Playing for Keeps
Playing for Keeps (4)
The Raven Foundation has a live call-in internet radio show, Playing for Keeps, on Talkshoe.com. Your hosts, Raven’s Adam Ericksen and award winning Peace Journalist Bob Koehler engage you in critical thinking about our world with one question in mind: How can we make the shift from a culture of violence to a culture of peace? The format of the show includes interviews with people making a difference in building peace by peaceful means.
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Theologian James Alison joined the Playing for Keeps radio show on May 4, 2012 to explore how The Hunger Games and chapter 7 of the Old Testament book of Joshua have something very important in common: a lottery in which the winners get to die for the sake of the community. Many people joined Adam and Bob in the discussion with James to explore how lotteries are used as violent tools for peace.
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Adam and Bob's guest on Playing for Keeps, Ted Wachtel is the president of the International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) and author of Toughlove, Toughlove Solutions and Real Justice. IIRP is the world's first graduate school devoted entirely to the teaching, research and dissemination of restorative practices. At the school's model programs, CSF Buxmont schools for at-risk youth, the use of restorative practices has been shown to significantly reduce offending rates and improve youth attitudes. During the show, Ted provides a series of simple questions that can be used to defuse a situation and bring understanding to parties in conflict.
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Playing for Keeps with Professor Mark Noll: God, Satan, and the Civil War
Written by Adam Ericksen
Adam and Bob were delighted to welcome acclaimed Civil War historian Professor Mark A. Noll to the program. We talked with Mark about the startling thesis in his book, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. He writes that in the years leading up to the American Civil War, theologians, preachers and devout churches argued about what the bible said about slavery. They couldn't agree on whether God was for or against the South's "peculiar institution." In his book, Mark says that "the remedy that finally solved the question of how to interpret the Bible was recourse to arms." Listen in as Adam and Bob discuss with Professor Noll how the dynamics of the Civil War continue to influence our lives today.
Adam and Bob start the conversation by discussing one of Adam's latest blogs, "The Spiritual Warfare of Lent: Jesus, Satan, and Rick Santorum." To read the blog, click here.
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Playing for Keeps with Professor Julia M. Robinson
Written by Adam Ericksen
Julia M. Robinson, PhD, an Associate Professor of African American Religions in the Religious Studies Department of University of North Carolina at Charlotte, was the first guest. A teacher of courses in African American History, African American Religion and the Religions of the African Diaspora, Professor Robinson investigates the intersection of race, religion and gender within African and African American culture. Adam and Bob asked Dr. Robinson-Harmon about her research into lynching and the legacy of racism following the Civil War. Listen in on this compelling conversation.