Title	Sojourners
Editor	Jim WallisJim Rice
Editor title	Editor-in-ChiefEditor
Frequency	Monthly
Circulation	35,000
Category	Christian magazines
Publisher	Sojourners
Firstdate	1971
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	http://www.sojo.net
Issn	0364-2097

Sojourners magazine, a progressive monthly publication of the Christian social justice organization Sojourners, was first published in 1971 under the original title of The Post-American. The offices of the magazine are in Washington, D.C.

Sojourners has consistently won awards from both the Associated Church Press and the Evangelical Press Association. In 2008 and 2009, "Sojourners" won the first place “best in class” award from both religious press associations.

The founding editor-in-chief is Jim Wallis, author of God's Politics and other titles that blend political and spiritual commentary; the editor is Jim Rice. Contributing editors include Diana Butler Bass, Daniel Berrigan,Melvin Bray, Walter Brueggemann, Majora Carter, Joan Chittister, Eugene Cho, Shane Claiborne, Danny Duncan Collum, Edwidge Danticat, Marie Dennis, John DiIulio, E.J. Dionne Jr., Valerie Elverton Dixon, Cathleen Falsani, Becky Garrison, Wes Granberg-Michaelson, Adam Hamilton, Vincent Harding, Lisa Sharon Harper, Obery Hendricks, Gareth Higgins, Joel Hunter, Lynne Hybels, Daisy Khan, Anne Lamott, Bill McKibben, Brian McLaren, Donald Miller, Ched Myers, Eboo Patel, John Perkins, Samuel Rodriguez, Richard Rohr, Ronald Sider, Barbara Brown Taylor, Cornel West, Lauren Winner, Valerie Weaver-Zercher, Tyler Wigg Stevenson, and Bill Wylie-Kellermann.

The magazine publishes editorials and articles on Christian life, the church and the world, Christianity and politics, and the church and social issues. Articles frequently feature coverage of fair trade, interfaith dialogue, peacemaking, and work to alleviate poverty.

History

Sojourners magazine was originally published under the name "The Post American," coming out of the Sojourners Community. The name was changed to "Sojourners" in 1975, when the community moved from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois to Columbia Heights in Washington, D.C.. The mission of Sojourners is to “to articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world.”

The magazine was originally published quarterly, then every other month, and since January 2004 has been published eleven times per year, with a single issue published for September and October.

The Sojourners Collection is maintained by Wheaton College in its Archives and Special Collections. Collected materials include magazine issues, correspondence, original manuscripts and administrative papers, as well as information on the Sojourners Community, Jim Wallis, and other communities and organizations affiliated with the publisher.

Other Activities

Along with the award-winning magazine, Sojourners also produces an award-winning website. The organization publishes resources on a number of social justice and faith issues; it sponsors a year of voluntary service; and it engages the wider Christian community through mobilizing, media outreach, speaking, teaching, preaching, and public events. Over the years, Sojourners has provided leadership and support to various other activities including the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, the Free South Africa movement, and opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, among other concerns.

In 2010, Jim Wallis was interviewed in episode six of "God in America" a documentary featured on PBS from Frontline and American Experience.

Musician Moby recorded a three-part interview on Sojourners’ God’s Politics blog about his journey into faith and politics.

Sojourners CEO Jim Wallis served as a member of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Community Partnerships, which advises the president and White House staff on a range of concerns. Sojourners has organized high-level meetings with the White House and political leaders on both sides of the aisle.

Then-Sen. Barack Obama gave his first major speech on the subject of religion in the public sphere at Sojourners’ Call to Renewal conference in 2006, talking about his personal faith journey and his vision for people of faith in public life.

Recent Work

Responding to the Global Economic Crisis

Sojourners CEO Jim Wallis spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in a primetime plenary session titled “Rethinking Values in the Post-Crisis World.” Wallis is currently the chair for the Global Agenda Council on Values at the World Economic Forum, which is launching a moral economy dialogue to bring together faith leaders and top executives to advance the values that should inform the global economy.

Sojourners informed and mobilized faith leaders and their grassroots constituents to help pass financial reform through Congress. Wallis’ latest book, published in January 2010, is “Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street and Your Street.” As part of his nationwide book tour, Wallis was interviewed on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," Morning Joe on MSNBC, and PBS’s The Tavis Smiley Show. The Jon Stewart interview and the first chapter of Wallis’ book, “Sunday School with Jon Stewart,” are on Sojourners’ website.

Health-Care Reform

Sojourners served as a lead organization countering misinformation and building support for health-care reform. President Obama and Jim Wallis spoke on a teleconference call about health-care reform. Audio from the call has now been played more than 300,000 times. Sojourners also organized a campaign challenging opponents of reform. Its constituents sent 100,000 emails to national media opponents of health-care reform and their advertisers. In addition, Jim Wallis debated leading opponents of health-care reform on national television. Sojourners distributed health-care reform resources to 30,000 pastors. In 2009, Sojourners brought together 1,153 faith leaders and activists who met with the offices of 84 senators and 213 representatives to advocate for health-care reform.

