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5. Human rights: A starting basis for human rights (>5000BC)

2025-11-25T17:20:57+13:00

Hear the core idea that, in our own cultural history, seeded the idea that every human being might have intrinsic worth, and therefore also have rights that need protecting.

5. Human rights: A starting basis for human rights (>5000BC)2025-11-25T17:20:57+13:00

6. Human rights: The Ten Commandments to define them (3400 BC) – Part I

2025-11-25T17:21:17+13:00

Take a look at the 10 Commandments with new eyes – to consider not only what they tell us not to do, but what those prohibitions achieved within culture for the poor, weak and vulnerable.

6. Human rights: The Ten Commandments to define them (3400 BC) – Part I2025-11-25T17:21:17+13:00

7. Human rights: The Ten Commandments to define them (3400 BC) – Part II

2025-11-25T17:22:07+13:00

Take a look at two other of the 10 Commandments, to see how these seemingly simple prohibitions achieved profound and wide reaching results for the poor, weak and vulnerable.

7. Human rights: The Ten Commandments to define them (3400 BC) – Part II2025-11-25T17:22:07+13:00

8. Human rights: A template for modern Democracy from the ancient world (3400BC)

2025-11-25T17:22:15+13:00

Hear about a template for ‘modern democracy’ that has been overlooked in recent times, but which was well-known and studied by those who have worked to establish our freedoms in history.

8. Human rights: A template for modern Democracy from the ancient world (3400BC)2025-11-25T17:22:15+13:00

9. Human rights: Taxes to Caesar and a limitation on government powers (30AD)

2025-11-25T17:22:50+13:00

Hear the simple teaching from Jesus that challenged the approach of nearly all Governments prior – laying a path for what we have today.

9. Human rights: Taxes to Caesar and a limitation on government powers (30AD)2025-11-25T17:22:50+13:00

10. Human rights: Early Church breaks protocols – to affirm equality (50AD)

2025-11-25T17:23:14+13:00

Hear how a small group of radicals chose to live as if individual human worth (rights) were real - in contrast to the practices of an empire.

10. Human rights: Early Church breaks protocols – to affirm equality (50AD)2025-11-25T17:23:14+13:00

11. Human rights: A brave pastors confronts the Roman Emperor (390AD)

2025-11-25T17:24:48+13:00

Hear how ideas of a moral law that is above everyone, (and therefore the idea that people have inalienable rights irrespective of status) seeped even into Government – making a protection of the rights of even the common people a possibility!

11. Human rights: A brave pastors confronts the Roman Emperor (390AD)2025-11-25T17:24:48+13:00

12. Human rights: Saint Patrick – A foundation for common law in Ireland (430AD)

2025-11-25T17:25:14+13:00

Hear how and when an objective basis for believing in the rights and freedoms of the common people was established in Ireland – changing their history to this day.

12. Human rights: Saint Patrick – A foundation for common law in Ireland (430AD)2025-11-25T17:25:14+13:00

13. Human rights: King Alfred the Great – A foundation for common law in England (890AD)

2025-11-25T17:25:36+13:00

Hear how and when an objective basis for believing in the rights and freedoms of the common people was established in England – shaping the history that followed, which ultimately affected us!

13. Human rights: King Alfred the Great – A foundation for common law in England (890AD)2025-11-25T17:25:36+13:00

14. Human rights: The Magna Carta – The Great Charter of Freedoms (1215AD)

2025-11-25T17:28:13+13:00

Hear about a ‘charter for freedoms’ established in a crazy time achieved something profound – resulting in its later labelling as ‘the birthplace of modern democracy’!

14. Human rights: The Magna Carta – The Great Charter of Freedoms (1215AD)2025-11-25T17:28:13+13:00
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