Have you noticed how many headlines and articles and reports center around death? We now count every death, taking note of how and with whom and under what circumstances each person died in every state and around the world. God accounts for every life and every death and Carmen talks with Peter Kapsner about how […]
Carmen and Ben Johnson talk about the importance of worldview as we make critical care decisions. When you have to decide who is going to get a ventilator, how are you going to make that determination. Come to find out, religious people make that decision based on the value of every human life – secular […]
Carmen shares one YouTube find she’s really enjoying: John Krasinski’s Some Good News . Yesterday was Episode 5 and it was Potluck, which coincided with Carmen’s Tasty Tuesday emphasis, so…. Bill English is back to talk through the calculus small business owners are going through as the government begins lifting stay at home orders across […]
Luke 1:17 reads, “And he [John the Baptist] will go on before the LORD, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the LORD.” Are we ready and if not, what […]
Stephen Wilson is Gateway Church pastor to the multi-campus church’s campuses inside Texas prisons. He joins Carmen again today to discuss what’s happening on the inside, how the prison-based campuses are adapting to the coronavirus, and how Gateway is resourcing other prison Chaplains across the country with resources to serve the incarcerated in this unique […]
Carmen talks with Matthew Hawkins about how our country’s culture wars (abortion, guns, religious liberty) are evident in the protests against ongoing government mandated lockdowns for Covid19. They also talk about the very real prospect that many churches in America will never reopen. Chris Martin, manager of LifeWay’s social media, shares how one Facebook executive […]
Identity, belonging and purpose – the three big questions everyone is seeking to answer and the first one is foundational. Who am I? The identity issue is a big one today. Carmen talks with Peter Kapsner about a recently case where a woman wanted to be legally identified as sexually oriented toward chandeliers. Yes, lighting […]
Carmen’s opening commentary is developed more fully here. Ben Johnson from Action.org engages the question of Muslim calls to prayer being broadcast during Ramadan over loudspeakers in one Minneapolis neighborhood as a religious accommodation during COVID19 shutdown. Ben open up several lines of conversation worthy of further consideration. Ben and Carmen also discuss something we’ll […]
April 22, 2020 was the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. There was a 3.8 magnitude earthquake in California. As earthquakes go, that’s relatively minor. But it lead to a flurry of social media posts about “angering Mother Nature,” how Mother Nature was being provoked by human “assaults upon her” and myriad other references to the […]
Carmen talks with Bill English from BibleandBusiness.com about the realities for small businesses owners in the COVID19 shutdown. Bill talks candidly about his own experience of loss and grief. He reminds us of the story of Hannah who pours out her heart to God and see the death of a dream before the reality of […]