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

Faithfully Subversive November 20, 2008

Year 3, Episode 47

"We share a common global destiny: Either we live together in peace or we perish. War is never inevitable and it piles up ruins even in the hearts of winners."

~International Meeting of Prayer for Peace

News & Discussion Topics:

• Religions Seek Peace (more info)
• Virgin Mary Stolen... (more info)
• ...and Returned (more info)
• Obama and Orthodoxy (more info)
• Christmas Offensive Retailers (more info)
• Southern Illinois Christmas (more info)
• CompassionArt Music (more info)
  

Music:

• None
  

Upcoming Local Events: Southern Illinois Christmastime

Faithfully Subversive November 13, 2008

Year 3, Episode 46

"Freedom of religion cannot be achieved without freedom of speech, even if it is sometimes used to express derision."

~former French Prime Minister Alain Juppé

News & Discussion Topics:

• UN Interfaith Dialogue (more info)
  
• New Monument Battle Reaches Supreme Court (more info)
  
• Prop 8 Constitutionality (more info)
• Cross-bearing elderly woman attacked (more info)
  

Music:

• God's Children - The Kinks
  
• The Beatitudes - From the film "Jesus of Nazareth"
  
• A Love This True - Jamie Anderson
  

Upcoming Local Events:

PROP 8 "JOIN THE IMPACT" EVENT, Saturday, Nov. 15. Details

FALL FOOD AND FOLK FESTIVAL, Unitarian Fellowship, Saturday, Nov. 15. Chili Cook-off, 5:30-7. Folk concert by February Sky and The Parsley and Sagebrush Band from 7-10:00 p.m. Concert cost is $10. Proceeds will benefit Ranchhod Hospice and Orphan Care Center, Zambia.

FEEDING MINDS, FIGHTING HUNGER WEEK, Nov. 16-21, several events throughout week including talk by Art Simon, Founder of Bread for the World, at Student Center on Wed. Nov. 19, 7 p.m. Complete schedule available at SIUC Student Development and the Interfaith Center.

CARBONDALE IN THANKSGIVING, Tues., Nov. 18, 1st Presb. Church, 7 p.m. Sam Goldman speaking

Faithfully Subversive November 6, 2008

Year 3, Episode 45

News & Discussion Topics:

• Obama Victory
  
• Breakdown of Religious Vote (more info)
  
• Anti-Gay and Anti-Choice Propositions
  
• Muslim Prejudice in the Election

Music:

• Hail to the Chief
  
• "New Kicks"- La Tigre
  
• "When You Believe" -"Prince of Egypt" Soundtrack
  

Faithfully Subversive October 30, 2008

Year 3, Episode 44

News & Discussion Topics:

• The Ex-Gay Movement (more info)
  

Music:

• Philosophy of Loss - Indigo Girls
  

Faithfully Subversive October 23, 2008

Year 3, Episode 43

News & Discussion Topics:

• Theology with the Beatles and U2 (more info)
  
• Obama's "Socialism" (more info)
  

Music:

• Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2
• Revolution - The Beatles
• All You Need is Love - The Beatles
• Pride - U2
  

Upcoming Local Event: The Take Back the Night march is on Friday, 7 pm, starts at the Interfaith Center.

Faithfully Subversive October 16, 2008

Year 3, Episode 42

News & Discussion Topics:

• Pope's Bible Reading Marathon (more info)
  
• Jews for Obama (more info)
  
• Movie Review: Religulous (more info)
  

Music:

• Shaday - Ofra Haza
  
• Through Heaven's Eyes - Prince of Egypt Soundtrack
  
• If God Only Knew - Deidre McCalla
  

Upcoming Local Event: Information

Faithfully Subversive Oct. 9, 2008

Year 3, Episode 41

"Persecution of gays will stop only if Iraqis can abandon centuries-old prejudices. They would have to acknowledge that human rights don't cover only the humans they like. Insisting that gays are just a few undesirable perverts who 'should be killed'--as one Iraqi who works in journalism put it--encourages an atmosphere of impunity no matter the offense. Killing gays becomes 'honorable.' And raping them is OK because it isn't considered a homosexual act--only being penetrated or providing oral sex is."

~"Don't Ask, Do Kill" - Newsweek 8/26/08

News & Discussion Topics:

• GLBT History Month at SIU (more info)
  
• Scripture on Homosexuality (more info)
• GLBT Invisibility
  
• Camp to "Cure" Homosexuality (more info)
  
• Gays in Iraq (more info)
• The Dangers of Theocracy (more info)

Music:

• Humble Me - Norah Jones
  
• Now that I Know -Devendra Banhart
  

Upcoming Local Event: "For the Bible Tells Me So," 6p.m. Oct. 10, SIUC Student Center, Kaskaskia Room

A compassionate and insightful documentary about the contemporary face of an old conflict between Christian fundamentalists and gay and lesbian people. The film looks deep into the hearts of several families--a few of them quite famous--that have struggled with making sense of having a homosexual son or daughter in the fold. At the same time, "For the Bible Tells Me So" is a deconstruction of thin arguments that the Bible actually condemns homosexuality in a few passages and through the story of Sodom and Gomorrah's destruction. Sponsored by the University Christian Ministries RSO (ucm@siu.edu)