The GodTalk radio show is featuring Jim and Hemant from 8:30-9:30 p.m. CST tomorrow (Sunday). You can listen over the internet - their website has live streaming.
Posted in A Cacophony of Posts, Ir (Helen) | 4 Comments »I posted two on Conversation at the Edge today and Hemant just posted the one with Stephen Colbert.
Posted in A Cacophony of Posts, Ir (Helen) | Comments OffEarlier this year , Hemant Mehta reviewed a service at Willow Creek Community Church, and in early October I attended a small groups conference at Willow. The speaker for one of the sessions was Randy Frazee, the man who was speaking the day Hemant did his survey. His topic was how the church needs to understand people who don’t go to church if we ever want to connect with them and he opened with a ‘man on the street interview’ they had put together with Hemant. I already knew the story, of course, yet found it interesting that Willow would use Hemant, an atheist, to teach Christians at a large conference with church leaders from around the country. Frankly, I was curious how it would be received, and it was received very well. (As a side note, I already had coffee scheduled with Ir that afternoon, so this provided a great ‘get-to-know-you’ topic for us!)
Hemant later did a survey on Parkview Christian Church and consented to a series of interviews with them. I’ve seen the first one, and I found it very, very interesting. Here are some blog entries related to those interviews.
It’s been very helpful to me to see examples like these of how churches have given atheists a voice. In a recent discussion here at eBay atheist, I asked for your help in working with my church to set up opportunities for Christians and atheists to talk to each other.