Mon, 8 February 2010  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 2-7-10 "Religious Talk" radio program. The entire program was devoted to a critique of the federal faith-based program under President Obama. Comments[0] |
Sun, 10 January 2010  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 1-10-2010 "Religious Talk" radio interview with John Esposito, Professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. We talk about the film "Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think." Dr. Esposito is interviewed in the film. The film is currently being shown at colleges and universities across the U.S. The film will be shown at the University of Oklahoma at 7:00 PM on 1-23-10 at Meacham Auditorium. It will be followed by a panel discussion. Dr. Esposito will be one of the panelists. Comments[2] |
Mon, 4 January 2010  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 1-3-10 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. Robert Parham, Executive Director of the Baptist Center for Ethics. We talk about the premier of his documentary "Different Books, Common Word" that began airing on ABC-TV affiliate stations that day.Comments[3] |
Mon, 21 December 2009 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 12-20-2009 "Religious Talk" radio program. Dr. Prescott talks about "God's Enlightening Word" and read excerpts from Russell King's "It's Time to Put Christ back in Christmas."Comments[2] |
Sun, 8 November 2009  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 11-08-09 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Razi Hashmi, Executive Director of the Oklahoma Chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK). We talk about the reaction of the Muslim-American community to the recent shootings at Fort Hood.Comments[5] |
Fri, 9 October 2009  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 10-4-09 "Religious Talk" radio broadcast. I read and comment on Neal Gabler's outstanding Op-Ed on "Religion as Politics" and then talk about Baptists, Liberty of Conscience, and the need for a passionate progressive faith. |
Mon, 14 September 2009 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 9-13-09 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Nandu Dayanand, pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Hyderabad, India. We talk about the work his congregation is doing among the Banjara Gypsys, the Koya Tribe, the Kondadora people, and those infected with HIV/AIDS. We also talk about his relationship with Cooperative Baptist Fellowship churches in the United States. Comments[10] |
Mon, 27 July 2009  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 7-29-09 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. Cecil Sherman. We talk about his autobiography "By My Own Reckoning," about his pastorate in Ashville, N.C., about the takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention and the "peace committee" of the SBC, and about his work as the first Coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.Comments[9] |
Sun, 12 July 2009  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 7-12-09 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Melissa Rogers, Director of Wake Forest University School of Divinity Center for Religion and Public Affairs. We talk about the judicial record of Supreme Court nominee Sonya Sotomayor regarding church-state issues, about her work on President Obama's advisory council on Faith-based and Community Partnerships, and her work at Wake Forest University.Comments[9] |
Sun, 5 July 2009  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 7-5-09 "Religious Talk" radio program. As a corrective to Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern's "Proclamation for Theocracy" and Hobby Lobby's full-page newspaper advertisements for Christian Nationalism, Dr. Prescott recites James Madison's "Memorial and Remonstrance" in its entirety. Madison was the author of the U.S. Constitution and the author of the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment. His "Memorial and Remonstrance" (1785) is the definitive document for understanding the original intention of the framer of the U.S. Constitution regarding relations between church and state.Comments[6] |
Tue, 23 June 2009  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 6-21-09 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. Timothy Eaton, President of Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College in Moore, Oklahoma. We talk about the history of Free Will Baptists, about Hillsdale College, and about the New Baptist Covenant Regional meeting (NBCMW) that will be held in Norman, Oklahoma on August 6-7. Dr. Eaton will be a panelist discussing the documentary film "Beneath the Skin: Baptists and Racism" at the NBCMW meeting.Comments[8] |
Mon, 25 May 2009  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 5-24-09 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. Mike Pontious, Professor in the Department of Family and Preventative Medicine at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Program Director for OU/Enid Family Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association. We talk about proposals and possibilities for health care reform and the need for universal health-care coverage.Comments[9] |
Tue, 12 May 2009  Excerpts from Dr. Bruce Prescott's 6-4-2000 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Jim Wallis. We talk about his book Faith Works and about the need for a "living wage."Comments[7] |
Mon, 4 May 2009  Excerpts from Dr. Bruce Prescott's 9-2-02 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. Slayden Yarbrough, Retired Professor Emeritus of Religion from Oklahoma Baptist University. We talk about the restructuring of the Southern Baptist Convention and the elimination of the Southern Baptist Historical Commission, about the Baptist History and Heritage Society, about the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message and about Dr. Yarbrough's book Southern Baptists: A Historical, Ecclesiological, and Theological Heritage of a Confessional People. Comments[10] |
