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This Week in the Nation’s Capital (Harris to pick VP ... + .. WH race is a virtual tie ... + .. hostages freed from Russia .. + ... Economy concerns/Fed/Wall St sell off ) ... GUEST Greg Clugston, SRN News White House Correspondent. PRISM and the Garage Giveaway ... GUESTS Scott Boyd ... Director of PRISM, Pgh Region International Student Ministry. CS Lewis and Time’s Meaning (Mere Inkling) ... GU...

Why Bring the Last Supper into It?: In which I Ponder that Blasphemy at the Olympics ... GUEST Anne Kennedy ... author of “Nailed It: 365 Sarcastic Devotionals for Angry and Worn Out People” ... She blogs everyday at: Preventingrace.com ... Anne lives in upstate NY where she mothers 6 children and lives with her husband, an Anglican priest See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Trump’s acceptance speech for the Republican nomination for President ... GUEST Dr. Tracy McKenzie ... Professor of History and holds the Arthur F Holmes Chair of Faith & Learning at Wheaton College ... author of "We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy,” “The First Thanksgiving: what the Real Story tell us about Loving God & Learning from History,” and “A L...

The Power of Being: 5 NT keys to navigating difficult times: be accepting, hospitable, encouraging, forgiving and loving ... GUEST Rev Terry Timm ... Christ Community Church of the South Hills. Times of Trouble ... GUEST Rev Josh Brown ... Bellefield Presbyterian Church, Oakland neighborhood of Pgh.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original sin in a fallen world: what it means for our politics, Trump/ Vance and the pro-life platform ... GUEST Dr Charles Camosy ... Prof of Medical Humanities at the Creighton Univ School of Medicine ... Charlie spent 14 yrs in Fordham Univ’s theology department, & is author of 7 books, inluding “Beyond the Abortion Wars,” and “Resisting Throwaway Culture” ... his most recent book is “Bioet...

Trump’s classified documents case thrown out ... GUEST Bruce Antkowiak ... law professor at Saint Vincent College ... (law degree fr Harvard magna cum laude, served as fed prosecutor, crim defense atty, & prof of law at Duquesne Law Schl, where he received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the grad class in both ‘11 & ‘07, and was named Duq Law School’s ‘07 Teacher of the Yr by the Ass...

This Week in the Nation’s Capital (Saturday’s shooting & Biden response … + … RNC opens [themes, security, etc] … + … Trump VP announcement today … + .. Trump’s classified docs case dismissed today) … GUEST Greg Clugston, SRN News White House Correspondent. The opening prayer of the campaign rally in Pennsylvania, where Trump escaped the assassination attempt, was led by a Catholic priest, Fat...

Gratitude: Why Giving Thanks Is the Key to Our Well-Being ... GUEST Dr Cornelius (Neal) Plantinga ... senior research fellow at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and president emeritus of Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Mich ... author of many books, incl the Christianity Today Book Award winners “Not the Way It's Supposed to Be,” “Engaging God's World,” and “Reading for Preac...

Creating Belonging within Families ... GUEST Amy Julia Becker ... helps people reimagine the good life through her writing and speaking on disability, faith, and culture ...author of “To Be Made Well,” “White Picket Fences,” “Small Talk,” and “A Good and Perfect Gift” ... guest opinion writer for national publications and hosts the Reimagining the Good Life podcast. Biden’s Press Conf at 5:30p tod...

His Face like Mine: Finding God's Love in Our Wounds (new book) ... GUEST Russell Joyce ... national director of church planting for The Foursquare Church and senior pastor of Faith Center in Eugene, OR ... He planted Hope Brooklyn church in 2017 and holds a Masters in Divinity from Duke Divinity School ... co-hosts the Same Jesus podcast with his friend and colleague Dr. A.J. Swoboda, and current...

The Case for voting 3rd Party ... GUEST Bob Stevenson ... husband, father of 4 and serves as Lead Pastor of Village Baptist Church in ? ... He writes at Medium (bobstevenson.net) and on Twitter (@bobstevenson). The Gifts of Scarcity ... GUEST Myles Werntz ... Director of Baptist Studies and Associate Professor of Theology, Abilene Christian Univ. What’s the Earliest Record of Jesus’s Childhood? Ev...

This Week in the Nation’s Capitol (Biden damage control ... + ... Dems divided ... + ... Trump VP pick soon ... + ... GOP convention begins a week from today) ... GUEST Greg Clugston ... SRN News White House correspondent. "What does holiness look like?" GUEST Father Tom Soroka ... pastor of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, Mckees Rocks, PA. His Face like Mine: Finding God's Love in Our Wounds (new b...

The Parenting Health and Wealth Gospel ... GUEST Dorothy Little Greco ... writer & photographer who lives outside Boston ... The author of "Making Marriage Beautiful," and most recently, “Marriage in the Middle: Embracing Midlife Surprises, Challenges & Joys” ... Dorothy & her husband lead marriage workshops/ retreats, speak at conferences nationwide. Surprising Events in Charleston .....

