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Next Sunday, my guests on Sunday Sequence will be the "four church leaders", and they will be answering questions for an hour, live on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Ulster.

Of course there are more than four churches in Northern Ireland, but the leaders of the four larger churches have combined their efforts on a number of fronts in recent years and the term "four church leaders" has been coined to mark that collective commitment of will. They sometimes release joint statements, and they sometimes lend their collective support to important initiatives. Nevertheless, it difficult to find a picture of all four of them together on the net -- so I've selected a picture of the two archbishops of Armagh receiving honourary doctorates from the University of Ulster (only because I was on the platform when they received their degrees!).

The Presbyterian and Methodist churches have a public relations challenge with their leaders, since their tenure is just twelve months and that doesn't give the public much time to get to know them -- nor does it give the Presbyterian Moderator or Methodist President much time to develop a platform on many issues. The archbishops of Armagh, as the leaders of Ireland's two largest Christian denominations, can be in office for years (or decades), and that gives them a greater opportunity to leave their mark. But what mark will they leave? My guests on Sunday:

, Archbishop of Armagh, Catholic Primate of All Ireland
Moderator of the General Assembly, Presbyterian Church in Ireland
Archbishop of Armagh, Anglican Primate of All Ireland
, President of the Methodist Church in Ireland

The public has already been emailing questions they want to put to the church leaders (to: sunday.sequence@bbc.co.uk), and you can leave questions on my blog as well.

The place of religion in society today? Is religion a danger to a free sociiety? Has the church in Northern Ireland helped or hindered the peace process? Do churches believe in human rights? Not to mention the live moral debates our society continues to debate from gay marriage to a woman's right to choose and a terminally ill person's right to die.

It's going to be a fast-paced 60 minutes for the leaders of Ireland's four larger churches, and I want to be able to put your questions -- and comments, views or challenges -- on Sunday morning.