Voice America Talk Radio Network, Internet broadcasting pioneer, producing and syndicating online audio and video, today announced that Dr. James P. Comer,  Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale University will join Sharon E. Davis, host of A Safe Place to Talk about Race radio program on the VoiceAmerica Variety Channel (http://www.voiceamerica.com/Channel/246)  Monday, September 24, 2012  at 4 PM Eastern Daylight Time/ 1 PM Pacific Daylight Time.

Dr. Comer’s most recent book is “What I Learned in School: Reflections on Race, Child Development, and School Reform”. His iconic work in child development and the human condition allow us direct access to the best thinking and doing on race and development we can find.  Author of 10 books and countless media and academic journals, Dr. Comer speaks to our racial condition at depths of the mind we can all understand.

Race and culture:  Is it only fear preventing open talk about race in the USA?  Do “racial” groups of adults really have “collective unconscious” feelings on race that surface in “their” private settings? Is it possible for most adults to update beliefs, or must we look to our children and adjust our expectation of adults on race? Maybe we should put more energy into prevention than trying to heal old wound?

“A Safe Place to Talk about Race” airs live on Mondays at 1 PM Pacific / 3 PM Central / 4 PM Eastern  on The VoiceAmerica Variety  Channel. To access the show, log on at http://www.voiceamerica.com/Channel/246. All shows will be available in Sharon E. Davis’ Content Library on The VoiceAmerica Variety Channel for on-demand and pod cast download, hhttp://www.voiceamerica.com/Channel/246.

The VoiceAmericaTM Network offers the latest conversations in a talk radio format, providing education, interaction, and advice on key issues live, on demand as well as through pod cast download. If interested in hosting a talk radio show on VoiceAmerica Network, or for advertising / sponsorship information or other show details, contact Jeff Spenard, President of Internet Radio at 480-294-6417 or at jeff.spenard @ voiceamerica.com.

ABOUT Sharon E. Davis:
Sharon hosts A Safe Place to Talk about Race to help ALL of us learn our way out of racism (http://safeplaceonrace.com/).  She is founding member of the Institute for Healing of Racism. She conducted International Dialogue Racism in South Africa, Tribal Unity in Botswana,  conflict resolution in China, and was interviewed by McNeil/Lehrer Newshour  “Healing Racism in America”.  Sharon served the International Institute and U.S Immigration Services speaker and MC at Swearing-in Ceremonies for new Americans, a regular TV panelist on “Interfaith Odyssey”, and former Executive Director at the National Resource Center for Racial Healing including Project Advisor – Diversity for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Saturn Titan Mission. Numerous awards include Most Influential Black Women Entrepreneurs in Metro Detroit, Diversity Champion’s Honor Role Birmingham Bloomfield Multiracial Council, the Houston, Texas Peace Award for Inter-group Understanding, and the TWIN award in Business and Industry. She is quoted in several media publications.

About VoiceAmerica/World Talk Radio, LLC:
World Talk Radio, LLC is the world leader in online media broadcasting and the largest producer and distributor of live internet based talk radio and TV, delivering over 1,000 hours of programming weekly on its VoiceAmerica™ Network (http://www.voiceamerica.com) and WorldTalk Radio Network (http://www.worldtalkradio.com) as well as live and on-demand video content on VoiceAmerica.TV (http://www.voiceamerica.tv). Featuring more than 200 hosts broadcasting to eight niche community based channels: its flagship VoiceAmerica™ Variety Channel, VoiceAmerica™ Health & Wellness Channel, VoiceAmerica™ Business Channel, VoiceAmerica Sports, 7th Wave Channel, The Green Living Channel, VoiceAmerica Kids Channel and World Talk Radio Variety Channel. VoiceAmerica™ TV offers targeted and exclusive video programming channels. World Talk Radio, LLC is one of the pioneers in internet broadcasting, producing and syndicating online audio and video, offering an innovative, effective and comprehensive digital broadcast platform. Digital Publishing through its 10 years of broadcast and media experience along with our seasoned staff of Executive Producers, Production and Host Services Group, World Talk Radio, LLC provides an internet radio and video platform for new, emerging and veteran media personalities to expand and monetize their business and brand in an online digital medium.

Voice America Talk Radio Network, Internet broadcasting pioneer, producing and syndicating online audio and video, today announced that nationally acclaimed progressive Christianity teacher and author, John Shelby Spong will join Kathy L Kirk, host of A New View of Life radio program on the VoiceAmerica Variety Channel (http://www.voiceamerica.com/channel/246/voiceamerica-variety)  Tuesday, September 25,  at 3 PM. Pacific Time.

