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The Seventh Commandment

Penny Faust on how Thou shalt not commit adultery has fared in the modern world

• 4 mins

Images of Buddhism

Why is Christ is portrayed as suffering on the cross and the Buddha in a state of peace?

• 4 mins

The Ninth Commandment

Penny Faust on how the words that we use can be as damaging as the things that we do

• 4 mins

Love

Father Jim Rosenthal on the importance of faith, hope, and love

• 3 mins

The Second Commandment

Penny Faust on Thou shalt have no other gods before me

• 4 mins

Fats Waller

Remembering the multi-talented American jazz pianist Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller

• 4 mins

Christmas

The value of all births and all mothers - even single ones

• 4 mins

Walls of Death

Thoughts on walls that keep people apart both physically and spiritually

• 4 mins

Hanukkah

The history and meaning of Jewish festival Hanukkah

• 4 mins

A Miracle

Do miracles happen any more? And does it matter if there are rational explanations?

• 4 mins

Boxing Day

Poet Stewart Henderson and the list of things-to-do he makes on Boxing Day

• 3 mins

Christmas Eve

Poet Stewart Henderson remembers the excitement of Christmas Eve when he was a child

• 3 mins

London at Christmas.

Poet Stewart Henderson is saddened by London's "carnival of materialism"

• 3 mins

Conversion to Islam

Saba Risaluddin on a close friend who converted from Catholicism to Islam

• 4 mins

Mary in Islam

The status of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in Islam

• 4 mins

Yet Still it Moves

Thoughts on religion's need to absorb new truths that emerge from technology

• 3 mins

A Question of Belief

The problem of knowing what to believe in the modern world

• 4 mins

Pessimism

What's the difference between an optimist and a pessimist?

• 3 mins

Political Abstractions

Rafiq Abdullah considers the "sinister consequences" of political abstractions

• 4 mins

Christmas Time

A Christian on the one service about Christmas that he actually remembers

• 3 mins

The Gift of Time

"I like to think of time as one of God's greatest and most loving gifts"

• 3 mins

Saving Time

"What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare"

• 4 mins

The Story of Time

The dimension along which all traffic passes in the same direction

• 4 mins

Julian Christmas

Wherever the Julian calendar is observed, 7 January is Christmas Day

• 4 mins

Narada Muni

Deepak Vohra on the Hindu sage and mystic Narada Muni

• 4 mins

Sectarianism

Deepak Vohra argues for a change in consciousness if global conflicts are to be healed

• 4 mins

A Charitable Outlook

Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis with a tale of charity and helping others to help themselves

• 4 mins

The Value of Time

Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis on valuing time

• 3 mins

First Impressions

Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis on the importance of first impressions

• 3 mins

Russian Christmas

Father Michael Fortounatto the religious revival that followed the collapse of communism

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