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 Sep 16, 2022

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The Religion and Ethics Report, where religion and ethics meet news and current affairs in Australia and around the world.

Episode Date
What factors are important for national belonging?
Apr 24, 2024
Is the "golden age of American Judaism" over?
Apr 24, 2024
Russia officially declares "holy war" on Ukraine
Apr 17, 2024
Ahmadiyya community mourns Feraz Tahir, Bondi stabbing victim
Apr 17, 2024
Tensions after knife attack in Sydney church
Apr 17, 2024
Human rights Rabbi calls for ceasefire in Gaza
Apr 10, 2024
Why America's religious right is getting raunchy
Apr 10, 2024
Why matchmaking is on the rise
Apr 03, 2024
One Jewish leader's pursuit for peace in the Middle East
Apr 03, 2024
The rogue Irish priest who was a spy for the IRA
Mar 28, 2024
Palestinian Catholics mark Easter in Gaza
Mar 27, 2024
Why has Islamic State attacked Russia?
Mar 27, 2024
Hong Kong's priests may be required to break confessional seal
Mar 27, 2024
Religious concern over discrimination act
Mar 20, 2024
What if your boss could monitor your thoughts?
Mar 20, 2024
The war between mafia and priests in Italy
Mar 20, 2024
Putin's appeal among US evangelicals
Mar 13, 2024
Pope Francis triggers anger in Ukraine and Israel
Mar 13, 2024
How South Asian women are breaking tradition and leading change
Mar 06, 2024
Dangers of Gaza war continuing into Muslim holy month
Feb 28, 2024
Do we need to rethink our prison system?
Feb 28, 2024
Over 40% of students in Catholic high schools are non-Catholic
Feb 28, 2024
The small Christian college mixed up in Trump's 2020 election plot
Feb 21, 2024
When does anti-Zionism become anti-Semitism?
Feb 21, 2024
How important was religion in Indonesia's election?
Feb 21, 2024
Concerns raised over false conversions of asylum seekers in UK
Feb 14, 2024
Why many religious "nones" still believe in a higher power
Feb 14, 2024
What's the Russian ideology of Eurasianism?
Feb 14, 2024
How Biden's strong support for Israel could impact US elections
Feb 07, 2024
Imran Khan and wife Bushra Bibi convicted of breaking Islamic marriage law
Feb 07, 2024
The ethics of espionage
Feb 07, 2024
How the CCP is using religion to spread its influence in Taiwan
Jan 31, 2024
Rose Hunter speaks out on traumatic experience in sex industry
Jan 31, 2024
Is Modi using the new Ram temple for political gain?
Jan 24, 2024
The Biblical story of Amalek evoked by Netanyahu
Jan 24, 2024
Pope's statement on same-sex blessings and surrogacy
Jan 24, 2024
The rogue Irish priest who was a spy for the IRA
Jan 17, 2024
How the west became enamoured with Indian spirituality
Jan 10, 2024
When does religious homage become appropriation?
Jan 03, 2024
Isabel Kershner on divisions in society and politics in Israel
Dec 27, 2023
The search for saviours in the secular west
Dec 20, 2023
The secular Jewish thinkers who embraced a "Cold War Christianity"
Dec 13, 2023
British MP Danny Kruger on building belonging in society
Dec 06, 2023
New report into the significance of religion for African-Australians
Dec 06, 2023
Religion in the Dutch and Polish elections
Nov 29, 2023
Father Huber, the Secret Service, and the Kennedy assassination
Nov 22, 2023
Päivi Räsänen, religion, and free speech in Finland
Nov 22, 2023
Centre-left European parties are conflicted over the Gaza war
Nov 22, 2023
The property deal that could threaten Armenian land in Jerusalem
Nov 22, 2023
Gaza and the case for compulsory ethics in universities
Nov 15, 2023
Vatican wrestles with divisive questions at synod
Nov 15, 2023
Over 1.6 million Rohingya Muslims forced to flee Myanmar
Nov 15, 2023
The rogue Irish priest who was a spy for the IRA
Nov 08, 2023
How the Israel-Hamas war could trigger a future wave of terrorism
Nov 08, 2023
The long-term impacts of war on Gaza children
Nov 01, 2023
How the west became enamoured with Indian spirituality
Nov 01, 2023
Jerusalem's Catholic Cardinal offers himself in hostage exchange
Oct 25, 2023
Israel-Lebanon boarder could become a flashpoint in Gaza war
Oct 25, 2023
What churchgoers think about climate change
Oct 25, 2023
The devout Spanish city telling partygoers to cover up
Oct 18, 2023
How far will Israel go in eliminating Hamas?
