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December 30, 2007 —
Jerry Evenrud – New Beginnings
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Luke 15:11-32
.gif) For this end-of-the-year program, host Peter W. Marty focuses on the
new beginnings that comes to our lives when grace is bestowed on us.
Enjoy a New Year interview with guest,
Jerry Evenrud. Evenrud is a
retired church musician who travels with an extensive art collection
of images from the Prodigal Son story in Luke’s Gospel. With the
recent publication of a new full-color book with these images from
around the world, a book titled "And Grace Will Lead Me Home,"
Evenrud explores the inexhaustible riches of this story which none
of us can escape appreciating.
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December 23, 2007 — Peter W. Marty –
Waiting: Expectant and on Tiptoes
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Luke
1:39-45
In this final edition of a four-part series on WAITING, host Peter
W. Marty brings the Advent season into the fullness of Christmas.
Envisioning the anticipation of a gift that stretches beyond its
contents, Marty pictures the truest form of waiting as something
that will embrace us, hold us, and help us make sense of our lives.
Through a touching story of a mother who understands the character
of a God-With-Us love, this edition of Grace Matters will inspire
Christmas joy in you.
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December 16, 2007 — Peter W. Marty –
Waiting: The Politics of It
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Luke
18:1-8
In this third of a four-part Advent series on WAITING, host Peter W.
Marty reveals a kind of waiting that does not deserve to have
patience attached to it. This is the waiting for justice and
righteousness for the world’s dispossessed. Drawing on stories from
a Biblical widow to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Marty argues
persuasively for a form of Christian waiting that cannot afford to
be too patient or passive. More music of the season complements the
meditation.
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December 9, 2007 — Peter W. Marty –
Waiting: With Great Anticipation
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2 James 5: 7-10
In this second of a four-part Advent series on WAITING, host
Peter
W. Marty talks about waiting that involves a goal. Some of our
waiting is highly impatient because we know there may be very
unwelcome news coming our way, but some of our waiting is packed
with eager anticipation because we know there is a lively goal or a
promise attached to the end of the wait. This makes all the
difference in the world, especially for those who follow Jesus
Christ.
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December 2, 2007 —
Peter W. Marty – Waiting: Who's Waiting for Whom?
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2 Peter 3:8-15
In this first of a four-part Advent series on WAITING, host
Peter W. Marty explores how lousy we can be at waiting. His
interview guest is the Bible. Through an often overlooked passage of
the Bible, Marty reminds us of an important key to growing our own
patience in life – recognizing how much other people and God wait upon us.
Delightful Advent music complements this four-part series.
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November 25, 2007 — Peter W. Marty –
Thanks. Giving.
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In a first-ever call-in program to
Grace Matters,
host
Peter W. Marty and program
producer
Susan Greeley visit about the
necessity
of grace in a hurting world. They share conversation about
the important role this listener-supported program plays in the
lives of people across America. Listeners are invited to tune in
with their hearts and to call in with their prayers and supportive
gifts on this special Thanksgiving weekend program.
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November 18, 2007 — The Faith
Club (Part II) – Friendship and Candor
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John 15:14-15
.jpg) Frankness of speech, spoken in love, is one of many components that
can allow for true friendship to flourish. In this second of a
two-part series, host Peter W. Marty explores the topic of
friendship, following more conversation with the three women of
The Faith Club, Ranya, Suzanne and Priscilla visit about their
experience of wrestling with, and growing from, stimulating
inter-faith discussions they cultivated in their lives. Lifelong
friendship among them became one of the lasting benefits of these
candid conversations.
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November 11, 2007 — The Faith Club (Part
I) – The Limits of Tolerance
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John 13:35
For all the religiosity in America, it is a surprisingly ignorant
republic when it comes to understanding religion. Faithful people
are quickly at home with the precepts and convictions of their own
tradition, but little else. Three women, calling themselves
The Faith Club, set about to change this. Meeting in each other’s homes on a weekly basis for several years, Ranya
Idliby (a Palestinian-born Muslim), Suzanne Oliver (an
Episcopal Christian), and Priscilla Warner (a Reform Jew) covered
all sorts of topics, including the limitations of merely tolerating
one another.