Sun, 19 April 2009  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 4-19-09 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Rev. Wade Burleson, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Enid, Oklahoma and author of "Hardball Religion: Feeling the Fury of Fundamentalism." We talk about Burleson's transition from being a trusted foot soldier in the post-1979 Southern Baptist Convention to being a dissident blogger against SBC fundamentalism. His blogging proved so controversial that he became the only Southern Baptist trustee to ever be "recommended for removal or officially censured." Despite that, Burleson and other dissident SBC bloggers were instrumental in electing Frank Page as President of the Southern Baptist Convention in 2006 and 2007.Comments[9] |
Mon, 30 March 2009  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 3-29-09 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. Bill Leonard, Dean of the School of Divinity at Wake Forest University. We talk about Wake Forest's Divinity School, about the New Baptist Covenant Southeast Region Meeting that will be held on April 24-25, and about trends and developments within American Christianity.Comments[6] |
Sun, 22 March 2009  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 3-22-09 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Kathryn Joyce, author of "Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement." This movement, with strong ties to the homeschool movement and to Christian Reconstructionism, takes a spectrum of extreme positions on patriarchal authority within the family and the subjugation of women in society. We talk about their opposition to contraception and touch on the influence this thought wields within the Southern Baptist Convention.Comments[10] |
Tue, 10 March 2009 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 3-8-09 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Joe Trull, Editor of Christian Ethics Today. We talk about the work of the Christian Ethics Today Foundation, about the work of the T.B. Maston Foundation, and about the influence of T.B. Maston. Comments[8] |
Mon, 2 March 2009  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 3-1-09 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Micheal Salem, Oklahoma's leading constitutional lawyer. We discuss the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in the Pleasant Grove City, Utah v. Summum decision. That decision declared that all monuments on government property represent government speech. We also discuss the relevance of this decision to the pending case before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the Ten Commandments monument on the courthouse lawn in Haskell County Oklahoma. We touch briefly on legislation before the legislature to erect a Ten Commandments monument at the Oklahoma state capitol. Comments[7] |
Mon, 23 February 2009 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 2-22-09 "Religious Talk" radio program. I discuss House Bill 1330 which proposes to authorize the erection of a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the State Capitol in Oklahoma. Dr. Prescott explains the religious and political significance of the various interpretations, divisions and numberings of the Ten Commandments. Comments[9] |
Mon, 16 February 2009  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 2-15-09 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Carolyn Crowder, public school teacher in Oklahoma who is President of the Oklahoma Education Association and a member of the National Executive Board of the National Education Association. We talk about the work of OEA/NEA and about the Educator-Clergy Conferences that they have been sponsoring.Comments[8] |
Mon, 9 February 2009 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 2-8-09 Religious Talk radio program. This week the world celebrates the 200 anniversay of the birth of Charles Darwin. Dr. Prescott participates in the Evolution Sunday emphasis taking place in churches around the world. Comments[11] |
Sun, 25 January 2009  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 1-25-09 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Brent Walker, Executive Director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. We talk about his critique of David Barton, about Christian Nationalism, and about the cynical use of religion by politicians and the manipulation of religion by political parties.Comments[5] |
Fri, 16 January 2009  Louay M. Safi, of the Islamic Society of North America Leadership Development Center in Plainfield, Indiana, speaking on January 11th about love of God and love of neighbor at the Baptist-Muslim National Dialogue at the Andover Newton Theological School.Comments[5] |
Thu, 15 January 2009  Muhammad Shafiq, of the Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue at Nazareth College in Rochester, N.Y., speaking on January 11th about collaborative community efforts between Baptists and Muslims at the Baptist-Muslim National Dialogue held at the Andover Newton School of Theology.Comments[5] |
Tue, 13 January 2009  Dr. Charles Kimball, Director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma, speaking on love for God and neighbor in Christian scriptures on January 10th at the Baptist-Muslim National Dialogue hosted by the Andover Newton Theological School.Comments[5] |
Tue, 13 January 2009  Dr. Robert Sellers of the Logsdon School of Theology at Hardin-Simmons Univeristy in Abilene, Texas, speaking on January 10th about the Baptist tradition at the Baptist-Muslim National Dialogue hosted by the Andover Newton Theological School.Comments[4] |
