The Ride Home with John and Kathy

National Chocolate Covered Cherries Day Overcoming Excuses ... GUEST Rev Bill Glaze ... Bethany Baptist Church, Homewood PA. Tom Murphy, former mayor, received the key to the city today. Christmas, feasting and consumerism: the difference between Christian simplicity and Worldly minimalism ... GUEST Brian Dijkema, Program Director, Work and Economics at Cardus and senior editor with Comment Less C...

**Best food you ate over the holiday .... + ... Why American’s aren’t getting taller, just fatter Nat’l Science Fiction Day: what are the top 20 grossing Sci-Fi movies of all time? ... + ... the Best Sci Fi movies of all time This Year, Harness The Power Of A New Perspective ... GUEST Amy Simpson Kansas boy will graduate from both high school & Harvard at the same time! Getti...

Earthrise & its Pittsburgh connections ... GUEST Andy Masich ... President and CEO of the Senator John Heinz History Center in association with the Smithsonian Institution ... Christmas Eve marks the 50th anniversary of “Earthrise,” one of the most famous images ever taken ... and the Apollo 8 mission, the first manned mission to the Moon, paved the way for the Apollo 11 Moon landi...

**Holiday Tipping: who do you tip, and why? ... + ... last day for Christmas Timmy contest** Steel Faithful: Stories of God at Work in Pittsburgh 1952-2018 ... GUESTS Bob Jamison and Bruce Barron ** **How Loneliness is Tearing America Apart (A Brooks)**. This Day in History: Bill Clinton impeached ... + ... Media has the 3rd highest suicide rate in USA ... + ... Why Silent NIght & the stories...

More companies moving to a 4-day work week Why Do We Have Christmas Trees? The history behind evergreens, ornaments, and holiday gift giving ... GUEST Jennifer Woodruff Tait is adjunct professor of church history at Asbury Theological Seminary. **Witches outnumber PCUSA Presbyterians** China Closes Megachurches Before Christmas ... GUEST Bob Fu ... is one of the leading voices in the world for per...

THE RIDE HOME - 2018 Annual White House Christmas Poem Recited by SRN News White House Correspondent Greg Clugston. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Enormous Steeler win last night v the hated Patriots The Annual White House Christmas Poem ... + ... Government shutdown deadline Friday midnight ... + ... border wall funding... GUEST Greg Clugston, SRN White House Correspondent. With tears, magachurch pastor defends Lambo gift to wife. Good Books Make Better People: Why history's wisest figures have seen a connection between reading well and liv...

A History of Christianity in Pittsburgh (new book) ... GUEST Gary Scott Smith ... for 39 yrs, Dr Smith taught at Grove City College, where he chaired the History Department and coordinated the Humanities Core ... He earned his MDiv at Gordon-Conwell Theo Sem & his PhD in history at Johns Hopkins Univ ... He is the author or editor of 13 books, including “Faith and the Presidency: From Ge...

Baby Jesus in a steel cage to highlight immigration debate + Natational App Day What does it mean to be born again? ... GUEST Rev Bill Glaze ... Bethany Baptist Church, Homewood PA New Wall St Rules: Avoid Women A Regimen of Grace: Embracing the austerity of Protestantism ... GUEST David Henreckson, Assistant Professor of Theology at Dordt College, where he also directs the Andreas Center for Refo...

Steelers 3rd loss in a row.  Is too much screen time bad for kids brains? WH staff Attorney general and UN ambassador nominees, Russia Investigation & recent court filings on Russia ties and campaign finance issues. - SRN News White House Correspondent Greg Clugston Nigeria gripped by whether President is a clone?  A mistaken view of Mary - Frederica Mathewes-Green Pat Sajak suggests...

Preparation and proclamation of advent - Eric Andrae 4:40pm: When Moms Lose Their Idenity -Erin Hawley is a wife, mom to two small boys, and some-time lawyer. She is also an award-winning law professor at the Uni­versity of Missouri, Yale-trained constitutional lawyer, and counsel attorney to one of the country’s premier law firms.   Erin clerked for United States Supreme Court...

Pastors Should Like People (Not Just Love Them)  Gavin Ortlund (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is a husband, father, pastor, and writer. He serves as senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Ojai in Ojai, California. Gavin blogs regularly at gavinortlund.com Helping Is More Than Good Intentions. - Amy Simpson  Advent, explained From chocolate calendars to wreaths in church, the season...

