The Ride Home with John and Kathy

The Most Radical and Rebellious Choice You Can Make Is to Be Optimistic This Week in the Nation’s Capitol (Border Wall talks ... + ... Risk of another shutdown .... + ... Trump in ElPaso for a rally tonight ... + ... Dems 2020 field grows by 2) ... GUEST Greg Clugston, SRN White House Correspondent Natl Peppermint Patty Day Last night’s Grammys, which were wretched Infanticide Debate R...

Family Gatherings getting less or more political Faith in Times of Sickness - Frederica Matthewes Green John and talk about the lack of forgiveness and grace in today's internet society Amazaon maybe pulling out of New York See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

50 worst cities to live in in America (USA Today) Overcomers and responsibility: the ant in proverbs 6:6-8 ... GUEST Rev Bill Glaze ... Bethany Baptist Church, Homewood Kind thoughts can boost immune system ... + Nat’l Fettucine Alfredo Day Work and Family in Sync: There’s a time to work, and a time to raise children. We should be concerned when those rhythms are interrupted ... GUEST...

State of the Union Address last night Life Isn’t About Happiness. It’s About Meaning ... GUEST Cheryl McGrath  Almost half of Americans say they’re workaholics What You Should Know About the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act ... GUEST Joe Carter How much lipstick has Kath actually ingested? Phones: what did you think of last night’s State of the Union addres...

 Amy Simpson, acquisitions editor for Moody Publishing, author, speaker, and leadership coach who helps people get clear on their calling and fully engage in life with guiding purpose .. Max McLean - Director of The Screwtape Letters in Pittsburgh See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

**Last night’s lame SuperBowl ... + ... Why today should be a national holiday ... + ... National Football Hangover Day (Whether you ate yourself into a food coma or drank a little too much of that barley beverage, many will be suffering from Super Sick Monday. How many Americans will call in sick today? This Week in the Nation’s Capitol (SOTU preview ... + ... Gov't shutdown/Border wa...

Congratulations! The job you wanted to have when you were 5 is now yours. What do you now do for a living? Persecution of Christians in China: nations which persecute the church are significantly more likely to undergo forced regime changes ... GUEST Jerry Bowyer ... is Editor of Town Hall Finance 6 Worst Ways to Quit your Job Tonight at 9pm, Better Angels will deliver it's inaugural State of the...

Record Cold ... + ... Millenials treat their pets like Children We deceive ourselves if we think we need no Savior: Dostoevksy and our capacity for self-deception and love ... GUEST Rev Joshua Brown ... Pastor, Bellefield Presbyterian Church, Oakland Celeb Bdays: Christian Bale and Phil Collins Abortion Law: New York (and now VA) ... GUEST Anne Kennedy ... author of "Nailed It: 365 Sarcastic Devot...

BBC names Pgh the one US destination foodies shouldn’t miss in 2019 Single beds were made only for one. Social isolation starts in families: thankfully it can end there too ... GUEST Andrea Mrozek  For Christian Women, Persecution Looks Like Rape Around the globe, female followers of the faith suffer sexual violence, forced marriage, forced abortions, travel bans, and trafficking ... GU...

This Day in History: January 28, 1986 The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 72 seconds after lift off, killing all seven crew members aboard, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.  Dr. Tim Muehlhoff, professor of communication at Biola University ... He’s the author of "Winsome Persuasion: Christian Influence in a Post-Christian World," selected by Christianity Today for it's Book...

How Twitter can be the Death of Liberal Democracy See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Will robots take your job? Quarter of US workers at risk. **How Twitter could be the death of Liberal Democracy (The Week, Damon Linker) What's Healthy At The Grocery Store? Shoppers are often confused, survey finds (NPR) Faithful With The Few - Jennifer Oshman is a wife, mom, missionary and writer currently living in Parker, Colorado. Her writing can be found at: jenoshman.com ** Finalists Named...

National Peanut Butter Day & Compliment Day! Study: More employees than ever test positive for marijuana (ABC News) ... + ... Planned Parenthood launches sexual health chat bot for teenagers ... + ... Emotional support alligator** When People Cheer Abortion ... GUEST Russell Moore is president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's large...