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November 4, 2007 — Chap Clark –
Encouraging Teens Along Life’s Way
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1 Thessalonians 2:6-11
 Parenting adolescents is becoming a more challenging task with every
generation – or so it seems. Cultural and technological forces are
complicating every parent’s assignment of raising wholesome kids who
live meaningful lives, but mistakes and misperceptions of parents
are not helping the picture.
Chap
Clark, professor of youth,
family and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary, has some very
astute insights about parenting and kids. His ultimate goal is for
every teenager to receive enough guidance and encouragement to know
how extraordinary the love of God is.
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October 28, 2007 —
Francis Collins – Faith in Science, Faith in God
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Genesis 1
 Among the top tier of scientists in the world, there is
Francis Collins.
Longtime director of the human genome project that has mapped over 3 billion
letters of the human genetic code, Collins is an articulate spokesperson for the
glories of science. But he is also a person of deep faith who is not shy to
speak about the place of God in biological science. Repudiating both
anti-scientific thinking and shallow spirituality, Collins offers a clear-headed
way for understanding the beauty of how science enhances one's reading of the
Bible.
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October 21, 2007 — Doris Christopher –
Table Talk
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Matthew 9:10
 One would not expect a prominent CEO of a global firm to
weigh in on the importance of mealtime and talk around the dinner
table, but
Doris Christopher is not your
average corporate leader. Founder of the kitchen tools company
Pampered Chef, Christopher maintains a rigorous schedule and a high
demand for excellence. In the midst of it all, she has never
forgotten the place of the Lord in her everyday life, or the value
of mealtime as a focal point for our existence.
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October 14, 2007 — Dave Dravecky – Hope
Born of Adversity
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2 Corinthians 6:4-5
 Life is difficult. Being human is hazardous to your health.
Christianity is no ticket to a "Get Out of Jail Free" card. So what
do we make of the hazards of living and of suffering? How do we live
creatively within the constrictions of human suffering?
Dave Dravecky, former all-star
pitcher in the major leagues, is as well positioned as anyone to
speak powerfully on how to give birth to hope in adverse times.
After an encounter with cancer at the peak of his career, he lost
his throwing arm and shoulder to amputation, but Dravecky gained a
whole new world of faith through the experience.
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October 7, 2007 —
Sarah Henrich – Five Keys of Discipleship
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Luke 9:57-62
 Discipleship is either a meaningful word to help center a life or a
"churchy" word that is tired and overused. In this program, host Peter W. Marty
explores the meaning of discipleship with
Sarah Henrich. Professor Henrich, who
teaches New Testament at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minn., has authored a new
book on great themes in the Bible. Her rich insights on discipleship, and
Peter's five keys for making it a part of everyday life, add up to a memorable
program for all Christian people and all those exploring the Christian way.
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September 30, 2007 – David Hilfiker – Seeing Into the Eyes of the Poor
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Deuteronomy 15:1-11
 David Hilfiker did what many people think about, but never have
the courage to do. He and his family left comfortable living in
a rural community to begin a new life among some of America’s
poorest people in an urban ghetto. Few upper-middle class people
understand the plight of the poor quite like this physician. He
contends that the only way to really know what it means to be
poor, and to quit treating “the poor” like a category, is to
look them in the eye and get to know them.
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September 23, 2007 – Wayne-Daniel Berard
– Retrieving Our Jewishness
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Mark
6:3
 If Christians are not careful, we have a dangerous tendency to
view the Bible as an exclusively Christian book. Where this
perspective exists, we do a serious disservice to both the
Jewishness of Jesus and the Jewish roots of our own faith.
Wayne-Daniel Berard, professor and author, who was born of a
Jewish parent and adopted by a Catholic family, practices his
faith today as a Christian and a Jew. He calls on Christians to
explore “with open heart and mind” the Jewishness, not only of
Jesus, but of themselves.
