Where in the Word are you today? Carmen shares that she’s in James 5, specifically verses 7-12. Read in conversation with 2 Peter 3:8-15a and I Corinthians 15 and Revelation 22 and Job 19:25. How did Job know, all those years ago, that his redeemer lived and that one day that redeemer would walk upon […]
The most important story I read this weekend was on page 19 of the print edition of the New York Times. Online it has a different (and better) headline: ‘So Help Me God’ No More: Democrats Give House Traditions a Makeover. Katie Edmondson writes, (Questions 1. and 2. below) The witness rose from her seat, […]
In this episode Carmen talks with Adam Holz from Focus on the Family’s Plugged In about Pokemon Detective Pikachu and Tolkien. They also discuss why Christians need to know about secular media even if they choose not to consume it. Carmen also talks with Chris Martin from LifeWay Voices about how to detoxify your social […]
Jean Vanier has died. Jean Vanier created a wildly inefficient model of compassion that’s instructive for us today. More than 50 years ago, shocked by the despair and loneliness he found at a psychiatric hospital outside Paris, he not only made the cause of the intellectually disabled HIS cause, he bought a house and lived […]
I want to bring two headlines into conversation with one another and ask the question: how might the lack of faith among the electorate be connected to the growing lack of faith in elections? U.S. News reports a growing distrust in the elections with the headline: A Growing Lack of Faith in Elections. We are […]
What are you thinking about, why are you thinking that way and is that way of thinking aligned with the mind of Christ? If not, how are you going to unlearn and learn to think anew in order that you might have a renewed future? That’s the topic of Carmen’s conversation with Samuel Chand. His […]
Contempt. The AG has been held in contempt so how are you going to talk about contempt today? Ben Johnson, TheRightsWriter, joins Carmen to talk about: Asia Bibi The right to life and the right to religious freedom The right to vote The right to speak your peace in peace – without having a bully […]
Three stone masons were working together at a construction site. When asked what they were doing, the first replied: “I’m cutting and shaping stones.” The second said, “I’m stacking stones for a wall.” But the third replied with visionary enthusiasm, “I am building a cathedral!” Cathedrals took a generation to construct. And lives were […]
Mother’s Day, Graduation and the opening weekend of fishing season – yes, Carmen works it all into today’s open! Bill English then gives his advice to grads. Carmen recommends we listen again to her conversation with Ben Trueblood and Brian Mills about their book, A Different College Experience: following Christ in College. Listen here. Steve […]
Carmen’s opening commentary on the shooting in Highlands Ranch, Colorado is a call to each of us and all of us to intentionally engage with young people who drift to the periphery or become confused about who they are, where they belong and what they’re in the world to do. Carmen says in today’s open: […]