The Rev. Canon Sally Bingham: Homebrewed Christianity 40
By Chad Crawford • Jan 14th, 2009 • Category: podcast, politics
In episode 40, the first episode of Homebrewed Christianity Season 2, we finally reveal the much anticipated “hypaliciousness”. Listen for the list of what is new this year for the podcast. The controversy over the new Emergent National Coordinator is settled, we share our plans for upcoming episodes, and tell our deacons about new ways to get involved.
The guest this week is very special to me, and not only because she founded the organization that employs me. The Rev. Canon Sally Bingham gives us hope that people of faith are starting to take climate change seriously. She founded Interfaith Power & Light convincing a handful of Episcopal churches in California to purchase wind energy.
Today, the organization represents 5,000 congregations in 29 states. Recently she received an honorary doctorate from Sewanee and was featured on The Weather Channel’s Forecast Earth Hot List, along with Google and T. Boone Pickens.
Visit InterfaithPowerandLight.org to:
- Pre-order Love God Heal Earth by the Rev. Canon Sally Bingham
- Sign the Interfaith Call for Climate Action Petition to Barack Obama
- Find out how to get involved locally
- Subscribe to the IPLog, the blog of the Interfaith Power & Light campaign.
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Chad Crawford is a graduate of the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and Wake Forest University Divinity School. He is originally from Austin, Texas and now lives in San Francisco, where he is the online communications manager for Interfaith Power & Light, a nonprofit organization mobilizing a religious response to global warming. He's a former youth minister and long distance hiker sharing thoughts on ecology, politics, culture, and faith.
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There is no such thing as Sewanee University.
There is currenty The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.
How did you convert the real thing into an fake name?
Good question. I don’t know why I made such an egregious error.
Oh ok. I know why now, after checking the school’s website. It could have been because the school is at http://www.sewanee.edu, or because in the school’s logo the name Sewanee is very large and is placed above “the University of the South,” which is teeny tiny, making it look more like a slogan than the actual name. (It looks even more like that when written out fully, “Sewanee: the University of the South” “Budweiser: the King of Beers”)
Or because I know alumni who only refer to it as “Sewanee”. Thanks for pointing out the mistake though. I’ll edit out “University” and just keep the more recognizable “Sewanee”.
I can see why the school would have a lot of pride in the name The University of the South. But it looks like they want to keep it a secret.
Thanks for stopping by John!
Chad attempts sarcastic humor. I don’t know what the deal is. As a graduate of Wake Forest University school of Divinity you should know the experience of your school being confused with another. I am sure WFU grads and those from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary don’t like getting confused. But none the less, I appreciate your genealogy of the school’s name and its altered use among alumni. Such reporting is befitting of a UMHB grad, well atleast one who went to WFU and hung out with me.
OK sorry about the sarcasm. My coffee was really potent this morning. But Tripp that was a little better than an attempt.