Josh Harrison ex Pittsburgh Pirate baseball player donating a house to Light of Life Wrenching Steeler loss last night News front the Nation’s Capital (today's Trump tweets:  both the timing [during Bush's casket movement in Houston] and content [Russia investigation], DC pays tribute to Bush this week, Trump claiming victory after G20 summit, North American trade deal and tariff truce...

What’s playing at the movies? Big and little screen ... GUEST Wade Bearden, co-host of 'Seeing and Believing,' a film and TV podcast that searches for the sacred on screen ... He's also a writer, pastor, and adjunct instructor at Southwestern Assemblies of God Univ .. Wade lives in Houston, TX with his wife and son ... You can catch his blog at www.wadebearden.com or follow him on Twitter (@...

Maxwell King is live in studio with John Hall for an exclusive interview regarding his work on The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pastor and Counseor, Toni Turner  Advent a time to connect with God in a new and ancient way. Dr. Gary Neal Hansen, former Associate Professor of Church History at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary he now lives in Pittsburgh working as a writer and teacher. The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers - Maxwell King See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the Advent Season Begins it is Often a Joyless Season for Many. . .  Rev. Josh Brown from Bellefield Presbyterian Church Tells the Whole Story! Anne Kennedy - Google is easier than Jesus Kurt Thompson - Connectedness  April Lawson - Karis - All I See is Grace John Sokoian - Safety & Security Conference  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Life-size replica of Noah’s Ark will sail to Israel Your Empty Nest is God’s Opportunity ... GUEST Victoria Riollano Safety & Security ... GUEST John Sakoian Best Dishes & Drinks in Pgh now Great Escape Plane Today is the Loneliest Day of the Year Extraordinarily Ordinary: Obituaries, Old yearbooks and the simple lives most of us lead ... GUEST John Koessler Chair and Professor...

Thanksgiving reflections, incl Kath’s awesome turkey recipe. Trump back on campaign trail tonight for Mississippi Senate Republican in runoff, Trump unhappy with GM's, Trump steps up criticism of migrants/ threatens closing U-S southern border - This week in the nation's capitol - Greg Clugston, SRN White House Correspondent 5 key indicators that your marital arguments could be influenced by...

**54 million people will travel more than 50 miles over the next 48 hours** An Improbable Life: The Inspiring Story of Howard C. Dillaman ... GUEST Michael Peuler ... one-time author, retired businessman, and world traveler **This Day in HIstory: Queen Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh (1947)** *Coldest Thanksgiving in Pgh History ... + What are flavor-blasted Turkeys? The Pe...

It's Light Up Night in Pittsburgh! Pittsburgh’s First Thanksgiving – which ties into the formation of the city and the French & Indian War (130 years AFTER the famous pilgrim story!) Andy Masich Ask John and Kathy Anything See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

**Pgh released their Amazon bid** The Word: The History of the Bible and How It Came to Us ... GUEST Rod Gragg is a historian and author of more than 20 books on a variety of historical topics ... His work on the Battle of Gettysburg, “Covered with Glory,” won the James I. Robertson Award as the best Civil War history of the year, and his most recent work, “My Brother’s Kee...

National Pickle Day! Asia Bibi: Christians & Muslims and the blasphemy laws of Pakistan. Andreas Thonhauser, Director of External Relations, Alliance Defending Freedom International. Impacting Pittsburgh Kids: Urban Impact ... GUESTS Rev John Guest & Rev Ed Glover Pitt Students protest against Ben Shapiro “Boy Erased:” the controversy of gay conversion therapy ... GUEST Joe Dal...

The lost art of Christian lament: Where was God when each coast was hit with mass shootings? GUEST Dr. Tim Muehlhoff, professor of communication at Biola University ... His newest book is, "Winsome Persuasion: Christian Influence in a Post-Christian World," selected by Christianity Today for it's Book of the Year Award in the category of evangelism/apologetics See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...

LeVeon Bell is offically no longer a Steeler! The Madness of the Occult: a Journey you can‘t reverse alone ... GUEST Heath Adamson ... chief of staff for the relief organization Convoy of Hope and global chairman of the Next Gen Commission for the World Assemblies of God Fellowship ... the author of “Grace in the Valley: Awakening to God’s Presence When He feels Far away” C...