The Ride Home with John and Kathy

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Agriculture: Called to Relationship … GUEST Steve Montgomery … Along w his wife & 4 kids, Steve started Lamppost Farm in Columbiana OH w a mission to use agriculture to reach/teach others … they practice regenerative agriculture and invite people to find out where their food comes … In 2025, he started a company called Fireberry to plant farms as a means of providin...

Influence … GUEST Bruce Herman … painter, writer, and speaker … His art has been exhibited internationally and is in public and private collections worldwide … He taught studio art for nearly four decades at Gordon College, where he held the Lothlórien Distinguished Chair in Fine Arts … author of “Makers By Nature:...

This week in the Nation’s Capital (Iran … + … oil/gas prices … + … shutdown TSA delays … + … all this great news) … GUEST Greg Clugston … SRN News White House Correspondent. Normative vs. Regulative Principles of Worship … GUEST Rev Kurt Bjorklund … lead pastor, Orchard Hill Church. War: Just...

Being human in an age of AI & biotechnology … GUEST Biochemist Dr “Fuz” Rana … president, CEO, and senior scholar at Reasons to Believe (RTB), an organization that exists to open people to the gospel by revealing God in science… His books include “Humans 2.0,” “Fit for a Purpose,” and “Dinosaur Bl...

Blessed are the peacemakers… GUEST Rev Bill Glaze ... Bethany Baptist Church, Homewood. On Church Shopping … GUEST Dr Carmen Joy Imes … Assoc professor of Old Testament at Biola Univ and author of “Being God’s Image: Why Creation Still Matters” and the most recent, “Becoming God's Family: Why the Church Still Matters&r...

Epstein, Epstein, Epstein .… 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 conferenc...

Where Gen Z Is Finding Jesus … 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” Ambassador Football … GUEST Matt Major … Area Direct...

This week in the nation’s capital (US attacks Iran) … GUEST Greg Clugston … SRN News White House Correspondent. GUEST Banafsheh Zand … veteran journalist with longstanding ties to Iran… Substack is Iran So Far Away. GUEST Kathy Keller ... formerly served as assistant director of communications for Redeemer Presbyterian Church in...

2 American Universities talk over the Hard Questions … GUEST Dr Tim Muehlhoff ... Prof of Communication at Biola Univ & Sr Director of the Winsome Conviction Project ... author of “Winsome Conviction: Disagreeing Without Dividing the Church,” (winner of the Award of Merit in CT’s Best Books of 2022) … and “Winsome Persuas...

What Kind Of Christian Are You? (Patheos) … GUEST Dr Roger E. Olson … Emeritus Prof of Christian Theology at Baylor Univ … author of over 20 books incl “The Story of Christian Theology” and “The Journey of Modern Theology”. How Trump raced past the Supreme Ct (WashPo)** … GUEST Prof Bruce Antkowiak … law...

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Deut 29:29: things we can say about God with confidence and also when we have to say “I don’t know” … GUEST Rev Josh Brown … Lead pastor, Bellefield Presbyterian Church. The first Sunday of Lent: Eve, Adam, Satan and Jesus … He Died For Our Sins… GUEST Anne Kennedy ...author of “Nailed It: 365 Sarcastic Devotion...

Tonight’s State of the Union address … GUES Greg Clugston … SRN News White House Correspondent. Hobby Tunneling … GUEST Ralph Crewe … Head Writer & Producer for Practical Engineering and co- boss of Nerd Nite Pittsburgh … a generally Curious Person. GUEST Rev Jay Slocum … rector, St Thomas Anglican Church, ...

Friday’s Supreme Ct Tariff ruling … GUEST Prof Bruce Antkowiak … law professor at St Vincent College. Fear & Anxiety … GUEST Matthew Everhard … pastor of Gospel Fellowship PCA in Valencia, PA and an Adjunct Professor, Reformed Pgh Theological Seminary. In the Wilderness with Jesus: Reflections on Matthew 4 … GUEST&nbsp...

The Lenten rite of Forgiveness … GUEST Frederica Mathewes- Green .. she's the author of "The Jesus Prayer: The Ancient Desert Prayer that Tunes the Heart to God," and "Welcome to the Orthodox Church: an Introduction to Eastern Christianity" Christian Nationalism … GUEST Daniel Darling … author of several books, including ”The Digni...

Nervous Systems: Spiritual practices to calm Anxiety in your Body, the Church, and Politics (new book) … GUEST Sara Billups … writer and cultural commentator w bylines in NYT, and CT … writes “Bitter Scroll” on substack and cohosts the podcast That’s the Spirit … she lives in Seattle w her family. Ash Wednesday &helli...

A Movie About America Broke My Heart (NYT) … GUEST David French … Opinion columnist for the NYT where he writes about law, culture, religion and armed conflict … author of “Divided we Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore our Nation” … David a Harvard Law grad and a veteran of the war in Iraq. Come Away...

This Week in the Nation’s Capital (Mini-govt shutdown affecting only DHS … + … Rubio tries to reassure worried western allies … + … Obama says aliens have not made contact with Earth) … GUEST Greg Clugston … SRN News White House Correspondent. Nervous Systems: Spiritual practices to calm Anxiety in your Body, t...

Inside the NYC Date Night for AI Lovers: EVA AI created a pop-up romantic date night at a Manhattan wine bar to help in making AI-human relationships a “new normal”… GUEST Drew Dyck … acquisitions editor at Moody Publishers … author of “Just Show Up: How Small Acts of Faithfulness Change Everything (A Guide for Exhauste...

As Springfield's 15,000 Haitians brace for deportations, local churches train to resist ICE … GUEST Kathryn Post … Pittsburgh-based reporter for RNS covering topics such as Gen Z spirituality, pop culture and abuse in religious contexts (Before joining RNS, she earned a Master of Arts in Religion from Yale, interned at RNS in 2020 and has degre...

Brentwood man remains in ICE custody after hospital stay, 1st hearing … GUEST Megan Swift … reporter, Pittsburgh Tribune Review. Abortion and America's Churches … GUEST Daniel Williams. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Week in the Nation’s Capitol (Fallout from Trump’s social media post about the Obamas … + … Trump v Bad Bunny and Puerto Rico … + … Trump v US olympians … + … another shutdown this Fri? … GUEST Greg Clugston. From Creation Care to Creation Justice (Jubilee guest) … GUEST Derrick Weston &hell...

Christianity at the Super Bowl defies a Trend (WashPo) … GUEST Dr Richard Mouw ... Professor of faith & public life at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA, where he served as president for 20 yrs ... He has written numerous books, incl “Adventures in Evangelical Civility,” “Uncommon Decency,” “Calvinism in the Las&...

This post is a surprise And if you read it, you'll learn to surprise those whom you love … GUEST Bruce Barron … has had a varied career that included investigating the charismatic movement, dominion theology, political campaigning and public policy … he was a communications aide for the World Evangelical Alliancee and exec editor of thei...