Belief Meets Non-Belief

Stories about the faithful in conflict with society, their families, and themselves. First, two Stanford students (one who is gay and another who is a conservative Christian) map out the battlefield between gay marriage and Christianity. Second, a story about how the ‘divine divide’ in America entered into one student’s relationships with his parents and his girlfriend. And third, Will Rogers faces the same ‘divine divide’ in himself and is able to bridge part of it by posting videos online.

Host: Micah Cratty
Producers: Micah Cratty
Featured: Vinni Intersimone, Matt Buchanan, Drew Jacoby-Senghor
Music: Amboy Kelso, Dave Chisolm, Hunt Alcott, Jennifer Lindsay, Kissing Johnny

Release Date: 28 January 2008

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Story 1: Is Gay Marriage Immoral?

Two students (one who is gay, one who is a conservative Christian) map out the battlefield between gay marriage and Christianity.

Producers: Vinni Intersimone, Matt Buchanan
Featuring: Richard Barbour, Rev. Scotty McLennan

Story 2: When the Divine Divides Families

The ‘divine divide’ in America entered into one student’s relationships with his parents and his girlfriend.

Producer: Drew Jacoby-Senghor

Story 3: GodTube, Quakerism and an Internal Divine Divide

Will Rogers faces a divine divide in himself, and is able to bridge part of it by posting videos online. What does he say on his webcam? Who is watching?

Producer: Micah Cratty
Featuring: Will Rogers
URL: Godtube.com/willyrogers

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Living in the Panopticon

Inspired by a 200 year old design for a more efficient prison called the panopticon, this show explores just a few of the ways we experience surveillance in society today, and how we respond to it. A story by Andrew Altschul about phones and loss, an interview with the founder of a site that uses cell phones to fight street harassment, and a speech about the joys of Facebook.

Host: Charlie Mintz
Producer: Charlie Mintz
Featured: Andrew Altschul, Ben Olmsted, Eli Edwards
Music: Zach Katagiri, Johnny Hwin, DJ Matic and Mikey Lee, Maxwell Citron, Johnny Hwin

Release Date: 14 January 2008

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Intro Story: Red Light Camera District

Charlie’s mom gets caught by a red light camera, before she even knows that such a thing exists… Why DO they exist, anyway? To keep order? To make money? To make Charlie’s mom pursue evasion technologies from seedy sources?

Story 1: A Man on Hold

We’re all familiar with the Patriot Act, the National Security Agency, and Carl Rove, but less familiar to us are the everyday instances of surveillance we experience. This is a story about a man with a telephone, which will make you never want to answer another call. Short fiction by Andrew Altschul.

URL’s: Andrew Altschul’s Web Site, Bonus Interview with Andrew Altschul

Story 2: If you can’t slap ’em, snap ’em.

How your camera phone, plus the internet, can help fight street harassment… and whether we even want that.

Producer: Charlie Mintz
Featuring: Eli Edwards and Hollaback

Story 3: Roger Doultry’s 250 Fingers

A few snarky reasons to do something most of us have probably already done… it’s typically called Facebook, although some may suggest that it’s a “participatory panopticon of the internet.”

Producer: Ben Olmsted

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