Good morning,
 

James Carleton here, host of Radio National's God Forbid.
 

This month on the program, we're launching a new six-part series, Religious Rebels: Faith, Heretics, and Reformers. With experts from around the globe, we’ll delve into the stories of those who defied religious orthodoxy, reshaped faith, and sometimes paid the ultimate price.
 

Last week, we released episode 1, which focused on the iconic Joan of Arc, a teenage mystic who claimed to hear divine voices, led an army to victory, and was burned at the stake before being canonised as a saint. With historian Dr Charlotte Millar, medievalist Dr Stephanie Downes, and theologian Dr Shaun Blanchard, we examined how Joan’s extraordinary faith unsettled both the Church and the Crown, and what her story reveals about the fraught relationship between gender, power, and prophecy.
 

In our second episode, we turn to Giordano Bruno, the visionary Dominican friar who imagined an infinite universe long before the telescope. His ideas about God, creation and cosmology saw him branded a heretic and executed by the Inquisition.
 

It's a series about those who refused to bow to authority and how that transformed our understanding of faith itself. To hear the series, tune in to God Forbid on your radio or catch up on the ABC listen app. 
 

I hope you enjoy.
 

James

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