Homeless Hope, Cancelling Art

2022-02-13

Season 3, Episode 5 - This season, Eric and Joel bring one (fairly) current topic each, and wonder together what our response to these issues might be from our perspectives of faith. Eric's issue - Can we love the art and reject the artist? When we need to hold an artist or leader accountable, do we cancel their art as well? If a sexual predator wrote songs for worship, can we continue to use those songs in worship? If we can't listen to Michael Jackson records, can we still read Moses or Paul? The Awareness Center,...

Season 3, Episode 5 - This season, Eric and Joel bring one (fairly) current topic each, and wonder together what our response to these issues might be from our perspectives of faith.

Eric's issue - Can we love the art and reject the artist? When we need to hold an artist or leader accountable, do we cancel their art as well? If a sexual predator wrote songs for worship, can we continue to use those songs in worship? If we can't listen to Michael Jackson records, can we still read Moses or Paul?

The Awareness Center, Inc. (International Jewish Coalition Against Sexual Assault): Case of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach

Should We Sing David Haas’s Songs After He’s Been Accused of Sexual Abuse? – Awake (awakemilwaukee.org)

Joel's issue - Homelessness. How should people of faith, any faith, respond to others around them who find themselves wandering without a home? In Joel's area, there are several agencies of faith or government attempting to respond to homelessness. What is the smart way to respond, and why is it so hard?

Chester Valley Ministers Association (CVMA) has a new initiative, the Good Neighbor House

Samaritan Group, Inc. | Kent County

Chestertown’s Homelessness Resource Day calls Attention to Urgent Need (chestertownspy.org)

Family Promise of Athens (familypromiseathens.org)

Toxic Charity: How the Church Hurts Those They Help and How to Reverse It - Kindle edition by Lupton, Robert D.. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

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