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San Jose, California, USA. URI member Rowan Fairgrove has begun a podcast (an internet radio show) called "Interfaith Today" to showcase the stories of the Interfaith Movement.
Rowan sees that there is wonderful, life-affirming work being done in the interfaith context which is under-reported by the mainstream media. (We heartily agree!) She hopes to create a forum where these stories of hope and cooperation can be shared more broadly. She is is supported and encouraged in this venture by her cohorts in The Bridge CC.
In the first episode, Rowan expresses her call to interfaith work, and includes a reading of the Global Ethic.
In the second episode, she features a talk called "URI's Vision" given by the Reverend Canon Charles Gibbs at the joint North American Interfaith Network NAINconnect and URI North American Summit in August 2005.
Recently Rowan interviewed several URI Global Trusees, and is featuring them as well. The first segment of these interviews features an interview of Elana Rosenman, a Multiregion trustee from Jeruselem who started the Women's Interfaith Encounter CC after her son was injured in a suicide bombing, Kathy Sandoval, a trustee from North America, and a member of the Juaneno Band of Mission Indians - Acjachemen Nation, and Andre Porto, URI's Latin America Regional Coordinator, speaking about his work with URI and Viva Rio in Brazil. "I did ten interviews in all with URI trustees and Regional Coordinators who were here in Menlo Park for the Global Council, and I expect to get further episodes out fairly quickly so you all can enjoy them," she says.
Show notes with links and information on what is contained in a particular episode can be found at http://www.interfaithtoday.org/.
The podcast itself is available by direct download at http://interfaithtoday.libsyn.com/ or via iTunes.
In the future Rowan will have interviews, listener emails to read, current events to report and much more. She invites your comments and stories.
About the bigger picture of interfaith podcasting, Rowan has recently written: "Having just gotten out an episode of Interfaith Today, it occurs to me to mention the interfaith/ religious podcasts to which I myself listen on a regular basis. All of them are public radio shows. As far as I know, I'm the only amateur interfaith podcaster."
Speaking of Faith <http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/> from American Public Media. Each show is an in-depth look at a topic. Recent shows have included a military chaplain talking about reintegration of veterans into the community, the late Jaroslav Pelikan talking about the Christian creeds and why people need creeds and a show on one family's struggle with their son's schizophrenia.
Interfaith Voices <http://www.interfaithradio.org/, (formerly called Faith Matters), is a magazine format show that talks about religion and the issues of the day. Recent shows have dealt with the Da Vinci Code controversy, Buddhism in America and an interview with Bishop Spong about the controversies in the Episcopal church.
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly <http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/>, a weekly PBS news format show on such matters. Recent shows have included discussion of illegal immigration, the story of a doctor who gave up his life in the city to treat the poor in Peru, and how some Christian groups are creating faith-based health care programs.
I find all of these, particularly Speaking of Faith because of its in-depth format, to be interesting and valuable discussions on religion in society.
Rowan Fairgrove
The podcast is available via iTunes or by direct download at <http://interfaithtoday.libsyn.com/>.
I post show notes for each episode at <http://www.interfaithtoday.org/>! See the show notes at http://www.interfaithtoday.org - the mp3 is available via itune or by direct download from http://interfaithtoday.libsyn.com/
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