Mornings with Carmen 2-7-2019 Dante’s hell vs. the Bible in political speech; Religious tests?; Why we do what we do on Faith Radio; Evangelism click bait; and reaching college campuses for Christ
February 7, 2019
Will people be condemned to hell because of particular political actions they take in this life? That’s the question which rises from recent rhetoric in Great Britain surrounding Brexit. But it surfaces a larger conversation for Christians: what assumptions do we make about another’s relationship with God because of their political positions or rhetoric? How […]
Mornings with Carmen 2-6-2019 Reviewing the State of the Union; What’s the Bible got to do with business? and I’ll take mine Sunny side up!
February 6, 2019
Carmen offers her commentary on the President’s State of the Union address, identifying evidence of the redemptive arc of history in the stories of those whose sacrifices and service were highlighted. Then she discusses the SOTU with Union University professor, Hunter Baker. In the second hour, Carmen talks with Bill English about the Bible and […]
Mornings with Carmen 2-5-2019 State of the Union – in Christ, with Christians, across races and nations
February 5, 2019
Carmen previews the State of the Union address with The Heritage Foundation’s Tommy Binion. The annual SOTU address is designed to transcend party and speak to the nation as a whole and yet Americans will listen tonight with divided hearts and itchy ears. How do Christians avoid partisanism press into conversations with the unity of […]
Mornings with Carmen 2-4-2019 Human Trafficking, Mission news, Pregnancy centers, and Foreign affairs
February 4, 2019
Conversations with: Raleigh Sadler from Let My People Go, about his new book, Vulnerable: Rethinking Human Trafficking. Ruth Kramer from Mission Network News about terrorism in the Philippines, Asia Bibi and blasphemy laws. In the second hour of the program, Carmen talks with: Ramona Davis of the Woman to Woman Pregnancy Resource Center about recent attacks on […]
Connecting Faith 2-1-2019 Susie Larson and what it means to live Fully Alive
February 2, 2019
In this final episode of Connecting Faith, Carmen talks with Susie Larson about her book, Fully Alive: Learning to flourish – mind, body & spirit. Carmen bids “farewell” to the one hour midday program and shares plans for Mornings with Carmen LaBerge which launches Monday, February 4 on the Faith Network of stations across the […]
Connecting Faith 1-31-2019 Human dignity, abortion, moral vocabulary, and what it means to be neighbor today with Dan Darling
February 1, 2019
Dan Darling is a regular conversation partner on Connecting Faith. Author of the Dignity Revolution, Vice President of Communications for the ERLC, pastor and friend, Dan and Carmen talk freely across a range of headlines demonstrating what mature Christian conversation sounds like in a world often divided in partisan rhetoric.
Connecting Faith 1-30-2019 Joni Eareckson Tada on Heaven and Daniel Ritchie on living fully with trials of many kinds
January 30, 2019
James reminds us in the opening of his pastoral letter, to “Count it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” Carmen talks in this episode […]
Connecting Faith 1-28-2019 Curing loneliness, #PraytheNews, how do you identify, and Matthew Soerens on Christian principles on immigration
January 28, 2019
Pill for loneliness? Responding to an article in The Guardian about the development of a pill for loneliness, Carmen comments: “It was the practice of Jesus to go to a deserted place to be alone with the Father every morning. Paul sought time alone in the wilderness after his conversion, just to be alone with […]
Connecting Faith 1-25-2019 The suicide of 10 year old, Paul Coughlin “Free us from Bullying,” and Nanette Kirsch and her book, Denial
January 25, 2019
Suicide is tragic in every case but in the case of a ten year old, chronically ill little boy in Kentucky, his suicide is best characterized as bullycide. Yes, kids are taking their own lives because the bullying – in person, at school, and over the internet (cyberbullying) is too much to bear. It is […]