Religion Report

December 2001

Wednesday 26

• Spirit in the Desert: Silence and Honeycakes

Wednesday 19

• Spirit in the Desert: Life, Death and Neighbours

Wednesday 12

• 100 Years Of Radio: Aldo Gennaro

Wednesday 05

• Religious politics in Malaysia; religious freedom in Sudan; Blake Prize winner

November 2001

Wednesday 28

• Pope says sorry; multiculturalism vs human rights; 50 years of the Blake Prize

Wednesday 21

• Dust

Wednesday 14

• The greatest country in the world; Ramadan; Irish emigrant chaplain comes to Sydney

Wednesday 07

• Hindmarsh Island and sacred sites; remembering Kristallnacht

October 2001

Wednesday 31

• Religious Dynamics in Australian Federal Politics

Wednesday 24

• Political conflict in Indonesia; religious violence in Nigeria

Wednesday 17

• Has Christianity been vanquished in Britain?

Wednesday 10

• Ibn Warraq: Why I Am Not A Muslim

Wednesday 03

• The psychology of terrorism; the meaning of Jihad; the hope for peace

September 2001

Wednesday 26

• Concern for aid workers in Afghanistan; women and Islam; a prize-winning composer

Wednesday 19

• In the wake of terror

Thursday 13

• Terror attacks on US; Christianity in crisis in the UK

Wednesday 05

• Anti-Muslim feelings running high; church-run housing in Victoria

August 2001

Wednesday 29

• Religion in public life - a blessing?

Wednesday 22

• Catholic bishops and IVF; teaching Western culture

Wednesday 15

• Freedom of worship in Vietnam; the drug debate

Wednesday 08

• Trouble in the Holy Land

Wednesday 01

• Stolen generation and the Church; bible-based home loans; Australian Gothic

July 2001

Wednesday 25

• Anglican General Synod; stained glass in Australia; Francis Rush dies

Wednesday 18

• Salvos out of Moscow; church leadership under scrutiny

Wednesday 11

• Australia's human rights record; Falun Gong on the march; Melbourne's new Catholic Archbishop

Wednesday 04

• An interfaith gesture backfires; work and wealth in Australia; indigenous artists in business

June 2001

Wednesday 27

• Muslim Community Radio; religion on campus

Wednesday 20

• Refugees and birth control - the moral minefield

Wednesday 13

• Rev Dr Peter Jensen: the interview

Wednesday 06

• Sydney's new Anglican Archbishop; theological colleges; a new choral work

May 2001

Wednesday 30

• A new census; vandalising the Goddess; a biography of Carl Jung

Wednesday 23

• Pressing questions for Catholicism

Wednesday 16

• Jews and Christians revisited

Wednesday 09

• The Bruderhof controversy; multifaith dialogue; a Federation religious celebration

Wednesday 02

• Conversion: an ethical minefield?

April 2001

Wednesday 25

• Australia's new Governor-General; the organist from Notre Dame

Wednesday 18

• A new Buddhist community for Victoria; looking back to 1950; Hildegard of Bingen

Wednesday 11

• Godless morality; Stations of the Cross in Melbourne; the demise of an ecumenical institution

Wednesday 04

• Religious vilification; Paul the Jew; a devoted poet

March 2001

Wednesday 28

• A new Catholic Archbishop for Sydney

Wednesday 21

• Spiritual Intelligence; Archbishop Harry Goodhew retires; Divine retribution for Britain?

Wednesday 14

• A maverick priest speaks out; B.A. Santamaria - crusader or conspirator?

Wednesday 07

• Religious unrest in Indonesia; the Taliban destroys ancient Buddhist statues in Afghanistan; evangelicals at odds in southern Mexico

February 2001

Wednesday 28

• Religion and homophobia; Vatican vs the Australian bishops; remembering Richard Wurmbrand

Wednesday 21

• Taxing charities; religion in Kosovo; John O'Donohue

Wednesday 14

• The Second Fall, Ninian Smart remembered.

Wednesday 07

• Canada's Treaty in Trouble; Cosmic Creation or Chaos?

January 2001

Wednesday 31

• New Cardinals for Rome, George Bush, Muslims in Australia