We are offering a brand new resource during the month of January to new Reconnectors! What is a Reconnector? Reconnectors invest monthly through online giving to this ministry. What does that investment provide? A constellation of media resources in which we reconnect the eternal with the everyday every single day. Our resources include: ReconnectOne: A […]
I’m exhausted. I know I need time with the Lord. I know He invites me to retreat with Him – not just stealing away a few minutes each morning, but consecrated time AWAY from everyone and everything else that clings and drags and pulls at me for attention. Carmen talks with author Ruth Haley Barton […]
How many of us have cried out in the midst of suffering, “God where are you?” This side of eternity, we don’t know why some things happen. We can’t explain the purpose of suffering, or why really bad things sometimes happen to really good people. Instead of giving us perfect knowledge, God gave us His […]
Carmen applies the mind of Christ to four headlines in quick succession: A TX judge is suing the state’s commission that sanctioned her for refusing to perform a same sex wedding The ELCA has ordained into ministry a transgender person Pew Research: The U.S Leads World in Rate of Children in Single Parent Households Netflix […]
Providence Magazine’s Drew Griffin discusses recent executive actions by U.S. President Trump and Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the UK identifying and bringing the government to bear on rising anti-semitism. Peter Kapsner reacts to New Yorker article on the social impact and emotional pressure of having an “Instragram Face.” Peter and Carmen also discuss the pressure […]
It seems that everyone today takes offense at nearly everything. Carmen observes there are legitimate causes for righteous indignation, the real need is for each of us to become more resilient. Justin Giboney of the And Campaign talks about not being easily offended and helping our children develop the kind of gentle toughness they’re going to […]
On this 17th day of Advent Carmen opens the show with a survey of Luke 17. Dr. Mark Caleb Smith from Cedarville University joins Carmen for a conversation about rediscovering or reestablishing a center in American politics. The extremes tend to define the positions and certainly the planks of the GOP and Democrat Party platforms, […]
Today we put the social back into social media. Thomas Russo, Jr. is a city manager in New Jersey. He connected with Carmen on LinkedIn and that led to an exchange of books which resulted in today’s conversation on air. Thomas Russo was living the life – the life the world tells us to crave. […]
Remember Y2K? Twenty years ago we were all feverishly preparing for…the unknown. No one really knew what would happen at the strike of midnight on 12/31/1999 when all those new fangled computers rolled over. Some predicted the end of the world, others the end of the world as we know it. The doomsayers were wrong […]
In the first half Carmen has her weekly Friday media round up with Adam Holz from Focus on the Family’s Plugged In. Then, Kevin Singer from Neighborly Faith and Dr. Matthew Mayhew from The Ohio State University share the IDEALS project which examines the experience of college students in developing friendships beyond their own tribe. […]