There are some very uncomfortable conversations we all need to have today. And we need people who will love us enough to allow us to make mistakes in those conversations. To say things that aren’t quite right so we can learn. So that iron can sharpen iron. Justin Giboney and Carmen have been having uncomfortable […]
Carmen talks with Dr. Mark Caleb Smith about the ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States in Bostock v Clayton County that federal anti-discrimination laws in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, protect gay and transgender employees. Notably, conservative justice Neil Gorsuch and the Chief Justice, John Roberts, sided with […]
Carmen opens with reading Psalm 103 as a Forget-Me-Not prayer [1] Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! [2] Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, [3] who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, [4] who redeems your […]
The headlines provide the framework of Carmen’s conversations today with Dr. Patrick Oliver from Cedarville University and Dr. Adam Carrington from Hillsdale College. They talk across a range of topics including: Defund the Police? Justice and law enforcement and human depravity The situation in Seattle: is it anarchy or something else? Federalist 51 What is […]
The list of cancellations is long. Some due to Covid19. Some due to heightened sensitivities to shows featuring characters or themes considered racist and/or contributing negatively to the cultural conversations in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. Carmen talks with Focus on the Family’s Plugged In ministry leader, Adam Holz about Gone with […]
Carmen talks with former Policy Director of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission about why a gavel used to open and close the annual meeting of the SBC is now at the center of the denomination’s racial reckoning. Consider this: the past is not past. In the second half, Carmen’s conversation partner […]
Carmen’s conversations with Dr. Peter Kapsner and N.T. Wright about the headlines of the day are an intellectual and spiritual feast! Find God and the Pandemic here. Enough said? Just listen: http://tracking.feedpress.it/link/15795/13619701/06-11-2020-Mornings-with-Carmen-HR2.mp3
What are you reading, to whom are listening, what are you learning and what are you saying when you speak? There’s a new post by Emmanuel Acho in Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man African American poet, Langston Hughes: Let America be America again https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again Ben Johnson from the Acton Institute shared observations related to […]
The National Bureau of Economic Research said yesterday that the United States is officially in a recession. The NBER defines a recession as a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales. Bill English joins […]
For more than four hours the world watched a black American church homegoing for George Floyd. Carmen comments briefly in today’s show open but more fully here. Pastor Daryl Crouch joins Carmen to discuss the church’s responsibility to combat racism. And then she talks with Hunter Baker about a range of topic including the distinction […]