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September 16, 2007 – Andrea Jaeger – Holy
Laughter
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Genesis 18:12-15
 Those who follow the tennis world closely know the name
Andrea Jaeger. In the
mid-1980s she was playing number two in the world on the women’s pro
circuit. That was young Andrea. Following a career ending injury as
a teenager, she engaged in a serious refocus of her life. Today, she
is an Anglican Dominican sister who devotes everything she is to
kids who live with life-threatening diseases. It’s quite a life,
mixing tears, laughter and a whole lot of fulfillment.
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September 9 – Eboo
Patel – The Dangers of Religious Totalitarianism
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 Acts 2:1-21
 If you are tired of trying to make sense of why certain
expressions of religion irritate you so thoroughly, you need to
meet
Eboo Patel. Chances are good that what is bothering, or
even infuriating you, is what Patel calls “religious
totalitarianism.” Or it could be your own mistaken assumption
that no one knows the truth unless they know your version of it. Eboo Patel is an articulate man of faith who is founder and
executive director of Interfaith Youth Core – an organization
devoted to advancing religious understanding and respect.
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September 2 –
Janet
Peterman – Ritual Living With a Flair
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Colossians 3:16-17
 We often speak of rituals as being boring, dull, or even dead.
The word ritual is laden with many negative connotations in
peoples’ minds. But rituals can drive life. They can even
restore life. The
Rev. Janet Peterman believes so
thoroughly in their power that she has authored a book of sacred
rituals for special moments and crises in life. It’s not your
average compilation of friendly rituals for easy times, but it
is what you or a friend may wish to know about for that trying
time that can befall any one of us.
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August 26 – Lisa Jefferson –
"Flight 93" - The Famous Phone Call
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Isaiah 6:8
.jpg) The whole world over seems to know the name Todd Beamer and his now
famous words “Let’s roll.” He spoke these words during an extended
phone conversation on 9/11, the day Flight 93 went down. Few people
know the person who answered that call.
Lisa Jefferson is her name. Her
life stands as a testimony of great faith and true responsibility in
a time of crisis.
(Originally broadcast September 10, 2006)
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August 19
– Jerry (Gerald) Sittser –
Unanswered Prayer
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Luke 18: 9-14
 What do we do when God does not seem to answer our prayers and our
Christian faith doesn’t seem to “work?” Where is God when the cry of
our hearts hears little more than silence?
Gerald Sittser, professor of
religion at Whitworth College, brings incredible hope and insight to
these questions. His responses carry enormous weight, born as they
are out of great personal suffering.
(Originally broadcast
July 23, 2006)
- August 12 –
Joe Ehrmann – Love As Your Uniform
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John 13:13
What happens when
you dress yourself in love can make the difference between a hopeful
day and a woeful day. For nationally acclaimed coach
Joe
Ehrmann,
love lived in the right way is exactly what young adolescent males
need more than anything else. Meet this ex-NFL great who has a
definition of success like you’ve never heard before.
(Originally broadcast May 7, 2006)
- August 5 –
Dave Ramsey – Money. Money. Money
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Matthew 6:19-21, 24
 Money is a worry, a blessing, and a
necessity. But it can also become a god. This may be why the
scriptures record one sixth of Jesus’ words as related to money or
wealth. Popular radio talk show host and author
Dave
Ramsey spends his every day
thinking about our use and misuse of money. We’ll tap into his
wisdom.
- July 29 –
Eric Olsen – Two Conspiracies: Evil & Good
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Romans
7:15-20
There is evil in this world, and if it doesn’t hurt or kill, it certainly
seeks to dominate and destroy. Evil does not merely reside in other people; it
cuts through the heart of every human being. Sometimes it overshadows the
astonishing goodness in this world that we must always seek to prize.
