Welcome to the Wandering Hedgehog Blog. Here you will reviews of books, movies, television shows and commentary on religion in the United States. It is also home of the weekly Torah portion podcast Rolling Commentary. To subscribe to my podcast via iTunes click here or use the links to the left.

Monday, May 14, 2007

Public Radio Contest


The Public Radio Talent Quest
I just entered a contest to try to become a host of an NPR show (probably the most awesome job I could ever hope for). Click here to hear and rate my submission. I talk about the famous four chaplains of WWII and how the memorialization of their story helped to create a Judeo-Christian America and all of the factors that should be considered today when looking at religious pluralism in the United States. There was a two minute time limit so I really didn't get to say all I wanted to, and as it was I had too speak pretty fast. I would have liked to have been able to talk about my family history and interfaith family statistics in general and give some more specific examples about the different ways that interfaith relations can be examined. Oh well. Hopefully I left the listener wanting more. Also, the audio was recorded a bit too low. So turn up the volume on your speakers when you listen to it. I hope it is good enough to get me to the second round. I would really like feedback, let me know what you think of it here or on my entry page.

Later,

Nathan Erinaceous

Friday, May 11, 2007

Rolling Commentary: Behar-Bechukotai 5767


Here is the podcast for Parsha Behar-Bechukotai. In this episode I examine the themes of memory and forgetting, charity and redemption/restoration.

Monday, May 07, 2007

Rolling Commentary #1


Here is the first episode of my new podcast Rolling Commentary: A Podcast Examination of the Weekly Parsha. It is really just a test run, I say a little bit about myself and what I hope to do in the weeks to come.