Religion Report

December 2007

Wednesday 26

• Christian Minorities in the Islamic Middle East, and American peace activists John Dear

Wednesday 19

• Charles Birch - Science and Soul

Wednesday 12

• Interfaith Youth forum, John Sentamu's protest

Wednesday 05

• Sensational biblical archaeology and the latest topless (Mormon) calendar

November 2007

Wednesday 28

• Malaysia's Hindu minority

Wednesday 21

• Annapolis peace conference and the Jerusalem question

Wednesday 14

• A test in ethics and politics, and America's religious right

Wednesday 07

• Australia's Christian vote

October 2007

Wednesday 31

• The Beatification of Spanish Martyrs

Wednesday 24

• The God Delusion and Alister E McGrath

Wednesday 17

• The Catholic Church and social justice

Wednesday 10

• Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev on the Russian Orthodox Church, and the spirit of generation Y

Wednesday 03

• Buddhism in Burma; and Anglican women bishops

September 2007

Wednesday 26

• Is Chocolate the new fur?

Wednesday 19

• A stooge Dalai Lama; The future of the worldwide Anglican communion

Wednesday 12

• Barriers to inclusion: Muslim students at Australian Universities

Wednesday 05

• The Centenary of the Modernist Crisis

August 2007

Wednesday 29

• Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church

Wednesday 22

• Now for the Mega Mosque

Wednesday 15

• Australian Catholic schools: a preferential option for the wealthy?

Wednesday 08

• China Missionaries expelled
• The Archbishop of York

Wednesday 01

• Steiner education in state schools: part 2

July 2007

Wednesday 25

• Steiner education in State Schools

Wednesday 18

• Islam and terrorism; British ex-Muslims; Interchurch dialogue

Wednesday 11

• A Mass of contradictions

Wednesday 04

• Religion in the Australian census; the Samaritans in Israel

June 2007

Friday 29

Wednesday 27

• Whistleblower accuses St John of God Brothers; Canadian Anglicans and same-sex unions

Wednesday 20

• Martha Nussbaum:The Clash within - Islam and Hinduism in India

Wednesday 13

• Watershed week for church/state relations in Australia

Wednesday 06

• Federal Health minister Tony Abbott; Lina Joy court case in Malaysia; Survey of American Muslims

May 2007

Wednesday 30

• Christian Minorities in the Islamic Middle East : Rosie Malek-Yonan on the Assyrians
• Kahil Samir S.J. on Christian Minorities in the Islamic Middle East

Wednesday 23

• Bishop Spong on Jerry Falwell
• First Quaker gay marriage in Australia

Wednesday 16

• Catholicism's loosening grip: Latin America
• Deliver Us From Evil: a rare look inside the disturbed world of a paedophile priest

Wednesday 09

• Anti-Zionism and Ant-Semitism Part 4 : Walter Laqueur
• Anti-Zionism and Ant-Semitism Part 4 : Ron H. Feldman

Wednesday 02

• First complete Bible translation in an indigenous language
• Assemblies of God broaden divorce rules
• A new play on St Paul

April 2007

Wednesday 25

• Benedict XVI abolishes Limbo
• On James Dobson - leader of the American Christian right

Wednesday 18

• Dalai Lama visits Australia
• Benedict XVI 2nd anniversary
• Archbishop Phillip Freier on stem cell research

Wednesday 11

• Freedom of religion in Malaysia; no women bishops for Anglicans; plants of the Bible

Wednesday 04

• The Gospel according to Judas
• Women bishops for the Anglican church?

March 2007

Wednesday 28

• The Mufti of Australia?
• The anniversary of the end of slavery

Wednesday 21

• Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism Part 3 : Zionism in the Age of the Dictators
• Mandorla Art Award

Wednesday 14

• The Exclusive Brethren and the rights of children
• The Grand Mufti of Bosnia

Wednesday 07

• The Existential Jesus

February 2007

Wednesday 28

• American peace activist John Dear SJ
• Pam Ryan polling on Islam in Australia

Wednesday 21

• Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism Part 2
• Jewish historian criticises mass Muslim Immigration

Wednesday 14

• Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism

Wednesday 07

• Church Agencies and gay adoption
• New Islamic Study Centre at Melbourne University

January 2007

Wednesday 31

• Spying Polish Archbishop's resignation
• United Church of Canada new marketing campaign

Wednesday 24

• Summer Season: Science Fatwah? Part 2: Sam Harris

Wednesday 17

• Summer Season: Charles E Curran on Benedict XVI
• Summer Season: Father Joseph Fessio and Pope Benedict's incendiary comments about Islam

Wednesday 10

• Summer Season: Farish Noor and 'creeping sharia'
• Summer Season: Sr Susan Connolly

Wednesday 03

• Summer Season: Kevin Rudd: Bonhoeffer and 'the political orchestration of organised Christianity'
• Summer Season: Clive Hamilton