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Empty Spaces

Thoughts on boundaries, silence, and overlapping identities.

• 4 mins

Religious Identity

Understanding religious identities and embracing 'fragile doubt'

• 4 mins

Islam and History

How Islam has evolved and been subject to interpretation and communal acceptance

• 4 mins

The Fundamentals of Islam

Are there more fundamentals in Islam than the Five Pillars?

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The Prophet's Revolution

On Islam as a religion of balance, compassion, and unity

• 4 mins

The Day of Pentecost

Reverend Rosemary Wakelin on the story of Pentecost and the gift of the Holy Spirit

• 3 mins

Fact versus Faith

Are science and religion bound to be in opposition?

• 4 mins

Zarathustra

Who was the prophet Zarathustra and what was his philosophy?

• 4 mins

Rules and Freedoms

World Service science editor John Wilson reflects on faith and free will

• 4 mins

The Science of Miracles

World Service science editor John Wilson reflects on the existence of miracles

• 4 mins

Religious Life - Poverty

The vow of poverty and its spiritual discipline. Presented by Sister Lavinia Byrne

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Dead Man Walking

On Sister Helen Prejean a leading advocate for the abolition of the death penalty

• 4 mins

Terminator

Do the Terminator films have soul? Presented by Maggie Roux

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Chorus Line

Maggie Roux on the power of revelation in the movie Chorus Line

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The Wizard of Oz

Maggie Roux on the journey to our deepest selves and the power of myth

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Why Was I Created?

Is our capacity for worship and wonder what makes us human?

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Body Language

The ceremonies, signs, and symbols of everyday life

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Divided Minds

What does being in 'two minds' about something reveal about ourselves?

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The Power of Boredom

Is feeling bored a creative and spiritual necessity?

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Moral Nostalgia

Are the young really irreligious and irresponsible? Presented by Rosemary Foxtcroft.

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Secular Poetry

How reading non-religious poetry has brought comfort to a commuting chaplain

• 3 mins

Necessary Failure

On the importance of learning from failure

• 4 mins

Biblical Journeys

Is it better to travel hopefully than to arrive?

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The Story of Abraham

On how Abraham was an unlikely choice to start a "revolution in the human heart"

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Pondering 'The Beginning'

Thoughts on Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden: whose fault was it?

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The Refugee

On how the story of the refugee is as old as humanity

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Climbing Mount Sinai

Is it necessary for the faithful to go on pilgrimage to Mount Sinai or Jerusalem?

• 3 mins

Hezekiah's Tunnel

Roger Scopes' memories of wading through Hezekiah's Tunnel in Jerusalem

• 4 mins

Jonah and the Whale

Why didn't Jonah want to go to Nineveh? And why did he ask to be thrown overboard?

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Source of the Jordan

On the River Jordan and Psalm 42:7: "Deep calls to deep at the thunder of thy cataracts."

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