Immigration Reform

Sojourners is leading faith groups in support of comprehensive immigration work through its Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform campaign. As a June 2010 Brookings Institute panel on “Religious Activism and the Debate over Immigration Reform” affirmed, “largely because of the activism of these religious groups, immigration has remained on a legislative agenda crowded with other pressing domestic concerns.” Sojourners’ letter to President Obama – calling for leadership on immigration reform that reflects our nation’s best values – was signed by more than 40 prominent faith leaders and 28 national organizations. Sojourners was one of the primary faith organizers of the March 21, 2010, national immigration rally that brought 200,000 people to Washington, D.C.

Climate Change, Green Energy, and the Gulf Oil Spill

Sojourners urged constituents to reduce energy use and advocate for laws that hold polluters accountable, support green energy technology, and prioritize people and the planet above corporate interests. It mobilized its grassroots base and engaged in advocacy at the highest levels in support of climate change. Faith leaders called for increasing funding from Congress to help the most vulnerable communities worldwide who are affected by climate change. Wallis lead a delegation of faith leaders who traveled to the Gulf for a listening tour sponsored by the Sierra Club. A reporter from CNN participated in the delegation and covered the Gulf Coast tour.

Countering Extremism

Jim Wallis and other faith leaders played an important behind-the-scenes role in preventing the Quran burning by extremist pastor Terry Jones on Sept. 11, 2010. Wallis’ opinion piece in “The Washington Post” Sunday Outlook section describes the role he and other faith leaders played. The article also highlights how the welcoming stance of a church in Tennessee had global implications in Pakistan and what that could teach us about interfaith understanding and fighting terrorism. The column was reprinted in newspapers globally, including in publications with predominantly Muslim audiences.

Afghanistan

Leading up to President Obama’s decision on strategy on Afghanistan, Sojourners proposed a new way forward, calling on President Obama to pull together advisers from the most effective development organizations on the ground in Afghanistan. Sojourners engaged in a leadership campaign on Afghanistan that included conversations with the White House, a letter signed by 25 national interfaith leaders, and a grassroots advocacy campaign. More than 17,000 Sojourners constituents signed the letter and contacted the White House. Sojourners staff met with White House officials and hand-delivered the letter. InterAction, a coalition of 187 nongovernmental relief and development organizations focused on the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, issued a letter of support for Sojourners’ approach.

Human Trafficking

Sojourners served as one of the lead organizers for an advocacy track at Urbana, the largest evangelical youth missions conference in the United States. This was the first time Urbana has addressed advocacy as a topic. Sojourners, World Vision, and International Justice Mission jointly planned and led the advocacy track, and launched a new advocacy campaign: the Human Wrong Campaign that included an “advocacy campaign in a box” for students to implement on their campus. the campaign offered educational and action resources on child slavery, including bonded labor, sexual exploitation, and child soldiers.

The Washington Post reported that in 2007 Sojourners rented its mailing list to Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

Notes

External links

Sojourners

"God's politics: a blog by Jim Wallis and friends"

Sojourners on YouTube

Sojourners on Twitter

Category:American political magazines Category:Monthly magazines Category:Christian magazines Category:Magazines established in 1971

Name	Steve Dawson
Background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth name	Steven Dawson
Born	February 24, 1951Sheffield, Yorkshire, EnglandUnited Kingdom
Instrument	Bass guitar
Genre	R&B;, Rock and roll, Hard rock, NWOBHM, Heavy metal
Occupation	Musician, Songwriter
Years active	1976—present
Label	Carrere
Associated acts	Saxon, Oliver/Dawson Saxon, The Animals

Steven "Dobby" Dawson (born 24 February 1951, in Sheffield, Yorkshire), is an English bass guitarist, founder of Saxon.

Discography

Saxon

Saxon (1979)

Wheels of Steel (1980)

Strong Arm of the Law (1980)

Denim and Leather (1981)

The Eagle Has Landed (1982)

Power & the Glory (1983)

Crusader (1984)

Innocence Is No Excuse (1985)

BBC Sessions (1999)

Live at Donnington 1980 (2000)

Son of a Bitch

Victim You (1996)

Oliver/Dawson Saxon

Re://Landed (2000)

It's Alive (2003)

The Second Wave: 25 Years of NWOBHM (2003)

Steve Dawson

Pandemonium Circus (2002)

References

External links

Oliver / Dawson Saxon Myspace Site

Oliver / Dawson Saxon Site

Category:Living people Category:English bass guitarists Category:Heavy metal bass guitarists Category:1951 births

