Faithfully Subversive December 21, 2009

Year 4, Episode 50

"Rabbi Shimon ben Gamaliel, sent his servant to the market to buy some good food. The servant returned with tongue. Then he sent him to buy some bad food and again he returned with tongue. Rabbi Shimon asked, why when asked to bring 'good' and 'bad' food, he brought the same tongue? The servant replied: 'It is the source of good and evil. When it is good, there is nothing better, when it is bad there is nothing worse.'"

~Rabbi Robert H. Loewy,
regarding a Faith Statement on Public Discourse

News & Discussion Topics:

• Billboard of Joseph and Mary in Bed (more info)
  
• Mary as a Pro-Choice Figure (more info)
  
• Creche and Menorah Removed Due to Lack of Funds for Fight (more info)
• Oral Roberts Death (more info)
• Top Religion Stories of 2009 (more info)
• Protestant Clergy on Islam (more info)
• An Interfaith Statement on Public Discourse (more info)
• Religious Freedom Around the World (more info)
• Sex Offender Law Prevented Worship (more info)
  

Music:

• Give This Christmas Away - Amy Grant and Matthew West
• Put the Lights on the Tree - Sufjan Stevens
  
• Joseph and Mary's Boy - Alabama
• Holy War - Brooks & Dunn
• War is Over - John Lennon
• Sister Winter - Sufjan Stevens

Upcoming Local Events:

"In Respect of Sacred Space" observance in response to theft/vandalism of houses of worship throughout the region. Tuesday 12/22/2009, 5 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church in Carbondale

Carbondale Christmas Eve Services -
Church of the Good Shepherd (UCC) 5 pm
First Christian Church (DOC) 7 pm
Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship (UU) 7 pm
First Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) 7 pm
First United Methodist Church (UMC) 7 and 11 pm

Faithfully Subversive December 14, 2009

Year 4, Episode 49

Information about this show will be posted shortly.

Faithfully Subversive December 7, 2009

Year 4, Episode 48

"Each celebration has its own nuances and complexities, but each has a sense of joy and happiness. By recognizing that others are celebrating in their own way a season of joy needn’t take away from our own sense of celebration."

~Rev. Bob Cornwall re: the "War on Christmas"

News & Discussion Topics:

• Gays and Heaven - A Politician's View (more info)
  
• Gays and Heaven - A Cardinal's View (more info)
  
• Rick Warren and Ugandan Legislation (more info)
• Episcopalians Elect Lesbian Bishop (more info)
• MA Clergy and Same-Sex Marriage (more info)
• Gay Christmas Carols (more info)
• "Christmas Hater" Steals Kettle (more info)
• Immigrant Needs and the Salvation Army (more info)
• Do You Know Your Christmas Story? (more info)
• "War on Christmas" Commentary (more info)
• Church Pays Parking Tickets (more info)
  

Music:

• Coming Out at Christmas - London Gay Men's Chorus
• _______________ - Barenaked Ladies
  
• Joy - Billy Jonas
  

Faithfully Subversive November 30, 2009

Year 4, Episode 47

"The problem with seeking unity among religions is the risk of loss of the unique and precious character of each individual religious and spiritual tradition; this understanding is key to our framework. Interreligious harmony, on the other hand, is an attainable and highly desirable goal. Such an approach respects, and is enriched by, the particularities of each tradition. Moreover, within each tradition are the resources (philosophical, theological and spiritual teachings and perspectives) that enable each to enter into respectful, appreciative and cooperative relationships with persons and communities of other traditions."

~The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions

News & Discussion Topics:

• Start of Advent (more info)
  
• Church Apologizes to Native American Tribe (more info)
• The Parliament of the World's Religions (more info)
• Carbondale's Parliament Connections (more info)
  

Music:

• O Come O Come Emmanuel - Enya
• Drums - Johnny Cash
  
• Sufis Whirl - Kirtana
  
• The Christians and the Pagans - Dar Williams

Faithfully Subversive October 26, 2009

Year 4, Episode 42

"I will no longer seek to slow down the witness to inclusiveness by pretending that there is some middle ground between prejudice and oppression."

