Live Audio: Evolving Faith - Meaning, Ethics, and Ideas
Trent Gilliss, online editor
Listen here, live at 7 pm Central! (caveat: you probably won’t hear anything until 10 minutes prior to start time)!
Well, Krista’s in Chicago tonight — and she’ll be on the receiving end of the conversation this time.
Eboo Patel, founder of Interfaith Youth Core, will lead the discussion and will ask Krista about the surprises and discoveries she has made as religion has moved from the sidelines to the forefront of world affairs.
We’d love to hear your comments whether you were seated in the church or are listening from home or the office. Submit your comments here.
(photo: Kate Moos)
Krista on the Airwaves, via Online Streaming
Colleen Scheck, Producer
Our hard-working host is traveling this week for speeches she has given in both Salt Lake City, Utah and Fort Collins, Colorado. As part of these trips, she’s done interviews with a few local public radio programs. What I enjoy about listening to these interviews is hearing Krista talk about the history of Speaking of Faith, the approach and scope of the program, and her thoughts on a range of religious and ethical issues. While these are things I’ve heard her say before, each time I hear them anew I am inspired about the work we do.
I recommend her interview with Doug Fabrizio on the KUER program “RadioWest.” They cover broad territory, including Krista’s thoughts on the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, how we handle negative reaction to programs, the relationship between science and religion, perspective on Islam in light of the Fort Hood tragedy, and Mormonism (of course, it’s Salt Lake City!) — and, it includes questions from callers.
Live Video: Religious Life in the Obama Era
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor
Update: The streaming embed box has been replaced with the recorded versions of the interview, broken into two parts.
This is the place where we are streaming real-time video of Krista and Joshua DuBois’ conversation on Wednesday, May 20th. We’ll begin streaming at 6:45 pm CST with pre-show music through the instrumentation of guitar, oud, and violin. The conversation begins at 7:00.
Their conversation will focus on the changing face of religion in public life in the era of the Obama administration and the perspective DuBois brings through his new role as head of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
A Q+A session, moderated by Larry Jacobs of the University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute, will follow the conversation. The evening will begin with pre-show music of Robert Bell and David Stenshoel, providing some European/American influenced jazz through the instrumentation of guitar, oud, and violin.
Help us cover this event. Whether you live in the Twin Cities metro area or on another continent, you can participate by:
- Watching and Commenting. Submit your questions here, and we’ll ask them during the Q+A session.
- Twittering the Conversation. Respond to Krista or Dubois’ points with a tweet — or ask a question. We’ll feature your tweets on our Web site. The hashtag is #sofevent.
- Participating in a Salon. We’re selecting eight people to be part of a roundtable discussion with Krista and DuBois the next morning. If you live in the metro area, let us know if you’re interested. If you live elsewhere, we’ll inform you on how you can take part in the discussion through our live video feed.
Sign up and share your ideas with us!
ABOUT THE GUEST
Joshua DuBois heads the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The former associate pastor, advisor to President Obama, and Obama’s campaign Director of Religious Affairs, DuBois is charged with bringing people together around common goals regardless of political affiliation. DuBois received his undergraduate degree in political science from Boston University in 2003 and a master’s in public affairs from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. He suspended his pursuit of a J.D. at the Georgetown University Law Center to join Obama’s campaign.
ABOUT THE EVENT
Religious Life in the Obama Era: A Conversation with Joshua DuBois is Wednesday, May 20th at the historic Fitzgerald Theater at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $20 for the general public and $18 for MPR members. All seats are reserved seating. For tickets, please call the box office at 651-290-1221. This event is being recorded for national broadcast. Broadcast date, May 28, 2009.
The President’s Community-Building Initiative, and Your Role in It
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor
This video from The Washington Post features Joshua DuBois talking about the four strategic areas that President Obama’s Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships is focusing on: connecting community organizations as part of the president’s economic recovery plan, encouraging fathers to be active parents, reducing unintended pregnancies, and interfaith dialogue. Large objectives, to be sure.
If you haven’t heard by now due to my barrage of communications, Krista will be interviewing DuBois next week. It’s a live event — online and on the stage. We’re doing all we can to make sure you can take an active role in listening to and asking questions of this national leader. Sign up and we’ll send you all the details and reminders about how to watch the free, live video stream on our Web site (or embed it on your own), ask questions while the interview is happening, and even participate in the SOF Salon the following day.
From the Background to the Stage
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor
In the photo above, President Obama signs the proclamation marking May 7, 2009 as the National Day of Prayer. In the background: Joshua DuBois, director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. If you haven’t heard, Krista will be interviewing DuBois for a live, public event at the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul on May 20th (get the details here). But, just because you don’t live in Minnesota doesn’t mean you can’t attend and participate in the event!
