Mid-week update: Yom Kippur - the chance to begin again

News Video Audio Twitter abc.net.au/religion This week's highlights Coming home: The meaning of Yom Kippur ABC Religion and Ethics - 25 Sep 2012 God has given us free will and thus the strength to turn from bad to good. He has granted us a Day of Atonement, and thus the chance to un-write our wrongs and find forgiveness. More Injustice in God's name: The corruption of modern Islam ABC Religion and Ethics - 24 Sep 2012 The worst injustice, and the one most worthy of Muslim outrage, is that committed by Muslims in Islam's name, because that is more deprecating to God than any supposed heresy or legal infraction. More Defending multiculturalism is in all our interests ABC Religion and Ethics - 24 Sep 2012 Abolish Australian multiculturalism and the strong cultural nationalist impulse in this country would go unchecked. Liberty and equality in Australia would be the first casualties. More The wife of Christ? No way! ABC Religion and Ethics - 22 Sep 2012 The "Gospel of Jesus' Wife" contributes nothing to historical Jesus studies, which continues to progress with greater sophistication and at a slower pace than is ever likely to make headlines. More On ABC Radio Religion and Ethics Report - Is Islamophobia a myth? ABC Radio National | Wednesday 26 September 2012 5.30pm Presented by Andrew West On the Religion and Ethics Report, we explore whether Islamophobia is a myth. The sociologist and expert in Asian Islam, Clive Kessler, argues the term has become a 'moral bludgeon' to silence criticism, even questioning, of some strains of militant Islam, and draws on his 40-year study and experience of Malaysia to warn that liberal Islam is in retreat. Also, Noel Debien begins a series on 50 years of the Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council, asking what became of the Council's promise for a more open church. Repeated Thursdays at 5:30am  More Unsubscribe  © 2012 | Privacy policy | Conditions of use