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LIFE ON ROUTE 150: Rural Churches Look for Ways to Survive
Story air date: Friday, June 24, 2011
In rural towns throughout Central Illinois, deciding where to attend worship service today could mean giving up youth activities or choir for a smaller service, or sacrificing a local connection to seek out parishioners of a similar age in a large congregation. As part of the series, ‘Life on Route 150’, Illinois Public Media’s Jeff Bossert looks at rural churches, and what some in the region are doing to survive in today’s climate.
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community life • economy • government • Champaign County • religionPolitical Turmoil Leaves Egypt in Unrest
Story air date: Tuesday, February 01, 2011
The political turmoil in Egypt has brought between 250,000 and two million people taking to the streets in protest. The country’s leader, President Hosni Mubarak, has promised not to run for re-election after his term ends in September. But University of Illinois professor Aladdin Elaasar predicted Mubarak’s downfall back in 2009 in his book “The Last Pharaoh: Mubarak and the Uncertain Future of Egypt in the Obama Age.” Elaasar spoke with Illinois Public Media’s Sean Powers about the future of Egypt.
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community life • government • United States • politics • religionTo Fight or Not to Fight
Story air date: Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Two central Illinois men had to choose between their country’s call and their church’s teachings. These men (Merlin Taber, far left, and Delbert Augsburger, near left) were members of historic peace denominations that preach against military service. As AM 580’s Jim Meadows reports, these two men made two different decisions.
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history • people • religionEpiscopal Diocese of Springfield Protests its Mother Church
Story air date: Thursday, December 18, 2003
Bishop Peter Beckwith says his church is an apostate church for allowing the consecration of Gene Robinson, an openly gay man, as a bishop. Beckwith voted against Robinson’s consecration at last summer’s General Convention of the Episcopal Church USA. Now, he’s one of 13 bishops who are launching a new group that hopes to reverse the church’s direction on homosexuality. Beckwith talked with AM 580’s Jim Meadows.