Name	Rush Limbaugh
Caption	Limbaugh at CPAC, February 2009
Birth name	Rush Hudson Limbaugh III
Birth date	January 12, 1951
Birth place	Cape Girardeau, Missouri, U.S.
Years active	1967–present
Occupation	Radio host, political commentator, author, television personality
Spouse	Roxy Maxine McNeely (1977–1980, div.)Michelle Sixta (1983–1990, div.)Marta Fitzgerald (1994–2004, div.)Kathryn Rogers (2010–pres)
Alma mater	Southeast Missouri State University (Dropped Out)
Website	rushlimbaugh.com
Publisher	Forbes.com
Year	2007
Accessdate	2008-05-08

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (; born January 12, 1951) is an American radio talk show host, conservative political commentator, and an opinion leader in conservative politics and conservatism in the United States. He hosts The Rush Limbaugh Show which is aired throughout the U.S. on Premiere Radio Networks and is the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United States. Limbaugh signed an 8 year, $400 million contract extension with Clear Channel in 2008 that pays him $50 million a year. Unable to find another job in local radio, Limbaugh moved back home to Cape Girardeau. He became a lifelong fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers from his time in the region. There he developed a close friendship with now retired Kansas City Royals star George Brett; the two remain close friends. The repeal of the Fairness Doctrine—which had required that stations provide free air time for responses to any controversial opinions that were broadcast—by the FCC in 1987 meant stations could broadcast editorial commentary without having to present opposing views. Daniel Henninger wrote, in a Wall Street Journal editorial, "Ronald Reagan tore down this wall (the Fairness Doctrine) in 1987 ... and Rush Limbaugh was the first man to proclaim himself liberated from the East Germany of liberal media domination."

1990s

In December 1990, journalist Lewis Grossberger wrote in the New York Times that Limbaugh had "more listeners than any other talk show host" and described Limbaugh's style as "bouncing between earnest lecturer and political vaudevillian".

"Barack the Magic Negro" parody

On March 19, 2007, Limbaugh referred to a Los Angeles Times editorial by David Ehrenstein which claimed that Barack Obama was filling the role of the "magic negro", and that this explained his appeal to voters.

"Leader of Republican Party"

Limbaugh was the keynote speaker at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference; his speech attracted widespread attention.

On March 2, 2009, Limbaugh responded to Emanuel,

On the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal, Limbaugh said, "This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation ... And we're going to ruin people's lives over it and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day [referring to the U.S. Military service members]. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release?" For two weeks in 1989, on his Sacramento radio show, Limbaugh performed "caller abortions" where he would end a call suddenly to the sounds of a vacuum cleaner and a scream. He would then deny that he had "hung up" on the caller, which he had promised not to do. Limbaugh claims that he used this gag to illustrate "the tragedy of abortion" as well as to highlight the question of whether abortion constitutes murder. Limbaugh donated $320,000 during the 2007 Cure-a-Thon

In 1983, Limbaugh married Michelle Sixta, a college student and usherette at the Kansas City Royals Stadium Club. They were divorced in 1990, and she remarried the following year.

On May 27, 1994, Limbaugh married Marta Fitzgerald, a 35-year-old aerobics instructor whom he met on the online service CompuServe in 1990. In 2001, he was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED), which, in the span of three months, rendered his right ear completely deaf and left ear severely deaf. "I cannot hear television. I cannot hear music. I am, for all practical purposes, deaf – and it's happened in three months." On December 19, 2001, doctors at the House Ear Clinic in Los Angeles were able to successfully restore a measure of his hearing through a surgical procedure known as a cochlear implant surgery. Limbaugh received a Clarion CII Bionic Ear. In 2005, Limbaugh was forced to undergo "tuning" due to an "eye twitch", an apparent side-effect of cochlear implants.

NFL team ownership bid controversy

On October 6, 2009, Limbaugh announced that he was planning on bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League along with current owner of the NHL's St. Louis Blues, Dave Checketts. This was met with opposition by some players, and team owners. NFL Players executive director DeMaurice Smith stated in his opposition that he had "spoken to the Commissioner [Roger Goodell] and [he understood] that this ownership consideration is in the early stages. But sport in America is at its best when it unifies, gives all of us reason to cheer, and when it transcends. Our sport does exactly that when it overcomes division and rejects discrimination and hatred." Limbaugh was eventually dropped from the group that was putting in the bid due to the distraction that came from his consideration.

Hospitalization for chest pains

On December 30, 2009, while vacationing in Honolulu, Hawaii, Limbaugh was transported to Queen's Medical Center where he was admitted in serious condition with intense chest pains. Testing revealed nothing specific and his doctors attributed the pain to angina pectoris, which is an obstruction or spasm of the coronary arteries.

