This Week's Highlight: A Christian Commonweath?

News Video Audio Twitter abc.net.au/religion This week's highlights A Christian commonwealth of nations is Europe's best possible future ABC Religion and Ethics - 31 Jan 2013 David Cameron was wrong to claim that the choice for Europe is either a centralised super-state or a loose network of nation-states. This ignores Europe's distinctly Christian heritage and polity. More Prophetic protest: Palestinian Settlement and the witness of Bab al-Shams ABC Religion and Ethics - 1 Feb 2013 In a situation stuck in an endless cycle of political banter and failed social movements, Bab al-Shams provides something desperately needed: creative thinking, new models of protest, a form of grassroots politics that outstrips the rhetoric of Likud and Fatah. More Islamophobia and the Muslim civil rights crisis ABC Religion and Ethics - 29 Jan 2013 Anti-Muslim rhetoric in the West has become accepted as in some sense "respectable." And yet there are chilling similarities between Islamophobia and pre-Nazi European anti-Semitism. More It's time to be dogmatic about torture: Why Zero Dark Thirty is just propaganda ABC Religion and Ethics - 29 Jan 2013 The normalisation of torture in Zero Dark Thirty is a sign of an approaching moral vacuum. It would be a sign of ethical progress to reject torture out of hand as repulsive, without any need for argument. More This week on ABC TV Compass - Returns in the New Year ABC1 | Sunday 3 March 2013 06:30 pm Presented by Geraldine Doogue Compass is currently in summer recess and our production team busy producing new stories to bring you in 2013. We wish you all the very best for Christmas and New Year and look forward to your company next year at 6.30pm Sundays on ABC1.  More Songs of Praise - Truro: Cornwall Male Voice Choir ABC1 | Sunday 3 February 2013 11.30am Presented by Diane Louise Jordan Diane Louise Jordan visits Truro Cathedral for an evening of traditional male voice choir singing.  More This week on ABC Radio Encounter - Beyond the Boundaries ABC Radio National | Saturday 2 February 2013 5.00pm Presented by David Rutledge As new political orders begin to emerge in the 'Arab Spring' nations, questions around women's rights in the Islamic world are again being asked. But what these questions should be, and who gets to ask them, is a matter fraught with tension - 'gender issues' in the Middle East have a long history, and it's partly a history of Western domination. This week we look at feminism, both religious and secular, across the boundaries of culture. Producer: David Rutledge / Allison Chan Repeated Wednesdays at 1.00pm  More For The God Who Sings - Candlemas ABC Classic FM | Sunday 3 February 2013 10.30pm Presented by Stephen Watkins A purification rite for a Jewish woman who presented her newborn son at the temple inspired one of the most moving canticles, 'Lord, now let your servant depart in peace'. William Byrd's Propers weave their way through poignant Bach cantatas and refreshing new choral textures.  More Religion and Ethics Report - Religious parties and the Israeli election ABC Radio National | Wednesday 30 January 2013 5.30pm Presented by Andrew West On the Religion & Ethics Report this week, an in-depth look at the Israeli elections and how religious parties will affect the shape of the next Coalition. Professor Paul Scham of the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies at the University of Maryland, and a fellow of the Middle East Institute in Washington DC, and Dr Ofer Kenig from the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem, discuss the role of the fiercely nationalist Jewish Home party, which was formerly the National Religious Party, and whether it can work with the centrist bloc. They also look at the influence that the ultra-orthodox parties will have on the next government. And Paul Handley, editor of The Church Times in London, discusses the recent decision of the Church of England to consecrate bishops who are living in same-sex but non-sexual relationships.Repeated Thursdays at 5:30am  More Sunday Nights - The Issue, The Interview and The Goodlife ABC Local Radio Across Australia | Sunday 3 February 2013 10.05 pm Presented by Noel Debien Conversations on important issues concerning religion, spirituality, ethics and values.  More The Rhythm Divine - Mike Scott: The Pan Within ABC Radio National | Sunday 3 February 2013 6.00am Presented by Geoff Wood One of the great British songwriters of our time, Mike Scott is also one of rock music's survivors. Since forming The Waterboys in London in 1983 he's outlasted most of his peers, and the winds of fashion, to become one of the world's best-loved musicians with classic songs like 'The Pan Within', 'The Whole of the Moon' and 'Fisherman's Blues'. But Mike Scott is not your average rock star, as you'll hear. A deeply spiritual man, Mike has pursued a life-long interest in the Western esoteric tradition, sometimes known as the Perennial Wisdom. He also spent extended periods in the mid-90s at the influential spiritual community known as the Findhorn Foundation in the north of Scotland, a centre for spiritual and ecological enquiry, part of his continuing search for an ageless wisdom beyond the world's spiritual systems and religions. Mike Scott joins me in the studio to talk about his life, his music and his search for the God within. Repeated Mondays at 1.00am.  More The Spirit of Things - Ghoulable or just paranormal? ABC Radio National | Sunday 3 February 2013 6.05pm Presented by Rachael Kohn Most people have at least one paranormal experience, says psychologist Tony Jinks. Psychologists usually explain them by reducing the experiences to an emotional trauma or dysfunction. But Jinks, who is the author of an Introduction to the Psychology of Paranormal Belief and Experience, believes there are other ways to look at the paranormal, which he says is not necessarily a sign of neurosis or psychosis but may be a positive way of living a rich and meaningful life. His own paranormal experience is wild! Repeated Tuesdays at 1.00pm  More Unsubscribe  © 2013 | Privacy policy | Conditions of use