WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CN10172020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River These days the phrase “progressive Christianity” sounds like a contradiction in terms, opposites attracting in the same sentence or something like that, or perhaps the last of a dying breed. Not so, says Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, a religious activist, organizer, and author of Just Faith: Reclaiming …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04232020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Pearl River This whole thing about religious opposition to the stay-at-home orders and the social distancing can sometimes seem a head scratcher. In central Louisiana a minister already noted for refusing to call postponement of church services was arrested for attempted assault, which he admitted, after …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04122020mp3.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River For some years when he was still going to the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church where he was raised, and where he raised my brother and me, my dad would act as an usher at the Sunrise Service on Easter along Lake Ponchartrain near the seawall. …