We’ve opened up our production process (Krista’s unedited interviews, video of editorial sessions, blogs, First Person projects), but I’ve been remiss about not being able to share live events in real time — to share the magical energy of an event as it happens. We experimented with streaming video, unadvertised, with the Jean Vanier interview; it worked. We streamed Krista’s virtual conference with a class at American University; it worked. Then our connection flopped during the Brooks-Dionne event at Georgetown.
But, this time we’re in our environs. All the connections and pipes can be checked and double-checked. So we’re pushing forward with real-time video of Krista and DuBois’ conversation on our Web site (or embed it on your own blog). But, we need your participation to consider this a success. Ask questions and make comments as it happens, and I’ll make sure they get into the hands of our producers for consideration. Some will be asked by Krista on stage, crediting you. Or simply talk about it on Twitter (#sofevent) about ideas or points that you find interesting.
Please welcome others in your communities to attend. If you need any materials (posters, graphics, URLs, etc.), please let us know. Drop us a line. And, if you live in the Twin Cities metro area, we’re still looking for attendees for our salon with Krista the morning after!
(photo: Pete Souza/White House)
Krista Speaks, Kate Tweets (from Cleveland)
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor
Our host and managing producer are on the road again — this time at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Cleveland for a partnered event with WKSU. And, with her fully-charged iPhone in hand, Kate picked up where she left off in Miami and established herself as the live event Twitter aficionado for SOF (follow us @SOFtweets). Here’s the transcript from last night’s Twitterstream:
KM: On the ground Cleveland. How can how we converse with each other & listen affect outcomes in our hurting cities?
9:02 PM Apr 28thGray day in Cleveland. http://twitpic.com/47lyd Tonight at Trinity Cathedral here Krista will talk about what faith brings to the struggle.
about 16 hours agoKMoos for SoFTweets. Krista presents tonight at Cleveland Trinity Cathedral. Thanks to Very Reverend Tracey Lind. Live tweets at 7:30 EDT.
about 8 hours agoKM here @Trinity. Standing by. http://twitpic.com/48q3i
about 6 hours agoKrista about to begin. Standby.
about 6 hours agoJon Kabat Zinn cautioned against technology. KT sez “I’m wearing a lot of it tonight.” (laughter)
about 6 hours agoKT:Early days of show, could it be true public radio listeners like the rest of the world cared about religion?
about 6 hours agoKrista quoted Peter Berger: Religion is a private matter that shld be kept between consenting adults.
about 6 hours agoTracey, the Dean, brings Krista to the assembled. http://twitpic.com/48rg6
about 6 hours agoThat last was a nonconsecutive tweet. Just checking to see if y’all are paying attention.
about 6 hours agoA car alarm right outside that had been blaring for the first fiveminutes is silenced. KT sighs gratefully and thanks the silence. Laughs.
about 6 hours agoSchizoid tweets: I am retweetimg me tweeting as SoF. Krista sez ask yrself a big question & answer it thru the story of your life.
about 6 hours agoTweeps if you have any questions for Krista send them now and I’ll see if there is room to fit them in.
about 6 hours ago@brainwise Thanks! You are paying attention! Gold star!
about 6 hours agoThere at least 400 people here. I’ll get a shot for you in a moment. Beeeoooteefull space. Built when Cleveland had streets of gold.
about 6 hours agoHard to capture a decent angle. http://twitpic.com/48tl2
about 6 hours agoImportance of being in relationship to engage our pain and our fear so that we can make something happen. Rough paraphrase of David Hilfiker
about 6 hours agoRobi Damelin Palestinian whose brother was shot by a sniper is quoted saying “There is a difference between being honest and being right.”
about 5 hours agoSearching for solutions we can’t yet see. Now KT taking questions.
about 5 hours agoKrista of course immediately mentions Battlestar Gallactica first chance she gets.
about 5 hours agoFavorite guests? List includes Thick Nhat Hanh, Wangari Maathai, and Jean Vanier.
about 5 hours agoQuestion about social networks gets mention of our “briliant” online editor Trent Gilliss who is from North Dakota! Bwah!
about 5 hours ago@MarcoAnders So glad you enjoyed it!
about 5 hours agoWhat questions should we ask now in econ crisis? KT sez: Who will we be to each other now?
about 5 hours agoSoF does immense amount of research to locate the right voice.
about 5 hours agoIf someone is going to be inflammatory there are a lot of shows they can be on. (Big laughter.)
about 5 hours ago@lance_agena I haven’t caved yet but it’s only a matter of time.
about 5 hours agoIs your work Tikkun Olan? KT: I’m a journalist. We’re not holding an agenda. But the show has a large impact.
about 5 hours agoWe forgive our children 400 times a day, brain science tells us it’s something our brains evolved to do. Praphraseof Mike McCullough.
about 5 hours agoBig applause let the balloons go bring out the clowns and the elephants and thanks to everyone that’s our show from Cleveland. Good night!
about 5 hours agoAutographing books. http://twitpic.com/48x8j
about 5 hours ago
Krista’s next event is a barn burner — a live conversation with Joshua DuBois, Obama’s head of faith-based initiatives, from the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown Saint Paul. We’ll be streaming live video and asking you to watch and comment and tweet about it. Tell us if you’d like to participate and we’ll send you reminders and details as the time nears. If you’d like to just watch, that’s groovy too!
