Compass
Did 9/11 mark the end of religious tolerance? Globalisation has fuelled the fire of fundamentalism in all faiths. But is this the only response ... or the only one we’re being told about? In this groundbreaking three-part series Compass reveals a big untold story in world religion: a new form of ‘religiousness’ emerging alongside globalisation and cultural pluralism. We journey across the world to meet the radical religious thinkers and their networks, pioneering new ways of believing for a new millennium. In Episode 2, Pioneering City, we look at New York, the most globalised, multi-religious metropolis on Earth. 9/11 made it an icon of terrorism. But could it be a symbol of the opposite? New York is home to the emerging Interfaith movement ... it’s where ‘faith sharing’ is working. At the United Nations religious leaders are now leading the debate for peace. Amid the turmoil of our era could this community of eight million people offer hope for a different kind of future?
11/01/2009, Sunday 10.00pm

Songs of Praise
Friendship
Pam Rhodes explores the powerful bond of friendship and gets some tips on how to stay lifelong friends. She meets the mum whose best friend shared one of the most precious gifts of all and the soldier ready to lay down his life for his friends. There's music from girls' choir, Cantamus, plus brass band arrangements of traditional hymns, sung by choirs from West Yorkshire, including What a Friend we have in Jesus and God be with you till we meet again.
11/01/2009, Sunday 11:30am

Encounter
With food prices rising around the world, millions are threatened with deprivation and starvation. In a complex web of causes - fuel prices, climate change and commodity speculation - how to respond to the challenge of feeding those who have trouble feeding themselves?
11/01/2009, Sunday 7.10 am

For the God Who Sings
Initiation, imagination, mystery and music.
11/01/2009, Sunday 10.30pm

Sunday Nights
Current events, talkback & the Inquizition.
11/01/2009, Sunday 10.10 pm

The Ark
The popular advocate and water expert, John Archer, has turned his attention to the waters that flow through almost all the spiritual traditions of the world. From clouds and rivers and rainbows, to dew-drops and thunder, water is a universal and ancient motif in religion.
11/01/2008, Sunday 3.45pm

The Religion Report
Patricia Brennan - The founding convenor of the Movement for the Ordination of Women in Australia looks back on a 25-year campaign – and offers a different perspective on sex and the 60s.
7/01/2009, Wed. 8:30am

The Rhythm Divine
Turkish musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek is a world music superstar, a master of the ney flute, and a dedicated Sufi. According to Omar, the sound of the ney is the cry of the human soul separated from God and his life-long quest has been to heal that division, as he explains to Geoff Wood.
9/01/2009, Friday, 7.35pm

The Spirit of Things
Surrounded by nearly a kilometre of garden terraces, the golden-domed Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel overlooking Haifa in Israel is one the most beautiful sights in the world. It's also the second most holy spot of the Baha'i faith, as Baha'i Director of Public Information Douglas Moore explains to Rachael Kohn during a tour of the Shrine.
11/01/2009, Sunday 6.05pm