Faithfully Subversive August 28, 2008

Year 3, Episode 35

"From every mountainside, let freedom ring. And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

~Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have A Dream"

News & Discussion Topics:

• Encountering Spirit in Nature
  
• Forty-Fifth Anniversary of "I Have A Dream" Speech (listen here)

Music:

• A Raga Suite to Sri Guru - Best of India
  
• Improvisations for Table and Vamsa - Best of India
  
• Serve Your Soul - Ben Harper
• Better Way - Ben Harper

Faithfully Subversive August 21, 2008

Year 3, Episode 34

"What would have happened to Thomas Jefferson if he had responded as he wrote in 1781: 'It does me no injury for my neighbor to say that there are 20 gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.'... By today's new standard of pulpits in the public square, Jefferson—the great advocate for religious freedom in America—would have lost."

~Kathleen Parker on Obama and McCain's appearance at Saddleback

News & Discussion Topics:

• Candidate Religious Test? (more info)
  
• Megachurches (more info)
  
• Doctors Cannot Discriminate Against Patients (more info)
• Conservative Argument for Non-Discrimination (more info)
  

Music:

• Abraham, Martin, & John
  
• Philosophy of Loss - Indigo Girls
  

Faithfully Subversive August 14, 2008

Year 3, Episode 33

"Everyday, faith organizations serve individuals in need within our communities. But our efforts to sustain our brothers and sisters living in poverty must be complemented with a serious plan from our political leaders to reduce the number of needy."

~ Letter from religious leaders to the nominating conventions

News & Discussion Topics:

• Obama is the Antichrist? (more info)
  
• Obama and McCain at Warren's Church (more info)
  
• Silly Pelosi, Jesus Already Saved the Planet! (more info)
• Focus on the Family Prays for Rain (more info)
• Religious Leaders Call for Focus on Poverty (more info)
  

Music:

• If God Only Knew - Deidre McCalla
  
• Planet Called Home - Holly Near
  
• Singing in the Rain - Gene Kelly
• Dancin' in the Rain - Nicole C. Mullen
  

Faithfully Subversive - August 7, 2008

Year 3, Episode 32

News & Discussion Topics:

• Religion rivaled race, gender coverage during primaries (more info)
  
• Obama's spiritual journey (more info)
  
• So long Heather of Honky Tonk Jukebox - Good Luck in Nashville!

Music:

• Grow - JJ Heller 
  
• The Space Between Living & Dying - Jeremy Casella
  

Upcoming Local Event:  Rock Out for Rosie benefit concert, August 9, Hanger 9.

Faithfully Subversive July 17, 2008

Year 3, Episode 29

"I haven't got any sort of dream of a physical heaven where there's lots of chocolate and pretty women in nightgowns, playing harps. I believe you can make heaven within your own mind. The kingdom of heaven is within you, Christ said, and I believe that."

~ John Lennon, in a 1969 interview broadcast for the first time this week. 

News & Discussion Topics:

• John Lennon's progressive Christian views unearthed (more info)
  
• British Invasion: Brit artists with spiritual lyrics
• Jesus Sightings (in Spimoni ice cream and on utility pole)
  
• Mormon shirtless calendar flap (more info)

Music:

• Imagine - John Lennon
  
• Eleanor Rigby - Beatles
  
• Viva La Vida - Coldplay
• Alas I Cannot Swim - Laura Marling
• Nowhere Man - Beatles
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Upcoming Local Event: Rock Out for Rosie benefit concert, August 9, Hanger 9.

Faithfully Subversive July 10, 2008

Year 3, Episode 28

News & Discussion Topics:

• 2 Steps Forward for the Presbies (more info)
  
• Reach Out to Rosie (more info)
  

Music:

• Sweet Religion - Imogen Heap
  
• Born Secular - Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins
  
• Maybe There's a Loving God - Sara Groves
• Let the Mystery Be - Natalie Merchant
  

Upcoming Local Event: Rock Out for Rosie benefit concert, August 9, Hanger 9.

Faithfully Subversive July 3, 2008

Year 3, Episode 27

"The prophet Isaiah speaks for me in his call for all to come and reason together and also to seek justice, encourage the oppressed and to defend the cause of the vulnerable;

The book of Nehemiah speaks for me in its example to work with our neighbors, not against them, to restore what was broken in our communities;

The book of Matthew speaks for me in saying to bless those that curse you and pray for those who persecute you.."

~JamesDobsonDoesn'tSpeakForMe.com

News & Discussion Topics:

• Movie Review: Lars and the Real Girl - (video clip)
• Autistic Boy Kept Out of Church (more info)
• JamesDobsonDoesn'tSpeakForMe.com (more info)
• Anti-Torture Declaration (more info)
• The Golden Rule/Ethic of Reciprocity (more info)
  

Music:

• Flag Decal - John Prine
• Love Me - JJ Heller
• This Is My Song - Indigo Girls

Faithfully Subversive June 26, 2008

Prophetic Voices
Year 3, Episode 26

"Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!"~ George Carlin

News & Discussion Topics:

• A Tribute to George Carlin, 1937-2008 (See Carlin's Religion is Bullshit on YouTube or Read the text here.)
• Dobson vs. Obama (more info)
• Obama's Call to Renewal address on religion and politics (Read the speech here)
• Celebration of Marleen's first anniversary on Faithfully Subversive! Congratulations to me!
  

Music:

• Think About It - Flight of the Conchords
• Korean Dogwood - Devendra Banhart
• Ain't No Reason - Brett Dennen
• Lord Raise Me Up - Matisyahu
  

Upcoming Local Event:

"Black Gold" Big Muddy IMC Film & Discussion Series
7 p.m. Friday, June 27
214 N. Washington St., Carbondale

This documentary focuses on one of the causes of global poverty - the exploitation of cash crop producers in less developed nations, specifically coffee farmers. It chronicles the struggle of the manager of an Ethiopian coffee cooperative on a mission to get a fair price for his product and save his 74,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy.