Past Programs
Protestant - 2008
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International Museum of the Reformation
01/10/2008
Next year, 2009, is the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Protestant reformer, Jean Calvin, who was born in Picardy in France, studied at the University of Paris, and ultimately established a theocratic government in the city of Geneva. Because Geneva was such an important trading hub, his ideas quickly spread across Europe.
Long awaited, the planning has been going on since the 1960s, the very elegant new International Museum of the Reformation in Geneva has just opened and it won the 2007 Award of the Council of Europe for best new museum in Europe.
Jack Carmody has just been in Geneva to see it, and he spoke to Madame Francoise Demolle, the Chair of the museum's foundation.
Churches, Charities and tax
06/08/2008
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.
Dean Logan on the Australian Christian Lobby
07/05/2008
Former Chief of Staff for the Australian Christian Lobby
Former ACL Victorian State Director Railton Hill on the Australian Christian Lobby
07/05/2008
When it comes to same sex couples and marriage, a Charter of Rights, or child surrogacy, how effectively does the Australian Christian Lobby represent the mainstream churches? When the ACL lobbies with government, how does its perceived constituency find a genuine voice in its policy-making?
The Australian Christian Lobby
07/05/2008
When it comes to same sex couples and marriage, a Charter of Rights, or child surrogacy, how effectively does the Australian Christian Lobby represent the mainstream churches? When the ACL lobbies with government, how does its perceived constituency find a genuine voice in its policy-making?
Jim Wallace on the Australian Christian Lobby
07/05/2008
Leader of the Australian Christian Lobby
Ghanaian Presbyterians
12/03/2008
The moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana - where Calvinists dance in church.
100 Reverends apologise to gays and lesbians for the church's lack of welcome
20/02/2008
Baptist pastor Mike Hercock is married with a wife and two kids. His church is a wine-bar in inner-Sydney Surry Hills. And he's marching in this year's gay and lesbian Mardi-Gras Parade- one of 40 Christian ministers apologising for the church's past and present treatment of gay people, and running a real risk of retaliation for doing so.
The Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem speaks out
20/02/2008
Bishop Suheil Dawani of Jerusalem speaks out on the Anglican Lambeth meeting
The Bishop of Jerusalem speaks; Catholic Church and the Jews; 100 Reverends apologise to gays and lesbians for the church's lack of welcome
20/02/2008
Baptist pastor Mike Hercock is married with a wife and two kids. His church is a wine-bar in inner-Sydney Surry Hills. And he's marching in this year's gay and lesbian Mardi-Gras Parade- one of 40 Christian ministers apologising for the church's past and present treatment of gay people, and running a real risk of retaliation for doing so. Also, Pope Benedict re-introduced the old Latin Missal - complete with the Good Friday prayer for the conversion of the Jews that was bound to cause offence. Now the prayer has been re-written; but so - it seems - has the Catholic Church's theology on the Jews.