Awards and recognition

A month after Bill Clinton's defeat of George H.W. Bush in 1992, Ronald Reagan sent Limbaugh a letter in which he thanked him "for all you're doing to promote Republican and conservative principles ... [and] you have become the Number One voice for conservatism in our Country."

Limbaugh was the 1992, 1995, 2000 and 2005 recipient of the Marconi Radio Award for Syndicated Radio Personality of the Year (given by the National Association of Broadcasters), joining the syndicated Bob & Tom Show as the only other four-time winners of a Marconi award. He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1993.

In 2002, Talkers magazine ranked him as the greatest radio talk show host of all time. Limbaugh is the highest-paid syndicated radio host.

On March 29, 2007, Limbaugh was awarded the inaugural William F. Buckley, Jr. Award for Media Excellence, by the Media Research Center, a conservative media analysis group.

On January 5, 2008, the conservative magazine Human Events announced Limbaugh as their 2007 Man of the Year.

On December 1, 2008, TV Guide reported that Limbaugh was selected as one of America’s top ten most fascinating people of 2008 for a Barbara Walters ABC special that aired on December 4, 2008.

On February 28, 2009, following his self-described "first address to the Nation" lasting 90 minutes, carried live on CNN and Fox News and recorded for C-SPAN, Limbaugh received CPAC's "Defender of the Constitution Award", a document originally signed by Benjamin Franklin, given to someone "who has stood up for the First Amendment ... Rush Limbaugh is for America, exactly what Benjamin Franklin did for the Founding Fathers ... the only way we will be successful is if we listen to Rush Limbaugh".

Zev Chafets, whose book Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One is forthcoming a/o 2010, wrote after the first primaries of the 2010 U.S. election season that Limbaugh was "the brains and the spirit behind" the Republican Party's "resurgence" in the wake of the 2008 election of President Barack Obama. In the May, 2010 New York Times op-ed column, Chafets pointed among others to Sen. Arlen Specter's defeat, after being labeled by Limbaugh "Republican in Name Only," and to Sarah Palin, whose "biggest current applause line — Republicans are not just the party of no, but the party of hell no — came courtesy of Mr. Limbaugh." More generally, Chafets wrote, Limbaugh has argued the party-of-no Ronald Reagan conservative course for the Republicans vigorously, notably since six weeks after the Obama inauguration, and has been fundamental to, and encouraging to, the more prominently noted Tea Party movement.

Bibliography

The Way Things Ought to Be (1992) Pocket Books ISBN 0-671-75145-X

See, I Told You So (1993) Pocket Books ISBN 0-671-87120-X

In 1992, Limbaugh published his first book, The Way Things Ought To Be, followed by See, I Told You So in 1993. Both became number one on the New York Times Best Seller list, The Way Things Ought to Be remaining there for 24 weeks. Limbaugh acknowledges in the text of the first book that he taped the book and it was transcribed and edited by Wall Street Journal writer John Fund. In the second book, Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily is named as his collaborator.

References

Further reading

External links

The Rush Limbaugh Show official site

Rush Limbaugh at the NNDB

New York Times Magazine

The 2009 TIME 100: Rush Limbaugh by Glenn Beck

Category:1951 births Category:Living people Category:People from Cape Girardeau, Missouri Category:American anti-communists Category:American Christians Category:American infotainers Category:American political pundits Category:American political writers Category:American talk radio hosts Category:American television talk show hosts Category:Conservatism in the United States Category:Criticism of feminism Category:Deaf people Category:Environmental skepticism Category:People from Palm Beach County, Florida Category:Southeast Missouri State University alumni Category:The Rush Limbaugh Show

Name	Rich Nathan
Caption	Rich Nathan
Birth place	New York
Occupation	pastor and author

Rich Nathan (born December 1955) has been the senior Pastor of the Vineyard Church of Columbus since 1987. Nathan was raised in conservative Judaism and came to believe in Jesus and the Jewish Messiah at the age of 18. Prior to pastoring, he was an assistant professor of business law at The Ohio State University for five years. Nathan has served on the National Board of Vineyard: A Community of Churches for more than a decade and is the Large Church Task Force Coordinator for the Vineyard. He is a popular national and international conference speaker and author of two books. Nathan has been noted as one of the strongest voices in favor of the Third Wave Movement.

Nathan has also been outspoken on the subject of faith and politics, in an interview with the Columbus Dispatch, he was quoted:

Vineyard Columbus

Vineyard Columbus (formerly Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Columbus) is a church in Westerville, Ohio. It is part of the Association of Vineyard Churches that is based in Sugar Land, Texas.

