Spiritual thoughts from across the world
World Service,Β·1097 episodes
Sister Joan Chittister on Haiti and the work of radical priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jainism is one of the oldest religions in the world and was practised by Gandhi
Myrna Grant describes hearing God in the sounds of nature
The difficulty of turning to God in times of despair
Penny Faust on resisting covetousness in the modern world
Penny Faust on how Thou shalt not commit adultery has fared in the modern world
Why is Christ is portrayed as suffering on the cross and the Buddha in a state of peace?
Penny Faust on how the words that we use can be as damaging as the things that we do
Father Jim Rosenthal on the importance of faith, hope, and love
Penny Faust on Thou shalt have no other gods before me
Remembering the multi-talented American jazz pianist Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller
The value of all births and all mothers - even single ones
Thoughts on walls that keep people apart both physically and spiritually
The history and meaning of Jewish festival Hanukkah
Do miracles happen any more? And does it matter if there are rational explanations?
Poet Stewart Henderson and the list of things-to-do he makes on Boxing Day
Poet Stewart Henderson remembers the excitement of Christmas Eve when he was a child
Poet Stewart Henderson is saddened by London's "carnival of materialism"
Saba Risaluddin on a close friend who converted from Catholicism to Islam
The status of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in Islam
Thoughts on religion's need to absorb new truths that emerge from technology
The problem of knowing what to believe in the modern world
What's the difference between an optimist and a pessimist?
Rafiq Abdullah considers the "sinister consequences" of political abstractions
A Christian on the one service about Christmas that he actually remembers
"I like to think of time as one of God's greatest and most loving gifts"
"What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare"
The dimension along which all traffic passes in the same direction
Wherever the Julian calendar is observed, 7 January is Christmas Day
Deepak Vohra on the Hindu sage and mystic Narada Muni
