Radio That Makes You Cry.

Dear Pastor Wilken, Jeff, and Craig,

I've been listening to Issues, Etc on and off since about a year before your "hiatus" in 2008.  I enjoy the show immensely and have learned so very much.  I am blessed these days to be under a dear shepherd that teaches me the faith before I hear it on Issues, Etc. That has not always been the case, and I have Issues, Etc to thank for making me one of those "dangerously over-educated laymen."  Thank you very much for your show.

But, gentlemen, I have a complaint.  On Tuesday June 30th, you broadcast a show which I listened to in segments via download on Wednesday, July 1st, using my handy cherry-red 2 GB Sansa Clip.  (Thank you very much, by the way, for making the show so accessible to us lowly on-demand listeners.)  One particular segment featured an hour with Rev. Matt Harrison of Lutheran World Relief and Human Care.

This segment made me cry. Never before have I heard "good works" so perfectly portrayed as a can't-but-help outpouring of the fruit of the Gospel.

Talk radio isn't supposed to make a person cry. It's quite outside the norm.  I'm afraid I also have to call your attention to a segment which you recorded September last, with Rev. Todd Peperkorn, which was a frank and honest discussion about clinical depression. (Rev. Peperkorn has written a short book on the topic. I urge you to have him on your show again.)  Because I also struggle on and off with a milder form of depression, this segment also made me cry.

I have come clean and tell you, dear brothers in Christ, that it is a very good thing indeed that I'm a girl and I'm used to crying at the drop of a hat, or I'd have to stop listening to your show.  And we wouldn't want that!

Congratulations on your first year.  May you be on the radio until your grandkids are pushing you up to the boards and microphone in a wheelchair. We'll all be listening from our nursing homes, and telling our own grandkids horror stories of archives-wiping, Lutherans protesting, and a Pirate and some of his friends working overtime to get a great show back on the air.

In Christ,
Jenny / Elephantschild.

Comments

[Pam]

Well said. Have you read Matt Harrison's book? You should, but then again, you would cry! Loves ya! Back to paint!

[steve martin]

Radio used to make me cry, too.

Then I turned 'Air America' off.