ABC Religion Programs

Compass

The future of Christianity

1/08/2010, 10.00pm

Encounter

The end of the world: a work in progress

1/08/2010, 7.10am

The Rhythm Divine

Music for the long now

30/07/2010, 9.05pm

Songs of Praise

Contemporary praise 2 (rpt)

1/08/2010, 11.30am

On The Wider Web

Who Cooked the Planet?

Paul Krugman, NYT

Greed, aided by cowardice, has triumphed. And the whole world will pay the price.

Rising temperatures won't "destroy" the planet, as fearmongers and celebrities like to say. But the evidence that carbon emissions are altering the planet's ecology is too convincing to ignore. Conservatives who dismiss climate change as a hoax are making a spectacle of their ignorance.

Taxpayers support lavish Hillsong lifestyle

Adam Shand, The Sunday Telegraph

The tax office wants a special national body set up to monitor "not for profit" charities, admitting that churches - such as the multi-million-dollar phenomenon Hillsong - are literally "invisible" to it.

Moving forward from East Timor Solution

Frank Brennan, Eureka Street

A regional processing centre may be a good idea. Its location in East Timor would be unprincipled and unworkable. Gillard's pre-emptive announcement will ensure that it will be anywhere but East Timor.

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Tony Likes Ladies

Tony Abbott struggles to win over female voters, but luckily The Chaser has the answer.

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls for a strategic alliance between secular people and Christians, including the

Seeking God but finding Allah

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali | 30 Jul 10

Islam claims to be the fasting-growing religion in the world today. This expansion is achieved partly through the relatively high birth rate of Muslim societies but also through dawa, by which people are persuaded to adopt its values and outlook.More

Ayaan's Allah is an idol

By Rachel Woodlock | 30 Jul 10

Un-christian responses to the Middle East

By Amy-Jill Levine | 21 Jul 10

Blog

Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott shake hands ahead of the Federal Election leaders' debate.

Where have the conviction politicians gone?

Scott Stephens | 28 Jul 2010

The current federal election campaign is distinguished - or disfigured, to be more accurate - by the haste with which both candidates have abandoned their political convictions in order to claim the political centre-ground.More

Comment:

"It seems to me that most media commentary crucifies political 'conviction' when it arises - and then forlornly laments its inevitable absence."

Opinion

A Sri Lankan asylum seeker holds a child

Immigration and the moral status of borders

By Luke Bretherton | 28 Jul 10

Ethnic Uzbek refugees, who fled the violence in Kyrgyzstan, wait for their turn to cross the border

Refugees and the role of religious groups

By Joshua Ralston | 28 Jul 10

News

Prime Minister Julia Gillard as she appears in the Australian Woman's Weekly

Labor policy make-up melting in political spotlight

News Online | 30 Jul 10

Rubbing out the youth vote

News Online | 30 Jul 10

Gillard's choice

ABC Unleashed | 30 Jul 10

Labor Ministers assemble for the first Gillard Cabinet

Labor's game of political Cluedo

News Online | 28 Jul 10

Features

The politics of human dignity

By Rowan Williams | 20 Jul 10

Do Christians need a Christian prime minister?

ABC Unleashed | 28 Jul 10

Hauerwas argues that American Protestantism is dying of its own success

America's god is dying

By Stanley Hauerwas | 21 Jul 10

John Milbank is Professor of Religion and Ethics at University of Nottingham

How democracy devolves into tyranny

By John Milbank | 20 Jul 10

Audio

Economic historian critiques election

Economic historian and documentary maker Niall Ferguson discusses Australia's election campaign with Mark Colvin. He says the level of Sunday's leader's debate was "at least as high as the debates of the Strathclyde regional council".

PM | 27 Jul 10

Psychiatrists say suicide plan not enough

Two psychiatrists who have advised the Prime Minister on mental health say today's announcement fell far short of what is needed. Patrick McGorry and John Mendoza say if the Government wants to show it is serious about mental health, it would adopt the recommendations made by the ...

PM | 27 Jul 10

Fr Donald Cozzens and Dr Michael Whelan on the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church

The world is watching the Catholic Church's public agony over clergy sexual abuse. Last week the National Council of Priests of Australia invited one of the church's most widely read commentators on the issue, American priest, Fr. Donald Cozzens author of a number of books includ ...

Sunday Nights NLR | 28 Jul 10

A philosophical history of Russia

This year marks the centenary of the death of the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy wrote works of fiction that had considerable philosophical depth. In fact he thought his most famous book, War and Peace, was not a novel at all but an examination of social and politica ...

Philosophers Zone | 09 Jul 10

Democracy and the Humanities

Philosopher Martha Nussbaum is concerned our education system is not equipping us as well as it might for democracy, and she expresses those concerns in her latest book, Not For Profit.

Late Night Live | 21 Jul 10

Speaking for Country, Speaking for Self

Could a comparison be made between the Northern Territory Intervention and the proposed Mining Supertax? Perhaps in the language of the complainants argues Father Frank Brennan He argues it's time for a negotiated arrangement, assuring service delivery to sustainable communities, ...

Big Idea | 16 Jul 10