Mon, 12 January 2009  Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of African-American Studies and Sociology at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, speaking on January 11, 2009 at the Baptist-Muslim National Dialogue hosted by the Andover Newton Theological School. Dr. Gilkes discusses common themes between the Baptist and Muslim faith traditions and highlights traces of the influence of the Islamic faith of African slaves on the spirituality of the black churches in America.Comments[3] |
Sun, 14 December 2008  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 12-14-08 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Frank Schaeffer. Frank is the son of the late Francis and Edith Schaeffer. He is the author of several novels and books and the producer of the "How Should We Then Live?" and the "Whatever Happened to the Human Race" film series. We talk about his latest book, "Crazy For God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or almost all) of it Back." My interview picks up where Terry Gross's Fresh Air interview with Frank for NPR leaves off. We talk about his and his father's involvement in the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention, about their relations with Christian Reconstructionists, and about statements in his book regarding Billy Graham's family. Comments[7] |
Sun, 7 December 2008  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 12-7-08 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. Kevin G. Welner, associate professor of education and director of the Education and Public Interest Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder. We talk about Dr. Welner's book "NeoVouchers: The Emergence of Tuition Tax Credits for Private Schooling."Comments[7] |
Sun, 23 November 2008  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 11-23-08 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Joann Bell. An extensive talk about her experiences as a Plaintiff in a civil liberties lawsuit against the Little Axe Independent School District in the early 1980's. |
Fri, 21 November 2008  Brief excerpt (90 seconds) from a radio interview with Jo Ann Bell, Executive Director of the Oklahoma office of the ACLU. Jo Ann talks about her First Amendment complaint against Little Axe ISD in the mid 1980's. Comments[9] |
Thu, 25 September 2008  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 9-21-08 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. John Imbler, Executive Vice President and Associate Professor of Christianity and Disciples Studies at Phillips Theological Seminary. We talk about ecumenism, about the faculty and history of Phillips Seminary, about the opening of an extension of the seminary at the United Ministry Center in Norman, and about recent developments in the way men and women are being prepared for ministry.Comments[8] |
Thu, 25 September 2008  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 9-14-08 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Poet Nathan Brown. We discuss his recent book of poetry "Not Exactly Job" |
Mon, 30 June 2008 Will Prescott's report about the Knowlege is Power Program (KIPP) in Oklahoma City. Comments[6] |
Sun, 22 June 2008  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 6-22-08 "Religious Talk" radio program. I talk about plans for the New Baptist Covenant Midwest Region Meeting, about the ADF's challenge to the IRS encouraging ministers to endorse candidates from the pulpit, and about the effect that American and Israeli sabre rattling against Iran is having on the price of oil.Listeners are encouraged to contact their Congressional Representatives to oppose House Resolution 362 authorizing a land, sea and air blockade of Iran. Comments[7] |
Tue, 3 June 2008  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 6-1-08 "Religious Talk" radio interview of Petroleum Geologist Bob Stephenson. We talk about "peak oil," the current oil crisis, the possibility of radical changes in life as oil supplies decline, and the need to immediately begin developing a variety of sources of alternative energy.Comments[6] |
Sun, 25 May 2008 Will Prescott's 5-25-08 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Russell Evans and Kyle Dean of the Economic Impact Group of Edmond, OK. Oklahoma has one of the most stringent immigrant laws in the nation. Evans and Dean were commissioned by the Oklahoma Bankers Association to determine the economic impact of Oklahoma's anti-immigrant legislation. Comments[7] |
Tue, 13 May 2008 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 5-11-08 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. David Blatt, Director of Policy for the Oklahoma Policy Institute. Comments[8] |
Sun, 27 April 2008  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 4-27-08 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Tammy Snively about the challenges facing families who have children with autism. Tammy's son, Jake (pictured above with Todd and Tammy and Emily), has been in therapy for autism for about 18 months. The picture was taken about six months before his treatments began.Comments[6] |
Tue, 1 April 2008  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 3-30-08 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. Barbara Forrest, Professor of Philosophy at Southeast Louisiana College. We talk about her book "Creationism's Trojan Horse," her testimony in the Intelligent Design trial at Dover, Pa. We pay special attention to the relation of Southern Baptists to the wedge strategy.Comments[6] |
Sun, 9 March 2008  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 3-9-08 "Religious Talk" radio interview with investigative journalist Sarah Posner who writes the weekly column "The FundamentaList" for the American Prospect Online. We talk about her new book "God's Profits: Faith, Fraud and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters."Comments[8] |
