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The Movement for the Ordination of Women ( MOW) and the end of the moratorium.
15/10/2008
The Movement for the Ordination of Women ( MOW) and the end of the moratorium.
15/10/2008
The Religion Report 15th October, 2008
Stephen Crittenden: Hello and welcome to the Religion Report.
This week the former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Haiti, Claudette Werleigh joins us. But first, the Sydney Anglican Synod is meeting this week and a lot of people are waiting to see whether it will agree to allow the debate on women's ordination to be reopened after a moratorium which has lasted for well over a decade.
During that time, the Movement for the Ordination of Women has been silenced and demoralized in Sydney, while the rest of the Anglican church in Australia was ordaining women priests and then women bishops.
But a couple of Saturdays ago, MOW took to the steps of the Sydney Town Hall in a demonstration that marked the return to the fray of Dr Patricia Brennan, who was spokesman for the movement in the 1980s.
Chinese repression of Falun Gong; Churches, Charities and tax
06/08/2008
Falun Gong says that as many as ten thousand of its practitioners have been rounded up in China in the lead-up to the Beijing Olympics and held in forced labour camps. Erphing Zhang is spokesman for the Falun Dafa Information Centre in New York and he says he wants to remind Australians that there is 'another reality' of 'people shedding tears, and maybe blood' behind the scenes in China.
And with the not-for-profit sector in Australia facing two concurrent reviews at the moment - a Senate inquiry looking at questions of regulation and a review by the Department of the Treasury - we dispel a few myths about church-based charities.
Jim Wallis in Australia
30/07/2008
Rev Jim Wallis of the Sojourners movement in the United States, on the potentially 'transformational' candidacy of Senator Barak Obama, his conversations with Kevin Rudd, and his latest book, Seven Ways to Change the World.
Lambeth so far
30/07/2008
The primate of the Anglican Church in Australia, Archbishop Phillip Aspinall, joins us from the Lambeth Conference.
Lambeth so far; Rev. Jim Wallis in Australia
30/07/2008
The primate of the Anglican Church in Australia, Archbishop Phillip Aspinall, joins us from the Lambeth Conference. And Rev Jim Wallis of the Sojourners movement in the United States, on the potentially 'transformational' candidacy of Senator Barak Obama, his conversations with Kevin Rudd, and his latest book, Seven Ways to Change the World.
Jerusalem and Global Anglican Futures - following the money and leaders.
02/07/2008
Thomas Oden on the Confessing movement in the United States. In the context of these USA "Confessing movements", has the "Global Anglican Futures" conference really amounted to anything new for the international Anglican church?
Newcastle Bishop Brian Farran on GAFCON
02/07/2008
What implications does the "Global Anglican Futures" conference have for the Australian Anglican church?
US Episcopalian Canon Jim Naughton on GAFCON
02/07/2008
The ideas, the money and the effort behind the conference in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem and Global Anglican Futures - following the money.
02/07/2008
Has the "Global Anglican Futures"conference really amounted to anything new for the international Anglican church?/ The ideas, the money and the effort behind the conference in Jerusalem./ Implications of GAFCON for the Australian Anglican church
Jerusalem and GAFCON; Israeli journalist Ehud Ya'ari on the Middle East
25/06/2008
1000 Conservative Anglican leaders in Jerusalam at the Global Anglican Futures Conference have avoided schism, but restated the depth of the crisis in the international Communion; Ehud Ya'ari on the Middle east- where Israel is entering into negotiations with its enemies on three fronts simultaneously
Dalai Lama protests
11/06/2008
The Dalai Lama faces protests from within the Shugden Buddhist community on his Australian tour
Chaplains in State Schools
11/06/2008
Senator Lyn Allison on problems bedding down Federally funded chaplains in state schools;
Dalai Lama protests; Iranian Baha'is disappear ; Chaplains in State Schools;
11/06/2008
The Dalai Llama faces protests from within the Shugden Buddhist community on his Australian tour; The latest news on a group of Baha'i activists who were arrested by the Iranian government and have disappeared; Senator Lyn Allison on problems bedding down Federally funded chaplains in state schools;
Zimbabwean Anglican excommunication
04/06/2008
The Anglican Church in Zimbabwe is in uproar. In Harare the Anglican churches are padlocked on orders from the police and Anglicans who go near them are being arrested and severely beaten. Mugabe's archbishop, Nolbert Kunonga, was excommunicated just over a week ago, having been replaced by a new bishop, Dr Sebastian Bakare - but it seems that Bishop Kunonga will fall only with the fall of Robert Mugabe.
Emerging Church
04/06/2008
The Emerging Church movement with visiting commentator on new forms of worship, Johnny Baker of the 'Grace' community in the UK.
Zimbabwean Anglican excommunication; the Emerging Church; Catholic women priests
04/06/2008
The Anglican Church in Zimbabwe is in uproar. In Harare the Anglican churches are padlocked on orders from the police and Anglicans who go near them are being arrested and severely beaten. Mugabe's archbishop, Nolbert Kunonga, was excommunicated just over a week ago, having been replaced by a new bishop, Dr Sebastian Bakare - but it seems that Bishop Kunonga will fall only with the fall of Robert Mugabe. Also, we look at the Emerging Church movement with visiting commentator on new forms of worship, Johnny Baker of the 'Grace' community in the UK.
