Year 4, Episode 4

"Bless us with discomfort – at the easy, simplistic 'answers' we’ve preferred to hear from our politicians, instead of the truth, about ourselves and the world, which we need to face if we are going to rise to the challenges of the future."

~Gene Robinson at opening inaugural event

News & Discussion Topics:

• Gene Robinson's Prayer (more info)
• Warren and Non-Christians (more info)
• Obama Uses Lincoln's Bible (more info)
• Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (more info)
• Rabbis Pull Out of Catholic Celebration (more info)
  

Music:

• Pride - U2
• Lincoln and Liberty
• Sufis Whirl - Kirtana
  

Upcoming Local Event: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in Carbondale, 4 p.m. Sunday Jan. 25 at Walnut Street Baptist (hosted by the Korean Vision Christian Church)

Faithfully Subversive January 1, 2009

Year 4, Episode 1

"Often when we mix science with religion in this kind of forum, it can upset people. In this case, I think this could serve to reinforce people's faith."

~Australian astronomer Dave Reneke, who charted the appearance of the "Christmas star."

News & Discussion Topics:

• Top 10 Religious News Stories of 2008 (more info)
  
• Jesus Born in June', Astronomers Claim (more info)
  
• The Wisemen As Guides to Interfaith Peace (more info)
  

Music:

• The State That I Am - Belle & Sebastian
  
• We Three Kings - Billy Corgan, Emilie Autumn & Dennis DeYoung
  
• Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon
  

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

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