.By Pastor Brian Goke
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Our social contract with the world, our very purpose in the digital age is brought into question in the novel, 'Arborescence', by Rhett Davis Martha has ideas but she is shy. Can she show her friends, family and classmates who she really is and what she is capable of? Jo Dabrowski is the author, and ‘The Making of Martha Mayfield’ is her book.…
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Toni Jordan’s book ‘Ternderfoot’ is a coming of age story set in the 70’s.A. L. Booth’s crime novel, ’Death at Booroomba’ includes a mysterious inheritance, a violent murder, a hint of romance and a large dollop of country town gossip.By Toni Jordan with Lisa Moule and A. L. Booth with Jan Goldsmith
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If you had the power to change history would you dare? ‘The Turing Protocol’ by Nick Croydon.'King Tide' is Luke Johnson's debut novel set in a small coastal town where a mutilated body of an adolescent is found. Added to that, a child disappeared some five years before. Are the events linked and who is responsible?An American war hero with harsh l…
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Matt Rogers takes us on a nhilistic journey of murder and corruption with equal parts of philosophy and asceticism in his novel, 'The Forsaken'.Jayne Tuttle's memoir is an exploration of creativity, motherhood and Paris.By Matt Rogers with David McLean and Jayne Tuttle
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Romans 13:1-7. Pastor Brian Goke preaching.By Pastor Brian Goke
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Dmetri Kakmi's novel, The Woman In the Well, blends the spiritualism associated with numerous faiths; Christianity, Islam and indigenous belief.Not even a respectable job digging graves can keep an ex-con from a form of corruption that could put him behind bars once again. This is the world of guilt and suspicion that Mark Brandi explores in his la…
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1 Timothy 4:9-16. Pastor Brian Goke preaching.By Pastor Brian Goke
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Amie Kaufman's, 'Lady's Knight' features the tournament of the dragon slayers and is a sapphic fairytale.A couple grapple with the breakdown of their relationship on a road trip in the southwest of America where the environmental degredation of the landscape is apparent in Madeleine Watts' novel, "Elegy, Southwest"…
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John 6:52-29. Pastor Brian preaching.By Pastor Brian Goke
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You have to be smart to be in academia and so is this romance fiction by Jodi McAlister. 'An Academic Affair' has characters and situations which are humorous and not so predictable.In Lucy Nelson's debut short story collection 'Wait Here' the theme is women who will never be mothers: who can't, who don't or won't have children.Both authors also ta…
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Genesis 22:1-14. Pastor Brian Goke preaching.By Pastor Brian Goke
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1 Peter 5:6-11. Pastor Jonah Christensen preaching.By Pastor Brian Goke
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Lawyers and politicians were involved with both Federation and the trial and hanging of Jimmy Governor in the historical true crime novel of ‘The Last Outlaws’ by Katherine Biber.The regrets and indiscretions of our past and our present day poor judgement are a continual presence in our lives that, perhaps, only a psychic can give us licence to add…
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Isaiah 58:1-9. Pastor Brian Goke preachingBy Pastor Brian Goke
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The intriguing elements of seances and criminal conduct behind the writing of Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde come to the fore as Belinda Lyons-Lee explores the life of Robert Louis Stevenson as narrated by his wife, Fanny Osbourne in 'The Haunting of Mr and Mrs Stevenson'.Shokoofeh Azar's book 'The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen' spans fifty yea…
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Luke 16:19-31. Pastor Brian Goke preachingBy Pastor Brian Goke
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Thomas Vowles' novel, 'Our New Gods' is a psychological thriller where sinsiter sexuality and murder coincide amongst the queer scene of Melbourne.Elle McFadzean's, The Potion Experiment, is a middle grade fantasy about science and magic.By Thomas Vowles with David McLean and Elle Fadzean with Lisa Moule
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John 6:32-40. Pastor Brian Goke preachingBy Pastor Brian Goke
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‘The Last Egg’ is a picture story book by Sofie Laguna. It is about love, kindness and loyalty with a fantastical end. Lili Wilkinson has Titch the mouse on an epic journey of magic, heroism and loyal friendship in ‘Bravepaw and the Clawstone of Rotwood Mire’‘Music Camp’ by Penny Tangey is a big hearted story about finding your way when you’re twel…
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Titus 3:1-8. Pastor Brian Goke preachingBy Pastor Brian Goke
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A much loved daughter could ruin a family and just what is it, that this family have to hide? Anna Snoekstra has written a very well crafted mystery in ‘The Ones We Love’. Robbie Coburn's verse narrative, 'The Foal in the Wire', is a coming of age tale about survival and the bonds between individuals that both undermine and affirm.…
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James 2:14-26. Jim Pitzer preaching.By Pastor Brian Goke
