Episodes

  • Reading the Bible in a Time of Environmental Crisis: Scripture and faith in the contemporary world

    Reading the Bible in a Time of Environmental Crisis: Scripture and faith in the contemporary world
    Mar 12 2024
    This episode by Dr Hilary Marlow of Girton College Cambridge looks at reading the Bible in the context of the contemporary environmental crisis. This talk was part of a series exploring Christian and Muslim perspectives on the environment.
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    50 mins
  • Her Day in Court: Christian Women in Egyptian Muslim Courts: 11-13th/17-19th Centuries

    Her Day in Court: Christian Women in Egyptian Muslim Courts: 11-13th/17-19th Centuries
    Mar 5 2024
    In this episode Dr Yasmin Amin of the Cairo office of the Orient Institute, Beirut sheds fascinating light on the experiences of Christian women in legal cases in Egyptian Muslim courts from the 17th-19th centuries CE.
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    50 mins
  • The Law, Religion and the British Constitution

    The Law, Religion and the British Constitution
    Feb 27 2024
    In this episode, Professor Julian Rivers of Bristol University explores the relationship of law and religion in the British constitution.
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    46 mins
  • Muslims and Christians Building Reconciliation in the Sierra Leone Conflict

    Muslims and Christians Building Reconciliation in the Sierra Leone Conflict
    Feb 20 2024
    In this episode, Dr Jari Portaankorva, President of the Baptist Union of Finland and with extensive experience in Sierra Leone, West Africa, explores how Muslim and Christian leaders in Sierra Leone have co-operated to bring about reconciliation in the midst of civil conflicts.
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    42 mins
  • The Ordeal of the Bitter Water: The Qur'an's reformulation of Numbers 5 in Q 4:34 and the issue of the disobedient wife

    The Ordeal of the Bitter Water: The Qur'an's reformulation of Numbers 5 in Q 4:34 and the issue of the disobedient wife
    Feb 13 2024
    In this episode, Dr Saqib Hussain, of Loyola Marymount University, California, and former postgraduate scholarship holder at CMCS Oxford, explores possible Biblical background to a well-known Qur’an verse on the issue of the disobedient wife, Surat al-Nisa‘ 4:34..
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    35 mins
  • The History of Muslim-Christian Relations: What relevance for today?

    The History of Muslim-Christian Relations: What relevance for today?
    Feb 6 2024
    In this episode Professor Sidney Griffith, a Jesuit priest who has spent a lifetime researching the early history of Arabic and Syriac Christian responses to Islam, reflects on why an awareness of history matters today.
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    33 mins
  • Muslim–Christian Relations in Indonesia: Sectarian tension and peaceful coexistence

    Muslim–Christian Relations in Indonesia: Sectarian tension and peaceful coexistence
    Jan 30 2024
    In this episode Dr Sumanto al-Qurtuby, an Indonesian scholar working in Saudi Arabia, explores Christian-Muslim relations in his native land.
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    47 mins
  • Themes and Approaches in Recent Christian Theological Engagement with Islam

    Themes and Approaches in Recent Christian Theological Engagement with Islam
    Jan 23 2024
    In this episode David Marshall, a Lecturer at the University of Bern who is ordained in the Church of England, looks at a range of recent Christian theological works on engagement with Islam from the Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox traditions.
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    50 mins