Listen to radio around the world

http://radio.garden/ What a neat site. I'm listening to Ufa, Russia, Radio Chanson. Each green dot on the globe represents a city/town with a station or five or six. Vast expanses of the world have no radio stations.  Stopped in Italy, France, Turkey, Romania--all were playing U.S. rock or similar. Found a Russian language speaker in Ufa, but now is playing Russian pop/rock/folk. Moved on the St. Petersburg and found a Christian station, http://radiomaria.ru/  They are speaking slowly and calmly,  and I can catch a few words. Also visited Lithuania and Norway.

My brother-in-law loves to say phrases in other languages and greet people.  He would love this one.

Bumper stickers work

Coming back from the coffee shop I was behind an older van with a 1580 Catholic Radio bumper sticker, so I changed channels. The signal is better in my car than in the house. Most of the programming is pretty good--I click off when someone starts talking about the importance of praying to Mary or the saints. But in many areas, most Christians have more in the common than they are willing to admit. For the last two years, with a stronger signal, it reaches about 1.75 million listeners (assuming they turn it on, of course.).

Vespers, prayer and bratwurst

Until Molly Ziegler in WSJ covered the problems concerning a radio show cancelation at the LC-MS owned station, Issues, etc., I had never heard of this controversy. I did have to chuckle that concerned Lutherans are gathering for prayer and bratwurst to chew on the problem and solutions.

Interview with Molly Ziegler Hemingway on Issues, Etc.