Australia's first female Anglican bishops; A spirited defence of Catholic Bishop Geoffrey Robinson
28/05/2008
The installation of two Australian Anglican bishops- Kay Goldsworthy in Perth last week, and Barbara Darling in Melbourne next weekend- appears to have been taken in its stride by the Australian public, with no great fanfare and little fuss. We speak to Barbara Darling about her life as an Australian woman pioneer. We also speak to pioneer and prophet (prophetess) Dr Patricia Brennan, who says that with the installation of these women bishops the Sydney Anglicans are growing more and more isolated and irrelevant. And Sydney Catholic priest Dr Michael Whelan attacks the Australian bishops' statement criticising Bishop Robinson- as lacking in clarity and courage, mischievous, and even fundamentalist.
Canon Darling on Australia's first female Anglican bishops
28/05/2008
The installation of two Australian Anglican bishops- Kay Goldsworthy in Perth last week, and Barbara Darling in Melbourne next weekend- appears to have been taken in its stride by the Australian public, with no great fanfare and little fuss. We speak to Barbara Darling about her life as an Australian woman pioneer.
Dr Patricia Brennan on Australia's first female Anglican bishops
28/05/2008
Pioneer and prophet (prophetess) Dr Patricia Brennan, who says that with the installation of these women bishops the Sydney Anglicans are growing more and more isolated and irrelevant.
A spirited defence of Catholic Bishop Geoffrey Robinson
28/05/2008
Sydney Catholic priest Dr Michael Whelan attacks the Australian bishops' statement criticising Bishop Robinson- as lacking in clarity and courage, mischievous, and even fundamentalist.
Michael Kieran Harvey on Messaien
14/05/2008
A midnight festival in St Patrick's Cathedral Melbourne to celebrate the centenary of one of the great mystical composers of the 20th century, Olivier Messaien.
Ahmadiyya Islam in Indonesia; Victorian Police Chaplain retires; Max Charlesworth AO on democracy in the church; Michael Kieran Harvey on Messaien
14/05/2008
Indonesian government steps back from banning the Muslim Ahmadiyya sect in the name of religious freeedom; First of a new series of quarterly essays on religion in Australia: Professor Max Charlesworth on Democracy in the Catholic church; The Rev Jim Pilmer, chaplain to the Victorian police department retires after 12 years; A midnight festival in St Patrick's Cathedral Melbourne to celebrate the centenary of one of the great mystical composers of the 20th century, Olivier Messaien.
Melanie Phillips on the Archbishop of Canterbury and Islamic Sharia law in Britain
13/02/2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury's suggestion that some form of sharia law is inevitable in Britain has provoked public outrage - The Times has labelled him a traitor and there have been calls for his resignation. Now Rowan Williams says he has been misunderstood - he never intended to suggest there should be parallel legal jurisdictions. We speak to the author of Londonistan, Melanie Phillips, about why Britain's elites seem so strangely reluctant to defend the idea of a common culture.
Michael Mumisa on the Archbishop of Canterbury and Islamic Sharia law in Britain
13/02/2008
Sheikh Michael Mumisa, an Islamic scholar based at Cambridge University, explains why the majority of Muslims in Britain don't want a bar of sharia law.
Concerning the Archbishop of Canterbury on Islamic Sharia law in Britain
13/02/2008
The Religion Report speaks with Melanie Phillips from "The Spectator" who has written on the Archbishop of Canterbury under the headline - Dhimmi - or just dim?". Also Sheikh Michael Mumisa from Cambridge University - an Islamic scholar based at Cambridge Unversity. He's opposed to Sharia law being introduced in the UK and says that in practice, it always disadvantages women.
Cat Stevens/ Statement from Dean Phillip Jensen
06/02/2008
Anglican music and culture under threat in Sydney?
30/01/2008
Peter Phillips is conductor of one of the world's most famous choirs, The Tallis Scholars, as well as being a regular columnist for The Spectator. In his most recent column he has launched a blistering attack on the Sydney Anglicans, claiming the Jensen brothers are vandalising Anglican music and culture in Sydney: "For the parishioners there is no escaping the hard-line and destructive opinions of these two, whose double-whammy reminds one of the accumulation of power by the Kaczynski twins in Poland." Michael Deasey is the Anglican priest-Precentor at Bathurst Cathedral, and former director of St Andrew's Cathedral Choir.
The new "Black Pope"; Anglican music and culture under threat in Sydney
30/01/2008
Representatives of the largest male religious order in the Catholic church have elected a new world leader. He's 71-year-old Father Adolfo Nicolás. ALSO Peter Phillips is conductor of one of the world's most famous choirs, The Tallis Scholars, as well as being a regular columnist for The Spectator. In his most recent column he has launched a blistering attack on the Sydney Anglicans, claiming the Jensen brothers are vandalising Anglican music and culture in Sydney: "For the parishioners there is no escaping the hard-line and destructive opinions of these two, whose double-whammy reminds one of the accumulation of power by the Kaczynski twins in Poland."
The new "Black Pope"
30/01/2008
Representatives of the largest male religious order in the Catholic church have elected a new world leader. He's 71-year-old Father Adolfo Nicolás,