Thu, 6 March 2008  Dr. Bruce Prescott interviewed by Rick MacInnes Rae of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for his 2-11-08 Dispatches radio program. Prescott talks with Rae about the significance of the 2008 Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant.Comments[5] |
Sun, 2 March 2008  Dr. Bruce Prescott 3-2-08 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dena Sher, State Legislative Counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State. We talk about the so-called "Religious Viewpoints Anti-Discrimination Act" that was adopted as 2007 Texas House Bill 3678 last year. Last week an identical bill passed the House Education Committee in Oklahoma as the 2008 Oklahoma House Bill 2211. This legislation would more aptly be labelled "An Act Securing a Captive Audience for Public School Prayers and Devotions."Comments[6] |
Mon, 4 February 2008  Will Prescott's 2-3-08 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. Bill Martin, Emeritus Professor of Religion and Public Policy at Rice University and Senior Fellow for Religion and Public Policy at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice. Will and Dr. Martin use the typology in James W. Fowlers' book Stages of Faith to talk about the critical reflection upon faith that is brought about by the study of sociology of religion. Comments[6] |
Fri, 1 February 2008 Walter Shurden's speech on the historic significance of the New Baptist Covenant. Spoken at the Mainstream Baptist Network Breakfast at the Downtown Sheraton Hotel in Atlanta on February 1, 2008. Comments[5] |
Wed, 30 January 2008 Two minute excerpt from Dr. William Shaw's sermon at the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant in Atlanta on January 30, 2008. The excerpt comes as he recounts the story of the woman taken in adultery and brought to Jesus. Comments[4] |
Mon, 28 January 2008 Rick Scarborough's Christian Nationalist altar call at First Baptist Church of Moore, Oklahoma on January 27, 2008. Comments[4] |
Sun, 27 January 2008  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 1-27-08 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Ben Cole, Associate Pastor of Great Commission Discipleship at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Enid, Oklahoma. Ben is a key leader among the young Southern Baptist bloggers who are making waves within the SBC. We talk about SBC bloggers, about their role in the election of Frank Page as President of the SBC, about their meeting with Jimmy Carter last April, about the New Baptist Covenant, and about the nomination of Al Mohler to be President of the SBC.Comments[4] |
Mon, 10 December 2007 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 12-9-07 "Religious Talk" radio program discussion of Mitt Romney's religion speech. Comments[7] |
Sun, 2 December 2007  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 12-2-07 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Bill Underwood, President of Mercer University. We talk about Mercer University, McAfee School of Theology, the Center for Baptist Studies, and the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant.Comments[8] |
Tue, 27 November 2007  Will Prescott's 11-25-07 "Courageous Church" profile of Holy Temple Baptist Church in Oklahoma City. Will interviews pastor George Young.Comments[6] |
Mon, 19 November 2007 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 11-18-07 "Religious Talk" radio interview with petroleum geologist Bob Stephenson. We discuss the recent report by the National Petroleum Council on "Facing the Hard Truths About Energy."Comments[6] |
Sun, 28 October 2007  Will Prescott's 10-28-07 "Courageous Church" profile of Spring Creek Baptist Church in Oklahoma City. Will interviews pastor Preston Clegg.Comments[4] |
Sat, 27 October 2007  A one minute excerpt of Norman North's Orchestra playing the Overture to the High School's 10-27-07 performance of the Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma.Comments[4] |
Tue, 23 October 2007  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 10-21-07 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. Katherine Scheirman. Scheirman is a Senior Advisor at VoteVets.org. She is a retired Air Force Colonel who was the Chief of Medical Operations at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany from 2004-2006. We talk about the failure of the current U.S. administration to provide adequate personnel and resources to care for the soldiers that are being wounded in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Comments[5] |
Mon, 15 October 2007  Will Prescott's 10/14/07 "Courageous Churches" profile of Noble Avenue Baptist Church in Guthrie, Oklahoma. Will interviews Noble Avenue's pastor Dr. Larry Stevens.Comments[3] |
Wed, 10 October 2007 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 9-30-07 speech on "Politics in the Pulpit?" at the First Annual Religious Liberty Conference at NorthHaven Church in Norman, Oklahoma. Here's a link to the text of the speech. Comments[3] |
Tue, 9 October 2007  Will Prescott's interview with Dr. Wade Smith, pastor of First Baptist Church in Norman, Oklahoma.Comments[4] |
Tue, 25 September 2007  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 9-16-07 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. David Berliner, Regents' Professor of Education at Arizona State University. We talk about Dr. Berliner's new book, "Collateral Damage: How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools."Comments[5] |
Mon, 24 September 2007  Will Prescott's interview with Rev. Mitch Randall, pastor of NorthHaven Church in Norman, Oklahoma.Comments[6] |
Mon, 23 July 2007  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 7-22-07 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. Walter Shurden, Professor of Christianity at Mercer University and Executive Director of the Center for Baptist Studies. We talk about Mercer University, the Center for Baptist Studies, and the historical significance of the forthcoming Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant.Comments[7] |