The Vineyard Church of Columbus dates back as a church to the late-1970s, under Nathan's leadership. Three different house churches joined together to form the first church, It was not called a Vineyard at the time however. The church remained independent of any larger group for a number of years, considering itself a part of a "Third Wave of the Holy Spirit" in America. After investigating a number of groups to join with, the leadership of the church decided on the Association of Vineyard Churches, which was led at that point by John Wimber. They became the Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Columbus in 1987, changing their name to what it is known as now in the late 1990s. From a few house churches to several hundred people in the early 1990s, it has experience explosive growth. Drawing over 8,500 people at its weekend worship services, it is the largest church in the Vineyard movement today. It is a church that is self described as an "empowered evangelical" church, according to the definition in Rich Nathan and Ken Wilson's book Empowered Evangelicals that was published in the mid-1990s.

Theological foundation of Columbus Vineyard

An "empowered evangelical" is defined by Nathan and Wilson as someone who embraces the best of the Protestant evangelical stream of Christian belief and the best of charismatic/pentecostal stream of Christian belief. Vineyard as a church believes that the Bible is true and infallible, and that truth is the world's only hope. Vineyard affirms that Christians are called to tell others about what the Bible says God is doing in the world, namely transforming it. That work finds its central focus for Vineyard in the person of Jesus and what it is written in the Bible that he accomplished in his death on the cross and through being raised from the dead (known as the resurrection).

Vineyard affirms the Christian belief that repentance and faith in Jesus are the doorway into the transformation that God is bringing to the world. Without implying that evangelicals are "powerless", Nathan wrote that the "empowered" aspect that Vineyard emphasizes is that God has made his power available through the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, as it was for the apostles of the First Century. This includes a belief in supernatural healing of physical and mental illnesses and miraculous signs. While there are definite disagreements between the mainstream evangelical churches and the Vineyard, the Vineyard believes that there is great unity at the core of two.

Impact on Columbus and beyond

The actions of Vineyard in the life of the surrounding community are forged by a belief that God is not just forgiving sins and in doing so making available eternal life, but that he is also actively desiring to fix what is broken in the world. The Vineyard teaches that the Kingdom of God is advancing and transforming the world. According to the theological position that the Vineyard takes, the kingdom of God is God's reign as action and the conformity of a situation to what he desires. Because of this view, the Vineyard Church of Columbus offers a full range of services to the community.

The church offers classes, prayer, sermons, and Bible study groups for growth in spiritual life. It also offers counseling, marriage training, small group communities for growth in relationships. The church is host to a ministry training center known as Vineyard Leadership Institute, as well as a young adult community called Joshua House. Additionally, it serves the poor and overlooked both in Columbus and worldwide to bring social wholeness.

It prays for the sick people asking that God would supernaturally heal them, teaches classes on good health, and offers groups to help people grow in physical wholeness. While the church actively seeks to see moral wholeness in the surrounding culture, it believes that the church is not here to be combative against its neighbors but to be gracious and meek like Christ. This view has been important in the development of many social programs, such as food pantries, day care and after school programs, ESL courses, as well as legal, medical, dental, and optometry clinics. Most of these programs are administered through a community center that Vineyard Columbus opened in 2006.

The original church in Westerville has planted 24 churches in since 1987, including over a dozen in the Columbus area - all included in the Vineyard Movement. Vineyard also supports many Christian missionaries throughout the world.

Vineyard Leadership Institute

Vineyard Leadership Institute (VLI) is a two-year, seven quarter course. It was created to integrate hands-on training, ministry experience, spiritual formation, and academic understanding.

Vineyard Leadership Institute was established in 1995 by Rich Nathan the senior pastor of the Vineyard Church of Columbus in Columbus Ohio. In 1996 Steve Robbins, Ph.D. was brought in to take over as Director of Vineyard Leadership Institute.

The host site is in Columbus Ohio where Steve Robbins, Ph.D. and all faculty are filmed. VLI operates on "Distance Sites", small groups of people that go through the courses and material together and are overseen by a site coordinator. VLI has many sites located throughout the United States as well as in the United Kingdom, Brazil, Spain, and Chile.

Education

Bachelor's degrees in history and religious studies at Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio. J.D. at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law in Columbus, Ohio.

