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Sunday 31 August 2008
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Clive Hamilton believes the moral relativism of contemporary Western society is a product of affluence and freedom, but he also argues in his new book The Freedom Paradox that a moral life is possible in a post-religious, post-secular world. Michael Benedikt in Texas contributes to this discussion by proposing a whole new way of thinking about God, in which God is the active expression of the good, where it is the conduct not the consciousness that counts.
Sunday 24 August 2008
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Who takes care of our spiritual needs as we grow older? Elizabeth MacKinlay, Director of the Centre for Ageing & Pastoral Studies in Canberra, reflects on spiritual care for the aged, and Koori psychologist Dennis McDermott reveals the challenges for indigenous Australians as they face old age with fragmented identities.
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Sunday 17 August 2008
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Tony Grey set out to visit seven places in the world that were gateways to the sacred - Kakadu, Damascus and Assisi, the ancient Greek city of Delphi, Jerusalem's West Wall, the Egyptian temples at Abydos, and the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. As founder of Australia's Pancontinental Mining Company, he's had a commercial connection to the land, but discovered on his journey that the spiritual connection to place is real and life-changing. We also hear briefly from Israeli archaeological guide, Walter Zanger, who takes Christians and Jews to their sacred places in Israel with sometimes surprising results.
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Sunday 10 August 2008
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Champion weight-lifter and Olympic hopeful, Deborah Lovely, has always trained hard but her life also includes prayer and a commitment to Christian values. Also playing for God are Cronulla Sharks rugby league player, David Simmons, and former player and now Sharks chaplain, Paul Stevens.
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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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