As of January 2009, this program is no longer in production.
Val Webb is an Australian author and recent winner of the USA best books award winner for Religion. Her prize-winning book is titled Like Catching Water in a Net: Human attempts to describe the Divine. So if you have felt uncomfortable sitting in the pews over the years, but still have some sense of spiritual certainty, this is an interview for you. Val is speaking with John Cleary. Read Transcript
Irish-born Dr John Lennox visited Australia in 2008 and debated the existence of God. He is on the side opposing Richard Dawkins and speaks with John Cleary about the evidence for belief in God. Read Transcript
Dr Patricia Brennan took the battle against discrimination into the heart of the male-dominated priesthood of the Anglican church. This year she looks back on 25 years since the battle for the ordination of women began in earnest in Australia, a country in which there are now some 400 ordained women, 200 deacons, and two bishops. She speaks with John Cleary. Read Transcript
Orthodox Jew and Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Amy-Jill Levine speaks with John Cleary about her life and her work as a Jewish theologian in a Christian context. Read Transcript
Wednesday 8.30am
repeated 8pm
9am AEST
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