成人论坛

Synod on Religious Life

Sister Lavinia Byrne discusses the synod on the religious life taking place in Rome

• 3 mins

The First Women

Sister Lavinia Byrne considers how women in the Bible have been politicised

• 3 mins

Silat

A talk on Silat - a South East Asian martial art deeply rooted in Malay culture

• 4 mins

Simchat Torah

Reflections on the climax of Jewish festivities and the Jewish love of knowledge

• 4 mins

Polygamy and Islam

Saba Risaluddin on the stereotype that a Muslim man can take as many wives he wishes

• 4 mins

Islam and Women

Saba Risaluddin on the Western perception of the repression of women in Islamic countries

• 4 mins

Islam and Marriage

Saba Risaluddin discusses Islam and marriage, romantic love versus arranged marriage

• 4 mins

The Shofar

A remembrance of the Jewish men, women, and children of Telz massacred by Nazis in 1941

• 3 mins

Feminism

Saba Risaluddin on the inspiring, feminist, and courageous women she has found in Islam

• 4 mins

The Hijab

Saba Risakadin discusses what wearing the veil, or Hijab, means to Muslims

• 3 mins

Yom Kippur

A discussion of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar

• 3 mins

Happy Relationships

Rabbi Harvey Belovski suggests how to become a giver rather than a taker

• 4 mins

The Alphabet of Faith - F

Reverend John Bowker considers the history and practise of religious feasts and fasts

• 3 mins

The Alphabet of Faiths - A

Reverend John Bowker starts his alphabet of the world's faiths

• 4 mins

An Alphabet of Faith - I

Reverend John Bowker on incarnation and physical manifestations of the divine

• 3 mins

An Alphabet of Faith - E

Reverend John Bowker on the concept of Eden - a place of origin, despair, and hope

• 4 mins

Alphabet of Faith - G

Is God the producer of all that is, or a production of the human mind?

• 3 mins

The Alphabet of Faith - D

Reverend John Bowker considers Dharma - as Hindus call their own faith

• 4 mins

An Alphabet of Faith - H

Reverend John Bowker considers hair's importance in religion

• 4 mins

Advertising and Happiness

Rabbi Harvey Belovski wonders whether we can buy our way to happiness

• 3 mins

The Alphabet of Faith - C

Reverend John Bowker considers the history and practise of the Chinese 鈥渮uo chan鈥�

• 4 mins

Leela Joseph

The story of Leela Joseph from south India who left her own faith to join the Quakers

• 3 mins

Alphabet of Faith - B

Reverend John Bowker with the story of the Christian monk Benedict

• 4 mins

All Souls' Day

Canon Eric James contemplates the meaning of All Souls' Day

• 3 mins

Michaelmas

A priest contemplates the difference between the medium and the message

• 3 mins

Origin of Existence

A Koranic explanation of the origin and meaning of existence

• 4 mins

The Sufi

An explanation of the Islamic view that a person is being made up of two elements

• 4 mins

Dussehra and Diwali - Hindu

Deepak Vohra with the life of the King Ram and his wife Sita

• 4 mins

The Book of Exodus

The mayor of Birmingham, Bernard Zissman, on what the book of Exodus means to him

• 4 mins

Traditional Judaism

The mayor of Birmingham, Bernard Zissman, on what it means to be a 'traditional' Jew

• 4 mins