More Than Medicine

Send us Fan Mail Trust in medicine doesn’t disappear overnight, it breaks in specific moments when policies feel disconnected from common sense. That’s the tension we explore with pediatrician Dr Bob Sears, as we talk through why so many parents are rethinking childhood vaccines and what informed consent should actually mean in a modern medical system.  We start with Dr Sears’ path into “thinking...

Send us Fan Mail A quiet walk toward Sodom turns into one of the most piercing conversations in the Bible. We open Genesis 18:16–33 and watch God speak openly with Abraham about the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah, showing us that His justice is never impulsive and His mercy is never naive. Along the way, we connect the dots to Romans 1 and the reality that rejecting truth doesn’t stay private i...

Send us Fan Mail A man is declared dead on an operating table, sent to the morgue, and then wakes up 40 minutes later with his abdomen still open. That story isn’t shared for shock value, it sets up the central question we wrestle with: when medicine says “dead,” does it always mean what you think it means, especially when organ donation is on the table? We’re joined again by Dr. Heidi Klessig to...

Send us Fan Mail A promise so big it sounds absurd, a laugh whispered behind a tent flap, and a God who answers doubt with one unforgettable question: “Is anything too difficult for the Lord?” We open Genesis 18:1–15 at the oaks of Mamre and slow down long enough to feel the weight of it, holy God drawing near to Abraham like it’s the most natural thing in the world, while we’re left stunned that...

Send us Fan Mail A warm body with a beating heart is brought to the operating room, labeled “brain dead,” and still requires anesthesia that looks exactly like the care we give the living. That moment changed Dr. Heidi Klessig, a retired anesthesiologist and pain specialist, and it launched her deep dive into the ethics of organ donation, organ procurement, and the medical meaning of death. We wal...

Send us Fan Mail A promise that sounds impossible can expose what we really believe. We open Genesis 17:15–27 with Abraham and Sarah, where God renames Sarai as Sarah “princess,” then declares that this elderly, barren couple will have a son. Abraham laughs, suggests a more practical plan through Ishmael, and God answers with a clear “No” and a stronger “Yes” while naming the child in advance: Isa...

Send us Fan Mail “Natural” does not automatically mean safe, and kratom is proving that the hard way. After hearing more and more real-world stories, including patients who never expected to become dependent, we sit down with family physician and addiction medicine leader Dr Kurt Bravata to explain what’s happening with kratom and the highly concentrated products often called 7-OH (7-hydroxymitrag...

Send us Fan Mail A command as personal as circumcision can sound strange, even offensive, until you hear what God is actually doing in Genesis 17. We read verses 9–14 carefully and then zoom out to the bigger storyline: Abraham has waited, prospered, aged, and quietly started to forget the promise but God has not forgotten for a moment. That’s the tension we live in too, when years pass and hope f...

Send us Fan Mail Birthright citizenship sounds like a simple rule until you read the fine print the Constitution actually includes. Dr Robert Jackson sits down with constitutional lawyer Joe Wolverton to unpack a recent Supreme Court ruling discussed as Trump v Barber, and why the Court’s reasoning has sparked such fierce disagreement about the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause. If you hav...

Send us Fan Mail God speaks one sentence that can steady you and unsettle you at the same time: “I am God Almighty… walk before Me and be blameless.” We sit with Genesis 17:1–8 and let the weight of El Shaddai land where it should, not as a slogan, but as the holy name of the One who can actually command righteousness and keep impossible promises. We trace how God returns to Abram again and again...

Send us Fan Mail A teenager can be loved, funny, respectful at school, and still be in real danger. We talk with Larry Lawrence about Christopher, the son he and his wife adopted and adored, and the heartbreaking day they lost him to suicide at 14. Larry shares what Christopher was like day to day, how impulsivity and depression showed up over time, and what it means to live with questions you can...

Send us Fan Mail A single sentence can sound wise and still steer your life off a cliff: “God helps those who help themselves.” We open Genesis 16 and watch Sarai and Abram do what so many of us feel tempted to do under pressure, take control, speed up the timeline, and manufacture an outcome that God never asked for. As we read the story verse by verse, we sit with the real anguish of infertility...

Send us Fan Mail A Pentagon “UFO” data release lands, the internet lights up, and suddenly the question is everywhere: are we finally being told the truth about aliens? We sit down with writer and New American contributor Rebecca Terrell to look past the hype and ask a sharper question what if the biggest impact of UFO disclosure isn’t scientific, but spiritual? We walk through what was released,...