Mon, 16 July 2007  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 7-15-07 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. Jimmy Allen, past president of the Southern Baptist Convention, past president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, retired president of the SBC's Radio and Television Commission, and currently a key organizer of the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant. We talk about plans for the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant.Comments[3] |
Mon, 2 July 2007 Randall Balmer at the Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty luncheon 6-30-07. Comments[3] |
Fri, 29 June 2007  Speeches from U.S. Representative Robert Scott of Virginia and of U.S. Representative Chet Edwards of Texas to the "Baptist Unity Rally for Religious Liberty" sponsored by the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty at the Fountain Plaza of the Upper Senate Park in Washington, D.C. on June 29, 2007. At the podium in the picture is Hollyn Hollman of the BJC. Rep. Scott and Edwards are in the center of the picture. Comments[4] |
Wed, 27 June 2007 Audio clip from a speech that Tony Campolo gave to a gathering of Baptists at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. on 6/27/07 Comments[5] |
Sun, 24 June 2007 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 6-24-07 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. Robert Parham, Executive Director of the Baptist Center for Ethics. We highlight the work of BCE and Ethics Daily by discussing the videos that BCE has produced on Global Poverty and on Faith and Polics (forthcoming) as well as the free eight week Bible Study literature that BCE has produced on Luke 4 -- the theme of the New Baptist Covenant Celebration. Comments[5] |
Sun, 10 June 2007  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 6-10-07 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. Thelma Chambers Young, Vice President of the North American Baptist Women's Union and Vice President-at-large of the National Council of Churches. We talk about the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant and about the recent Delegation to the Middle East that Dr. Young led for the NCC.Comments[5] |
Mon, 14 May 2007 Hali Thomas' flute solo of "Sheep May Safely Graze" by Bach performed at NorthHaven Church in Norman, OK on Mother's Day -- May 13, 2007. Comments[4] |
Sun, 6 May 2007  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 5-6-07 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Mikey Weinstein, former Assistant General Counsel at the Reagan White House, co-author of With God on Their Side: One Man's War Against An Evangelical Coup in America's Military and founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.Comments[4] |
Tue, 1 May 2007 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 4/22/07 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Martha Friedrich. Marty is the mother of an Iraqi war veteran and an activist with Military Families Speak Out. We talk about the war in Iraq, her son's injuries, and the inadequate medical care he received from the military for his injuries. Comments[5] |
Tue, 17 April 2007  Dr. Bruce Prescott's April 15, 2007 "Religious Talk" radio program on "Paul Pressler, Gary North and Dominionism." This program gives audio quotations of Paul Pressler revealing the strategy used to takeover the Southern Baptist Convention to Gary North, a leading Christian Reconstructionist. North holds this strategy up as a model for how "conservatives" can takeover other organizations. The program also discusses the theocratic views of Christian Reconstructionists. The program includes audio quotations of Bill Moyers questioning R. J. Rushdoony, the father of Christian Reconstructionism, about the political views of his son-in-law, Gary North, and about the Reconstructionist belief that civil government should enforce the death penalty on adulterers, homosexuals, and delinquent children. Comments[7] |
Tue, 10 April 2007  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 4-8-07 Religious Talk radio program on "Faith and Freedom." The program opens with a reading of Dr. Prescott's blog against theocracy entitled "Faith and Freedom" followed by an Easter sermon on "Faith, Freedom and Mary Magadalene."Comments[4] |
Sun, 11 February 2007  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 2-11-07 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Mary Kinney Branson author of the new book "Spending God's Money: Extravagance and Misuse in the Name of Ministry." We talk about the unconscionable profligacy and waste of God's money that she saw during her seventeen years as an Editing Director at the Home Mission Board and a Director of Marketing at the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.Comments[8] |
Mon, 5 February 2007 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 2-4-07 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Ashley McNeil with Lott Carey Internationa. We talk about the "New Baptist Covenant" and the work of Lott Carey International. Comments[3] |
Sun, 28 January 2007  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 1-28-2007 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Mitch Randall. Mitch is the new pastor of NorthHaven Church in Norman, OK. NorthHaven is a new church affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Among other things, we talk about Mitch's experiences at Southwestern Seminary at the time when former Southwestern Seminary President Dr. Russell Dilday was terminated by the school's fundamentalist dominated board of trustees. Comments[8] |
