Expanding your Faith  

Tonight we will talking with Rev. Candace Chellew-Hodge about her new book entitled "Bulletproof Faith: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Gay and Lesbian Christians". She is a former journalist turned PR flak. She worked in TV and radio in Atlanta and served a six year sentence at CNN before being sprung for good behavior. She has spent the last six years in academic PR. She founded Whosoever: An Online Magazine for GLBT Christians in 1996 and it's been going strong ever since. Check it out at http://www.whosoever.org. She is also the associate pastor at Garden of Grace United Church of Christ in Columbia, SC. You can visit them at http://www.gogucc.com. You can learn more about her book at http://bulletproofbook.com/.

Tonight we will be discussing Vatican II. Today in history, in 1959 Pope John XXIII announced the convening of Vatican II.

***Pre-recorded Show*** No Call-ins! Tonight we are talking to Deacon Donald Donato of the Apostolic Johannite Church (http://www.johannite.org/) about his work for Brandeis University’s Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections in Waltham, Massachusetts. He has worked on the Pimander, sive de Potestate et Sapientia Dei, a rare part of the Corpus Hermeticum which can be found at Brandeis' website (http://brandeisspecialcollections.blogspot.com/2009/11/pimander-sive-de-potestate-et-sapientia.html).

The Popes: Controversial, strange and otherwise.

Tonight we will be discussing Mary, Jesus and the Koran.

2009 - A year in review. We will look back at the events and news stories that made 2009 a year to remember.