Writings

Who Is My Enemy ISBN 031023882X

(Co-authored) Empowered Evangelicals with Ken Wilson ISBN 0892839295

Notes

References

Michael Gerson, "A New Social Gospel," Newsweek, November 13, 2006

External links

Columbus Dispatch article of May 11, 2007 regarding Vineyard Church of Columbus

Columbus, Ohio Community Relations article

Christianity Today article interviewing Nathan

Vineyard Church of Columbus

*Sermons in audio / Sermons in transcript

Sojourners: Christians for Justice and Peace hosted a Presidential Forum, and here is Nathan on CNN video in July 2007

Vineyard Leadership Institute — Official website

Category:Living people Category:1955 births Category:Converts to Christianity Category:Ohio State University faculty Category:American Christian clergy Category:American sermon writers Category:Christian evangelicalism Category:Pentecostalism

Name	David Bazan
Landscape	Yes
Background	solo_singer
Born	January 1976 (34)
Genre	indie rock
Occupation	singer-songwriter
Years active	1995–present
Label	Barsuk Records, Jade Tree, Suicide Squeeze, Tooth and Nail
Associated acts	Pedro The Lion, Headphones
Url	http://davidbazan.com, http://pedrothelion.org

David Bazan (born January 1976) is an indie rock singer-songwriter from Seattle, Washington. Bazan (pronounced "buh-zahn") was the lead singer and creative force behind the now-defunct band Pedro the Lion and was the lead singer of Headphones, a band he formed out of his interest in synthesizers. In early 2006, he began performing and recording solo. Bazan is currently touring the United States with a full band for the first time in almost five years.

Collaborations

In the early 90's he played drums in the band The Guilty (later named Coolidge) with fellow songwriter Damien Jurado. Bazan had attended Shorewood High School with Jurado.

In 2002, he played drums and sang backup vocals for Seldom; in 2004, he played with Starflyer 59. Bazan has made various studio appearances with Seattle-based bands; for instance, In 2004 he sang on the Six Parts Seven remix album Lost Notes From Forgotten Songs, played drums in 1998 on Unwed Sailor's Firecracker EP, and contributed to the Rosie Thomas album These Friends of Mine.

In 2005, Bazan collaborated with TW Walsh, Frank Lenz of Starflyer 59 and Nick Peterson (formerly of Fleet Foxes), comprising the band Headphones. Walsh later left the band for personal reasons after a tour on which he handled drum duties. Peterson filled in on drums for the remaining Headphones live shows. The band released one self-title LP and there were no subsequent plans from Bazan to continue recording as the Headphones.

Bazan was part of The Undertow Orchestra with Mark Eitzel (American Music Club), Will Johnson (Centro-matic, South San Gabriel), Vic Chesnutt, and Scott Danbom (Centro-matic, South San Gabriel). They toured the USA and Europe in 2006.

Bazan is a personal friend of comedian Horatio Sanz, and performed at Sanz's 2006 Christmas show, The Ho-Ho-Horatio Christmas Special, at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City. In 2007 he did a Take-Away Show acoustic video session.

Bazan has also been involved with musical acts Scientific and The Soft Drugs.

Solo projects

Bazan recorded his first solo project, the EP Fewer Moving Parts, in between touring as a member of The Undertow Orchestra. The EP was released on June 13, 2006. Bazan recently finished a nationwide solo tour featuring Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and Johnathan Rice and also contributed a cover of the song "Let Down" to Stereogum's OK X project, a tribute to the Radiohead album OK Computer.

In September 2008, in an interview with 89.3 The Current , Bazan mentioned that his next album would be played entirely by him and that he would recruit friends to play live when he tours. The album, Curse Your Branches, includes "Please, Baby, Please," a song he debuted during the interview. During his solo tour in September 2008, Bazan debuted six other songs that were on the short list for Curse Your Branches: "Weeds in the Wheat", "Curse Your Branches", "Broken Arm", "In Stitches," and "Harmless Sparks."

Bazan released his first DVD the following month. The DVD contains interviews and intimate live performances filmed in his home studio, on his front porch, and while driving around in his Ford Bronco. It was shot during two weekends in June and July 2008 in Seattle. The DVD, entitled Bazan: Alone at the Microphone, was released October 21, 2008.

In October 2008, Bazan released the album version of "American Flags" on his Facebook and Myspace pages to coincide with the 2008 United State presidential election. The track was made available for purchase on iTunes and other online vendors in November, along with the version of "Please, Baby, Please" recorded for the DVD.

Beginning in March 2009, Bazan played a series of small, acoustic house shows. The smaller shows allowed him to debut new material and generate income, while still maintaining a low profile per the request of his record label.

Bazan's full length debut album, Curse Your Branches, was released on September 1, 2009 on Barsuk Records.

On November 1, 2010, Bazan announced his second full length solo album entitled Strange Negotiations, with a release date TBA. Manager Bob Andrews claims that all the songs are written and a spring 2011 release is desired. Bazan says the songs sound most similar to Control and Headphones.