Sun, 17 December 2006  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 12-17-06 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. Eric Elnes, Senior Pastor at Scottsdale Congregational United Church of Christ in Scottsdale, Arizona and co-president of CrossWalk America. We talk about his walk across America last summer and his book The Phoenix Affirmations: A New Vision for the Future of Christianity.Comments[6] |
Tue, 12 December 2006 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 12-10-06 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Rev. Tim Simpson, President of the Christian Alliance for Progress. We talk about Tim's pilgrimage from being an Independent-Fundamental-Bible-Believing-Premillenial Bapist to being a Progressive Presbyterian Minister. We also talk about the work of the Christian Alliance for Progress. Comments[5] |
Sun, 3 December 2006  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 12-3-06 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Jonathan Hutson. Hutson is the Talk to Action writer who was the first blogger to expose the sub-Christian nature of the Left Behind: Eternal Forces video game. Winning the game requires players to kill any character in the game that does not convert to fundamentalist Christianity. Advocates of church-state separation as well as Catholics, Jews, gays and Muslims are targeted for extermination. Comments[7] |
Wed, 8 November 2006  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 11-05-06 Religious Talk Radio Interview with Dr. Paul Weller, Professor of Inter-Religious Relations at the University of Derby. We talk about his book "Time for a Change: Reconfiguring Religion, State and Society" and about the second annual Fetulah Gulen Conference that was held at the University of Oklahoma on Nov. 4-5, 2006.Comments[4] |
Sun, 10 September 2006 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 9-10-06 "Religious Talk" radio broadcast. On the fifth annivesary of 9-11, Dr. Prescott gives a reprise of his February 2003 speech to the Oklahoma Conference of Churches at the House Chamber in the Oklahoma State Capitol. The speech was a lot more controversial then than it is now. Comments[4] |
Sun, 3 September 2006 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 8-27-06 "Religious Talk" radio program. In this program I discuss Judge Robert A. White's decision regarding the Ten Commandments and Mayflower Compact monument on the lawn of the Haskell County Courthouse in Stigler, Oklahoma. Comments[6] |
Sun, 20 August 2006 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 8-20-2006 "<a href="http://www.mainstreambaptists.org/mbn/religious_talk.htm">Religious Talk</a>" radio interview with Dr. Randall Balmer. Balmer is professor of American religious history at Barnard College, Columbia University and visiting professor at the Yale University Divinity School. He was also an expert witness against Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument in Alabama. We discuss our ongoing dialogue on the <a href="http://blog.faithinpubliclife.org/">Faith in Public Life </a>website and his new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465005195/sr=8-1/qid=1155929193/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-4043965-6475836?ie=UTF8">Thy Kingdom Come: An Evangelical's Lament -- How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America.</a> Comments[31] |
Sun, 13 August 2006  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 8-13-06 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Michelle Goldberg. We talk about Melissa's widely acclaimed book "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism."Comments[4] |
Wed, 7 June 2006  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 6-4-06 "Religious Talk" radio interview of Rebecca Glenn co-chair of CrossWalk America. We talk about the Phoenix Affirmations and the progress of her walk from Phoenix to Washington, D.C. to encourage moderate and progressive Christians to speak about their faith. Comments[6] |
Fri, 2 June 2006  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 3-26-06 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Culture and Communications at New York University and author of "Fooled Again" and "Cruel and Unusual". We talk about voting irregularities in the 2004 general election, the mainstream media's failure to cover this story, Christian Reconstructionism, and Neo-conservatism. Comments[6] |
Sun, 21 May 2006  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 5-21-06 "Religious Talk" radio broadcast of a discussion of the Ten Commandments-Mayflower Compact monument on the Haskell County courthouse lawn in Stigler, Oklahoma.Comments[4] |
Sun, 14 May 2006 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 5-14-06 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Michael Korenblit of the Respect Diversity Foundation. Michael tells the story of his parents, both survivors of the holocaust. It is a story of faith, hope, love, courage, remembrance and reconciliation. Comments[5] |
Sun, 30 April 2006 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 4-30-06 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Jim Huff about the 3rd Annual Interfaith Day of Prayer and Reflection at the State Capital in Oklahoma. Jim Huff, a retired public school teacher, is Executive Secretary of the Oklahoma Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. The 3rd Annual Interfaith Day of Prayer and Reflection will be on Thursday May 4, 2006 at 11:00 AM on the south steps of the Oklahoma State Capital. Here's a link to information about previous Interfaith Day of Prayer and Reflection events. Comments[4] |
Tue, 25 April 2006 Poet Nathan Brown reading his poem "Verb Play" from his recently published book Suffer the Little Voices. Here's a link to the Mainstream Baptist blog where you can find the text to Nathan's poem. Comments[3] |
Wed, 1 February 2006  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 1-29-06 "Religous Talk" radio interview with Muhammed Cetin, Visiting Scholar at the University of Houston and President of the Institute for Interfaith Dialog.
