The Ride Home with John and Kathy

Your Weekend has Begun ...  + ... Proposed building in the Strip and the mayor's comments ... + ... UPMC's profits are in Born (again) This Way:  Coming Out, Coming to Faith, and What Comes Next ... GUEST Rachel Gilson  It’s time for The Friday Feature!  Each week, we’ll give you a few recommendations of fun stuff you might consider that’ll get your out of you...

Auschwitz museum upset as scene in Amazon series “Hunters” (PG)  Business and the Coronavirus:  Stocks, bond yields and oil prices slid as investors braced for a drop in business activity and corporate earnings ... GUEST Jerry Bowyer ... Editor, TownHall Finance Part 3:  Moralizing while Investing:  I don’t like you or your corporation so you’re erased o...

Social Media now the most popular thing to give up for Lent (DecisonData.org) ... + ...  Pope to Catholics:  Give up trolling for Lent ... + ... Repent and Accept the Gospel, Trump says in Ash Wednesday statement (Catholic News Agency) Ash Wednesday ... GUEST Rev Josh Brown Pgh airport to phase out using boarding passes at security checkpoints ...+ ... man forgets he had loaded handgun w...

How do you listen to music now?  Recorded music sales grew 13% last year to $11.1B (WSJ) The unchangeable nature of God and how that sometimes makes it difficult for us to pray (Since God doesn't change His mind and never has second thoughts, how exactly is He moved by our prayers? Why should we even pray?) ... GUEST Dr John Koessler Cost of a western PA college has increased 35% over the pas...

Collop Monday is Shrove Monday, the day before Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day, on which fried bacon slices ('collops') and eggs form the appropriate dish ... + ... tomorrow is Fat Tuesday, then Ash Wednesday**  Bernie Sanders last night on 60 Minutes ... GUEST Dr Paul Kengor Cost of a western PA college has increased 35% over the past decade (Trib) Are Christians perceived as closed-minded? C...

Map lets you track your flush to the Alcosan plant (Trib) On Elisabeth Elliott (pre-recorded)  ... GUEST Ellen Vaughn ... at jubilee this weekend PRE-RECORD:  Why you should visit the best Christian bookstore in the country this weekend ... GUEST Byron Borger  Enough as You Are: Overcoming Self-Doubt and Appreciating the Gift of You (pre-recorded) ... GUEST Peggy Weber The Friday Fe...

 How a man starts as a pastor and ends up as an FBI agent ... GUEST David Foster MLB players should be mad at their union before the commissioner ... Pirate Pablo Reyes suspended 80 days for PEDs ... + ... Cleveland Browns player Gregory Robinson arrested for allegedly possessing 157 pounds of marijuana in a rental car John, with little to no options, abandons reason and watches Democratic de...

It's Not Too Late: The Part You Play in a Teens Life with guest: Dan Duppee Choosing Churches: There are Lots of Reasons to Avoid Church but here are the Reasons to Look Again with guest Marilyn McEntyre Hugh Ross's Story on Living with Autism See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ask The Pastor with Pastor Chris Marshall Dr Bryan Litfin ... is professor of theology at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago ...He is the author of "Getting To Know the Church Fathers" ...  Subj: Early Christian Martyr Stories WORD-FM DATE NIGHT COMEDIAN MARTY SIMPSON Lore Ferguson ... is a freelance writer and graphic designer living in Dallas, TX ... Her blog is Sayable.net ... Subj: To the C...

Living on the Autism Spectrum Guest: Dr Hugh Ross  Why Don't We Talk About It? Understanding and Preventing Suicide Guest: Russ Crabtree  I Didn't Sign Up for This: Finding Hope When Everything Is Going Wrong ... GUEST Dr John Westfall See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When is pride evil and destructive and when is it positive and edifying? Bill Glaze is the pastor at Bethany Baptist Church. Mother and Child - Frederica Matthews Green is a teacher and writer.  Her works include "The Jesus Prayer - the ancient desert prayer that tunes the heart to God" His latest book is Welcome to the Orthodox Church and Introduction to Eastern Christianity. I love movies,...

Does God Really Like Me? Discovering the God Who Wants to Be With Us - Cyd Holsclaw is copastor of youth and families at Vineyard North in Grand Rapids, Michigan and well as a ministry and life coach and spiritual director. system WORD-FM Date Night Comedian Marty Simpson Reenchanting Humanity:  A  theology of mankind ... GUEST Owen Strachan Mental Health and the Church ... GUEST Stephen...