Discography

Albums

Curse Your Branches (September 1, 2009)

Strange Negotiations (TBA)

DVDs

(October 21, 2008)

EPs

7 song demo (1994)

Fewer Moving Parts (June 13, 2006)

Live at Electrical Audio (March 15, 2010)

Singles

The Poison Makes, split single b/w Walk Slow by Casey Foubert (January 2003, Bedside Recordings)

: 500 numbered on black vinyl on Ben Gibbard's short lived label

Away in a Manger (October 25, 2006, Suicide Squeeze)

: B-Side: O Little Town Of Bethlehem : 1,000 printed on marbled vinyl

Jingle Bells (November 4, 2008, Suicide Squeeze)

: B-side: All I Want for Christmas : 200 printed on white vinyl : 400 printed on red vinyl : 400 printed on green vinyl

American Flags 7" Single

: B-side: Please Baby Please

The Man in Me (September 1, 2009, Barsuk Records)

: B-side: Hallelujah

Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (October 6, 2009, Suicide Squeeze)

: B-side: Say It Isn't Greensleeves (A Change At Christmas) : 200 printed on blue vinyl : 400 printed on golden vinyl : 400 printed on clear vinyl

Wish My Kids Were Here (November 9, 2010, Suicide Squeeze)

: B-Side: I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day : 200 printed on orange vinyl : 400 printed on red vinyl : 400 printed on yellow vinyl

Compilation appearances

Hard Times - Bifrost Arts' Come O Spirit (Sounds Familyre 2009)

''See also: Pedro the Lion discography, Headphones discography

Notes and references

External links

Official website

The Passion of David Bazan (Chicago Reader)

David Bazan wrestles with tough questions on his solo debutRiverfront Times

David Bazan Interview on The Nick and Josh Podcast

Category:American rock guitarists Category:American male singers Category:American singer-songwriters Category:American indie rock musicians Category:1976 births Category:Living people Category:Musicians from Washington (U.S. state)

Name	Bill McKibben
Caption	Bill McKibben speaking at Rochester Institute of Technology
Birthname	Bill McKibben
Birthdate	1960
Birthplace	Palo Alto, California
Occupation	Environmentalist and writer
Genre	global warming, alternative energy, risks associated with human genetic engineering
Spouse	Sue Halpern
Children	Sophie (b. 1993)
Website	http://www.billmckibben.com

William Ernest "Bill" McKibben (born 1960) is an American environmentalist and author who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College. In 2010 the Boston Globe called him "the nation's leading environmentalist" and Time magazine described him as "the world's best green journalist." In 2009 he led the organization of 350.org, which coordinated what Foreign Policy magazine called "the largest ever global coordinated rally of any kind," with 5,200 simultaneous demonstrations in 181 countries. The magazine named him to its inaugural list of the 100 most important global thinkers, and MSN named him one of the dozen most influential men of 2009. In 2010, McKibben and 350.org conceived the 10/10/10 Global Work Party, which convened more than 7,000 events in 188 countries as he had told a large gathering at Warren Wilson College shortly before the event. In December 2010, 350.org coordinated a planet-scale art project, with many of the 20 works visible from satellites.

McKibben grew up in suburban Lexington, Massachusetts. As an undergraduate at Harvard University, he was president of The Harvard Crimson newspaper. Immediately after college he joined The New Yorker as a staff writer and wrote much of the Talk of the Town column from 1982 to early 1987. He quit the magazine when its longtime editor William Shawn was forced out of his job, and soon moved to the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.

He currently resides in Vermont with his wife, writer Sue Halpern, and their only child, Sophie (born 1993 in Glens Falls, New York). He is Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, where he also directs the Middlebury Fellowships in Environmental Journalism. He is also a fellow at the Post Carbon Institute. McKibben is active in the Methodist Church, and his writing is sometimes spiritual in nature.

Writing

McKibben is a frequent contributor to various publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Granta, National Geographic, Rolling Stone and Outside. He is also a board member at and contributor to Grist Magazine.

His first book, The End of Nature, was published in 1989 by Random House after being serialized in the New Yorker. It is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has been printed in more than 20 languages. Several editions have come out in the United States, including an updated version published in 2006.

His next book, The Age of Missing Information, was published in 1992. It is an account of an experiment in which McKibben collected everything that came across the 100 channels of cable TV on the Fairfax, Virginia, system (at the time among the nation's largest) for a single day. He spent a year watching the 2,400 hours of videotape, and then compared it to a day spent on the mountaintop near his home. This book has been widely used in colleges and high schools, and was reissued in a new edition in 2006.

Subsequent books include Hope, Human and Wild, about Curitiba, Brazil and Kerala, India, which he cites as examples of people living more lightly on the earth; The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation, which is about the Book of Job and the environment; Maybe One, about human population; Long Distance: A Year of Living Strenuously, about a year spent training for endurance events at an elite level; and Enough, about what he sees as the existential dangers of genetic engineering and nanotechnology.

Wandering Home, is about a long solo hiking trip from his current home in the mountains east of Lake Champlain in Ripton, Vermont back to his longtime neighborhood of the Adirondacks. His book, Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, published in March 2007, was a national bestseller. It addresses what the author sees as shortcomings of the growth economy and envisions a transition to more local-scale enterprise.

