A rejection for atheists; a new book for interfaith educators; a musical ev
Wed, Nov 26
The Atheist Foundation of Australia wants to mount a bus slogan campaign - but they've been knocked back by the company that controls advertising on buses
Islamic revivalism in Australia
Wed, Nov 19
This week, the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne is holding its annual conference
Muslim leadership in Australia
Wed, Nov 19
Another speaker at the NCEIS conference is Silma Ihram, a Muslim author and educator living in Western Sydney
Religious monuments and freedom of speech
Wed, Nov 19
In the United States this week a case is before the Supreme Court that could have important implications for the free expression of religion in public life
Religious monuments and freedom of expression
Wed, Nov 19
In the United States this week a case is before the Supreme Court that could have important implications for the free expression of religion in public life
The Vatican's Christian-Muslim forum; US election results; Anglicare report
Wed, Nov 12
A historic forum hosted by Pope Benedict XVI between high-ranking Muslim and Catholic clerics has just concluded
Lessons from the desert fathers
Wed, Nov 5
What does a community of monks living in the Egyptian desert 2000 years ago have to say to 21st century Australians? The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, speaks on the Christian desert fathers and their relevance to modern life
Robert Sirico: Must Religion be a Threat to Liberty?
Wed, Oct 29
An edited version of this year's Acton Lecture, which was given by Father Robert Sirico
Blasphemy
Wed, Oct 22
Today, blasphemy seems like a hangover from less enlightened times
The Movement for the Ordination of Women ( MOW) and the end of the moratori
Wed, Oct 15
The Religion Report 15th October, 2008 Stephen Crittenden: Hello and welcome to the Religion Report
The Movement for the Ordination of Women ( MOW) and the end of the moratori
Wed, Oct 15
Claudette Werleigh, General Secretary , Pax Christi International
Wed, Oct 15
A former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Haiti, Claudette Werleigh, was in Australia recently in her new role as Secretary-General of the Catholic peace organisation, Pax Christi
Pius XII, Hitler, and the Jews
Wed, Oct 8
To most people he is best known for his failure to speak out clearly on behalf of Jews during the Holocaust, but he has regularly been defamed as a supporter of Hitler and an antisemite
Criticial Terrorism Studies Pt. 2
Wed, Oct 1
Two weeks ago we heard from Dr Mervyn Bendle of James Cook University, who has sparked an academic row over what he says is the hijacking of Terrorism studies in our universities by Neo-Marxist postmodernism
International Museum of the Reformation
Wed, Oct 1
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
The Church and the Nazis
Wed, Sep 24
They were known as 'brown priests' - the small and relatively marginalised group of Catholic priests who joined the Nazi Party
Critical Terrorism Studies; first Australian gay Jewish commitment; Coptic
Wed, Sep 17
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
Coptic New year
Wed, Sep 17
Coptic Orthodox year zero is counted as 284 AD- when the Roman Emperor Diocletian came to power and persecuted Christians in Egypt
First gay commitment ceremony in an Australian synagogue
Wed, Sep 17
Critical Terrorism Studies
Wed, Sep 17
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
The undercover Mosque; Gregorian Chant goes platinum
Wed, Sep 10
"The Undercover Mosque: The return": an interview with David henshaw, the executive producer of one of the most controversial documentaries on Islam ever made in Britain
Gregorian Chant goes platinum
Wed, Sep 10
Fr Karl is from a group of monks from the Vienna Woods who have become the most unlikely international pop stars of 2008 with their album 'Chant'
Scientology on trial in France
Wed, Sep 10
Scientology to go on trial in France, charged with organised fraud
Indian Christians attacked in Orissa, India
Wed, Sep 10
The undercover Mosque
Wed, Sep 10
"The Undercover Mosque: The return": an interview with David Henshaw, the executive producer of one of the most controversial documentaries on Islam ever made in Britain
Elite Fundamentism - The Fellowship's gospel of Capitalist Power
Wed, Sep 3
The Family (or the Fellowship as it is also known), is a shadowy organisation founded in the United States in the 1930s to promote a gospel of theocratic capitalist power and American empire
Jewish medical ethics (part 2)
Wed, Aug 27
Part 2 of a coversation with Rabbi Professor Avraham Steinberg, distinguished medical ethicist and and paediatric neurologist at Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Centre
St Mary's parish, South Brisbane "out of communion"? Also: Jewish medical e
Wed, Aug 27
The Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, John Battersby, under pressure from the Vatican, has threatened to close down the free-wheeling parish of St Mary's, South Brisbane
St Mary's parish, South Brisbane "out of communion"?
Wed, Aug 27
The Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, John Battersby, under pressure from the Vatican, has threatened to close down the free-wheeling parish of St Mary's, South Brisbane
Aboriginal traditional life and kinship; St Mary's, South Brisbane "out of
Wed, Aug 20
Remote indigenous communities in the Top End are often seen as hopeless and dysfunctional places where any sense of community has been destroyed by violence and substance abuse