Encounter (ABC)
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The Power of Vulnerability
Is vulnerability weakness - or our truest measure of courage? Encounter this week explores ways in which vulnerability lies at the heart of meaningful human experience.
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Sunday Morning Blues
Being a blues musician in pre-war America was synonymous with hard living. But despite its reputation as the devil’s music, the blues has long had an affinity for religious themes. A number of early blues artists led double lives playing spirituals. Some gave up the blues and found God. Others, like Mississippi bluesman Son House, gave up God and found the blues. In the tension between Saturday night at the Juke joint and Sunday morning at church, the blues reflects life in all its richness...
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A matter of life and death
ABC Religion & Ethics Editor Scott Stephens tries to get behind the seemingly deadlocked euthanasia debate and ask the more basic question: why the push to legalise euthanasia now, after society has prohibited it for almost two millennia?
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Flood Prayer, Part 1
Australia Day this year witnessed one of the worst floods on the Australian continent since white settlement. The Burnett River became a devastating torrent which tore away much of the housing, infrastructure and agriculture of the city of Bundaberg and its adjacent small towns – such as Gayndah, Mundubbera and Eidsvold. The Christian Churches in this Wide Bay-Burnett district of Queensland have pulled together and provided some of the most effective support for the victims of the flood.Many...
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Wisdom of the Elders
This week on Encounter we meet four Australian elders ranging in age from 78 to 100. Each one of them is from a different cultural and religious background but what they have in common is their wise reflections on life.
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Fear and Freedom
In this program marking the birth of the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard 200 years ago this month, we explore the life and work of the "gloomy Dane". An object of ridicule in his home town of Copenhagen, Kierkegaard became the father of existentialism, and a towering influence on the philosophers and theologians who followed in his footsteps.
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Here is the Church, where are the people?
The Catholic Church in Argentina is deeply woven into the history and the culture of the people. But in the aftermath of the 'Dirty War' of the 1970s that saw some clergy supporting state-sponsored terrorism, and with a recent turn towards Protestant denominations and indigenous religion, the Church's monopoly on Christian life in Argentina could be slipping away. This week we explore the past, present and possible future for Argentina's Catholics.
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- Melbourne, VIC
- Religion & Spirituality, Public Radio
- ABC (Australia)
- English
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Encounter
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