I’m guessing there isn’t anyone around here, because before it was just me and the jr. high kid I payed to comment and I stopped paying him years ago and I’ve been gone.
BUT, just in case. I’ve got a radio show now, if you’d like to listen. Here are the details:
The Neighborhood Radio Show
Tuesdays, 6-8 am PST
88.9 FM KUCI in Orange County Listen online or on your iPhone
Stereogum.com interviews The Welcome Wagon’s Vito Aiuto, Pastor of Resurrection Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn:
STEREOGUM: With the rise of the Religious Right, etc., people often assume a number of negative things straight off the bat about religious people. Do you run into this sort of thing with the band or the church? It’d be interesting to hear some of your thoughts on contemporary issues. What are some of your Church’s core beliefs?
TVA: I haven’t gotten much negative reaction with our band in that regard, or with the church really. In terms of our church’s core beliefs, they are best summed up in the Apostle’s Creed. No doubt we believe that the death and resurrection of Jesus has all kinds of social and economic and political and spiritual implications. But it all begins with Jesus Christ. It begins and ends with believing that in an act of free grace, the death of Jesus on the cross, and the fact that God raised this man from the dead, is a gift to humanity that puts to death everything that separates us from the love of God, and gives us life, here and now, as well as eternally. Everything else flows out from that.
