In 2007, 48 volunteer building teams from Australia went to Uganda to help build group homes and school facilities in villages designed to care for AIDS orphans, some of whom are HIV positive. The villages are run by the Kampala-based Watoto Child Care Ministries and represent a model of care being picked up across Africa. Read Transcript
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President Jose Ramos-Horta has forgiven his attackers. The Amish forgave their chidren's killer in 2006. In 2005 Van Nguyen sought forgiveness. What is forgiveness? Why does it make the news? How might it help us think through arguments about the death penalty? Read Transcript
The Presbyterian Australian Inland Mission played a significant role in the nation building that went on at the turn of the 20th century. An ambitious health, communication and support network for remote desert dwelling Australians, it was deliberately non-evangelical. Read Transcript
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French thinker Simone Weil wrote that one of the most fundamental human needs was 'the need for roots'and that "uprootedness' was 'by far the most dangerous malady to which societies are exposed." Philosopher Jonathan Glover applies Simone Weil's understanding of 'uprootedness' to the circumstances of Palestinians and Israelis, and discerns a way forward in this most intractable of conflicts.
Producer: Margaret Coffey
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Sunday 7.10am
repeated Wednesday 7pm
Series Producer
Florence Spurling
Sunday 11 January 2009
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?
Three thoughtful reflections on consumerism in the West, drawing from one of the parables of Jesus, Jewish insights from the Book of Proverbs, and the Christian eucharist.
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Since 1948, the best of classic and contemporary fiction by Australian and world writers