Send us Fan Mail Abram believes God, then asks a question many of us are almost afraid to say out loud: “How can I know?” We sit with that moment in Genesis 15:8–21 and trace how God responds not with shame, but with a covenant that speaks in blood, symbols, and unstoppable grace. Along the way, we slow down and explain the ancient covenant ritual of divided sacrifices and what it meant for two pa...

Send us Fan Mail A jury can’t agree after three children are killed, and the public conversation quickly turns into something bigger than one tragic home. We sit down with Dr. Matt Clark, CEO of Personhood South Carolina, to face the Lindsay Clancy mistrial head-on and ask what it reveals about how our culture defines guilt, compassion, and the worth of a child. We walk through the major claims su...

Send us Fan Mail Fear has a way of shrinking our world down to one hot question: “What happens to me next?” Abram asks it in Genesis 15 when he looks at his childless home and wonders what God’s promises could possibly mean. We open the text slowly and let God’s first words set the tone: “Do not fear… I am a shield… your reward shall be very great.” Then we track the moment that changes everything...

Send us Fan Mail IVF forces a question most of us would rather avoid: when does “helping” become “taking over”? We open with a Christian framework that refuses to treat human reproduction as a closed system of lab steps and success rates, because Scripture keeps pulling us back to a bigger reality, God is sovereign, God gives life, and God’s Word sets the boundary lines even when our emotions and...

Send us Fan Mail Abram comes home from battle with every reason to take the credit and take the money, and then he does something that still confronts us today: he gives a tenth to Melchizedek and refuses to let the king of Sodom claim, “I made Abram rich.” That single scene in Genesis 14:19-24 opens a bigger conversation about tithing, generosity, and Christian stewardship that is less about math...

Send us Fan Mail IVF is sold as a miracle, but the fine print often lives in a lab, not a brochure. We sit down with Dr. Robert Jackson, physician and storyteller, as he opens his “rusty, dusty scrapbook” and recounts a tense exam-room moment with a couple who wants a referral for in vitro fertilization. The question isn’t only “Can we get pregnant?” It’s also “What will IVF ask us to accept, fund...

Send us Fan Mail A mysterious priest-king steps onto the page of Genesis for a moment and somehow ends up shaping how we understand Jesus for the rest of the Bible. We open Genesis 14:17-20 and meet Melchizedek, King of Salem and priest of God Most High, as he brings bread and wine, blesses Abram, and receives a tenth. If you’ve ever wondered why this brief scene carries so much weight, we walk th...

Send us Fan Mail A Senate primary can feel like a popularity contest, until you start asking the only question that matters: what has a candidate actually done when the cameras are off? Dr. Robert Jackson is joined by his daughter and co-host Hannah Miller for a direct, values-first look at the South Carolina primary featuring Darlene Graham Nordone and Ralph Norman, with a special focus on voting...

Send us Fan Mail Five kings sweep in, cities fall, and Lot is carried off like collateral damage. When we open Genesis 14, the story moves fast, but the questions underneath it are the ones we all live with: what do you do when evil feels organized, when the odds look stupidly unfair, and when someone you love gets caught in the mess? We walk line by line through the war of the kings, the rebellio...

Send us Fan Mail A pair of eaten pants turns into a spiritual gut check. Dr. Robert Jackson sits down with his daughter, Hannah Miller, to introduce his newest book, The Family Doctor Speaks, Pig Tails, and Bible Truths, a collection of short pig farm stories that lead straight into clear Bible teaching. It starts light and funny, then quickly becomes personal: when you’re around something long en...

Send us Fan Mail God doesn’t just speak through big moments. Sometimes He waits for the room to get quiet after the argument, after the tension, after the pride finally loosens its grip. We open Genesis 13:14–18 and sit with a striking detail: the Lord speaks to Abram after Lot separates from him. That timing becomes the thread we pull through the whole devotional, because most of us want clarity...

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever wondered why election trust feels like it’s evaporating, this conversation gets specific fast. Dr. Jackson sits down with Laura Scharr of South Carolina Safe Elections to unpack election integrity concerns that range from voter registration roll accuracy to the security of election databases, electronic poll books, and machine tabulation. We talk through claims of n...