{"id":515,"date":"2007-10-13T18:03:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T18:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/13\/joni-shines-on-reverend-carlton-pearson\/"},"modified":"2010-06-16T20:42:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T20:42:05","slug":"joni-shines-on-reverend-carlton-pearson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2007\/10\/13\/joni-shines-on-reverend-carlton-pearson\/","title":{"rendered":"Joni Has a Shine on Reverend Carlton Pearson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<span class=\"text\">Shine on Reverend Pearson<br \/>\nWho threw away<br \/>\nThe vain old God&#8230;&#8221;  <strong>Joni Mitchell, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritlighthome.com\/09_-_Shine.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Shine<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong>On November 19th, I&#8217;m scheduled to speak at a dinner and exhibition of my work at the Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue and 29th Street in Manhattan @ 6PM as part of their &#8220;GIFTS&#8221; program, an LGBT outreach:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic;\"><span class=\"Normal\">GIFTS is a gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered community at Marble Collegiate Church that seeks to reconcile spirituality and sexuality through God\u2019s love. By celebrating the common threads between our lives and faith journeys, we embrace our spiritual inheritance. We welcome all who wish to grow and be energized through Christian fellowship and service.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In my search for a way to address issues of &#8220;faith&#8221; (in both Science &amp; Religion) which I&#8217;ve always approached with skepticism and downright cynicism, I&#8217;ve become aware of the work of Reverend Carlton Pearson by way of Joni Mitchell.  <a href=\"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/24\/joni-lashes-out-at-catholic-church-on-shine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mitchell addresses her own cynicism with the Church<\/a> in her title track <a href=\"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/27\/uk-guardian-on-shine\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Shine<\/em><\/strong><\/a> on her recent CD with Hear Music\/Starbucks. So I&#8217;ve done some Internet soul-searching and found these two YouTube pieces about a remarkable Pentecostal preacher who has had the audacity to give up Hell and embrace all &#8220;God&#8217;s children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Lv_rmQuagpY&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/baGwwma5VZo&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God is not a Christian.&#8221; Rev. Carlton Pearson<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/community\/thread\/1335;jsessionid=ac11067e30d89471217fcf0944059da4e880f915f003.e3qNbhyLc3iNe3uLb3uRbxqPci0?tstart=0\" target=\"_blank\">But does She recycle plastic 4&#8217;s,  5&#8217;s &amp; 6&#8217;s?<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ministrytodaymag.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/will-carlton-pearson-win.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Will Carlton Pearson &#8216;Win&#8217;?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/dn\/religion\/stories\/030406dnrelcarltonpearson.1f8935f9.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/img\/03-06\/0304rel_pearson.jpg?resize=350%2C385\" alt=\"Belo\" width=\"350\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Shine on Reverend Pearson Who threw away The vain old God&#8230;&#8221; Joni Mitchell, Shine On November 19th, I&#8217;m scheduled to speak at a dinner and exhibition of my work at the Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue and 29th Street in Manhattan @ 6PM as part of their &#8220;GIFTS&#8221; program, an LGBT outreach: GIFTS is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,738,830,1052,1192,1243,1579,1603],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agnosticism","category-hivaids-education","category-joni-mitchell","category-music","category-photography","category-propaganda","category-vagaries","category-visual-anthropology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-8j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}