John and JayZ at last night’s Pitt v Duke bb game National Pie Day “The Chicken Runs at Midnight: A Daughter’s Message from Heaven That Changed a Father’s Heart and Won a World Series” (new book) ... GUEST Rich Donnelly, former 3rd Base coach, Pittsburgh Pirates New York Senate chamber erupts into cheering upon passage of the Reproductive Health Act Amazon building a...

Oscar nominations are out. A strong baseball fix for the bleak midwinter (Pirate Fest is Saturday the 26th) ... GUEST Joe Klimchak, PNC Park In-Game Host. Prayer: How do you pray? The tools we use. Cell phones in classrooms? What could possibly go wrong? Anti-Christian Ideology Is an Emerging Aspect of White Progressive Populism ... GUEST David French, senior writer for National Review, a senior f...

Social Media mob convicts white Catholic high school boys of aggression to Native American man without knowing the whole story. This Week in the Nation’s Capitol (Shutdown Day 31 .. Trump’s Dreamers proposal .. Buzzfeed’s story on Trump telling Cohen to lie, and the special counsel reaction .. March for Life last Friday) ... GUEST Greg Clugston - SRN News White House Corresponden...

Winter storm on the way ... today is the March for Life 2019 ... + ... Pgh Restaurant week closes out. A look back at the must reads of 2018 and looking forward to new titles for 2019 ... GUEST Byron Borger, owner, Hearts and Minds Bookstore, Dall This Day in History: Marion Barry arrested The Lost Discipline of Conversation: Surprising Lessons in Spiritual Formation Drawn from the English Puritan...

This Week in The Nations Capitol: SRN News White House Correspondent Greg Clugston Life without God Is Weird - Gavin Ortlund Bugs found in chefboyardee canned raviolis Curiosity Propels My Toddler to Learn. Will Computers Ever Compare? How our relationship to God makes us unique from our robot imitators. - Jordon Monson See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

**Your Weekend has Begun ... + ... Purpose-Over-Profit: Survey finds 52% of employees would give up a $1,000 pay raise in order to do more purposeful work** Tolkien & Lewis: Wardrobes & Rings ... GUEST David Payne ... playwright and actor, who last year at Geneva brought CS Lewis to life in “My Life’s Journey: An Evening with C.S. Lewis,” reprises his role and is joined b...

**What’s up with Men who don’t wear Coats in Winter?** On leading ... GUEST Lisa Slayton, President of the Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation **Job Interviews: what not to wear or talk about or do (from Money magazine)* How Discernment Is like Thrifting ... GUEST Hannah Anderson ... lives with her family in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia where her husband, Nathan, pastors Brookhill...

**Pres Trump’s address on border security and Nance & Chuck’s response last night ... + ... National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day** Your Future Self Will Thank You: Secrets to Self-Control from the Bible and Brain Science (A Guide for Sinners, Quitters, & Procrastinators) (new book) ... GUEST Drew Dyck, author and editor ... He’s also the author of “Yawning at T...

President Trump takes to TV tonight to make his case for a border wall. Chaplains in the World of Business ... GUEST Larry Griffith the CEO of Corporate Chaplains of America, who place professional, trained chaplains in the workplace at the request of CEOs or Owners as an employee benefit, outsourcing stress management and employee care to a ministry that truly cares. The states people got out of...

We're giving busy couples a night out with the "Marriage Edu-Tainers!" Jay & Laura Laffoon are real people with real lives walking through a real marriage. They like to call themselves “marriage edu-tainers”, combining education with entertainment. And the Laffoons put their real marriage of over 30 years on display. “You probably stood at the altar like we did; hearts and mi...

This week in the Nation’s capitol (Govt Shutdown, US and Syria, Economy (strong jobs / Trump’s criticism of Fed/ jittery markets) ... GUEST Greg Clugston, SRN White House Correspondent  The Blessing of the Water - Frederica Mathewes-Green, a wide-ranging author, whose work has appeared in such diverse publications as the Wash Post, Christianity Today, Smithsonian, the LA Times, Fi...

National Spaghetti Day! Seats of Learning: Why we sit in Church ... GUEST Jennifer Woodruff Tait. Tolkien’s crazy love story. Who can you call at 4am and what does that say about you? ... GUEST April Lawson. The 10 best-selling vehicles in the US in 2018: mostly trucks and SUVs Ordinary Prophecy: Every Believer’s Task ... GUEST Marilyn McEntyre. Pop Music Chart Day: anniversary of song...