Oct 18, 2023
How Sydney's religiously diverse west voted on the Voice
Oct 18, 2023
Will the Israel-Hamas conflict remake the Middle East?
Oct 11, 2023
What's Iranian President Raisi's hardline political and religious vision?
Oct 11, 2023
Pope Francis on climate denial and same-sex blessings
Oct 11, 2023
The misuse of Pakistan's blasphemy laws
Oct 04, 2023
Putin's anti-Semitic turn
Oct 04, 2023
Combating modern slavery in Australian classrooms
Oct 04, 2023
Will the Vatican synod shake up church power structures?
Sep 27, 2023
Thousands of Armenians are fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh
Sep 27, 2023
Is today's liberalism elitist?
Sep 27, 2023
Do we think our leaders act ethically?
Sep 20, 2023
Young Catholic women more conservative than older generations
Sep 20, 2023
Will Malaysia become a fully Islamic society?
Sep 20, 2023
A rare look into the Exclusive Brethren
Sep 13, 2023
Will Japan dissolve the Unification Church?
Sep 13, 2023
Are Australian Jews supportive of Israel?
Sep 13, 2023
Can there be a "colour-blind" anti-racism?
Sep 06, 2023
Is religion still booming in China?
Sep 06, 2023
Malaysian party politics and religion
Aug 30, 2023
American meatpackers and religion
Aug 30, 2023
Why is Pope Francis visiting Mongolia?
Aug 30, 2023
FBI investigates Catholic parishes
Aug 30, 2023
The civil theology of Robert Bellah
Aug 23, 2023
More nations in need says NGO
Aug 23, 2023
Whatever happened to Taliban 2.0?
Aug 23, 2023
Christians targeted in Jerusalem's Via Dolorosa
Aug 16, 2023
Is Israel on the brink of civil war?
Aug 16, 2023
The pitfalls of inter-faith relationships
Aug 09, 2023
Is the take home message of movie Sound of Freedom correct?
Aug 09, 2023
Report raises concerns over religious freedom in EU
Aug 09, 2023
Purge of Southern Baptist churches with female pastors
Aug 02, 2023
Young nationalist voters growing in Europe
Aug 02, 2023
Urban design policies risks widening religious, cultural divides
Aug 02, 2023
The religious and spiritual ethics of wokeness
Jul 26, 2023
Pakistan's largest Province censors Barbie movie
Jul 26, 2023
Congregations dwindle in German Catholic Churches
Jul 26, 2023
Hindu nationalism in the Indian diaspora
Jul 19, 2023
Consulting firms under Senate scrutiny
Jul 19, 2023
Court rules on Amish toilet systems
Jul 19, 2023
NSW Parliament to debate Self ID
Jul 12, 2023
Could a UN Emergency Peacekeeping force prevent war?
Jul 12, 2023
Is it ethical to supply cluster bomb munitions to Ukraine?
Jul 12, 2023
The ethics of healthcare funding
Jul 05, 2023
High demand for financial help initiatives
Jul 05, 2023
Anti-corruption and the perils of transactional politics
Jul 05, 2023
What's in Russia's secret "spiritual security" document?
Jun 28, 2023
England's clergy demand pay rise for first time ever
Jun 28, 2023
Question raised over Erdogan's re-election
Jun 28, 2023
How dowries are fueling violence against women
Jun 21, 2023
Trafficking survivor Sophie Otiende fights to end exploitation
Jun 21, 2023
Over 40,000 trapped in modern slavery in Australia
Jun 21, 2023
Pope Francis takes on trolls and tribalism
Jun 14, 2023
Are we building a virtuous society?
Jun 14, 2023
How will chatbots shape religious practice?
Jun 07, 2023
Why Hispanic Americans are leaving Catholicism
Jun 07, 2023
DeSantis, Trump and the fight for religious voters
Jun 07, 2023
Number of internally displaced people at record high
May 31, 2023
Archbishop of Canterbury named an influential progressive
May 31, 2023
Searching for saviours in a secular world
May 31, 2023
The Vatican plan to broker peace
May 24, 2023
Narendra Modi and the Australian Indian diaspora
May 24, 2023
The deep divisions between Orthodox churches
May 24, 2023
Concerns over Calvary hospital's takeover
May 17, 2023
What Australians think about religious liberty
May 17, 2023
Two fathers united in grief and pursuit for peace
May 17, 2023
Catholicism's cultural grip on Australia
May 10, 2023
Do we need religion to be moral?