Bishop Spong will discuss Progressive and Emerging Christianity as paths where one can retain one’s beloved Christianity and grow spiritually using traditional teachings as platforms for greater meaning and deeper clarity. As a boy growing up in the south witnessing the struggles for racial integration, he was profoundly inspired to dig deeper into the Bible to find the messages of love, acceptance and inclusion in order to bring this broader more enlightened meaning to the Christian world.

His admirers acclaim him as a teaching bishop who makes contemporary theology accessible to the ordinary layperson. He’s considered the champion of an inclusive faith by many, both inside and outside the Christian church. In one of his recent books, The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible’s Texts of Hate to Discover the God of Love (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2005), this visionary thinker seeks to introduce readers to a proper way to engage the holy book of the Judeo-Christian tradition. A committed Christian who has spent a lifetime studying the Bible and whose life has been deeply shaped by it, Bishop Spong says he was not interested in Bible bashing. “I come to this interpretive task not as an enemy of Christianity; I am not even a disillusioned former Christian, as some of my scholar-friends identify themselves. I am a believer who knows and loves the Bible deeply. But I also recognize that parts of it have been used to undergird prejudices and to mask violence.”

A visiting lecturer at Harvard and at universities and churches worldwide, Bishop Spong delivers more than 200 public lectures each year to standing-room-only crowds. His bestselling books include Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, A New Christianity for a New World, Why Christianity Must Change or Die, and Here I Stand.

Bishop Spong’s extensive media appearances include a profile segment on 60 Minutes as well as appearances on Good Morning America, Fox News Live, Politically Incorrect, Larry King Live, The O’Reilly Factor, William F. Buckley’s Firing Line, and Extra. Bishop Spong and his wife, Christine Mary Spong, have five children and six grandchildren. They live in New Jersey.

“A New View of Life Radio Show” airs live on Tuesdays at 3 PM Pacific / 4 PM Central / 6 PM Eastern  on The VoiceAmerica Variety  Channel. To access the show, log on at http://www.voiceamerica.com/Channel/246. All shows will be available in Kathy L Kirk’s Content Library on The VoiceAmerica Variety Channel for on-demand and pod cast download, http://www.voiceamerica.com/show/2035/a-new-view-of-life.

The VoiceAmericaTM Network offers the latest conversations in a talk radio format, providing education, interaction, and advice on key issues live, on demand as well as through pod cast download. If interested in hosting a talk radio show on VoiceAmerica Network, contact Jeff Spenard, President of Internet Radio at 480-294-6417 or at jeff.spenard @ voiceamerica.com.

Contact Senior Executive Producer Scott Duffy  at 480-294-6405  for advertising / sponsorship information or other show details.

ABOUT Kathy L Kirk:
Kathy Kirk has led an extraordinary life becoming a Consciousness Bridge. In every activity, Kathy’s focus is to observe the Human Spirit interface in the body/mind and It’s application/effect in the individual Life and in the physical world to explain  and teach how we naturally create our physical reality.

Kathy is the Creator and Founder of Applied Spirituality™  http://www.appliedspirituality.comThe Ordinary Person's TOE (Theory of Everything) continues to evolve from research, observation, experiences and contemplation. Applied Spirituality explains Consciousness as cause of every effect.

Kathy is the author of two books each with online course, The Earthling’s Quick Start Guide: Master Operating Your Unit on Earth and Well Done. She redefines patriotism as the courage to answer one’s personal Call to Adventure as an Ordinary Hero, using the details of one’s physical life to awaken into a conscious life having gained a Higher Perspective.

She is a compelling speaker, conducts seminars, private/group life coaching and has a business degree from Cornell. She has two adult sons.

About VoiceAmerica/World Talk Radio, LLC:
World Talk Radio, LLC is the world leader in online media broadcasting and the largest producer and distributor of live internet based talk radio and TV, delivering over 1,000 hours of programming weekly on its VoiceAmerica™ Network (http://www.voiceamerica.com) and WorldTalk Radio Network (http://www.worldtalkradio.com) as well as live and on-demand video content on VoiceAmerica.TV (http://www.voiceamerica.tv). Featuring more than 200 hosts broadcasting to eight niche community based channels: its flagship VoiceAmerica™ Variety Channel, VoiceAmerica™ Health & Wellness Channel, VoiceAmerica™ Business Channel, VoiceAmerica Sports, 7th Wave Channel, The Green Living Channel, VoiceAmerica Kids Channel and World Talk Radio Variety Channel. VoiceAmerica™ TV offers targeted and exclusive video programming channels. World Talk Radio, LLC is one of the pioneers in internet broadcasting, producing and syndicating online audio and video, offering an innovative, effective and comprehensive digital broadcast platform. Digital Publishing through its 10 years of broadcast and media experience along with our seasoned staff of Executive Producers, Production and Host Services Group, World Talk Radio, LLC provides an internet radio and video platform for new, emerging and veteran media personalities to expand and monetize their business and brand in an online digital medium.