We talk about the work of the Institute for Interfaith Dialog, Muslim-Christian relations, and the trips to Turkey that he leads for IID.
The picture, taken on December 30, 2006, is of Muhammed Cetin standing on what is left of the floor of a Roman sauna at Perge, Turkey. He is explaining their heating system.Comments[5] |
Mon, 23 January 2006 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 1-22-06 "Religous Talk" radio interview with four Religious Studies majors at the University of Oklahoma discussing a recent trip to Turkey that was sponsored by the Institute for Interfaith Dialog. My guests are Barbara Schwartz-Brus, Cole Stephenson, Heather Stephenson, and Shereen Zaid.
Part Two discusses the most challenging moments of the trip for the students and asks them to wrestle with the question whether it is fair to judge this Near Eastern country by Western standards. Comments[4] |
Mon, 23 January 2006  Dr. Bruce Prescott's 1-22-06 "Religous Talk" radio interview with four Religious Studies majors at the University of Oklahoma discussing a recent trip to Turkey that was sponsored by the Institute for Interfaith Dialog.
My guests are Barbara Schwartz-Brus, Cole Stephenson, Heather Stephenson, and Shereen Zaid. Part One introduces the guests, touches on the depth and diversity of the OU Religious Studies Program, introduces the work of the Institute for Interfaith Dialog, and highlights some of the most memorable moments of the trip.
The picture, taken on 1-3-06 at the Castle of Urfa, is of Heather Stephenson and a local Turkish girl named Diesem.Comments[5] |
Fri, 20 January 2006 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 1-15-06 "Religous Talk" radio interview with Hollyn Hollman, General Counsel for the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. We discuss the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito and the implications of his judicial record for church/state issues. Comments[4] |
Tue, 6 December 2005 The second part of Dr. Bruce Prescott's 11/28/99 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Rose, a personal friend, and Dr. Vincent Padulla.
This half of the interview discusses the difference between a moderate Baptist and a Catholic perspective on Rose's experiences, abortion in general, and contraception. Discussion is between Dr. Prescott, Dr. Padulla and persons who called-in during the broadcast.
Prior to this interview, Dr. Padulla called-in promoting his convictions each week during broadcasts. Since this interview, he has not called during a broadcast. Comments[3] |
Tue, 6 December 2005 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 11/28/99 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Rose, a personal friend, and Dr. Vincent Padulla. Rose talks about her experience having an abortion and her experience with another very complicated pregnancy that, by extraordinary faith and courage, she was able to bring to a live delivery. Dr. Padulla is a Roman Catholic physician and fervent anti-abortion advocate in Oklahoma City.
This portion of the interview runs 38 minutes. Lively, but respectful, differences of opinion between equally committed Christians are exchanged in this interview. Comments[5] |
Fri, 28 October 2005 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 10-9-05 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Cathy Peterson, author of Flashlight Walking and Call Me in You Need Anything . . . and Other Things NOT to Say: A Guide to Helping Others through Tragedy and Grief. Cathy's late husband, Bill was undergoing treatment for cancer when Enron laid him off and cut off his health benefits. In this interview we talk about her new book about what to do and what NOT to say to people facing tragedy and grief. Comments[6] |
Mon, 24 October 2005 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 10-23-05 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Andrew Jones "TallSkinnyKiwi" on the blogosphere.
We talk about Andrew's work planting churches and his innovating leadership in the Emergent Church movement. Comments[4] |
Tue, 4 October 2005 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 10/2/05 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Texas State Representative Garnet Coleman.
