CrossLeft Podcast

Producer's note: A little experimentation this week: I've offered this week's podcast as an "enhanced podcast," which includes artwork and additional features when accessed through iTunes and/or an iPod. Please e-mail me at robbmoore@mac.com if you have trouble with this podcast and have not encountered difficulty with earlier CrossLeft podcasts. Thanks! Welcome to the podcast for the fourth week of January, 2006. This week, we have Jarrod Cochran as our featured speaker. A CrossLeft Leadership Team member, Jarrod is a speaker, writer, activist, and loving critic of the church. An ordained minister, he serves as an associate chaplain for a local Atlanta fire department, and a volunteer chaplain for an organization that helps the homeless and poverty-stricken. Jarrod is no stranger to controversy as he speaks boldly on a myriad of issues ranging from our responsibility to the poor and oppressed to the Christ-centered response to homosexuality. Jarrod is currently working on his first book entitled Letting the Air in: Opening the Door on Closed-Minded Christianity. Jarrod is involved with several faith-based organizations and groups that are concerned with bringing together faith and social change. Jarrod is a member of, and a listed speaker for, the organization Every Church a Peace Church and has also been contacted by minister and author Dr. Tony Campolo to be part of Progressive Evangelicalism, a developing organization that will offer fellow socially progressive believers a place at the table of the religious discussion in America. Jarrod lives in the metro area of Atlanta, Georgia along with his wife Erin. Our musician this week is a personal favorite, Kevin Kane, a folk singer/songwriter from New York City. “Gabrielle” will play in its entirety following our featured speaker, Jarrod Cochran. Many thanks again, to Jarrod Cochran for his words and to Kevin Kane for his terrific music. Remember you can find links to Jarrod’s blog and Kevin Kane (http://www.Kanesongs.com) in the shownotes on the crossleft homepage (www.crossleft.org) and our podcast host page at http://blogspot.crossleft.com. And please note that Kevin’s music is not covered by the creative commons license that covers the rest of this week’s podcast and Kevin’s song may not be shared beyond the purposes of listening to this podcast without direct permission from Kevin Kane. Except when otherwise noted, The CrossLeft weekly podcast is copyright by attribution- non-commercial- share alike license. You are free to use, copy, distribute, display and perform the works under the following conditions: • Attribution. You must give the original author credit. • Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. • Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the author. Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Go to Creative Commons Legal Code to read the full license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/legalcode

Welcome to the show for the second week of December, 2005. I’ve got a large file for you today, mainly because our featured speaker this week, the Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo, has graciously provided us with a wonderful interview that runs close to a half hour and I just didn’t have the heart to cut it into two parts. I think you’ll see what I mean. So, I’m going to put our regular musical feature on hold this week so you can hear the interview uninterrupted. Dr. DiNovo serves as the senior minister to the Emanuel Howard Park Church in Toronto and performed North America's first legalized same sex marriage in 2001. She’s just released her first book, "Qu(e)erying Evangelism" published by The Pilgrim Press out of Berkeley looking at Derrida, theology and the lived experience of her Church. Dr. DiNovo also hosts a nationally acclaimed radio show called The Radical Reverend available on the web at www.ciut.fm, Mondays EST between 4-5PM. You can find Dr. DiNovo on the web in several spots, but the best place to start is perhaps her personal website: http://www.cheridinovo.com. We also hope this podcast will serve as your introduction to Tapestry, an incredibly interesting CBC Radio one program. You can find tapestry at http://www.cbc.ca/tapestry. And so, this week, CrossLeft proudly presents, The Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo and Tapestry. The CrossLeft weekly podcast is copyright by attribution- non-commercial- share alike license. You are free to use, copy, distribute, display and perform the works under the following conditions: • Attribution. You must give the original author credit. • Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. • Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the author. Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Go to Creative Commons Legal Code to read the full license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/legalcode If you are a progressive Christian artist, minister or activist who’d like to be featured on the CrossLeft podcast, please e-mail me at robbmoore@mac.com. That’s Robb with 2b’s. We’d be happy to oblige!