~Bishop Shelby Spong

News & Discussion Topics:

• Bribing People to Church? (more info)
  
• Vatican Embrace of [anti-gay, anti-woman] Anglicans (more info)
  
• Church of Sweden Blessing Same-Sex Marriages (more info)
• Spong Refuses to Debate Any Longer (more info)
• Buddhist Military Chapel (more info)
• Atheist Schisms (more info)
  
• Halloween Bible Burning (more info)
  

Music:

• Werewolf Bar Mitzvah - 30Rock and Tracy Jordan
• Re: Your Brains - Jonathan Coulton
• This is Halloween - Danny Elfman
• The Humans are Dead - Flight of the Conchords
• Grim Grinning Ghosts - Bare Naked Ladies

Faithfully Subversive October 19, 2009

Year 4, Episode 41

"Love in truth — caritas in veritate — is a great challenge for the Church in a world that is becoming progressively and pervasively globalized. The risk for our time is that the de facto interdependence of people and nations is not matched by ethical interaction of consciences and minds that would give rise to truly human development. "

~Pope Benedict XVI

News & Discussion Topics:

• Greed, the Economy & Religion (see event info below)
  
• Progressive Christian curriculum in the works (more info)
  
• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (more info)

Music:

• Rainbow - Jack Johnson
• You, Me & the Bourgeoisie - The Submarines
• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Paul Robeson
• Let My People Go - Paul Robeson
• What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

Upcoming Local Events:

- Greed, the Economy & Religion 2: Interfaith Dialogue, 7:30 p.m. Monday, October 19, 2009 - First Presbyterian Church (more info)

- Interfaith Human Rights Celebration: “God’s Wisdom Honors Children and Youth” 3:30-4:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25 , Carbondale Civic Center. Contact: 549-7193 (more info)

- Marion Blumenthal Lazan, Holocaust Survivor, will speak at the First Methodist Church, 214 W. Main, Carbondale, Tuesday, Oct 20 at 7 p.m. (more info)

- “Concert of Caring” featuring Elisabeth von Trapp, granddaughter of the famous Maria and Baron von Trapp whose story inspired The Sound of Music, 7 p.m. Sunday, October 25, Epiphany Lutheran Church in Carbondale. (more info)

- “Theology on Tap” 5 p.m. Tuesdays at Underground pub on the island. (more info)

Faithfully Subversive October 12, 2009

Year 4, Episode 40

News & Discussion Topics:

• Coming Out Day and National Equality March (more info)
  
• Media Representation of Church Support for Marriage Equality (more info)
  
• Local Community Radio Act (more info)
• Conservatives Rewriting the Bible (more info)
  

Music:

• All My Trials - Paul McCartney
  
• Out in the Open - Amy Grant
  
• Faggot - MeShell NdegeOcello
• Ain't Necessarily So - Marion Ross
• Follow Me - Bryan Sirchio

Faithfully Subversive Sept. 28, 2009

Year 4, Episode 39

"Almost every single family in that country (Iraq) has lost somebody, kidnapped or murdered. I've visited refugees in Jordan and Lebanon, and they're living on the edge in those places, really forgotten. We worked really hard to influence the administration to have an official response (to the persecution of religious minorities). Terrible things have happened to that population as a result of U.S. action. It wasn't the intent of the U.S. to do that, but the consequences nevertheless have fallen on these poor people. Therefore we have a moral responsibility to come to their assistance." 

~The Rev. Dr. Keith Roderick, who co-chaired the Coalition to Save Iraqi Christians

News & Discussion Topics:

     Our guest was the Rev. Dr. Keith Roderick. The new rector of St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Carbondale is also Secretary General of the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights and comes to us from his most recent post as the representative for Christian Solidarity International in Washington, D.C. Father Roderick discussed the Darfur genocide and Sudanese Civil War, the state of religious minorities in the Middle East, and the connection between religious persecution and torture. He offered some guidelines for ways the average person can help, such as petitioning legislators to take a stand, writing to those imprisoned, providing care packages for internally displaced people, and sponsoring a church or family in affected areas. To learn more, contact Fr. Roderick at the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights, cdhr@dhimmi.com or father.roderick@gmail.com, (618) 364-7102. St. Andrews Episcopal Church is at 402 W. Mill St.  

Music:

• Deliver Us - Prince of Egypt Soundtrack 
  
• If God Will Send His Angels - U2
  
• The Call - Regina Spektor 
  

Upcoming Local Event: “Torture & Accountability – Where Do We Go From Here?” Ralph Anderson Interfaith Dialogue, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5 at The View Baptist Church, 1201 S. Giant City Rd., Carbondale. Civil Rights attorney Richard Whitney will make the initial presentation with responses from the panel, the Rev. Sam Foskey representing Christianity, Imam Abdul Haqq representing Islam, and Steve Lowe representing Judaism. Comments and questions from the audience will be encouraged. The dialogues are sponsored by the Carbondale Interfaith Council. Everyone is welcome and attendance is free. Contact Ken Starbuck for more information: e-mail (cubrats@verizon.net) or phone 942-3986.