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June 3 - Faith in Minnesota Politics - Secretary of State Mark Richie
This week we'll be airing part two of our three-part series on the interaction of faith and politics. We'll first talk with Brian Rusche of the Joint Religious Legislative Coalition about this past session of the Minnesota Legislature. We'll talk about what happened and what you should be aware of.
Then, we'll be speaking with Secretary of State Mark Richie about how faith affects his own politics and how it relates to the work he's doing as Secretary of State.
Click here to visit the website of the Joint Religious Legislative Coalition.
Click here to visit the website of Secretary of State Mark Richie.
May 27 - "Living Faith" - Dr. Curtiss DeYoung
Dr. Curtiss DeYoung recently published a book called "Living Faith: How Faith Inspires Social Justice." The following is a description of the book.
"What impels a Mohandas Gandhi or a Martin Luther King, Jr.? How does religious experience animate a lifetime of dedication and drive for social justice?
"In this instructive and inspiring account, Christian ethicist Curtiss DeYoung profiles three of the most dynamic and influential religious activists of the twentieth century: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Malcolm X, and Aung San Suu Kyi – each from a different generation, a different faith community, and a different continent. His portraits show how their mystic faith drove them to justice commitments and beyond customary boundaries between people from other traditions, countries, and ways of life.
"Living Faith is more than a set of inspiring portraits. It also powerfully analyzes how these figures – along with such other luminaries as Rigoberta Menchú, Nelson Mandela, Winona LaDuke, Fannie Lou Hamer, Elie Wiesel, Thich Nhat Hanh, and the Dalai Lama – shared a fiery core experience and common characteristics that empowered their lives and work."
Click here to see the book on Amazon.com!
May 20 - Sexual Misconduct in the Clergy - Nancy Biele
This week, we will be interviewing Nancy Biele, who is the Co-convener of the Committee to End Sexual Misconduct within the Religious Community. We will be talking about the current problems that the clergy faces and raise consciousness of what the committee is doing and how you can help.
The Committee to End Sexual Misconduct within the Religious Community is an inclusive, interdenominational committee within the Minnesota Council of Churches. The committee's mission as people of faith is to respond and advocate within religious institutions to end sexual exploitation both by intervention in current and past cases and by prevention of future cases.
The committee's role includes:
* raising consciousness within religious institutions;
* providing information and referral to meet the spiritual and psychological needs of victims; perpetrators and religious institutions;
* providing professional assistance in developing policies and procedures for addressing sexual exploitation within the religious community;
* serving as a consultative table for sharing that enhances each judicatory's response; and,
* providing educational opportunities for religious leaders, congregations and lay leaders.
For more information, visit the website of the Committee to End Sexual Misconduct within the Religious Community at http://www.mnchurches.org/cesm/index.html .
May 13 - Journey to the Holy Land - Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman & Rev Bruce Robbins
In early January, senior pastors from twelve downtown area churches and congregations traveled to Israel-Palestine to tour holy sites of Judaism, Islam and Christianity. This week on our show, we will be interviewing Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman of Temple Israel and Rev Bruce Robbins of the Hennepin Ave United Methodist Church, two of the participants of the journey. We'll talk with them on what they saw and how this affected their
faith.
Feel free to look at their blog to see more of their experiences!
Also take a look at Temple Israel and the Hennepin Ave United Methodist Church's Websites!
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May 6 —- The Northside Food Project —- Angela Dawson, Director
The Northside Food Project seeks to be a catalyst for resident empowerment for social, economic and nutritional improvement in the community. The Project's vision is evolving, but might be claimed to be something like, "to create a vibrant food advocacy organization that puts the residents of North Minneapolis at the center of their food system by educating, engaging and organizing the larger community around the economic, social and nutritional impact of our food choices."
Some programs of The Northside Food Project that will be discsused during the show include:
*Northside Cooperative Development Initiative
*Community Supported Agriculture (including Farmer's Markets)
*Nutrition education and outreach (in partnership with MNA and others)
*Northside Food Summit (a community food conference)
*Farm-to-School Programs
*Northside Youth Food Movement (in partnership with MASK)