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We interview authors and other interesting people with expert knowledge or experience. Our topics range from confronting terrorism to determining why people are quitting churches. Our guests are scientists, historians, theologians, journalists, lawyers and others who have done their homework and carefully thought about issues that affect us all. Then, after the interview, each show concludes with a Biblical reflection and challenge. Our programs, now heard from eastern Canada down to the Carolinas, have earned the praise of both Christian and secular broadcast professionals. |
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| December 26, 2010 - Author Carolyn McCulley describes Christian feminism. (program reprise)
Carolyn McCulley is a free-lance journalist whose work has appeared in a wide variety of publications and on Focus on the Family's "Boundless" webzine. She is the author of two books: Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye? Trusting God with a Hope Deferred (Crossway, 2004), and Radical Womanhood: Feminine Faith in a Feminist World (Moody, 2008). |
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| December 19, 2010 - Popular television commentator and scholar Craig Evans outlines Biblical research about Christmas. (program reprise)
Dr. Craig A. Evans is Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College in Nova Scotia, Canada. The author and editor of more than fifty books and hundreds of articles and reviews, Dr. Evans has given lectures at Cambridge, Durham, Oxford, Yale, and other universities, colleges, seminaries and museums. On television, he's appeared on "Faith and Reason," the "John Ankerberg Show," and on several History Channel and BBC documentaries. He's also a regular guest on "Dateline." |
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| December 12, 2010 - Professor Tremper Longman III describes the grandeur of the Old Testament book of Exodus. (program reprise)
Tremper Longman III (Ph.D., Yale University) is Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He also teaches at Mars Hill Graduate School, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Fuller Theological Seminary plus Regent College in Vancouver and the Canadian Theological Seminary in Calgary. He's an Old Testament specialist and the author of several books which guide readers in their Bible study. His newest book, How to Read Exodus was published last fall by InterVarsity Press. |
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| December 5, 2010 - Journalist and seminary graduate Julia Duin, explains how some believers are not attending church services and why. (program reprise)
Julia Duin (pronounced "Deen") is an accomplished writer and journalist who has worked for five newspapers, written several popular books (including some interesting children's books) and a host of magazine articles. She's a rarity these days: a seminary-trained journalist. Today Julia works as a religion writer and assistant national editor for the Washington Times. Consequently, she has covered a wide variety of national and international stories. In 2008 her book Quitting Church: Why the Faithful Are Fleeing was published by Baker Books. |
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| November 28, 2010 - Jonathan Malesic, makes a case for Christian secrecy in public as described in his book: Secret Faith in the Public Square: An Argument for the Concealment of Christian Identity. (program reprise)
Dr. Jonathan Malesic is an assistant professor of theology at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He earned his Ph.D. in religious studies from the University of Virginia. His new book advises today's Christians to resist mass culture and its corrupting accommodation to worldly ideas by keeping their faith a secret. The title of the book is, Secret Faith in the Public Square: An Argument for the Concealment of Christian Identity (Brazos, 2009). |
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| November 21, 2010 - Gerald Sittser, who lost members of three generations of his family in a horrible car crash, reflects on his experience as related in his book A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss.(program reprise)
Dr. Gerald L. Sittser is Professor of Theology and History of Christianity at Whitworth University, Spokane, Washington. He's been a pastor and a college chaplain. His book, When God Doesn't Answer Your Prayer (2003, Zondervan) received a 2005 Gold Medallion Book Award. Another popular book, A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss (1996, Zondervan), is in its 19th paperback edition, and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. |
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| November 14, 2010 - Joy Jordan-Lake discerns the power of the "alarming" aspects of the Gospel.
Joy Jordan-Lake is an adjunct professor at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. She's also taught writing and literature at Tufts University and Baylor University and served as a Baptist chaplain at Harvard University. An enthusiastic advocate for micro-enterprise loans, she helps the impoverished begin their own businesses to support their families. Her book, Why Jesus Makes Me Nervous: Ten Alarming Words of Faith, was published by Paraclete Press in 2007. |
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| November 7, 2010 - Darrel Falk comfortably merges science and the Scriptures.
Dr. Darrel Falk is a biology professor at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California, where he has taught since 1988. He's also taught a Sunday school Bible class for many years that has helped him develop a deeper love for the integrity and truth of Scripture. He's a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Genetics Society of America, the American Scientific Affiliation and a founder of BioLogos, a foundation committed to seeing faith and science as compatible ways to seek God. He is the author of Coming to Peace with Science: Bridging the Worlds Between Faith and Biology. |
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| October 31, 2010 - Hans Hillerbrand reflects on the Reformation of the sixteenth century.
Professor Hans J. Hillerbrand is the former chair of the department of religion at Duke University. A recognized expert on the Reformation and the history of modern Christianity, he has published many articles and books on the period and was the editor in chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. He is the former president of both the American Academy of Religion and the American Society of Church History. His book, The Division of Christendom: Christianity in the Sixteenth Century was published by Westminster John Knox Press in 2007. |
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| October 24, 2010 - Matthew Soerens outlines balanced advice for thinking about and dealing with the illegal immigrant issue.
Matthew Soerens is a Board of Immigration Appeals-accredited Immigration Counselor and Church Engagement Representative at World Relief DuPage in Wheaton, Illinois. Along with his colleague Jenny Hwang, he wrote Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate published last year by Intervarsity Press. |
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| October 17, 2010 - Vinita Hampton-Wright offers help for getting un-stuck in your life.
Vinita Hampton Wright is a novelist, editor, workshop facilitator, and free-lance writer. She conducts workshops on creativity and spirituality across the country as well as regular online retreats. Her novel, Dwelling Places, won the Christianity Today Best Fiction Award for 2007. Her recent non-fiction book, Simple Acts of Moving Forward: 60 Suggestions for Getting Unstuck, was published last year by Loyola Press. |
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| October 10, 2010 - Gary Burge answers the question, "Who owns the 'Holy Land'"?
Gary M. Burge is professor of New Testament at Wheaton College Graduate School in Wheaton, Illinois. His published works include The New Testament in Antiquity: A Textbook for Students; The Bible and the Land; Jesus, the Middle Eastern Storyteller; the NIV Application Commentary on the Letters of John and the NIV Application Commentary on the Gospel of John. His new book, Jesus and the Land: The New Testament Challenge to Holy Land Theology was published by Baker just this year. |
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| October 3, 2010 - Jo Kadlecek highlights the significance of Jesus' post-Resurrection appearances.
Jo Kadlecek is a former waitress, soccer player and English teacher who's long been hooked on stories. A member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, she earned graduate degrees in both communication and humanities. She teaches often at retreats, conferences and writing workshops and is both a faculty member teaching creative writing, and Senior Writer for the Office of Communication at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. Today, we're discussing her recent book: A Desperate Faith: Lessons of Hope from the Resurrection (Baker, 2010). |
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