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Sunday 29 June 2008
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Experts from a recent conference discuss issues of sexual abuse and exploitation in religious contexts ranging from cults to mainstream churches. Guests include Dr Gary Schoener, the Director of the Walk-In Counseling Center in Minnesota, and Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, a retired auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Sydney, who has written Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church: Reclaiming the Spirit of Jesus.
Sunday 22 June 2008
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Working for co-operation between Arabs, Jews and Christian in Israel is the Director of the Education Department for the Abu Gosh local council, Issa Jaber. In the town of Abu Ghosh, outside of Jerusalem, close to pilgrimage sites for all three faiths, Issa Jaber explains the history of his people there and the reasons he chooses to pursue a peaceful path of co-operation with Jews and Christians.
Sunday 15 June 2008
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Israel, homosexuality, and Hollywood are targeted for elimination according to the young men from the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad. Aaron Klein, an Orthodox Jew and intrepid journalist, has made it a point to seek them out and get answers to his questions, as he tells Rachael Kohn in Jerusalem.
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Sunday 08 June 2008
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Christians are a small minority in Israel but they visit the country in large numbers and they've also been influential in deciding its fate. One Christian who came 30 years ago and stayed is the Rev'd Dr. Petra Heldt, who co-founded The Ecumenical Theological Research Fraternity in Jerusalem and, although seriously injured in a suicide bomb attack in 1989, she wouldn't live anywhere else.
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He's second to the Pope as the world's most popular religious leader yet the Dalai Lama says he's not interested in converting the West to Buddhism, just teaching it how to be happy in a material world. You can hear the Dalai Lama himself, recorded during his recent visit to Australia on The Spirit of Things with Rachael Kohn, Sunday 6 July at 6.05pm, and again Tuesday 8 July at 1.05pm, and online. 
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