Mark's Notebook


	And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order to the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. - Soren Kierkegaard

My Radio, My God

The Revealer

Tuesday 8 March 2005, 11:40 am

NPR's gifts of the spirit and the Bible's strange demands

By Lisa Anderson

Mario was curious to see if his community could sustain a strange element like me. "We're an inclusive environment, a diverse community." If I was interested in being part of that community, I was welcome. "But you know who won't like this?" he asked rhetorically, "The cool people. I can't wait." Click.

Great, I thought, I'm going to be the token Christian. I imagined Mario's cool people. People with smooth voices, expansive vocabularies, mad technical skills and an automatic dislike for me.

Station lore has it that a local church has commissioned several of its members to monitor the station around the clock and complain to our archenemy, the FCC, whenever we inadvertently curse on air or play music with lyrics they don't like. I'm thinking that it is this Christian who comes most immediately to their mind. That I would call myself by this name must seem unbelievable.

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