May 10, 2023
Islam vs liberalism in Türkiye's elections
May 10, 2023
A friendship with Charles III and seeking racial justice
May 03, 2023
Britain's religious minorities and the monarchy
May 03, 2023
Why the coronation is a religious ceremony
May 03, 2023
When does religious homage become appropriation?
Apr 26, 2023
Mynamar's Buddhist monks divided over military dictatorship
Apr 19, 2023
Split in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church poses threat to peace
Apr 19, 2023
Peace is elusive in the Holy Land
Apr 12, 2023
How WEIRD nations became prosperous
Apr 12, 2023
Diversity on the rise in UK politics
Apr 12, 2023
The problem with Christian Nationalism
Apr 06, 2023
The spiritual case for the Uluru Statement
Apr 05, 2023
How race is shaping US religion & politics
Apr 05, 2023
Reflections on the Uluru Statement from a Hindu leader
Apr 05, 2023
New findings on how covid impacted Islamophobia
Mar 29, 2023
The true cost of chocolate
Mar 29, 2023
Is Israel headed towards civil war?
Mar 29, 2023
How can we address ignorance about Nazism and its monstrous history?
Mar 22, 2023
20 years on — the religious divisions in Iraq after US invasion
Mar 22, 2023
Women over 45 are at growing risk of experiencing homelessness
Mar 14, 2023
Could religious participation lead to less 'deaths of despair'?
Mar 14, 2023
Scottish politician Kate Forbes and the role of personal faith in politics
Mar 14, 2023
The concerns and frustrations of Catholic women revealed in new survey
Mar 08, 2023
What is the 'care economy' – and how does it stand in the way of women's equality?
Mar 08, 2023
How religions can help us confront the ecological crisis
Mar 01, 2023
Why presidential candidate Nikki Haley's faith background is capturing attention
Mar 01, 2023
How can we make political debates more constructive?
Mar 01, 2023
How Türkiye's religious authorities have responded to the devastating earthquakes
Feb 22, 2023
Why does the Vatican care about AI?
Feb 22, 2023
How celebrity influenced Christianity and church leaders
Feb 22, 2023
Do "humane wars" make conflict more frequent and long-lasting?
Feb 15, 2023
Have Hindu nationalists hijacked the Bollywood industry?
Feb 15, 2023
What would disestablishment mean for the Church of England?
Feb 08, 2023
The Vatican's most influential woman Sister Nathalie Becquart
Feb 08, 2023
X-Factor Malta contestant in court after sharing his story of being ex-gay
Feb 08, 2023
Hamline University — the debate over academic freedom and artworks of the Prophet Muhammad
Feb 01, 2023
As violence spirals in Israel and Palestine, will there be another uprising?
Feb 01, 2023
Will the global Catholic Church reinvent itself?
Jan 25, 2023
What motivated Cardinal Pell's searing critique of the Pope?
Jan 25, 2023
Sikh diaspora will vote to establish separate Sikh state in India
Jan 25, 2023
The consequences of the sexual revolution with writer Louise Perry
Jan 18, 2023
How much reform has the Catholic church made on the issue of child sexual abuse?
Jan 11, 2023
How effective was Cardinal Pell's work in Vatican finances?
Jan 11, 2023
The Catholic Church after Cardinal Pell and Pope Benedict's deaths
Jan 11, 2023
What is the fear of Black Consciousness? With philosopher Lewis Gordon
Jan 04, 2023
Is it ever possible for a Ukrainian to forgive Putin? With Yale Professor Miroslav Volf
Dec 28, 2022
Is the Hillsong empire in turmoil?
Dec 20, 2022
2022 in review — is it time for redemption and renewal?
Dec 14, 2022
As Indonesia toughens laws on sex, how are citizens reacting?
Dec 14, 2022
Will the next coronation reflect a modern and religiously diverse Britain?
Dec 07, 2022
Protests in China are about more than COVID restrictions
Dec 07, 2022
How COVID-19 restrictions impacted religious communities worldwide
Dec 07, 2022
When does religious homage become appropriation?
Nov 30, 2022
Why the Hillsong empire is in turmoil
Nov 30, 2022
Should healthcare workers be allowed to conscientiously vote?
Nov 23, 2022
American Catholics have a conservative new leader
Nov 23, 2022
Netanyahu’s right-wing headache
Nov 23, 2022
Should players and spectators boycott the 2022 World Cup?
Nov 16, 2022
Benjamin Netanyahu and the far-right in his government
Nov 16, 2022
Historic wins for Muslim candidates in the US mid-terms
Nov 16, 2022
Are Hindu nationalists hijacking the Bollywood industry?
