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They pose behind luxuriant, often ludicrous moustaches, smoke pipes and affect an air of genteel intellectuals. But these so-called "theo-bros", as in theological, have very radical agenda to change America that hearkens back to the country’s worst times. Bob Smietana has been tracking this online group as it preaches a version of Christianity to lost young men. GUEST: Bob Smietana is a senior writer based in Chicago for the Religion News Service.
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It seems like every Israel election since the early 1990s, and the start of the stalled Oslo peace accords, has been historic or pivotal. But next week’s poll really does feel like a crucial choice for the country. Benjamin Netanyahu has committed his hard-right government to the expansion of Israeli territory and no statehood, ever, for Palestinians. Will Israelis endorse his vision? GUEST: Dr Dahlia Scheindlin is a public opinion analyst and senior columnist with Ha’aretz.
Despite the tragedy of the Gaza war, civil society groups are making small but critical steps towards reconciliation.
Israeli settlers have again besieged the Palestinian town of Taybeh. It’s the last remaining Christian village on the West Bank. But this time the far-right Jewish youths also attacked a visiting Catholic Archbishop from France and European diplomats who were watching the olive harvest. GUEST: Father Bashar Fawadleh is the Catholic parish priest of Taybeh.
Those with fond memories of our grandmothers will often say she “was a saint”. For Martha Hennessy, that will literally be the case. Her grandmother, the American Catholic writer and social justice activist Dorothy Day is on track to canonization. Dorothy Day died in 1980, almost 50 years after she co-founded the Catholic Worker newspaper, but Pope Benedict, Pope Francis and now Pope Leo have invoked her life and work. Martha Hennessy is currently touring Australia. GUEST: Martha Hennessy is an American Catholic peace activist and member of the Catholic Worker Movement