Sunday Sequence Episodes Episode guide
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09/06/2019
Religious and ethical news and explore the world of culture and ideas.
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Mercy, Justice and Trauma
Audrey Carville talks about mercy, justice, forgiveness and how we all react to trauma.
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Searching for leaders in a post-conflict society
Searching for leaders - do we expect too much of politicians and too little of ourselves?
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Equality When?
How far have women come and how far is there still to go to achieve real equality?
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Biased? Me? The prejudices that plot our path in life
Biased? Me? The prejudices that plot our path in life.
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Normal today, embarrassing tomorrow? How will the values of 2019 be perceived in 2100?
Normal today, embarrassing tomorrow? How will the values of 2019 be perceived in 2100?
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The essence of forgiveness
What does it mean to forgive? And is a refusal to forgive itself a sin?
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Is an inability to manage relationships a core issue in society's problems - including homelessness and substance abuse?
Is an inability to manage relationships a core issue in society's problems?
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The Ethics of Eating
The ethics of eating - can a meat eater be a Christian?
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The Churches and the challenges they face in 2019
From Brexit to secularism - an almost alphabet of challenges for church leaders in 2019.
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Christians only at Christmas? Churches and the once-a-year phenomenon
Christians only at Christmas? Churches and the once-a-year phenomenon.
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The crisis in health - from Muckamore to Dunmurry - do we really care enough?
The crisis in health - from Muckamore to Dunmurry - do we really care enough?
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Medical advances - should ethics be a side issue in the search for breakthroughs?
Medical advances - should ethics be a side issue in the search for breakthroughs?
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70 years after of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - what are basic rights in the 21st century?
70 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - what are rights in 2018?
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A Waste of Space?
Is space exploration essential or would the cash be better spent fixing earth's problems?
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Is cash the best medicine for the ills of the developing world?
Is cash the best medicine for the ills of the developing world?
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Making friends of enemies. Is that the hardest test of faith?
Two ministers describe how Martin McGuinness and David Ervine became their "brothers".
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The war to end all wars and how it shapes our lives to this day
The war to end all wars and how it shapes our lives to this day.
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04/11/2018
25 years after the horror of Shankill and Greysteel, do we undervalue peace in our time?
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Selling arms to the Saudis - is an ethical foreign policy just a meaningless form of words?
Selling arms to the Saudis - is an ethical foreign policy a meaningless form of words?
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Does the benefits system work or is it sustaining generational despair?
As Universal Credit rolls out, is the benefits system an ethical response to poverty?
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Prison in the 21st Century - is it fit for purpose?
What is the point of prison - is it fit for purpose in the 21st Century?
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The problem or the solution? The role of the churches in dealing with sectarianism
The problem or the solution? The role of the churches in dealing with sectarianism.
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Politics and faith - does one always compromise the other?
Politics and faith - does one always compromise the other?
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution
The fourth industrial revolution - will it mean we work until we drop?
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An Horrific Equilibrium
Half the world starving, half the world obese - is equality further away than ever.
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Giving little while expecting a lot - the public and the church
Giving little while expecting a lot - the public and the church.
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02/09/2018
Roisin McAuley and guests debate the week's religious and ethical news.
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The Papal Visit to Ireland
Audrey Carville presents live from Phoenix Park, Dublin.
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The way we were - charting society's changes since the last Papal visit
The way we were - 40 years after that first papal visit, how life has changed utterly.