Spiritual thoughts from across the world
World Service,·1097 episodes
Sister Joan Chittister on Haiti and the work of radical priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide
03 Nov 1993,·4 mins
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
04 Nov 1993,·4 mins
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?
07 Nov 1993,·4 mins
Penny Faust on how the words that we use can be as damaging as the things that we do
11 Nov 1993,·4 mins
Father Jim Rosenthal on the importance of faith, hope, and love
12 Nov 1993,·3 mins
Penny Faust on Thou shalt have no other gods before me
17 Nov 1993,·4 mins
Remembering the multi-talented American jazz pianist Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller
23 Nov 1993,·4 mins
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
30 Nov 1993,·4 mins
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
02 Dec 1993,·3 mins
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
06 Dec 1993,·4 mins
The status of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in Islam
Thoughts on religion's need to absorb new truths that emerge from technology
08 Dec 1993,·3 mins
The problem of knowing what to believe in the modern world
08 Dec 1993,·4 mins
What's the difference between an optimist and a pessimist?
Rafiq Abdullah considers the "sinister consequences" of political abstractions
20 Dec 1993,·4 mins
A Christian on the one service about Christmas that he actually remembers
21 Dec 1993,·3 mins
"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"
21 Dec 1993,·4 mins
The dimension along which all traffic passes in the same direction
Wherever the Julian calendar is observed, 7 January is Christmas Day
03 Jan 1994,·4 mins
Deepak Vohra on the Hindu sage and mystic Narada Muni
04 Jan 1994,·4 mins