Cleveland Twitterstream
For you Twitterbugs out there, Kate is now tweeting Krista’s speech at Cleveland Trinity Cathedral. /@trentgilliss
Twittering Krista in Miami
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor
Over these past five years, I’ve been utterly charmed with the effort that’s put into producing a weekly national program. We’ve been making great commitments to reveal this part of the process through releasing Krista’s unedited interviews, videotaping editorial sessions and face-to-face interviews, and blogging about the correspondence we have among our staff and the ideas that inform our roles.
But, commitments require Krista (and sometimes staff) to speak at public and private events — ranging from speaking engagements at our funders’ board meetings to lectures at local public radio stations’ fundraising events. These forums can be quite inspirational and enlightening, revealing another aspect of Speaking of Faith’s mission to reach larger and more varied audiences.
My goal is to share more of this side of Krista and Speaking of Faith with you. One way to do this: put our managing producer’s iPhone to work. A savvy news person, to be sure, Kate’s also a poet and quite a wit — an exquisite match for Twitter (follow us @SOFtweets). She acceded to my request and so began the experimentation while Krista, at the invite of WLRN, spoke at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Miami:
I’ll be retweeting our managing producer’s Twitter fiesta from Krista’s event at Trinity in Miami tonight. Doing some catch-up now.
7:19 PM Apr 23rd from webRT @katemoos In the Green Room eating Sun Chips. That is not a product placement. http://twitpic.com/3uw9v
7:20 PM Apr 23rd from webRT @katemoos Miamians v. friendly plus equip seems to work. Winning combination! Plus warm here.
7:20 PM Apr 23rd from webRT @katemoos Am told Miami audinces come late. Don’t fret. I’ll manage my little punctual problem. Cuticles. Joke.
7:20 PM Apr 23rd from webRT @katemoos Krista and Mabel. Mabel makes everything work. http://twitpic.com/3uy30
7:21 PM Apr 23rd from webRT our senior producer @mitchhanley @katemoos Glad to hear the equipment is working. How’s the turnout?
7:22 PM Apr 23rd from webRT @katemoos @mitchhanley Little hard to say but 400?
7:22 PM Apr 23rd from webRT @katemoos Krista sites Parker Palmer. To let the soul speak one must create quiet, trustworthy spaces.
7:23 PM Apr 23rd from webRT @katemoos @mitchhanley Sorry that was a typo. 300?
7:23 PM Apr 23rd from webRT @katemoos I am a drop in the ocean. But I am also the ocean. Larry Ward
7:24 PM Apr 23rd from web@katemoos is on a roll. She was hesitant to commit to too much for Krista’s event tonight. Parker Palmer, Larry Ward, and Sun Chips Kate? :)
7:26 PM Apr 23rd from webRT-1 @katemoos questioner here asks Krista to account for that Scottish singer.
7:28 PM Apr 23rd from webRT-2 @katemoos KT’s theory on that is short. But she applauds intimacy of radio. Sound.
7:28 PM Apr 23rd from webRT @katemoos Iphone battery death! GBye dear Tweets! From Miami, Katy Lou signing off.
7:31 PM Apr 23rd from webOh no! @katemoos is down. Any stealth twitter junkies in the Cathedral?!
7:32 PM Apr 23rd from web@lance_agena Oh, back-ups, back-ups, back-ups. We always prepare for Krista but how about behind the curtains. I will or I’ll retweet if so.
7:38 PM Apr 23rd from web in reply to lance_agenaOne final RT from our dear @katemoos: BTW anyone calls me KatyLou and I will find you and make you pay. Finito!
7:39 PM Apr 23rd from web
Well, we’ll be doing more of our regular twitter conversation. Next week Krista speaks in Cleveland, using her new format.
7:42 PM Apr 23rd from webWe’ll be sure to have @katemoos working the scene and we’ll give you a heads-up.
7:53 PM Apr 23rd from webAnd, if you haven’t heard, Krista has a live public event on May 20th with Obama’s head of faith-based initiatives, Joshua DuBois!
7:56 PM Apr 23rd from web
Kate will be tweeting from Cleveland this Thursday and we’ll be doing more of these in the coming weeks — including Krista’s live conversation with Joshua DuBois, Obama’s head of faith-based initiatives — so please give us your feedback. We’re still finding our voice(s) and style for this format.
