The Ride Home with John and Kathy

Your Weekend has Begun ... + Mayor Bill Peduto tell people who are concerned about issues downtown to “Go to the Mall” ... + ... Hundreds turn out for vigil to honor Nalani Johnson, the PennHills toddler killed on Sunday The Church in China ...  GUEST Dr Richard J. Mouw What are the All-Time Greatest Country Songs (USA Today)? St Thomas ... GUEST Frederica Mathewes-Green Your Week...

As football season begins, mobile gambling brings increased revenue and risk! + ... The Antonio Brown soap opera continues but it’s not our problem! The need for apologetics in the Body of Christ  ... GUEST Rev Bill Glaze Jazz Legend Miles Davis’ Trumpet Hits Auction at Christie’s Who’s afraid of Social Justice?  A robust defense of justice as commanded for the Ch...

Pitt tells student groups to stop using its Name ... + .... Search for Penn Hills toddler turns into murder investigation What is it like for a young pregnant mother to enter an abortion facility? To be escorted past pro-life protesters, and make it all the way to the procedure room where she meets the abortionist? To have a change of heart, get off the procedure table, and walk out?  What wo...

Pittsburgh Man Climbs Mt. Kilimanjaro, Holds Up ‘Stronger Than Hate’ Shirt To Honor Tree Of Life Victims (CBS) This hits home to a lot of people': Prayer vigil held in Verona for missing Penn Hills toddler This Week in the Nation’s Capitol (Hurricane Dorian ... + ... the CA boat tragedy ... + ... Trump tweets or retweets 122 from Saturday to Monday morning ... + ... Pence in Irel...

MLB players never know what day of the week it is  How Pornography Makes Us Less Human and Less Humane ... GUEST Matthew Lee Anderson  Be Kind to Humans Week Bit Renaissance Men:  do you know any?  Do we still have them?  Is it good to diversify your work? Former Dallas detective famously photographed escorting Lee Harvey Oswald dies at 99 Man confesses to murder after hea...

Food & Wine magazine votes on Best Fast Food by State ... + ... National Chop Suey Day Recession? Maybe not. Slowdown? Definitely. Also: Christians, instead of sin-screening out investment in companies who do things we don’t like should instead constructively engage with them. And: A rethinking of the story of Lazarus and the Rich Man ... GUEST Jerry Bowyer ... Editor, TownHall Finance T...

New downtown Pittsburgh Cineplex  The importance of being in community with other Christians for worship, study, fellowship, prayer, etc and some of the dangers of a hyper-individualized faith ... GUEST Rev Josh Brown . Popeyes vs Chick-Fil-A Wednesday Wisdom: God Gets The Glory ... GUEST Anne Kennedy. McDonalds mandates anti-harassment training for all employees! Enough is Enough:  We n...

International Bat Night On civility ... + ... perhaps a 2nd segment on prominent Christians leaving the faith ... GUEST Daniel Darling  Why it was easier to be skinny in the 1980s Best unique male & female Dog Names of 2019 Justice Dept to seek death penalty for Tree of Life suspect Practicing the Present: The Neglected Art of Living in the Now. ... GUEST Dr John Koessler Area 51: UFOs, A...

It's National Dog Day + National Kindness Week! SRN News White House Correspondent Greg Clugston: Trump wraps up participation at G-7 Summit in France  US China trade back-and-forth France pushing for Trump meeting with Iran's president Is there an answer to mass shootings?  An answer is starting to form...what if we viewed the world as Jesus and Paul did?  Our world is a spiritual...

Viral Tweet about keeping your House at 82 degrees when you sleep gets destroyed On Purity Culture ... GUEST Dr. Karen Swallow Prior  Happy Birthday James Cordon Happy National Tooth Fairy Day God-breathed:  Connecting through Scripture to God, Others, the Natural World, and Yourself ... GUEST Pastor Rutledge “Rut” Etheridge III Pgh needs a 2019 Christmas Tree **We (all) need...

Best TV show line ever (Twitter) Intentional Grattiude ... GUEST Gavin Ortlund ... senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Ojai, Ojai CA Planned Parenthood decides to reject Title X funding rather than complying with a new Trump administration abortion restriction Experimental McDonald’s Opens with Almost No Workers The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate-based scam that nearly caused me...

Happy National Radio Day John Cooper, lead singer for “Skillet,” responds to the litany of recent apostasies of young Christian leaders Remembering the 1st Anniversary of the release of the PA Grand Jury Report on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church ... GUEST Kevin Hayes Snopes is fact-checking The Babylon Bee because people think it’s real The Reluctant Witness Discovering the D...