In the fall of 2007 he published, with the other members of his Step It Up team, Fight Global Warming Now, a handbook for activists trying to organize their local communities. In 2008 came The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life, a collection of essays spanning his career. Also in 2008, the Library of America published "American Earth," an anthology of American environmental writing since Thoreau edited by McKibben.

In 2010 he published another national bestseller, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, an account of the rapid onset of climate change. It was excerpted in Scientific American.

Awards

McKibben has been awarded both a Guggenheim Fellowship (1993) and a Lyndhurst Fellowship. He won a Lannan Literary Award for nonfiction writing in 2000. In 2010, Utne Reader magazine listed McKibben as one of the "25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World." He has honorary degrees from Colgate University, the State University of New York, Sterling College, Green Mountain College, Unity College, and Lebanon Valley College. In 2010 he won the Puffin Foundation/Nation Institute prize for creative citizenship for his work with 350.org

Step It Up

Step It Up 2007 is a nationwide grassroots environmental campaign started by McKibben to demand action on global warming by the U.S. Congress.

In late summer 2006 he helped lead a five-day walk across Vermont to call for action on global warming that some newspaper accounts called the largest demonstration to date in America about climate change. Beginning in January 2007, he founded Step It Up 2007, which organized rallies in hundreds of American cities and towns on April 14, 2007 to demand that Congress enact curbs on carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050. The campaign quickly won widespread support from a wide variety of environmental, student, and religious groups.

In August 2007 McKibben announced Step It Up 2, to take place November 3, 2007. In addition to the 80% by 2050 slogan from the first campaign, the second adds "10% [reduction of emissions] in three years ("Hit the Ground Running"), a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants, and a Green Jobs Corps to help fix homes and businesses so those targets can be met" (called "Green Jobs Now, and No New Coal").

350.org

In the wake of Step It Up's achievements, the same team announced a new campaign in March 2008 called 350.org. The organizing effort, aimed at the entire globe, drew its name from climate scientist James E. Hansen's contention earlier that winter that any atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO₂) above 350 parts per million was unsafe. "If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO₂ will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm, but likely less than that." Hansen et al. stated in the Abstract to their paper.

350.org, which has offices and organizers in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, attempted to spread that 350 number in advance of international climate meetings in December 2009 in Copenhagen. It was widely covered in the media. On Oct. 24, 2009 it coordinated more than 5,200 demonstrations in 181 countries, and was widely lauded for its creative use of internet tools, with the website Critical Mass declaring that it was "one of the strongest examples of social media optimization the world has ever seen."

Subsequently the organization continued its work, with the Global Work Party on 10/10/10 (10 October 2010), which is expected to comprise even more activities than the 2009 event.

Bibliography

Books

The End of Nature (1990) ISBN 0-385-41604-0

The Age of Missing Information (1992) ISBN 0-394-58933-5, challenges Marshall McLuhan's "global village" ideal and claims the standardization of life in electronic media is that of image and not substance, resulting in a loss of meaningful content in society

Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (1995) ISBN 0-316-56064-2

Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single Child Families (1998) ISBN 0-684-85281-0

Hundred Dollar Holiday (1998) ISBN 0-684-85595-X

Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously (2001) ISBN 0-452-28270-5

Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (2003) ISBN 0-8050-7096-6

Wandering Home (2005) ISBN 0-609-61073-2

The Comforting Whirlwind : God, Job, and the Scale of Creation (2005) ISBN 1-56101-234-3

Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (2007) ISBN 0-8050-7626-3

* Reviewed in Tim Flannery, "We're Living on Corn!" The New York Review of Books 54/11 (28 June 2007) : 26-28

Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community (2007)

The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life (2008)

American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (edited) (2008)

Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (2010) ISBN 978-0-8050-9056-7

Articles

Breaking the Growth Habit in Scientific American April 2010

Renaming of Sixth Avenue in Manhattan as 'Avenue of the Americas'. Friend whose prior military rank was inadvertently promoted by Geraldine Ferraro. Textile designers Leslie Tillett and Brian Goodin. Rolls Royce grille designer Tony Kent.

See also

Individual and political action on climate change

References

External links

Bill McKibben's Official Website

Bill McKibben on "Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet" - video by Democracy Now!

MNN.com review of 'Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet'

Sept 1, 2010 appearance on David Letterman Show

McKibben: Climate Talks Weakened by U.S., Major Polluters - video report by Democracy Now!

Category:American environmentalists Category:American Methodists Category:American non-fiction environmental writers Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Middlebury College faculty Category:The New Yorker staff writers Category:The New Yorker people Category:Ripton, Vermont Category:Writers from Vermont Category:1960 births Category:Living people Category:Climate change environmentalists Category:Sustainability advocates Category:People from Lexington, Massachusetts