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Audrey has left her husband and career in advertising. Now she bakes cakes and fortune cookies that tell the bitter truth, but can she start a business with her motley lot of new friends in Catherine Greer’s ‘The Bitter Sweet Bakery Café’.By Catherine Greer wth Jan Goldsmith
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1 Corinthians 10:12-13. Pastor Brian Goke preaching.By Pastor Brian Goke
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John 20:19-31. Pastor Brian Goke preaching.By Pastor Brian Goke
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A grandson tries to learn a family story in Andre Dao’s ‘Anam’. Murder and mayhem on the waterfront, marihuana cigarettes and a turf war over brothels, thankfully the Tea Ladies can solve crimes and cement friendships in this, the third book of the series, ‘The Deadly Dispute’ by Amanda Hampson.By Andre Dao with Lisa Moule and Amanda Hampson with Jan Goldsmith
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He wants to be a successful and acclaimed writer. He wants to know all the truths and write her biography even if it requires deceit. Dominic Amerena has written this crafty book about literary theft in ‘I want Everything’. Mystery surrounds a new pandemic that takes the lives of those reaching their ninth birthday in Chris Flynn's, ‘Orpehus Nine’.…
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Philippians 2:1-11. Denise Ludwig preaching.By Pastor Brian Goke
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The bond of friendship can unravel when doubt and superstition start to take hold. And the spiritual comfort we seek in such circumstances can also lead to our undoing. Christine Keighery delves into these notions in her novel, 'We're Not Us Without You'.The gold rush made the city of Melbourne rich but women’s lives and choices were still very lim…
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Luke 11:33-36. Pastor Brian preaching.By Pastor Brian Goke
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‘Salty, Spiced and a Little Bit Nice’ has Ellie a type 1 diabetic wanting independence from her controlling family but not wanting to be hurt again by her teenage crush in this romantic comedy by Cynthia Timoti. Gregory Day's anthology of poetry, Southsightedness, connects creativity, the landscape and the artist as a collective whole in verse that…
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Philippians 3:10-21. Pastor Brian Goke preaching.By Pastor Brian Goke
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Food blogger, Chloe, is competing for an interview with a famous chef in Victoria Brownlee's novel, 'Eat Your Heart Out'.Doctor Hannah Wright must balance her personal and professional life as she treats psychiatric patients at the Menzies Hospital in the latest novel, The Glass House, by Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion.…
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Resurrection Sunday 2025. Pastor Brian Goke preaching.By Pastor Brian Goke
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By Her Hand is Marion Taffe's debut novel where the protagonist must write her rage to win her war.Laura McCluskey takes us to an isolated island off the west coast of Scotland where superstition and resistance hamper a murder investigation in her debut novel, The Wolf Tree.By Marion Taffe with Lisa Moule and Laura McCluskey with David McLean
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Peter Norris writes about his upbringing with his career criminal father who was a bank robber and jail escapee in the memoir, The Bank Robbers Boy.Kate Grenville talks about her latest work, Unsettled.By Peter Norris with David McLean and Kate Grenville with Lisa Moule
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Luke 12:22-31. Pastor Brian Goke preaching.By Pastor Brian Goke
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Psalm 139. Rabbi Kirk Gieble preaching.By Pastor Brian Goke
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A cicada leaves a shell of its former self behind suggesting a past life and this notion is played upon in Ella Ward's novel, The Cicada House.By Ella Ward with David McLean
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Acts 17:22-34.Pastor Dan Hall preaching.By Pastor Brian Goke
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Kate Solly has written a cosy crime book ‘The Paradise Heights Craft Store Stitch Up’.Family saga mixes with macabre happenings in ‘First Name Second Name’ Steve MinOn has a dead man walking back through four generations of family history to recover his lost identity.By Kate Solly with Lisa Moule and Steve MinOn with Jan Goldsmith
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Luke 6:27-36. Pastor Brian Goke preaching.By Pastor Brian Goke
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Her Gramps has dementia and it is through a time slip that Charlotte relives the moon landing and brings sparks of awareness and her own empathy to him and others in the aged care facility, in Anna Ciddor’s ‘Moonboy’.Several months after her father's death, Belinda Probert discovers that his name is actually Roy. She outlines the journey of discove…
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1st Kings 19:9-13. Pastor Brian Goke preaching.By Pastor Brian Goke
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Alice and Teddy are two women on the fringes of criminality who begin to realize they are implicated in drug running and murder in Fiona Hardy's novel, 'Unbury the Dead'.Three people from different generations, backgrounds and work, form an unlikely connection and this friendship alters the course of their lives in Andrea Goldsmith’s ‘The Buried Li…
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