The 17th & 18th century Enlightenment philosophers have been criticised for being anti-religious. But just how opposed to God were they?

Medea is a figure from ancient Greece, who's had a lively reputation in Western literature and art. She was a symbol of evil, but also of power, a sorceress, and a goddess. Today she's most interesting to feminists, and she regularly appears with the abortion issue.

John Cleary is joined by regular guest Tom Roberts, Editor-at-Large of the US National Catholic Reporter.

Born in Cleverland, Ohio, Bishop Irenej has completed his time as Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Australia and New Zealand, and has been elected as the New Bishop of Eastern America.

This week around Australia the ABC has been hosting conversations about Rebooting your life, and of course throughout human history one of the central elements in any form of reboot has been religion, from meditation to pilgrimage, from confession to conversion, the Religious Way has been the dominant way, until perhaps a hundred years ago and the innovations of Dr’s Adler, Jung and Freud.

New Federal member for Cowan in WA, and the first Muslim woman elected to our Federal parliament

Has the toxic asylum-seeker debate damaged Australia's Soul?

Film critic Fr Richard Leonard SJ with his ethical take on movie-making; for "Sully", "Snowdon" and "My Scientology Movie".

The trial of Galileo Gallilei in 1633 was a scandal for both science and theology. Neither were advanced by the verdict.

The founder of analytical psychology and what he discovered on the parallels between psychoanalysts and witch doctors.

Australia's earliest de-radicalising Imam

Professor Frank Brennan passionately arguing about human rights and asylum seekers.

On the 200th anniversary of the birth of the founder of Mormonism, Rachael Kohn spoke to Professor Douglas Davies about the life of Joseph Smith.

Surveys are pointing to a sizeable fear of Muslims among Australians. What might these findings mean for Australia’s half a million Muslims, and how might we respond better to our anxiety?

A Sydney Anglican minister appears to be the first casualty of the same-sex marriage debate.

The ritual making and destruction of sand mandalas in Tibetan Buddhism, as highlighted on the ABC TV's Compass program.

But how should our sporting heroes play the game, and do they always fight fair?

The presenter of ABC RN's Religion and Ethics Report joins Sunday Nights to survey the latest in the world of religion.

Rachael Kohn talks with Cambridge Professor of Religious History, Gill Evans, about people who've found themselves on the wrong end of church doctrine.

Can we have a civil debate about the contentious issue of same sex marriage?

Australian Jesuit Priest Fr Phil Crotty spent 6o years of his life in India. Now in his 80s he'd love to go back.

A Principal Correspondent for The Hindu newspaper explains the tensions between religious practice and modern life in India.

When Captain James Cook left Tahiti in 1769 to explore the Polynesian islands and Batavia, he enlisted Chief Priest Tupa'ia as his navigator.

Catholic school principal Paul Tobias has made his own personal submission to the Royal Commission into sexual abuse about how his own church needs to respond better.

In the book "Armenia, Australia & the Great War," co-author Peter Stanley tells the stories of unsung Australians who helped survivors and orphans of the Armenian genocide.