A conversation with three pastors … GUEST Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra… senior writer and faith-&-work editor for The Gospel Coalition … also  coauthor of “Gospelbound: Living with Resolute Hope in an Anxious Age” and editor of “Social Sanity in an Insta World”. The Supreme Ct immunity decision … GUEST Bruce Antkowiak … law professor at Saint Vincent College … (law degree fr Harvard magna cum laude,...

This Week in the Nation’s Capitol (fallout from last Thursday’s debate .. + … SCOTUS immunity ruling) … GUEST Greg Clugston … SRN News White House correspondent. GUEST Salena Zito ... author of “The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics” ... Selena is a writer for The Washington Examiner and the NY Post; she previously wrote for The Atlantic & the Pgh Tribune...

Last nights debate: what to make of it and the views of college students ... GUEST Dr Tim Muehlhoff ... Prof of Communication at Biola Univ ... author of “Winsome Conviction: Disagreeing Without Dividing the Church,” winner of the Award of Merit in Christianity Today’s Best Books of 2022 list ... Tim’s ”Winsome Persuasion: Christian Influence in a Post-Christian World," was CT Book of the Year in...

GUEST Jerry Bowyer ... President of Bowyer Research, host of Meeting of Minds podcast on the Salem Podcast Networ, and Author of “The Maker Versus the Takes, What Jesus Really Said About Social Justice and Economics”. The New Testament in Color: A Multiethnic Bible Commentary ... GUEST Dr Amy Peeler ... assoc prof of New Testament at Wheaton College and assoc rector at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church...

Summer reads ... GUEST Byron Borger ... found her an owner, hearts, and minds bookstore, Dallastown, PA. Suffering: Chapter 5 of “The Deepest Place: suffering, and the formation of Hope ... GUEST Dr Curt Thompson .. psychiatrist in private practice in Falls Church, Virginia ... author of, “ the soul of shame, “and “the soul of desire". June is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month ... GUEST Lisa Anderson .....

This Week in the Nation’s Capitol (Campaign calendar [debate next week ... + ... Trump sentencing 7-11 ... + ... RNC convention a month from now) ... + ... Trump VP contenders ... + ... Biden campaign goes after Trump legal troubles) ... GUEST Greg Clugston ... SRN News White House correspondent. Trends in US Religious Life: 5%-40% growth in evangelicals that are Non-Denominational... + ... the Fe...

A technology for social miracle-making ... GUEST Dr Christine Jeske ... professor of cultural anthropology at Wheaton College ... She is the author of 3 books, including the latest, "The Laziness Myth: Narratives of Work and the Good Life in South Africa”. A Father’s Day reflection GUEST Drew Dyck ... acquisitions editor at Moody Publishers ... author of “Just Show Up: How Small Acts of Faithfulne...

Why Mystery Is Crucial to Our Lives (And Why It’s Never Going Away)... GUEST Chris Fogle ... works in manufacturing procurement in Southern CA ... His passion is connecting Jesus and the Bible to pop culture. GUEST Rev Liddy Barlow ... Executive Minister of Christian Associates of Southwest PA. Unwanted and Coerced Abortion ... GUEST Dr Charles Camosy ... Prof of Medical Humanities at the Creighto...

Every Kind of Bridge explained … GUEST Ralph Crewe … Head Writer & Producer for Practical Engineering and co-boss of Nerd Nite Pittsburgh … a generally Curious Person. GUEST Keith Young ... Co-chair Vision for Life. Combatting sex trafficking: Just back from India … GUEST Father Jason Charron ... Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church, Carnegie PA. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor...

Christian Fight Club: How to Fight Well With Other People. ... GUEST Doug Bursch ... writer, podcaster & pastor ... the author of “Posting Peace: Why Social Media divides us and What we can Do about It”. RIP Juergen Moltmann: The Last World Class Theologian ... GUEST Dr Roger E. Olson ... Emeritus Prof of Christian Theology at Baylor Univ ... author of over 20 books incl “The Story of Christia...

One Lost Soul: Richard Nixon’s Search for Salvation ... GUEST Daniel Silliman ... News Editor, Christianity Today ... author of, "Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith" Hellbent and Heaven Forward: Break Free from Lies and live Loved ... GUEST Mona Rosene ... believer, author, speaker and leader. Sadly, anti-Jewish hatred is a subject I know only too well ... GUE...

How Jesus talked to unbelievers ... GUEST Randy Loubier ... pastor of Chestnut Hill Chapel in New Boston, NH. Dr Richard Mouw ... professor of faith and public life at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA, where he served as president for 20 yrs ... He has written numerous books, including “Adventures in Evangelical Civility,” “Uncommon Decency,” “Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport,”“The Sm...