Nov 09, 2022
Regulating extremism on social media
Nov 09, 2022
Removing exploited labour from supply chains
Nov 09, 2022
Australia is not immune to the scourge of sex trafficking — how can we prevent it?
Nov 02, 2022
The dangers of Christian nationalism
Nov 02, 2022
Britain's first Hindu Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
Oct 26, 2022
A New York legal case reignites commercial surrogacy debate
Oct 26, 2022
The far right's rise in Israel's election
Oct 26, 2022
What do Christians think about transhumanism and AI?
Oct 19, 2022
'War crimes' committed by Russian forces, Ukrainians aged 4 to 82 were targeted
Oct 19, 2022
Australia's policy on Israel's capital has been reversed — what are the implications?
Oct 19, 2022
What does the average Australian churchgoer look like today?
Oct 12, 2022
'The culmination of years and years of grievance' — Why protests in Iran are about more than the hijab
Oct 12, 2022
Does Andrew Thorburn have a legal case against Essendon?
Oct 11, 2022
Faith versus football — The end of Andrew Thorburn's AFL job
Oct 05, 2022
Is social justice becoming another religion?
Oct 05, 2022
France, Sweden and now Italy — the nationalist backlash in Europe
Oct 05, 2022
The faith and politics of William Ruto, Kenya's first evangelical president
Sep 28, 2022
Tightening restrictions on Australia's 'parasitic' gambling industry
Sep 28, 2022
Mahsa Amini's death in custody has set Iran back a generation
Sep 28, 2022
Charles III's green politics, and confronting a colonial legacy
Sep 21, 2022
The religious undertones of the far-right party 'Brothers of Italy'
Sep 21, 2022
The Queen's sincere faith, and monarchy's future in secular Europe
Sep 14, 2022
Charles III's clashes with the Church of England
Sep 14, 2022
How the Queen tried to overcome a division with the Catholic Church
Sep 14, 2022
Does having strong religious belief correlate with a more satisfying sex life?
Sep 07, 2022
The consequences of the sexual revolution
Sep 07, 2022
Combating human trafficking in Timor Leste
Aug 31, 2022
The religious, ethnic and cultural competition around the Black Sea
Aug 31, 2022
Most diverse group appointed, Pope names twenty cardinals from five continents
Aug 31, 2022
Why is right-wing extremism on the rise?
Aug 24, 2022
A home in the world with Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen
Aug 24, 2022
How Russia's Alexander Dugin influenced Putin and the war on Ukraine
Aug 24, 2022
How to have courageous conversations about race
Aug 17, 2022
Australian breakaway diocese announced, separate from global Anglican communion
Aug 17, 2022
The attack on Salman Rushdie and fatwas explained
Aug 17, 2022
El Salvador's President is framing his war on gangs as a spiritual fight
Aug 10, 2022
Identity today with Philosopher Charles Taylor - pt 2
Aug 10, 2022
The ethics of strategic ambiguity over Taiwan
Aug 10, 2022
Philosopher Charles Taylor on what binds us together in a polarised world — Part 1
Aug 03, 2022
Spirituality and a Voice for Indigenous people in the constitution
Aug 03, 2022
The killing of Al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri and the future of radical Islamist groups
Aug 03, 2022
Francis Fukuyama on the state of democracy and liberalism today
Jul 27, 2022
Hip-hop and hymns — Growing up African and Christian in small town Australia
Jul 20, 2022
How religion and violence are shaping Ethiopia today
Jul 20, 2022
Shinzo Abe, the LDP and their ties with religious organisations
Jul 20, 2022
Stan Grant Snr on saving the Wiradjuri language
Jul 13, 2022
Are Australian Catholics polarised over women's recognition in the church?
Jul 13, 2022
Why Biden's Saudi trip is drawing out concerns on human rights and Wahhabism's influence
Jul 13, 2022
Sri Lanka's leadership failure — and what comes next
Jul 13, 2022
Tensions during the historic Catholic plenary
Jul 06, 2022
What the rise of 'no religion' means for Australian laws
Jun 29, 2022
Rebuilding confidence in the church after crisis
Jun 29, 2022
How the Christian right stacked the Supreme Court
Jun 29, 2022
Identity, religion, and extremism in South Asia
Jun 22, 2022
Why Gandhi's murderer is being revered in India
Jun 22, 2022
Are we hardwired for war?
Jun 15, 2022
Why the internet is not what you think it is
Jun 15, 2022