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According to the Church of Sweden, it's preferable not to refer to God as a "he." The official decision to use gender-neutral language will be a change in the way that many Swedish churchgoers worship--and one that has divided the country. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports on the debate and how it may echo in other countries
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Those who wish to pursue a life of pure reason are often attracted to the movement known as secular humanism. This program explores the movement by presenting several humanist inquiries, including: How and why do religions develop? Can morality exist without religion? Is there a humanist narrative that can take the place of myth? How can public policy become truly rational? The film features explanations from prominent humanist figures-Dr. Paul Kurtz,...
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In a religious context, America's motto E Pluribus Unum-Out of Many, One-means not a merging of belief systems, but a joining together of such systems into an interfaith community that honors doctrinal differences while promoting mutual understanding through dialogue and collaboration. This program surveys America's increasingly pluralistic spiritual landscape via The Pluralism Project at Harvard University; the Interfaith Center at the Presidio;...
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Many people refrain from identifying themselves with any particular religion, yet they express a keen interest in nourishing their own sense of the sacred. What, then, does it mean to be spiritual but not religious? And how might individuals benefit by joining their spirituality to the religion of their choice? This program uses the psychosocial journey from dependence, to independence, to interdependence, to unity to propose answers to these questions....
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If religion is viewed as?a finger pointing at the moon,? then preoccupation with that finger?rites, rituals, rules?can actually be an obstacle to spiritual experience. This program considers the idea that religion is a means to sanctity, not an end in itself; the importance, in a time of rising global threat levels, of dissolving strictly sectarian conceptions of God; the profound unanimity of the religious quest; approaches to connecting with one?s...
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Light at the end of a tunnel, dear ones greeting us, a feeling of eternal well-being ... More and more people who have returned from death's door claim they have experienced a near-death experience. Given their similarities with certain ideas of the Christian faith, the Catholic Church is in the witness box. What do these NDEs mean? Do they confirm or contradict the Christian faith? Should we take a fresh look at our notions of judgment, hell, purgatory,...
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In order for both science and spirituality to coexist in the world, must an individual necessarily place one above the other? Or, if treated as coequals, must the empirical and the intangible always be kept separate, never to intersect? In bringing together proponents of science and spirituality, this program proposes a third course: to encourage the overlapping of these contrasting worldviews in a revolutionary union of wisdom-and by joining strength...
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It is a philosophy that seeks to replace religion with rites of passage based on compassion and rationality. Despite its overarching goals, Humanism divides into several groups-from hedonism to secularism. This program delineates viewpoints from five articulate humanist proponents who, through thoughtful explanations, evoke the multifaceted landscape of Humanist thought. Participants include prominent scientist and atheist Dr. Richard Dawkins, Hanne...
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Marc Burth wants to find the best religion for his children, but, since his family boasts a Muslim, a Catholic, a Jew, a shaman, and several atheists, that's not going to be easy. This highly amusing film playfully addresses the questions so many of us struggle with: Is there a god? To whom does he reveal himself? And why doesn't he reveal himself to me? Although Marc can't quite embrace any god, he is willing to support his children in whatever faith...
12) John the Baptist
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Where was Jesus from? How can he be situated in the Judaism of his time among the reform movements cropping up around the first century? In the eyes of many Jews, the Roman presence in Palestine, i.e., the pagan domination of the Holy Land, is essentially a manifestation of the impurity of the chosen people before God. Just as the members of the Qumran sect withdrew into the desert to cleanse themselves of their impurity, John the Baptist offered...
13) Barabbas
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Jesus the Nazarene or Jesus of Nazareth- this is how Jesus is referred to in the four gospels. And yet in several other archaic manuscripts we discover another Jesus, Jesus Barabbas. Barabbas was the rioter chosen by the crowd over Jesus, when Pontius Pilate offered to amnesty one prisoner. Who was Barabbas, whose name in Aramaic can be read "Son of the Father"? Was he one of the witnesses of the Jewish uprisings against the Roman occupation? Was...
14) The Crucifixion
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The image of Christ on the cross is known all over the world, but are we even certain how the torture was inflicted? Were convicts nailed or tied to the cross? What shape was the cross? Where did executions take place? Do the writings by historians of antiquity confirm those of the Evangelists? What can we learn from bone fragments of the sole crucifixion victim ever discovered (in Jerusalem), which are also dated 1st century AD? Who crucified Jesus:...
15) The Trial
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How, and by whom was Jesus judged? Was Jesus tried once or twice? Was there a Jewish trial and a Roman trial? Are there two different stories of Jesus: one told from the Jewish viewpoint, the other from the Roman viewpoint? In the Gospel according to Saint John, the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate seems to want to save Jesus from his torture. Can this attitude be reconciled with the fierce portrait of Pilate painted by Jewish historians of the time?...
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How old are the most ancient papyruses of the gospel according to John? Why have they all been found in Egypt and none in Palestine? Why were there hundreds of variations before the version we know today was settled on? What is the relationship between the gospel of John with those of Mark, Matthew, and Luke? Was the former dependent upon the latter, or on an independent source? One of Jesus' Apostles was called John, son of Zebedee. Did he write...
17) King of the Jews
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The titulus, or act of accusation, placed on the cross was inscribed "Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews"; is this inscription the oldest surviving text which refers to Jesus? Did "Nazarene" mean someone from Nazareth? How can the fact be explained that there are no archeological traces of Nazareth dating earlier than the 2nd century AD? In spite of the differences among the four Evangelists, they all agree that the inscription on the cross included...
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How can one explain that the Gospel According to John is both a great piece of literature and a text fraught with anomalies and contradictions throughout? What is the meaning of the fact that it was written in different stages, as these oddities prove? Why is the fourth Evangelist sometimes perceived as the "father of anti-Semitism"? In the fourth gospel, is Jesus addressing the people of his century, or is it the Evangelist two or three generations...
19) Christos
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In Christianity, Jesus is Jesus Christ. In the gospels Jesus is called "Christ", the Greek translation of the Hebrew word for "messiah" or "anointed by God". Was the biblical conception of the messiah political or religious? Was it possible to be a prophet without being king? During his lifetime did Jesus claim to be the messiah of Israel? Was it the royal aspect of this pretension which brought about his condemnation? Why and by whom? By the Jews...
20) Resurrection
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What happened after Jesus died on the cross? Why were his disciples not in turn persecuted by the Romans? Why did they stay in Jerusalem? Were they still waiting for the restoration of the Kingdom of Israel? Did they expect it to be imminent, i.e. would the end of time also coincide with the end of Roman rule? Did Jesus himself expect to rise from the dead? To what extent does the Christian concept of the resurrection spring from Jewish tradition?...
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