This Week's Highlights: After Rowan - Priorities for Anglicanism

News Video Audio Twitter abc.net.au/religion This week's highlights After Rowan: Priorities for the Anglican Communion ABC Religion and Ethics - 28 Sep 2012 Rowan Williams has commanded intellectual and cultural respect in a time of renewed atheistic and liberal attacks on the Christian legacy. Were this gain allowed to lapse, it could be catastrophic. More The place of the church and the agony of Anglicanism ABC Religion and Ethics - 27 Sep 2012 Anglicans have always been committed to the local expression of the faith. The challenge confronting it as a global communion is not how to enforce uniformity, but how to be known through its love of each other. More 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 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 This week on ABC TV Compass - Anglicans Going Catholic ABC1 | Sunday 30 September 2012 06:30 pm Presented by Geraldine Doogue Australian Anglicans have been invited to join the Catholic Church under a new Papal initiative called the Ordinariate. So, who's joining and why?  More Songs of Praise - Celebrating Science ABC1 | Sunday 30 September 2012 11.30am Presented by Diane Louise Jordan Diane Louise Jordan discovers more about the wonders of the universe on a visit to Cambridge. She also meets leading scientists, including the Astronomer Royal Lord Martin Rees.  More This week on ABC Radio Encounter - Heaven and Earth ABC Radio National | Saturday 29 September 2012 5.00pm Presented by David Rutledge Christianity and Islam are perched on the horns of a dilemma: should we strive for a radical transformation of society? Or should we lower our earthly expectations, keep our eyes fixed on Heaven, and wait for God to sort things out? History provides us with sobering illustrations of how both can go wrong. Producer: David Rutledge Repeated Wednesdays at 1.00pm  More For The God Who Sings - Saint Francis ABC Classic FM | Sunday 30 September 2012 10.30pm Presented by Stephen Watkins To man and beast this ancient son of an Italian cloth merchant preached the ability and duty of all creatures to praise God; and composers from Charpentier to Michael Haydn and Rodrigo bow to his insight and example.  More Religion and Ethics Report - Islamophobia: reality or 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. Repeated Thursdays at 5:30am  More Sunday Nights - Vatican Council II: 50 years on ABC Local Radio Across Australia | Sunday 30 September 2012 10.05 pm Presented by Noel Debien In October 50 years ago in a momentous gesture, the Catholic Church opened the 2nd Vatican Council. Pope John XXIII called it 'opening the windows'. With the hindsight of half a century later, was the world-impacting exercise a help or a hindrance?  More The Rhythm Divine - The Ministry of Sounds ABC Radio National | Sunday 30 September 2012 6.00am Presented by Geoff Wood Every perfect world needs an imperfect world to measure itself by and the dystopian image that dominates our imagination today is the brutish world of Orwell's novel, 1984. From David Bowie's Orwellian concept album Diamond Dogs to Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's latest work 1Q84 in which music conjures up other worlds, from Bach to Blade Runner, from the Eurhythmics to Muse, we explore Orwell's musical legacy. Repeated Mondays at 1.00am.  More The Spirit of Things - Cities of Peace and Harmony ABC Radio National | Sunday 30 September 2012 6.05pm Presented by Rachael Kohn Lumbini, Nepal, the Buddha's birthplace is a small poor hamlet that is set to be reborn as a model city of peace and harmony. Toowoomba, Queensland has a vision to become a leading example of a multi-faith community that lives in peace and harmony. Repeated Tuesdays at 1.00pm  More Unsubscribe  © 2012 | Privacy policy | Conditions of use