Hopefully you got a chance to listen to ‘Steve Brown Etc’ and hear us on the broadcast. If not, you don’t want to miss it. At one point, you’ll hear Abdullah Awwad (Director of the Al-Basma Center for children with special needs in Bethlehem) speak about peace and coexistence.

Also, Ali briefly answered the question: ‘’Isn’t this project naive? Can BCP really make any sort of a difference?” You can find the audio of the show here.

Coming up: on Tuesday, January 22nd (i.e. today), an interview we had with K-Love (one of the nation’s largest Christian radio station networks) will air. The interview is scheduled to air several times throughout the day during K-Love’s news broadcasts. At some point, audio of the interview will be available as a podcast. We’ll let you know when it’s up. You can listen live at KLove.com or you can check K-Love’s station list to find a station in your area.

Finally, in the housekeeping department, we added an archive for all the blog entries. You can now read all our blog entries by month or category. In addition, we fixed a small problem with apostrophes appearing as strange characters in the blog emails under certain occasions. If you haven’t noticed it, no worries. If you have, it should be fixed, if not, drop us a line and we’ll take care of it (we hope).

Also, we added a ‘’get involved” section that includes easy ways you can help the project by getting involved in your area.

So, what’s the big news? We promised to tell you soon in the last entry, but decided to keep the suspense going until the day-of. Well, the big is the project is going to be on two national mainstream Christian-radio shows between now and next Friday.

The first show, Steve Brown, Etc is today. Who’s Steve Brown? He’s a conservative talk show host who describes himself as “an-old white-guy and seminary professor who’s sick of religion”. Just think NPR’s “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” meets Christian radio. Steve jokingly gives each of his guests “three free sins” and his shows have covered everything from the Middle East to Tony Campollo (whom he calls his Favorite Liberal).

You might know Steve from his other broadcast Key-Life.

In any case, Ali will be on the show from 12-1pm EST today. You can listen live over the internet here. You will need RealPlayer to listen. If you miss it, fear not, you can always get the podcast on iTunes or you’ll be able to listen to via Steve’s archive.

The show also airs on the Radio America Network on Saturday, so depending on where you are, you’ll be able to listen to it on one of their stations.

If you have the chance, check out last week’s show. If you wait (or just fast-forward) all the way to the end of the show (last few minutes) you’ll hear Steve and the crew talk about the project as they discuss next week’s guest (Cathy, one of his co-hosts, was even able to say Ali’s last name correctly!)

We told you there where two shows. The second is on one of the largest Christian radio networks in the country: K-Love. We’re not going to give you all the details now, but we will…soon!

It’s a new year! The Christmas and New Year’s celebrations were great and the down-time was wonderful! Now it’s time for next year. We have some exciting news coming up in the next couple of days. I’m not going to spoil it, but know that something is coming up…This is what we call “hype”.

Also, Jenni has been working hard on her blog entries. We’ll be posting them up soon (if you remember, she’s writing an entry about her experience with Dana at the Bethlehem checkpoint). She started with one entry, then decided she really needs to write multiple ones. She’s almost done…almost…

Another thing in the works is the project’s short film Basil has been working on. We’re shooting for the final version by the end of January. While this is happening we’re continuing our efforts to contact media. In my next entry, I’ll be posting audio from a short interview on Moody Broadcasting Network’s “Prime Time Florida”.

In the meantime, I thought you might enjoy an audio clip from the project. The short mp3 is a collage of different moments from the project. Below is a description of what you’ll be hearing. Enjoy!

-(0-30 seconds) Israeli talking about making it into the West Bank.
-(45sec-1:45) The man speaking about peace and Israelis and Palestinian children playing together is the director of Al-Basma center (a school for mentally challenged children).
-(1:46-2:00min) Israeli talking about his thoughts on the project
-(2:00-2:30min ) Jennifer talking about how she wishes more Christians could see the joy on the people and children’s faces.
-(2:30-end) Children at a school for special needs singing Arabic Christmas carols.