« Caddis Worm Art | Main | PlaNetwork Journal » Through the Stained Glass: Religion and the Media I'll be leading a couple of new media workshops (focusing on social software) at the Texas Freedom Network's conference, "Through the Stained Glass: Religion and the Media" next month. "As the political impact of religion grows, religious perspectives grounded in compassion are losing ground to extremist voices like the fundamentalist Christian right. Religion and the Media will equip you with practical, hands-on tools to expose this bias, interpret coverage and impact the media." Other presenters include Helen Thomas of the White House Press Corps, Dr. Stewart Hoover, author of Religion in the Media Age, John Moyers of TomPaine.com, and James Moore, co-author of Bush's Brain. The conference is August 16-17 in Austin. jon posted this at 12:33 PM |
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Jon,
Thought your readers might be interested in checking out
http://www.FaithfulAmerica.org which (according to it's own words) is an online community for people of faith who want to build a more just and compassionate nation.
It is a new voice that rejects both the fundamentalism of the right and the secularism of the left. It is a community for people whose faith inspires them to alleviate human suffering rather than to cast the first stone.
FaithfulAmerica.org decries a go-it-alone culture that has reduced our politics to selfishness and fear. Drawing on America's founding values and the profound social justice message at the heart of every major religion, FaithfulAmerica.org will meet this challenge by promoting human equality and dignity, peace and inclusion, stewardship of the earth, and honest political and religious debate.
FaithfulAmerica.org provides one-click opportunities to impact current political issues and shift the terms of public debate.
It aspires to be an online wing of a powerful, new progressive faith movement, like the ones that fought for independence, abolition and civil rights.
Posted by: Bobby Lilly | July 23, 2004 2:26 PM
You have to wonder about a conference on "Religion and the Media" that is sponsored by Planned Parenthood. Didn't know they were a "religious" organization. I noticed that there is a session on "How Would Jesus Vote?" Seems that the speakers scheduled for that session wouldn't have the credentials to answer the question. They seem to be qualified as media professionals, not spiritual leaders.
There seems to a lot of "complaining" in the conference materials about the vastness of the "fundamentalist, extremist, right-wing conservative Christian" media reach to millions through the thousands of radio and TV stations they own. Uh, wouldn't that mean that that voice IS the "mainstream" of religious views and these splinter groups of para-religions are "out of the mainstream"?
Posted by: JB | July 23, 2004 5:32 PM