Lt. Col. Eric Olsen, a
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July 22 –
Ken Medema – Grace, Everywhere We Turn
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Matthew 5:43-44
There is nobody quite like
Ken Medema. This composer and pianist, blind
since birth, has a passion for God and people that oozes from his music. He
fills the big stage and yet transforms the individual heart every time he
performs. It all happens through an improvisational style and zest that is truly
unique. Grace permeates the faith and music of Ken Medema in a way that is
changing the lives of all who hear him.
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July 15 –
Simba Circle – Making Choices
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Joshua 24:15
 Growing up on the streets of Chicago’s
South Side can make for a rough life. The pressures of gang life, conformity to
crime, and drug abuse are more than most suburbanites know much about.
Simba Circle
is an ecumenical ministry devoted to helping young African-American males live
the life God created them to live, not the hell they see many of their peers
experiencing. The Simba ministry works through the faith of adult mentors,
spirited rituals, and the woods and meadows of an Iowa camp to make a difference
in these endangered lives.
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July 8 –
Robert Franklin – Raise Her for God
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1 John 4:21
There is a crisis in the
African-American family that will take significant effort to undo.
It is a crisis of commitment with many features, a good number of
them stretching all the way back to the days of slavery.
Robert Franklin, social ethics
professor, news commentator and college president, is as
well-equipped as anyone to speak with hope about what is needed to
reverse negative social trends. His words challenge all of us to
rethink where our families are healthy and where they need
strengthening.
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July 1 – Robert Seiple –
Humbly Engaging the World
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Luke 4:25-30
Bob
Seiple has spent his life working
to improve the lives of others around the world. Former president of
World Vision, Inc. and one-time U.S. ambassador, this global
educator now heads up an organization committed to expanding
religious freedom in every country. Our task as Americans, he
argues, is to model religious freedom by engaging spiritual humility
on a national level, and by delighting in thoughtful forms of
religious expression that may not be our own.
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June 24 – Judith Valente – Nourishing
Your Soul
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Psalm 119:167-168
 Nourishing
one’s soul is like nourishing one’s body except that the protein
content is a little different. The protein for nourishing one’s soul
comes from spiritual food – food that comes in the form of
attentiveness, gratitude, simplicity, prayer, mystery, and more.
Judith Valente,
an on-air correspondent for the PBS-TV program "Religion and Ethics
Newsweekly," finds spiritual food grows best in the garden of sacred
poetry. She is co-author of the book "Twenty Poems to Nourish Your
Soul."
Listen to selected
poems from Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul:
- Conjugating
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June 17 – Scot McKnight – Loving
God, Loving Neighbor
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Matthew 22:37
 Most people both inside
and outside of Christianity are acquainted with the great commandment to love
God with all of our heart, soul, and mind, and to love our neighbor as
ourselves. But how many really live the balance of this creed – the priority of
both of its dimensions – in a daily way?
Scot McKnight,
author of the book "The Jesus Creed," describes how significant these words were
to Jesus of Nazareth, and how important they deserve to be for shaping our daily
lives.
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June 10 –
Danny Wuerffel – Defining Success
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Mark 10:46-52
 Former Heisman trophy
winner and NFL quarterback Danny Wuerffel
knows a lot about acclaim. He couldn’t take to
the field without tens of thousands of fans letting him know their appreciation.
But Wuerffel, who currently directs a ministry for inner city youth, knows that
fame doesn’t add up to much when compared with the truly significant things to
which we could be devoting our lives. His definition of success will have all of
us rethinking our callings in life.
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June 3 – Don Saliers/Emily Saliers –
The Art of Holy Listening
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Mark 10:46-52
 In a day when many people don’t know how to make sense of Saturday
night folk, pop, or rock music alongside of Sunday morning sacred
music, it helps to hear how one family weaves the two realms
together. Both secular and sacred music can have a meaningful place
in our lives. One doesn’t have to love one genre of music and hate
the other.
Emily Saliers,
lead singer with the Indigo Girls, and her father,
Don Saliers,
a church musician and professor of Christian worship, do a masterful
job of connecting music and spirituality.
