HNN Columnist Stephen Reed Launches New Podcast:
"Discourse"
By Huntingtonnews.net Staff
Huntingtonnews.net columnist and former Metronews talk
radio personality Stephen Reed has returned to broadcasting with a
new podcast for Prison Fellowship's BreakPoint Division. The
fifteen minute podcast is called "Discourse" and features Reed
and occasional co-hosts interviewing intriguing Christian guests
through the popular BreakPoint website. (www.breakpoint.org)
BreakPoint is the Christian worldview wing of Prison Fellowship, the ministry started in 1976 by Charles W. "Chuck" Colson, former special counsel to President Richard Nixon. Prison Fellowship's headquarters is based in Lansdowne, Virginia, approximately 30 miles from Washington, D.C.
"Podcasting has really taken off and for obvious reasons," said Reed, who serves as the ministry's Grants and Foundations Specialist. "People like the idea of downloading a program and taking it with them on their iPod while they exercise. They don't have to sit somewhere and listen to a favorite show at a particular time. They can listen to it on their schedule."
Reed's podcast will be a monthly look at the Christians who are creating or covering contemporary culture. This month, his guest is Heath Hardesty, a writer and musician from Longmont, Colorado, whose new book, To the Lion: The Christian in Tension, is the subject of their discussion. To hear the podcast, go to:
http://www.breakpoint.org/media.asp?ID=8113
"This is a book and an author with a great mystique," said Reed. "Heath Hardesty is a name to remember, as this first effort of his challenges Christian believers of all stripes, as well as the intellectually curious person of any or no particular faith background. It's a real romp into deep material but highly readable for everyone."
"Hardesty's basic premise is to not dismiss a paradox in Christianity just because you don't automatically embrace it initially," said Reed. "Maybe we aren't meant to understand a paradox completely, but that doesn't mean we can't appreciate aspects of it that we might foolishly throw away."
Paradoxes like God's mercy vs. God's judgment and sovereignty vs. free will are explored in the podcast; many more are addressed in the book.
"At BreakPoint, we have so many good writers with a rich tradition of taking on whatever cultural currents come our way as Christians," said Reed. "We intend for "Discourse" to stay within that tradition, because it makes for lively and thought-provoking broadcasting."