The Religion and Ethics Report - Separate stories podcast

In a move that defies the stereotype of American mega-churches, the pastor of 24,000-strong Methodist parish in Kansas has announced he’s running as Democrat for the US Senate in November. Adam Hamilton is also a best-selling author and podcaster. 
Hamilton joins a growing chorus of Christian ministers who are reclaiming faith from pro-Trump forces. But he’s careful to stress, he’s no liberal. Kathryn Post, a journalist from the Religion News Service is following this historic race.
As the Royal Commission into antisemitism and social cohesion begins public hearings, we begin a three-part series on how three faith communities – Christian, Jewish, and Muslim – responded to mass violence inflicted on them. 
The gunmen inspired by the Islamic State group who opened fire on the Jewish Channukah festival in Bondi Beach last December brought religious violence to Australia at an unprecedented scale. But as those who’ve suffered similar tragedy shows, it is possible to rebuild. Our series, After the Storm, has already begun as a podcast on ABC Listen. But we’re bringing part of those stories to air. This week, author Kevin Sack looks at the 2015 tragedy at the Mother Emmanuel Church, an historic Black congregation in South Carolina. Kevin spent a decade working on his landmark book, Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church.
And you can hear the full length podcast of the Kevin Sack interview here

In a move that defies the stereotype of American mega-churches, the pastor of 24,000-strong Methodist parish in Kansas has announced he’s running as Democrat for the US Senate in November. 
Adam Hamilton is also a best-selling author and podcaster. 
Hamilton joins a growing chorus of Christian ministers who are reclaiming faith from pro-Trump forces. 
But he’s careful to stress, he’s no liberal. 
GUEST:
Kathryn Post from the Religion News Service is following this historic race.

When a white supremacist gunman opened fire during a Bible study at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina, nine worshippers, including their charismatic pastor, were murdered at a bible class in a racist attack.
Writer Kevin Sack spent a decade documenting what happened at Mother Emanuel, tracing not only the events of June 17, 2015, but the deeper history of race, resistance, and forgiveness that shaped the community’s response.
In this episode, you’ll hear the story of how that church endured and what its response can teach others confronting religious violence today. 
This is part one of a special Religion and Ethics Report series on how faith and friendship helped three religious communities overcome violent attack, as Australia grapples with the aftermath of its own devastating attack at Bondi.

The defeat of Viktor Orban’s nationalist government in Hungary is causing ripples from the heart of Europe all the way to the Middle East. Orban was a key ally of another nationalist, Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, protecting his government from censure and sanction in the European Union. Hungary’s new prime minister Peter Magyar is unlikely to be as friendly.  
A year ago, more than a hundred cardinals were deep in conversation, even a little conspiracy. They’d just buried their beloved Pope Francis. Now they had to choose a successor to lead 1.4 billion Catholics. But forces outside the church were also trying to shape the result of the conclave. In a new book, The Election of Pope Leo XIV: The Last Surprise of Pope Francis, we learn about some the extraordinary planning … and plotting. 
 Guests:
Dr Shahar Burla is a contributing editor at The Jewish Independent. 
Authors and veteran Vatican reporters Gerard O’Connell and Elisabetta Pique

The defeat of Viktor Orban’s nationalist government in Hungary is causing ripples from the heart of Europe all the way to the Middle East. 
Orban was a key ally of another nationalist, Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, protecting his government from censure and sanction in the European Union. 
Hungary’s new prime minister Peter Magyar is unlikely to be as friendly. 
GUEST:
Dr Shahar Burla is a contributing editor at The Jewish Independent.