Love in a Dangerous Time

Aug 06 2018 160

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Russ Jennings has a background in radio and in religious activity. For fourteen years, he hosted a program of avant-garde music on KPFA in Berkeley, CA. In 2004, he produced a 22-week radio series with defrocked Catholic theologian, Matthew Fox. His occasional series, "Days of Wonder," on Judaism's and Islam's mystical holidays was launched in 2005 and episodes are still presented on community radio stations around the country as these holidays roll by. Since his arrival in New York, in 2007, he has led a four-year bible study program at The Riverside Church, where he also serves as the chair of the Israel/Palestine Task Force. He now serves on the advisory board of the Micah Institute and is part of the creative team at the Wild Goose Festival.

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WE ARE ONE: Sunita Visnwanath [LDT107]

Aug 06 2018 47 mins

My guest is Sunita Viswanath. She is a life-long organizer and activist, a founder of a nation-wide activist organization, and a Hindu. In New York City, you’ll always see Sunita in the demonstrations for immigration right’s, Black Lives Matter, & against climate change. And she is also a member of the Strategy Team for the Micah Institute (a multi-faith justice coalition).

LDT106 - Nichola Torbette

Jul 30 2018 48 mins

——————————————————– A month ago, I was in the San Francisco Bay Area for my sort-of-annual visit to the place where I lived for 37 years, to connect with lots of old friends. As usual, I attended the church where I had been a member for a long time before leaving for Ne

ZERO TOLERANCE FOR RACIST CRUELTY!! – US Immigration System is Cruel and Immoral [LDT105]

Jun 25 2018 52 mins

—————————————————————————— All Rights for All, Without Boarders Last week, the Trump administration launched what they call a “deterrents” program, on the Mexican board, of separating children from their families as they pro

THE SPIRIT of THE CITY – New York Faith Leaders Offer a Different View the City’s Priorities [LDT104]

Mar 08 2018 45 mins

It’s still pretty early in the year and all over the country we’re seeing mayors and governors (and even the president) deliver very official “State of” speeches that take a look at the accomplishments of the past year and spell out what the major tasks of the new year will be. Here in New York City, our mayor, Bill De Blasio, delivered his – progressive sounding �

REPAIR THE WORLD? REALLY! – A Talk With Jewish Activist, Diane Steinman [LDT103]

Feb 21 2018 40 mins

Have you ever felt that somehow you personally were responsible for repairing this crazy world we live it. That this world where kids are murdered in their school, where Nazis march around chanting hateful slogans, in this world where millions of refugees are refused help when they flee for their lives and the lives of their families, where armed representatives of the state are fr

WHY DOES A WHITE THEOLOGIAN HAVE TO COME TO AN AFRICAN COUNTRY TO TELL BLACK PEOPLE THAT GOD IS BLACK? – a talk with The Rev. Karyn Carlo, PhD, on her recent teaching stint in Liberia [LDT102]

Jan 23 2018 49 mins

I hope that everyone has listened, at least once, to last week’s program with historian and author, Dr. Nancy MacLean on her very important book, DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (episode 101). It’s a very scary book about the real world and I think it opens up a view to Christians as to what our “job” is in these dange

DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America – with historian Dr. Nancy MacLean [LDT101]

Jan 13 2018 66 mins

—————————————————— As you Lovers certainly know, this podcast is focused on the apparent crumbling of what we have called for the last few hundred years, The Church. Congregations are shrinking, the influence of churches is ebbing, and churches are being shut down. The church

THE POD FATHER, Tripp Fuller, Helps Russ Celebrate Love in a Dangerous Time’s 100th Episode [LDT100]

Dec 04 2017 56 mins

……. Russ talks with Tripp Fuller, host of Homebrewed Christianity, the podcast that started the whole progressive Christian podcast niche. His show is focused on real theology, and real theologians. What a way to celebrate the 100th episode of Love in a Dangerous Time? …….. Well, Lovers, we did it! This podcast has accomplished a huge milestone. This is the one hundredth ep

INTERFAITH IN THE CITY – with The Rev. Dr. Chloe Breyer, executive director of The Interfaith Center of New York. [LDT099]

Nov 28 2017 36 mins

Interfaith Work in New York, with The Rev. Dr. Chloe Bryer Hey, Lovers – This is Russ and I want to welcome you to Love in a Dangerous Time, where we look at The Church, and the profound changes it’s going through in these Dangerous Times. We’ve got a great program today, but first I want to give you a heads up that the next episode of Love in a Dangerous Time will be number

THAT’S HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN – Commemorating the Yahrzeit of Leonard Cohen with Dan Nadel & Shira Averbuch [LDT098]

Nov 07 2017 59 mins

…………………………… (Music sections have been re-edited) In the past many years, almost every recording artist has sung Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. It’s an extremely poetic look at the mess the world that resolves at the end into an affirmation of hope in spite of it all: …. And even though it all went wrong I’ll sta