Today’s Guests Nick Pitts – Fellow, Institute for Global Engagement The transgender conversation continues today and is likely continuing in many households and neighborhoods since many more people know someone who is transgender. On an unrelated note, while it is becoming more common to know a transgender person, we also may begin to know more […]
Years ago I was teaching alongside Connie in a VBS class of kids who were just learning to color and draw. The lesson had been on a verse in James 4 about sowing peace. As we passed around the crayons with the encouraging “you get what you get and you don’t get upset” line, everyone […]
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? Remember when Mary presumed the man she saw on the first Easter morning was the gardener? Think about that. The risen Christ looked like a gardener to one of the people who knew him best in all the world. As we till the soil of life, […]
Start the conversation The Connecting Point: The shootings in Atlanta, Boulder, _______…, the hate crimes against people of Asian descent, ongoing racial strife, China’s attempt to eradicate the Uighur people, the conditions in Central America resulting in parents abandoning their children with the hope of a better life in the United States, the plight of […]
I was touring a ministry center where young women victimized by sex trafficking are recovering, getting an education, and learning to live as members of a family for the first time. They were robbed of their childhoods and many of them never went to school. The dining room was being decorated for what looked […]
(this interview aired in March 2020 but I’m re-upping today on St Patrick’s Day, so we can all remember that we too are saints!) Carmen LaBerge: All right. Joining me now, Addison Bevere you can actually find him at Addison Bevere.com. He is here to share with us today his new book, Saints: Becoming more […]
Okay, it’s not Monday. But yesterday was Groundhog day, so here we go: Faith-based groups cheer, share hopes for Biden’s family reunification task force from Religion News Service. I’ll be discussing this at length with Matthew Soerens on Mornings with Carmen on Thursday, February 4 as we survey the changes to immigration policy and practice […]
I’m asked one question more than any other by listeners: where can I get a reliable source of news? People are frustrated by the bias on all sides. If you’re like me, you just want the straight story and then you want to form your own opinions and take your stand in the political discourse […]
Happy New Year! The day we all get to begin again – again! From turning the page on the calendar to closing the books on the year now passing, this is a time of beginning again. If anyone is in Christ, there is the eternal offer to begin again: The offer of a clean slate, […]
What’s today’s date? The full date? When you said it, did you include the formal label “AD.” Probably not, we only use it on diplomas and legal documents – but it is true that every day we live is AD. AD stands for Anno Domino, or “the year of the Lord.” We use AD […]