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Centered TODAY is broadcast in Virginia every Sunday on WYRM Norfolk 9:00 to 9:30 am and on WEBA/WEPA Roanoke 12:00 to 12:30 pm. It is broadcast again on WWVA in Wheeling WV ("The Big One") 8:15 to 8:45 pm each Wednesday night. The broadcast is heard from eastern Canada down to the Carolinas. .
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Click the links below to hear the interviews. The broadcasts are separated into two parts. Part one is a short 20 minute interview with a person of interest and part two is a brief Biblical reflection. The audio will start in a new window. You will be able to continue to navigate the Centered web site in the original window, if you would like. To view a short bio on each guest, roll over their name in the program blocks below. |
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| January 10, 2010 - Historian Scott Billingsley reflects on the life and work of Oral Roberts. Dr. Scott C. Billingsley is Assistant Professor of History and Program Director of Graduate Social Studies Education at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He's also the author of It's a New Day: Race and Gender in the Modern Charismatic Movement and a second-time guest on our program. |
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| January 3, 2010 - Episcopal priest and author Frank Kirkpatrick outlines the current crisis in the American Episcopal Church.
Professor Frank Kirkpatrick teaches at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut and specializes in the philosophy of religion, Christian social ethics, and the history of Christian thought in the West. His book, The Episcopal Church in Crisis: How Sex, the Bible, and Authority Are Dividing the Faithful was published by Greenwood/Praeger in 2008. In the interest of fairness and full disclosure, it is important to note that Professor Kirkpatrick characterizes himself as tending to a more "liberal" position on the issues addressed in his book. |
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| December 27, 2009 - Veteran economist Ernest Zampelli discusses the economic recovery.
Professor Ernest Zampelli has been researching and teaching economics for more than 26 years. He's a professor in the department of business and economics at Catholic University of America and his particular interests include applied microeconomics, public sector economics, and energy economics. |
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| December 20, 2009 - Popular television commentator and scholar Craig Evans outlines Biblical research about Christmas.
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 13, 2009 - Michael Christensen challenges Christians to seek union with God Himself.
Dr. Michael J. Christensen is the Director the Shalom Initiative for Prophetic Leadership and Community Development at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey where he teaches spirituality and religious studies. The author of nine books and many articles on spirituality and social justice, he is an ordained United Methodist minister. He is co-editor of the book, Partakers of the Divine Nature: Deification in the Christian Traditions (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007). |
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| December 6, 2009 - Christian author Debbie Maken challenges Christians to re-think their acceptance of singleness as the normal state of life for so many today.
Debbie Maken is a homemaker, an attorney, and the author of Getting Serious about Getting Married: Rethinking the Gift of Singleness (Crossways, 2006). |
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| November 29, 2009 - British scholar Edmund Gibbs describes his research findings about the widely varying "forms" of the Christian church today. Dr. Edmund Gibbs is senior professor of Church Growth in the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. A native of England, he's been deeply involved in international Christian mission efforts for many years. His newest book is: ChurchMorph: How Megatrends Are Reshaping Christian Communities (Baker, 2009). |
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| November 22, 2009 - International Christian scholar Gordon Smith highlights five prominent views of the Lord's Supper.
Dr. Gordon T. Smith is the president of reSource Leadership International, an agency that fosters excellence in theological education in the developing world. He also teaches part time at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada. He grew up in Ecuador and received his doctorate in the Philippines. He is the editor of the book, The Lord's Supper: Five Views (IVP, 2008). |
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| November 15, 2009 - Historian Loren Graham describes a unique relationship between mathematics and faith.
Dr. Loren Graham is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a former professor of history at Harvard University, and the recipient of Woodrow Wilson, Danforth, Guggenheim, and Rockefeller Fellowships. He is the author of numerous books, and, most recently, Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity (with Jean-Michel Kantor) (Belknap Press, 2009). |
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| November 8, 2009 - Author Carolyn McCulley describes Christian feminism.
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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| November 1, 2009 - Professor Timothy George highlights the wisdom of the Protestant Reformers. Dr. Timothy George is the founding dean of Beeson Divinity School at Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama and a senior editor of Christianity Today magazine. He teaches church history, historical theology, and theology of the Reformers. He's written more than 20 books and scores of articles for scholarly and popular journals. His book, Theology of the Reformers, now translated into several languages, is the standard textbook in many schools and seminaries on reformation theology. |
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| October 25, 2009 - Professor Tremper Longman III describes the grandeur of the Old Testament book of Exodus 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 just published this fall by InterVarsity Press. |
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| October 18, 2009 - Journalist and seminary graduate Julia Duin explains how some believers are not attending church services and why.
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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| October 11, 2009 - Jonathan Melesic 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.
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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| October 4, 2009 - Professor 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.
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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| September 27, 2009 - Popular author Carlos Eire describes the historical importance of the idea of "eternity."
Professor Carlos M. N. Eire is Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. He specializes in the social, intellectual, religious, and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Europe but his books and other publications deal with topics as diverse as the history of the great monotheistic religions and the Cuban revolution. His memoir, Waiting for Snow in Havana, won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2003. His newest book, A Very Brief History of Eternity (Princeton University Press), is scheduled to be released this fall. |
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