Being a good mentor changes lives! John and Kathy interview Keith Kondrich on how you can be a great mentor and why it’s so important for each and everyone of us. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Police Arrest Three Men Suspected of Planning Mass Shootings This Week in the Nation’s Capitol (Economy heading toward recession? ... + ....  Trump interested in buying Greenland?? ... + ...  More Dems call for impeachment  ... GUEST Greg Clugston ... SRN News White House Correspondent New Leech Species Discovered Near Washington DC National Potato Day Nice:  Why we love...

Your Weekend has Begun + Colin Kaepernick has posted a stirring video on the 3 yr anniversary of his protest + National Tell a Joke Day\ Movies: Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, The Farewell, One Child Nation, plus The Hunt has been pulled back from release. What is the uneasy relationship between Hollywood and Washington? GUEST Alissa Wilkinson  You get to ban one word from the entire lexicon...

Israel blocks US congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering country, amid pressure from Trump The joys and perils of a city church:  Last week’s stabbing outside Trinity Cathedral  ... and Why the Church Matters:  Partners for Sacred Places puts a number on a church's presence ... GUEST Rev Tom Hall ... Senior Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, 6th Street downtow...

Whatever Your Job Is Today, Treat It As A Caring Profession - Sheridan Voysey Yes, You Can Kondo Your Refrigerator: Color-coordinated food lineups and pristine shelves are wowing house guests, baffling family members and inspiring boasts on social media! So, You’re Starting to Doubt Your Faith Three Things to do ... GUEST Andrea Lucado John and Kathy Pick and Discuss Their Favorite Restauran...

SRN News White House Correspondent Greg Clugston discusses the following: Trump’s visit to PA today, new immigration welfare rules, and gun control prospects. Higher Education, how to love a college student, and the Pgh restaurants he likes best ... GUEST Vince Burens ... is the President and CEO of the Coalition for Christian Outreach.  Why God Enjoys Baseball (from his 2002 release &l...

Your Weekend has Begun ... + ... What's America's most literate city? The NUNS:  where do they live? what do they do?  are they on the rise? ... GUEST Dr. Ryan Burge. The Friday Feature: Market Square Pittsburgh, Pa **Bomb threats at 3 Pittsburgh Hospitals and 2 Pittsburgh Business  Best-Selling Books of the Week + Taking Courses in Marijuana Vandal' bear wrecks car after getting lo...

National Root Beer Float Day Evangelism in the USA: different now than 20 years ago  ... GUEST Chris Buda ... Executive Director, The Pittsburgh Experiment Stress Relief through Storytelling  ... GUEST Amy Simpson  What happens when lightning hits a septic tank?  The toilet explodes. 😲 The place of character in our culture through the lens of the book of Ruth. GUEST ... Rev Te...

This weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH: If we cannot allow ourselves to feel powerless, what should we do instead? This Week in the Nation’s Capitol: Mass shootings/gun violence ... + ... China's lowering of its currency and its effect on the financial markets.) ... GUEST Greg Clugston ... SRN News White House Correspondent  What do you think about video games...

 Amazon Dirt Scam ... + ... National Ice Cream Sandwich Day  Why God Enjoys Baseball (from his 2002 release “He Shines in All That's Fair”) ...  GUEST Richard J. Mouw Ed Sheeran’s Divide Tour will set the all-time highest-grossing tour record with Friday’s show in Hannover, Germany ... + ... Celeb bday Tony Bennet, 92 Writing a Book:  How does it go from...

Last night’s Democratic debate:  Biden tells Kamala Harris, “Go easy on me, kid.” ... + ... Kirsten Gillibrand going after Biden on why he supported   Why We Can Trust The Bible... GUEST Rev Bill Glaze, Bethany Baptist Church, Homewood, PA The Steelers & Kwood teaming up for Fries:  Potato Patch ... + ... Pens hire Matt Cullen in Player Development To Love...

Scientist in Japan to begin developing human/animal hybrids The nature and purpose of wisdom literature in Scripture ... GUEST Rev Josh Brown  Home Depot selling bullet-proof backpacks! And Then Jesus Said ... GUEST Anne Kennedy  All the times religion came up in last night’s Democratic debate Desire, beauty, grief and the role of community (in co-creating with God in the face of t...

National Cheesecake Day Evangelical Purity Culture? Thoughts on the Legacy of a Lost Pastor ... GUEST David French, senior writer for National Review, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom Phones:  Did “purity culture” affect you as a child or as a teen?  How do you view it now? Phones:  Did “purity culture”...