Faithfully Subversive December 25, 2008

Year 3, Episode 52

When I attempt to picture the incarnation , I envision Jesus as an old black Latina woman with AIDS. Why? The most disdained by society is the form the Deity takes. Because of racism, sexism, ageism and society's fear of AIDS, such a person is normatively avoided, ignored and shunned. Yet in Matthew Jesus says that he is just that person: "Truly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of these, the least of my people, you did it to me."

~Reading the Bible from the Margins

News & Discussion Topics:

Christmas greetings from Faithfully Subversives co-hosts, past and present.

Music:

• Love Came Down at Christmas - Jars of Clay
  
• The Christians and the Pagans - Dar Williams
  
• The Gift of Love - Chaz Rough
• Go Tell it on the Mountain Medley - Jewel
• The Gift of Sacrifice - Maren Ord
  

Faithfully Subversive December 18, 2008

Year 3, Episode 51

News & Discussion Topics:

• NAE Rep Supports Civil Unions, Resigns (more info)
  
• Rick Warren to Give Inaugural Invocation (more info)
  
• Obama and Southern Decadence (more info)
  
• Christian License Plates (more info)
• GPS for Baby Jesus (more info)
• Merry Christmas, Turn Yourself In (more info)
• Kitchmas (more info)
  

Music:

• Wonderful Christmastime - Barenaked Ladies
  
• Elf's Lament - Barenaked Ladies
  
• Christmastime is Here -Richard Cheese
  

Upcoming Local Event: Food Drive for Equality ends this Saturday. Drop off donations at the WDBX studio on Washington street, or bring them to the Light Up the Night for Equal Rights event at 5 pm. (more info)

Faithfully Subversive December 11, 2008

Year 3, Episode 50

"Ozzie and Harriet are nowhere in the New Testament either. The biblical Jesus was—in spite of recent efforts of novelists to paint him otherwise—emphatically unmarried. He preached a radical kind of family, a caring community of believers, whose bond in God superseded all blood ties."

~Lisa Miller, in her Newsweek cover story

News & Discussion Topics:

• Pope on the Church as a Body (more info)
  
• Prop 8 the Musical (more info)
  
• Religious Case for Gay Marriage (more info)
• Pink Christmas (more info)

Music:

• Hands (Christmas Version) - Jewel
  
• Don't Tell Me Who to Love - Ray Boltz
  
• Get Behind Me Santa - Sufjan Stevens
  

Upcoming Local Event: The National Food Drive for Equality will end on December 20 at 6 pm during Light Up the Night for Equal Rights. (more info)

Faithfully Subversive December 4, 2008

Year 3, Episode 49

"There is a violence in not being able to live your life, and whether you are ever actually struck by someone is not the only issue. Anything that pushed you toward being less than human, anything that tells you you are not a part of the human family, is a violent act."

~Kathleen Sadaat

News & Discussion Topics:

• 20th World AIDS Day (more info)
• God and Homeland Security (more info)
• Churches Speak Out on Immigration Raids (more info)
• Religious Groups Challenge Prop 8 (more info)
• Conservatives Split Anglican Church (more info)
• NCC Christmas Eve TV Special (more info)
  

Music:

• The Body of Christ has AIDS - Marsha Stevens
  
• Carlsbad Canyon - Jerry Leggett
  
• Sister Winter - Sufjan Stevens