Accessible Airwaves The networks' rejection of the UCC's second ad is clear proof that that airwaves are not open and unbiased. Right-wing religious and political extremists have joined forces to keep mainline churches off the airwaves. Please join us as we build on a half century of advocacy to ensure equal access to media for all Americans. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539642 2006-04-19T19:33:23Z Blogger
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 true The Rev. Bob Chase 2006-04-19T15:30:00-04:00 2006-04-19T19:33:23Z 2006-04-19T19:33:23Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539642.post-114547520333556603 Tell NBC to open its Sunday talk show to mainline churches For the past several years, Easter Sunday has been an occasion for NBC's "Meet the Press" to discuss religion in America. And for the past two years, and perhaps more, the show's "Faith in America" installment has totally shut out any representation from the nation's mainline churches. The issue transcends liberal and conservative, Left and Right. It's about the continued absence of false The Rev. Bob Chase 2006-04-19T12:03:00-04:00 2006-04-19T16:05:16Z 2006-04-19T16:05:16Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539642.post-114546271619989521 Where's the mainline, mainstream voice? When CNN went looking for Easter guests for its Sunday morning talk shows, do you think it ever considered a mainline Christian voice? No, instead it asked the Rev. Jerry Falwell to join CNN Late Edition host Wolf Blitzer in a Resurrection-day conversation about the involvement of conservative Christian voters in the 2006 and 2008 elections. Lasting nearly 10 minutes, the segment didn't false The Rev. Bob Chase 2006-04-13T15:51:00-04:00 2006-04-13T19:55:06Z 2006-04-13T19:55:06Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539642.post-114495810672263386 Another Network Agrees to Run Ad For Free Some good news to pass along... Q Television, another national network directed to the LGBT community, has become the second gay-themed cable channel to run the UCC's "ejector" ad for free as a public service announcement. The decision comes a week after LOGO, a Viacom-owned, gay-focused network, rejected the ad. Here! TV announced on April 11 that it would run the ad indefinitely on its false Chuck Currie 2006-04-13T13:06:00-04:00 2006-04-13T19:41:28Z 2006-04-13T17:12:26Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539642.post-114494834639299437 William Sloane Coffin Had A Message For The Networks Today the world is mourning the death of United Church of Christ minister William Sloane Coffin, the former Yale chaplain and former senior minister of Riverside Church in New York City. Coffin was a hero to many and it was a great privilege for me to interview him in 2004. Rev. Coffin was quite concerned when the first round of UCC television spots were banned by the networks. He wrote an op-ed false