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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
Leading off with a happy birthday shout out to Kindness diva, Nicole J. Phillips! Justin Giboney from The AND Campaign joins the show to discuss: the legalization of recreational marijuana breaking the silence by listening #JustGospel19 and voices we should be listening to: Alan Noble, Charlie Dates, Jackie Hill Perry and Lisa Fields Professor Peter […]
Today is, among other things, my 8th wedding anniversary. This I know: I am a different person than the person Jim married 8 years ago and he is a different person than I married. As God made of the two, one, we both grew in many significant ways. Happy Anniversary, Jim. I look forward to […]
If you like this show and the way Carmen brings the eternal to bear on the everyday, then Matt Brown’s new book, Truth Plus Love is going to be right up your alley! After talking with Matt – and dealing with some technical difficulties – Carmen talks with David Aikman about what in the world […]