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May 27 – Don Saliers/Emily Saliers –
Saturday
Night & Sunday Morning
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1 Corinthians 2:9
In a day when many people don’t know how to make sense of Saturday
night folk, pop, or rock music alongside of Sunday morning sacred
music, it helps to hear how one family weaves the two realms
together. Both secular and sacred music can have a meaningful place
in our lives. One doesn’t have to love one genre of music and hate
the other.
Emily Saliers,
lead singer with the Indigo Girls, and her father,
Don Saliers,
a church musician and professor of Christian worship, do a masterful
job of connecting music and spirituality.
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May 20 – Rob Owen –
The Limits of
Celebrity Worship
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Matthew 20:20-23
 Rob Owen
is the president of the National Association of Television Critics,
a group of journalists who regularly size up the state of television
programming, from the appropriateness of individual show ratings to
awards for those shows deemed excellent. Owen also sees his fair
share of celebrity gossip and celebrity worship. In a world where
most of us have a tendency to want to associate with others whose
lives appear more exciting and glamorous than our own, celebrity
worship has its limits. Life in Christ has its reasons why. That’s
all in this edition of Grace Matters.
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May 13 – Rick Steves – Expanding Your
World
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Luke 3:22
 The best way to get to know other people is
to meet them where they live their lives. We know this to be true
from our local experience.
Rick
Steves, popular travel host for
Public Television, reminds us that it is also true globally.
Inspired by the personal belief that “this planet is full of equally
precious people,” Steves knows well how to connect his two vocations
of being a Christian believer and a travel teacher. It’s a winning
combination, as you’ll discover from his passion for being a
thoughtful traveler.
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May 6 – Philip Wogaman – No More Violence
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Luke 22:35-38
Have you ever wondered about the really
complex question: “Why is it that the United States is both the most
religious nation in the Western World and yet the most violent?”
This edition of Grace Matters takes on the topic of our easy drift
toward accepting lethal violence as a way of life. It is both a
personal and national dilemma.
Philip Wogaman, ethicist and
pastor to the Clinton family during their White House years, is
guest on the program.
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April
29 – Sara Spoonheim – Courtesy Toward the Earth
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Roman
8:22
Sara Spoonheim
has an exciting job. She partners with Christian, Jewish, and Muslim
congregations to look at ways for these faith communities to be
responsive stewards of God’s magnificent creation. Combining her own
vital faith and passion for life with a commitment to caring for
this fragile planet, Spoonheim outlines the beauty of devoting
ourselves to the concerns of ecology, justice, and the good life for
all.
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April
22 – Philip Yancey – Part II: Relationship in Prayer
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Philip
Yancey, popular author and
reliable spiritual guide, remains the “go to” person for any
memorable discussion on the amazing character of grace. With his
candor as a journalist and his honesty as a Christian pilgrim,
Yancey outlines both the reliability and the unpredictability of
grace. He walks listeners through a love we had not counted on and a
kindness we may not think we deserve.
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April 15 – Philip Yancey –
Part I: The
Magnanimity of Grace
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Ephesians 2:8
Philip
Yancey, popular author and
reliable spiritual guide, remains the “go to” person for any
memorable discussion on the amazing character of grace. With his
candor as a journalist and his honesty as a Christian pilgrim,
Yancey outlines both the reliability and the unpredictability of
grace. He walks listeners through a love we had not counted on and a
kindness we may not think we deserve.
- April 8 – Peter W. Marty – Hallelujah!
Called by Name
If the resurrection of
Jesus Christ interrupts a pattern of living that works well for us,
do we really want the resurrection? Program host
Peter W. Marty
takes on this penetrating question in a special edition of Grace
Matters that includes festive music of the day. Given the human
instinct to want to hang on to things the way they are, or cling to
things the way they were, Easter can be upsetting news. But if we’re
open to rethinking the shape of our lives, it is the best news for
which we could ever hope.
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April 1 – Peter Marty – Some Poems Don't
Rhyme
Palm or Passion Sunday, that seven-day-before-Easter event in the
Christian calendar, has always had a split personality about it.
