Religion Report

December 2003

Wednesday 31

• Summer series 2: Three centuries of Methodism

Wednesday 24

• Summer series 1: Alan Walker remembered

Wednesday 17

• Iraq, Islam and the West
• The Catholic Church in Ireland
• France moves against religious symbols
• Emile Fackenheim remembered
• Melbourne Anglicans seek change
• Homosexuality and the Uniting Church
• Sydney Anglicans, Vatican politics
• Looking Back at 2003 - full transcript

Wednesday 10

• Christians and Jews: progression or regression?

Wednesday 03

• Parramatta Cathedral reopens
• Renovation row at St Anne's
• Full transcript

November 2003

Wednesday 26

• A tribute to Manoly Lascaris
• Full transcript
• A Third Way to tackle poverty
• Mary MacKillop not yet sainted

Wednesday 19

• Leszek Kolakowski honoured
• Methodists and Anglicans engaged
• State vs religion in Vietnam
• Death, mortality and religious diversity
• Full transcript

Wednesday 12

• Sex and the Holy City

Wednesday 05

• The 50,000 letters of Cardinal Newman
• A new masterpiece for Adelaide
• Dickens on film
• Full transcript

October 2003

Wednesday 29

• War over peace prize
• An independent church
• Full transcript

Wednesday 22

• Communion divided
• 25 years of John Paul II
• Left Behind
• Eric Ball remembered
• Full transcript

Wednesday 15

• The call for a national poverty strategy
• Religious freedom on the wane in India
• The New Believers
• Full transcript

Wednesday 08

• Anglicans Together?

Wednesday 01

• Archbishop Winston Ndungane
• Paul Collins on the newest Cardinals

September 2003

Wednesday 24

• Sanctity of the Confessional

Wednesday 17

• The Holy Reich

Wednesday 10

• Anti-semitism in Australia
• Khalid Yasin in conversation
• Catholic liturgy in flux
• Full transcript

Wednesday 03

• Religion and violence pt. 2
• Sectarianism Australian style
• Full transcript

August 2003

Wednesday 27

• Religion and reconstruction in Iraq
• A new Patriarch for Iraq's Chaldean Christians
• Lionel Quartermaine in conversation
• Full transcript

Wednesday 20

• Backlash in America?
• Homosexuality in Africa
• Islam in the modern world
• Full transcript

Wednesday 13

• Terror and punishment
• Christians and Jews
• Full transcript

Wednesday 06

• Same-sex marriages and the Vatican
• Schism for the Anglican Church?
• South Asia, security and the churches
• Full transcript

July 2003

Wednesday 30

• Postwar truth and consequences
• Truth and reconciliation in Sierra Leone
• Story Place
• Reel To Real
• Full transcript

Wednesday 23

• Prospects for peace in the Solomon Islands
• Religion and violence pt. 1
• Full transcript

Wednesday 16

• Rev James Haire in conversation
• John Wesley defended
• Full transcript

Wednesday 09

• Ordination of Buddhist women
• An archbishop visits
• State vs church in Mexico
• Full transcript

Wednesday 02

• Islam and apostasy
• U.S. Catholics and reform
• Full transcript

June 2003

Wednesday 25

• Policing Poverty in the era of Big Brother

Wednesday 18

• Three centuries of Methodism

Wednesday 11

• Secular Indonesia on trial?
• Mandaeans in Australia
• Iraqi Shi'ites clean the streets
• Full transcript

Wednesday 04

• A question from the floor
• Awakening of a Jehovah's Witness
• Full transcript

May 2003

Wednesday 28

• The Secret Encyclical of Pope Pius XI

Wednesday 21

• Women's ordination movement turns 20
• Soka University under fire
• Full transcript

Wednesday 14

• Hollingworth crisis continues
• Farid Esack in conversation
• A new temple for Brisbane
• Full transcript

Wednesday 07

• Hollingworth Agonistes II

April 2003

Wednesday 30

• Nigeria votes
• A pastor enters parliament
• Australian Theological Forum celebrates
• Ammachi cancels
• Full transcript

Wednesday 23

• Catholics confront sexual abuse in the Church
• A mission to Hollywood
• Full transcript

Wednesday 16

• American Jews divided

Wednesday 09

• Religion in Russia
• Exit Morag Fraser
• Pugin exhibition
• Full transcript

Wednesday 02

• Islamic schools under scrutiny
• Indonesia and the war
• Death of a Cardinal
• Full transcript

March 2003

Wednesday 26

• The United Nations under fire
• A bishop for peace in Uganda
• Full transcript

Wednesday 19

• One nation under God
• The Huntington thesis revisited
• Pakistani Christians under threat
• Full transcript

Wednesday 12

• Phillip Jensen declares it fearlessly
• Trouble at Temple Mount
• Full transcript

Wednesday 05

• Canadian Anglican Michael Ingham on Rowan Williams
• U.S. theologian Eugene Rogers on Rowan Williams
• Full Transcript: Homosexuality and the churches, pt. 2

February 2003

Wednesday 26

• Homosexuality and the churches, pt. 1

Wednesday 19

• A priest for peace
• Religious reconstruction under way in Indonesia
• Religious freedom under the thumb in Vietnam
• Full transcript

Wednesday 12

• Christians push for peace
• Islamophobia
• Monica Furlong remembered
• Full transcript

Wednesday 05

• Alan Walker remembered

January 2003

Wednesday 29

• A Muslim candidate for NSW State Parliament
• Pentimento
• Full transcript

Wednesday 22

• Summer Series 4: Divided Jerusalem - A Conversation with Bernard Wasserstein

Wednesday 15

• Summer Series 3: Ungracious Pastors

Wednesday 08

• Summer Series 2: The Uniting Church at 25

Wednesday 01

• Summer Series 1: Cassocks in the Wilderness - Remembering the Seminary at Springwood