The Religion and Ethics Report - Full program podcast ABC Podcasts

The need to bring faith leaders into the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, especially in the developing world where mosques, temples and churches remain major centres of gathering and information for communities. And, new president Joe Biden wants national unity? But will it be another American lost cause? We also remember the late Bishop Geoffrey Robinson.

Today we discuss the ups and downs of a relationship - but it’s not a story of friends and lovers or parents and children – but it’s almost as old. We explore the relationship between Christianity and democracy.

In her new book, Australianphilosopher Jessica Whyte uncoversthe place of human rightsin neoliberal attempts todevelop a moral framework fora market society.

A special full-length interview with Kim Ghattas of the BBC and The Financial Times about her new book Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unravelled Culture, Religion and Collective Memory in the Middle East.

US Republicans have been celebrating a president loved by evangelicals. But Donald Trump had a Hollywood predecessor, John Wayne who was adored even more by the Christian right.

Author Gary Dorrien discusses his new book on the religious roots of social democracy. He describes how 19th and early 20th century Christians in Europe, Britain and the US laid the foundation of the ideology that would dominate western politics for 40 years after WWII - and why it's making a comeback.