Should the day celebrate a festive parade of Jesus’ final entry into
Jerusalem, or the sobering words of a mob demanding his crucifixion?
In a reflective meditation on that paradox, program host
Peter W. Marty
looks vividly at what’s behind Jesus crying over the city of
Jerusalem. He connects the events of that ancient day with the
familiar collision we all know between what our life is, and what we
wish it were.
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March 25 – Murray Finck – Stretching
Heart, Soul, and Mind
 The fitness craze that is
sweeping the country offers more benefit than just simply lowering
weight, feeling energetic, and reducing the risk of diseases like
diabetes and coronary blockage. As far as
Murray Finck is
concerned, a discipline of fitness can bring great spiritual blessing as
well. This Evangelical Lutheran Church in America bishop cares about
stretching the mind, body and spirit in ways that give serious attention
to prayer.
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March
18 – Dr. William Davis – More Than a
Bandage For the Poor
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Galatians 2:10
Mother Teresa is credited with saying, “It is
a very great poverty to decide that children must die so that we might
live as we wish.”
Bill Davis has taken the striking power of
this statement, posted it on his office wall, and decided it is the
perfect inspiration to stop letting poor kids go without health care. He
left his surgical practice almost 20 years ago to serve low-income
people, and has never looked back. It’s a compelling story of faith
ordering one’s deepest commitments.
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March
11 – Elizabeth Hausler – The Foundations of Home
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Zephaniah 3:20
The Bible does not say much
about building houses, but it has many things to say about what makes
for a home.
Elizabeth Hausler
is well qualified to speak about
building houses. She is the founder and director of Build Change, an
organization devoted to building earthquake-resistant homes, but she is
also well attuned to the requirements for making a home, working hand in
hand with the people of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, who dream of a new life.
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March 4 – Knute Ogren –
Take A
Breath
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Mark 6:37
It has been said before that, “If I am
hungry, this is a physical problem. But if my neighbor is hungry, that
is a spiritual problem.” The spiritual problem of people who live with
insufficient food, or who are food insecure, has reached staggering
proportions.
Knute Ogren is a young church worker and musician
who decided to record a couple of CDs and donate all of the proceeds to
fight global hunger. Like so many others, his contribution is (on its
way to) making a significant impact.
January 28 – Inside Chinese Prisons
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Luke 4:18-19
There are
plenty of fairness gaps in the United States system of justice, but
nothing like those in countries that detain and imprison people for
merely speaking their mind.
John Kamm,
executive director of the Dui Hua Foundation, has made a life out of
working to free Chinese dissidents who disappear from the public
eye. His efforts have been both courageous and successful. They
remind us in a pointed way of the biblical mandate to pursue justice
for others.
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 January 21 – When Our
Bodies Get Sick
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Luke 6:17-19
When our
bodies get sick, more than pain, disease, or symptoms are involved.
Our whole person gets dragged into the illness. Our hopes, dreams,
and character strengths and weaknesses become part of the picture.
Professor and author Arthur Frank
speaks as eloquently as anyone on the difference between treatment
and care, illness and disease, and fighting and struggling. Here’s a
front line look at illness being part of who we are.
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 January 14 – Domination
Is Anything But Holy
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Ephesians 5:21-32
Sexual and domestic violence are epidemic in
American culture. Surprising to many people, however, is the role
that Christianity plays in hiding the crisis through silence, or in
perpetuating the crisis through a misuse of the Bible.
Marie Fortune, founder and
senior analyst at the Faith Trust Institute, talks about societal
discomfort in addressing this violence. Host Peter Marty looks into
one of the more difficult biblical passages involving domination and
subjugation.
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January 7 – Do You Trust
God’s Abundance?
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Mark 6:30-34
Anxiety over
scarcity is the prevailing creed in American life, even though many
Americans have blessing and abundance beyond measure. Gifted teacher
and author Walter
Brueggemann takes an inside look at why we behave so anxiously,
and why it runs counter to everything God desires or offers. Listen
to his ideas for taking a generous God much more seriously than we
often do.
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