Religion Report

December 2006

Wednesday 27

• Summer Season: Katharine Jefferts Schori
• Summer Season: Bishop Kevin Dowling of Rustenberg in South Africa

Wednesday 20

• Science Fatwah? Part 2: Sam Harris

Wednesday 13

• Science Fatwah? - Part 1: Charles Harper jnr and Richard Sloan

Wednesday 06

• Global Warming
• Animal Rights and Theology

November 2006

Wednesday 29

• The Pope in Turkey

Wednesday 22

• The Centre for an Ethical Society
• Dr Suzanne Rutland: Racism in Australia: Different Streams, Different Responses
• Obituary: The Rev. Professor John 'Jack' McManners, CBE

Wednesday 15

• Father Richard Rohr OFM

Wednesday 08

• Religion and the Republican Party
• Funding for chaplains in state schools: Part II

Wednesday 01

• Dr Tanveer Ahmed: Islam and the left
• Funding for chaplains in state schools

October 2006

Wednesday 25

• Peter Jensen: Synod 2006
• Clive Hamilton

Wednesday 18

• Jamila Hussein: the veil row
• Dean Hoge

Wednesday 11

• Dr Ameer Ali
• Farish Noor and 'creeping sharia'

Wednesday 04

• Bonhoeffer and Conscience
• Kevin Rudd: Bonhoeffer and 'the political orchestration of organised Christianity'

September 2006

Wednesday 27

• Hon Ruth Dyson, NZ Minister for Labour
• John Buggy and Frank Brennan on individual conscience

Wednesday 20

• Father Joseph Fessio and Pope Benedict's incendiary comments about Islam
• Andrew Robb MP

Wednesday 13

• Venerable K Sri Dhammananda 1919 - 2006
• Ian Hore-Lacy

Wednesday 06

• Dr Gary Bouma: the World Conference on Religions for Peace
• Dr Tanveer Ahmed and Dr Ameer Ali

August 2006

Wednesday 30

• Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
• Lawrence Krauss

Wednesday 23

• Robert McCulloch: The looming conflict between Shi'ites and Sunnis
• John Falzon: Christian charity organisations and the Federal Government's new case management scheme

Wednesday 16

• Australia's Christian Heritage Forum

Wednesday 09

• A Jesuit Anniversary
• Reverend Frank Page: President, Southern Baptist Convention

Wednesday 02

• Reverend Stephen Estherby
• Reverend Thomas Oden
• Reverend Terrence Corkin
• David Tribe and That question!

July 2006

Wednesday 26

• Floyd Landis - Mennonite in tights
• Katharine Jefferts Schori
• Anglican Canon Gideon Byamugisha

Wednesday 19

• The Irish Church vocations crisis
• Philip Rieff Obituary
• NSW MP David Clarke

Wednesday 12

• The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in the Amazon
• Palestinian Christian Parliamentarian Dr Bernard Sabella

Wednesday 05

• The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Sydney on the state of Anglican Communion
• UK Guardian journalist Andrew Brown on the state of Anglican Communion

June 2006

Wednesday 28

• Freedom of Religion in Malaysia?
• Paul Collins on the new Vatican Secretary of State
• St George

Wednesday 21

• Human rights, sovereignty and West Papua
• Indian priest-activist Thomas Kocherry
• Amanda Lohrey on Religion and Australian politics

Wednesday 14

• Behind the East Timor crisis
• Churches say no to to Federal plans for the unemployed

Wednesday 07

• Mandaeans persecuted in Iraq
• Prominent Sydney Anglicans disagree on homosexuality
• A new play by Rod Quantock about Melbourne's Archbishop Daniel Mannix
• Mandaeans persecuted in Iraq; prominent Sydney Anglicans disagree on homosexuality; New play on Daniel Mannix

May 2006

Wednesday 31

• Baha'is persecuted in Iran; female monks for Buddhism; Phillip Ablett on Werner Pelz

Wednesday 24

• "My name is Legion"

Wednesday 17

• New full-time ministry for Catholic Women; Anti-Semitism among Poland's Catholics; Church Historian Jaroslav Pelikan dies

Wednesday 10

• Religion in Schools

Wednesday 03

• Catholics and condoms

April 2006

Wednesday 26

• The Archbishop of Canterbury and George Carey; Opus Dei and the Da Vinci Code

Wednesday 19

• Mustapha Kara-Ali in conversation

Wednesday 12

• West Papua: The Elephant in the Room
• West Papua - the elephant in the room

Wednesday 05

• Christians in the Muslim world; Bob Brown on workplace legislation; Vinnies say no to government money

March 2006

Wednesday 29

• Niall Ferguson on Islam and demographics

Wednesday 22

• Aboriginal Da'wah - "Call to Islam"; desperate Australian Catholics importing priests

Wednesday 15

• Bishop Tom Wright and Commonwealth Day

Wednesday 08

• Dr Muriel Porter and Anglican Bishop John McIntyre on the 'New Puritans'

Wednesday 01

• Presbyterian church excommunicates 15; Islamic extremist philosopher in NSW HSC; World Council of Churches Assembly report card.

February 2006

Wednesday 22

• Images of Muhammad ; Muslim art in Canberra's National Gallery; Cardinal Pell and freedom of conscience

Wednesday 15

• W.C.C. 9th International Assembly; Prof. Mark Noll

Wednesday 08

• The Muhammad Cartoon crisis; the death of Coretta Scott King

Wednesday 01

• BENEDICT GENIUS EST

January 2006

Wednesday 25

• Dreaming of the Mahdi
• Full transcript

Wednesday 18

• Bishop Gumbleton on US seminaries under scrutiny
• A nun in East Timor
• Full transcript

Wednesday 11

• Income inequality
• Divine Tours of Fairfield
• Full Transcript

Wednesday 04

• Cambridge Don Philip Towle
• Full Transcript
• Venerating Mary
• Liberation, Life and Lamingtons