Past Programs
Orthodox Christianity - Eastern Church - 2008
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Critical Terrorism Studies; first Australian gay Jewish commitment; Coptic New year
17/09/2008
Dr Mervyn Bendle of James Cook University in Townsville was one of the first people to warn of the dangers associated with Saudi Arabian funding coming into Australian universities. Last week he was the guest speaker at the annual Quadrant magazine dinner, and he focussed on the rise of a new academic field - Critical Terrorism Studies - which treats terrorism as a construcrt of the Western imagination, or else as a rational and justifiable response to Western evil.
On the murder of an Iraqi Catholic Bishop
19/03/2008
Iraq's Assyrian and Chaldean Christians under attack from terrorists
Defining the "Dalai clique"; The Christian vote in federal politics
19/03/2008
It turns out that the Christian vote played a decisive role in Kevin Rudd's victory at the 2007 election. Pentecostals and evangelicals were vital in swinging elctorates that Labor needed win, and did, especially in QLD. But does this mean Labor is now "owned" by the Religious Right? that's what Christopher Pearson maintained recently in "The Australian ". He says Labor is going to have to restrain its more progressive social policy agenda. We beg to differ. What if Pentocostal and Evangelical Christians are moving to the left in Australia juts as they have been in the United States?
Defining the "Dalai clique"
19/03/2008
Unrest in Tibet, in which Buddhist monks played a leading part, as with last year's demonstrations in Burma.