We talk about the effects of Texas's mid-decade redistricting, the Texas state legislature's inability to pass funding for public schools, Texas GOP proposals to give vouchers to home schools and to privatize public schools, and about how a Houston mega-church gained control over Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Comments[4] |
Mon, 11 July 2005 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 7/10/05 Religious Talk radio interview of Oklahoma City Petroleum Geologist Bob Stephenson. Stephenson talks about "Peak Oil," the escalating price of gasoline, the impact of China on demand for oil, and the critical need for our country to develop an energy policy (openly, not secretly) that will reduce our dependence on oil. Comments[7] |
Mon, 9 May 2005 5-8-05 broadcast of Religious Talk with Dr. Bruce Prescott. Dr. Prescott talks about the Second Annual Interfaith Day of Prayer and Reflection in Oklahoma and about the controversy between Mainstream Baptists and First Baptist Church in Oklahoma City over Barry Lynn's speech. Comments[8] |
Wed, 13 April 2005 Part 2 of 2 of Dr. Bruce Prescott's "Religious Talk" radio interview of Frederick Clarkson, author of Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy. Clarkson is an expert on the radical right. Comments[3] |
Wed, 13 April 2005 Part 1 of 2 of Dr. Bruce Prescott's "Religious Talk" radio interview with Frederick Clarkson, author of Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy. Clarkson is an expert on the radical right. Comments[5] |
Mon, 4 April 2005 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 4-3-05 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Sally and Terry Jackson about the Terri Schiavo case and end of life issues. Sally Jackson is a nurse practitioner who specializes in Alzheimers disease and neuro degenerative diseases at the VA Medical Center in OK City. She has also served on the hospital's ethics committee. Her first husband was in a vegitative state prior to his death. Terry Jackson is a Baptist minister who serves as a hospice chaplain. Comments[7] |
Sat, 2 April 2005 Part 2 of 2 of Dr. Bruce Prescott's 1-11-04 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Barbara McGraw, author of Rediscovering America's Sacred Ground. Comments[4] |
Sat, 2 April 2005 Part 1 of 2 of Dr. Bruce Prescott's 1-11-04 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Barbara McGraw, author of Rediscovering America's Sacred Ground. Comments[4] |
Mon, 28 March 2005 Part 2 of 2 of Dr. Bruce Prescott's 9-22-02 "Religious Talk" radio interview of Dr. Keith Parks. Dr. Parks is a past President of the SBC's foreign mission board and the retired Coordinator of CBF's Global Missions Program. Comments[5] |
Mon, 28 March 2005 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 9-22-02 Interview of Dr. Keith Parks. Dr. Parks is a past President of the SBC's foreign mission board and the retired Coordinator of CBF's Global Missions Program. Comments[4] |
Fri, 18 March 2005 Dr. Bruce Prescott's 9-19-04 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. Jan Linn, author of What's Wrong with the Christian Right. Comments[6] |
Sat, 12 March 2005 Dr. Bruce Prescott's July 2000 Religious Talk radio interview with Bud Welch. Bud Welch's daughter, Julie, was a victim of the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Bud speaks about his opposition to the death penalty. Comments[4] |
Fri, 11 March 2005 Dr. Bruce Prescott's July 2000 Religious Talk radio interview with Bud Welch. Bud Welch's daughter, Julie, was a victim of the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Bud speaks about his opposition to the death penalty and shares impressions from his conversations with the family of Timothy McVeigh. Comments[14] |
Thu, 10 March 2005 Part 1 of 2 of Dr. Bruce Prescott's 11-30-03 "Religious Talk" radio interview of Dr. David Berliner, author of The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud and the Attack on America's Public Schools. Dr. Berliner is professor of Education at the University of Arizona. Comments[4] |
Thu, 10 March 2005 Part 2 of 2 of Dr. Bruce Prescott's 11-30-03 "Religious Talk" radio interview of Dr. David Berliner, author of The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud and the Attack on America's Public Schools. Dr. Berliner is professor of Education at the University of Arizona. Comments[4] |
Thu, 10 March 2005 Part 1 of 2 of Dr. Bruce Prescott's 2-23-03 Religious Talk radio interview of Rob Boston, author of Why the Religious Right is Wrong: About Separation of Church and State. Rob Boston is Associate Editor of Americans United's Church & State Magazine. Comments[3] |
Thu, 10 March 2005 Part 2 of 2 of Dr. Bruce Prescott's 2-23-03 Religious Talk radio interview of Rob Boston, author of Why the Religious Right is Wrong: About Separation of Church and State. Rob Boston is Associate Editor of Americans United's Church & State Magazine. Comments[4] |
Thu, 10 March 2005 Part 1 of 2 of Dr. Bruce Prescott's 11-24-02 Religious Talk radio interview of Dr. Charles Kimball, author of the best selling book, When Religion Becomes Evil. Dr. Kimball is Chair of the Department of Religion at Wake Forest University. Comments[5] |
Thu, 10 March 2005 Part 2 of 2 of the 11-24-02 Religious Talk radio interview of Dr. Charles Kimball, author of the best selling book, When Religion Becomes Evil. Dr. Kimball is Chair of the Department of Religion at Wake Forest University. Comments[5] |
Thu, 10 March 2005  Ecclesiastes 3 by Nathan Brown, a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma. Nathan leads the InterAction Student Ministries at OU.Comments[5] |
Wed, 23 February 2005 Dr. Bruce Prescott's January 9, 2005 Religious Talk radio interview of blogger Greg Horton at the The Parish Blog about his December 28, 2004 blog titled "What to Do." Comments[4] |
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