God Forbid

ABC Australia

Religion: it’s at the centre of world affairs, but profound questions still remain. Why are you here? What happens when you die? Does God matter? God Forbid seeks the answers.

  1. 6日前

    The History of Emotion: Were feelings always felt this way?

    If you hit your finger with a hammer, would you feel it the same way a medieval carpenter did, doing exactly the same thing?  Well, apparently not.  We think of our feelings as the most private and immediate things we own.  Hit your thumb, and YOU know pain when YOU feel it.   But historians of emotion say that's a modern conceit. Pain, grief, love, loneliness — none of them are fixed.   They're made, by religion, by culture and science, and most of all by the stories we tell each other about what a feeling is supposed to be.  Lets look into the history of feeling itself.  Were the emotions of the past even the same species of experience as ours?  GUESTS: Professor Katie Barclay is a Future Fellow in the Department of History and Archaeology, and author of Loneliness in World History  and Caritas: Neighbourly Love & the Early Modern SelfProfessor Stephanie Trigg, a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Melbourne University. Among her near a dozen books is "Weeping Like a Beaten Child: Figurative Language and the Emotions in Chaucer and Malory."A/Prof Rob Boddice a historian of science, medicine and the emotions, based at Freie Universitaet Berlin and McGill University, Montreal, is author of Knowing Pain: A History of Sensation, Emotion, and Experience, and Research Fellow at the Uni of Helsinki in Finland.

  2. 7月17日

    Is racism about skin colour, colonialism or wealth?

    Is racism about the colour of your skin, the history of colonialism, or the size of your bank account?

  3. 7月10日

    What does God expect of fathers?

    The White House has a cage fight on the Whitehouse front lawn while, somewhere, a father rose at 3am to feed a crying baby.     In 2026, what does it mean to be a good father, or a good man?  Does God, or any religious tradition, see men as something distinct? Or is “be a good man” just “be a good person”?  The manosphere claims religious sanction. Is that a corruption of these traditions, or an expression of them?  Three fathers, three frameworks. What do you or can you actually hand onto your son? GUESTS: Rev Dr Michael Jensen is an Anglican minister, an Oxford theologian, and a father of four. He’ll tell you God has a design for men — but hear him out, because I reckon it’s not what you’re expecting.A/Prof Adis Duderija is a scholar of Islam and gender at Griffith University — an expert on how his own tradition understands the rights and responsibilities of manhood. That too is more nuanced than its given credit for. And a father to two teenagers.Zac Seidler is a psychologist who studies what young men actually watch online. He’s professor at Orygen, Australia's Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health. And, as of this year, a brand-new dad.

  4. 7月3日

    Why do animals matter?

    Do to a dog what we do to a factory-farmed pig, and you’d be arrested.  Do it to ten thousand pigs in a shed, and it’s breakfast.  Most of us say cruelty to animals is wrong.  And then most of us are happy to have them killed and eat them.  Both our panellists think the way we treat animals is a moral catastrophe.  But they get there by opposite roads. One says animals matter because they suffer. The other says they matter because they’re God’s creatures.  GUESTS: Peter Singer Emeritus Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University. Host of the podcast Lives Well Lived. 50 years ago exactly, his book Animal Liberation launched the modern animal liberation movement as we know it. David Clough Professor of Theology and Applied Sciences, University of Aberdeen. Author of the two-volume work On Animals. He’s a Methodist Preacher and Co-founder of CreatureKind which aims to transform Christian attitudes and practices toward animals.

  5. 6月26日

    How old do you feel?

    We are, it turns out, a species that refuses to believe its own birth certificate.  Australia is ageing, fast. This is not new here, or in Europe and North America where the trend has existed for decades.  But even in China and now India, the fertility rate has dropped below replacement levels – even the two most populous nations on earth are getting older.   Yet we’ve built a world — our economies, our cities, our pension systems, our cultures — around the young and the productive. So, what happens when that's no longer who we are?  GUESTS: Prof Paul Komesaroff is a philosopher at Monash University. And a practising endocrinologist. And Director of the Centre for Ethics in Medicine and Society.   Dr Lee-Fay Low is Professor in Ageing and Health at University of Sydney. She’s also a registered psychologist and chairs the Sydney Dementia Network.

  6. 6月19日

    The pleasure we take in others' misfortune and what it says about us

    You heard that someone had come unstuck. A rival. A bully. Someone overconfident, or two-faced, or just a bit too pleased with themselves. And something in you was glad.  You won't say it out loud. You might barely admit it to yourself.  But the Germans have a word for it. And it turns out, so did the ancient Greeks.  Schadenfreude. The pleasure we take in others' misfortune.  Is it a moral failing? A sign of deficient character? Or is it a window into what we actually believe about justice, equality — and each other? GUESTS: Tiffany Watt-Smith is a cultural historian and author of Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another's Misfortune. She joins us from London.  Nick Haslam is Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne, and the man who's been thinking hard about Australia's national variant — tall poppy syndrome.

  7. 6月12日

    The ideas that inspired American Christian Zionism

    Whether or not you believe in - or even know about "the Rapture", "the Tribulation", "the End Times", and "Armageddon", your life is influenced by the idea that Jesus Christ will not only return, he’ll go to Jerusalem, and from there, for exactly one thousand years, he’ll rule the world.  Yet, this concept is not in the Bible...at least not directly.  But a bible, published in America in 1909, and written by an American made it the most influential concepts in American Christian fundamentalism. The story of the Scofield Reference Bible is an extraordinary one.  Not least because it lies at the heart of Christian Zionism which is more consequential today than ever.   GUESTS: Professor Donald Akenson is from Queen's University in Ontario, his latest book The Americanization of the Apocalypse: Creating America's Own Bible.Dr Robyn Whitaker is Associate Professor of New Testament at Melbourne’s University of Divinity – among her titles Revelation for Normal People.

  8. 6月4日

    How should we view our relationship to work?

    Most of us spend most of our waking hours working, paid and unpaid.  From housework to paid work, most of our lives are dominated by work. It's so ingrained that losing our true selves in work can feel unavoidable.   Yet, many also find purpose, value, and joy in work – even if it's not their dream job.  Work is less a place and more a concept, the line between work and home can be blurred. And younger Gen-Z workers are repelled by the hustle culture and burnout that comes from increased casualisation, unpaid overtime and labour shortages.  It’s why for Millennials, nearly 2 in 3 say work is a part of who they are. But for Gen Z, half say their job is not even a central part of their identity.  So how, when and why do we work?  GUESTS: Valerie Ling founded The Centre for Effective Serving, a psychology practice dedicated to alleviating burnout and other workplace problems. Kara Martin is Adjunct Professor at Boston's Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. She's also the author of Workship: How to Use your Work to Worship God.Rabbi Zalman Kastel is founder of Together For Humanity which teaches intercultural understanding in schools and the community.

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Religion: it’s at the centre of world affairs, but profound questions still remain. Why are you here? What happens when you die? Does God matter? God Forbid seeks the answers.

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    2017年 - 2026年
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