Many people "feel" god has left them, abandoned.  Feelings aren't facts.  But what do you do if that's what you're feeling?  Deuteronomy 31:8  Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord will personally go ahead of you.  He will be with you: he will neither fil you nor abandon you. Jason Charon - Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church in Carnegie PA WORD-FM's Date Night...

Last night's win for the Chiefs at the Super Bowl ... + ... Super Bowl Snack Review ... + ... only 4 NFL teams have never been to the SB: who are they? This Week in the Nation's Capitol (Closing arguments ended today in Senate impeachment trial  ... + ... Final trial vote on Wednesday ... + ... State of the Union speech tomorrow night) ... GUEST Greg Clugston ... SRN News White House Correspo...

The Genealogical Adam and Eve: The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry ... GUEST S. Joshua Swamidass (MD, PhD, UC–Irvine) ... scientist, physician, and associate professor of laboratory and genomic medicine at Washington University in Saint Louis, where he uses artificial intelligence to explore science at the intersection of medicine, biology, and chemistry ... He is a Veritas Forums s...

George Washington’s Pittsburgh connections in advance of Presidents Day ... GUEST Andy Masich ... President and CEO of the Senator John Heinz History Center in association with the Smithsonian Institution Part 3:  The Negro Leagues in Pittsburgh:  the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues this month GUEST Andy Masich ... President and CEO of the Senator John Heinz History Center i...

Why I quit my Smartphone (NYT) Why Good Suggests God: An Abductive Moral Argument ... GUEST Gavin Ortlund ... senior pastor at First Baptist Church of Ojai in Ojai, CA ... He writes regularly at Soliloquium National Croissant Day and Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Celeb bday (Phil Collins, Christian Bale) What religion is friendliest to the idea of ali...

CMU’s tuition among the highest in the nation and inching forward (Trib) There’s No Chance You Can You Beat Hoops, the Basketball Robot:  Day after day, a robotic arm at the Carnegie Science Center outshoots the best basketball players in the world (Pgh magazine)  Justice ... GUEST Rev Josh Brown ... Pastor, Bellefield Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Oakland district of Pitt...

Pittsburgh News: Mayor Peduto proposes gondolas connecting Strip District, Hill District, Oakland (PG)] Pgh planning aid for sister city (Trib) ... + ... Pgh is the only large city in the US with Hispanic leadership on par with its Hispanic population (TheConversation.com) The House Flippers of Pgh try a new Tactic: As the city’s real estate market heats up, neighborhood groups say that cash...

The Death of Kobe Bryant This Week in the Nation's Capitol (Trump’s Impeachment Trial in the Senate continues ... + ... Trump negotiating Middle East peace plan ) ... GUEST Greg Clugston ... SRN News White House Correspondent Films nominated for Best Picture This Year What if all we knew about love, sex, marriage, and commitment came from the movies nominated for Best Picutre at the Oscars?&...

The Pittsburgh area had the worst air quality in the nation yesterday (The Patch) ... + ... Netflix just released mini-series “Pandemic:” bad timing? Your Church Needs Boomers:  How a hyper-focus on “attracting the young” can sideline the aging faithful ... GUEST Michelle Van Loon It’s time for The Friday Feature!  A Prayer for Orion:  A son's addiction...

SuperBowl is set:  Chiefs v 49ers ... Pens come back from 3-0 to win 4-3 over the Bruins, fans mock Murray This Week in the Nation's Capitol (Trump’s Impeachment Trial in the Senate starts tomorrow) ... GUEST Greg Clugston ... SRN News White House Correspondent Reconciling our hearts with God's: how do we access the power of God's Grace to remove the dividing lines? Reflections on MLK J...

Why SpaceX is blowing up a Falcon 9 rocket for a safety test (ABC News)  Worship God, Start a Hobby:  Lately, hobbies have become a metric of personal success. But their core purpose is to help us pause and praise ... GUEST Brianna Lambert  No questions asked:  city, church leaders, urge community to surrender weapons on MLK holiday in gun buyback event (PG) ... + ... **St Andr...

Full Moon Lovers:”. Japanese reality show where a man chooses a woman to fly to space w him (WashPo) Ministry on the Margins: how one man travels to marginalized communities around the US regularly ... GUEST Tim Muldoon  Best and Worst Airlines (WSJ) ... + ... Top 5 Countries in the World (US News & World Report) The 50 Worst Countries  for Christian Persecution, Including the...

It's the perfect night out for the two of you this Valentine's Day. This year, you're both in for a treat, as WORD·FM welcomes Christian comedian  Marty Simpson  for a night of laughs! For tickets and info go to https://wordfm.com/content/station-events/datenight See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.