Religion & Ethics: Content from Across the ABC

Divorce according to God

10/07/2016, 06:30 pm

Neighbour

10/07/2016, 10:00pm

Election, religious violence, gambling reform

8/07/2016, 17:30 pm

Creative Strathford *RPT*

10/07/2016, 11.30am

Elie Wiesel

10/07/2016, 6.05pm

An Interview with Martha Nussbaum

Friendship is one of the most important aspects of aging, and one crucial aspect of the friendship that sustains is humour and teasing. Aging is not just pain and death, it is, increasingly, a long span of life, maybe thirty years, and there are lots of things to think about: friendship, love, sex, money, whether compulsory retirement is good or bad, how we might deal with age discrimination and the stigma attached to the aging body.

Susan Carland

The most horrifying test for witches during the Middle Ages was the swimming trials. Women were tied up and thrown into lakes or rivers by people believing that the 'sacred water of Baptisme', as James I of England wrote in 1597, would reject them if they were practitioners of the dark arts. If they floated, they were found to be witches and were executed. If they sank, their innocence was proved - but they also generally drowned ... And so it was in the past two weeks that a Salem-esque furore descended upon Australia and surrounded Yassmin Abdel-Magied.

Noah Feldman

Another executive action has been floated that would be devastating for Muslim individuals and organizations in the U.S.: a directive to the State Department to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as an international terrorist organization. When coupled with a U.S. Supreme Court decision from 2010, the designation could lead to widespread prosecution of American Muslims and others for material support of terrorism - a disaster for civil liberties and free speech that could dwarf the Trump administration's early initiatives.