Yaya Sinwar killed in Gaza. Analysis of how his death affects Israel's standing in the Middle East, relations with the U.S, & the U.S. elections. Cindy Jacobs on the connection between anti-semitism and Islam. And visiting one family's sukkah.

Failed assassination attempt on PM Netanyahu, Defense Minister Gallant reports gains in Lebanon, U.S. leaks Israeli intelligence. Res. Major Amiad Cohen on how to achieve security in N. Israel. Christian friends show support at Feast of Tabernacles.

Israel strikes Iranian military sites, Netanyahu vows to keep Iran from getting nukes, the Knesset passes legislation barring UNRWA from Israel. Interviews:Bill Koenig (watch.org), former Muslim Farnoosh Mazarei and Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi.

Zixian's heart condition left her frail and weak with high fevers and infections. Her family could not afford surgery to help her. They could only stand by and watch her die. Then God showed up in an amazing way.

Lausanne at 50: Western Church Needs Revival; Believers in Asia, Africa, Latin America Fill Global Gap

Michele and her husband, George, saw their incomes triple and double respectively. Michele learned to trust God instead of her paycheck and the results have led to prosperity, joy, and satisfaction. These positive things can be yours too!

Luke Barnett and his daughter were on an 800-mile hike when a boulder dislodged and struck Luke. He sustained broken bones and was airlifted to safety.

Pastor and psychology professor Dr. Jonathan Hoover, author of Stress Fracture: Your Ultimate Guide to beating Burnout discusses the Biblical insight and psychological studies showing effective ways to assess stress and manage it, as well as ... ...

Johns Hopkins medical expert and Fox News regular Dr. Marty Makary, author of Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health discusses what he calls "medical groupthink" which he says has led to public harms, and ... ...

Pastor and professor Dr. Chris Rappazini, author of Moving Forward After Messing Up: A New Future with the God of Second Chances discusses the importance of focusing on making changes and starting again in the wake of mistakes rather than on ... ...

Addiction counselor Melissa Huray, author of Radical Freedom: Breaking the Chains of Addiction for Good discusses how she found healing, forgiveness and recovery from alcoholism through the transformative grace of Jesus.

Pastor and psychology professor Dr. Jonathan Hoover, author of Stress Fracture: Your Ultimate Guide to beating Burnout discusses the Biblical insight and psychological studies showing effective ways to assess stress and manage it, as well as ... ...

Conor Gallagher, author of Well-Ordered Family: The Family Management System discusses how being the CEO of multiple businesses and the father of sixteen children led him to develop a plan to help families achieve contentment, harmony, and ...

Johns Hopkins medical expert and Fox News regular Dr. Marty Makary, author of Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health discusses what he calls "medical group think" which he says has led to public harms, and ... ...

Addiction counselor Melissa Huray, author of Radical Freedom: Breaking the Chains of Addiction for Good discusses how she found healing, forgiveness and recovery from alcoholism through the transformative grace of Jesus.

Ann Voskamp, author of Gifts and Gratitudes, discusses the mental and physical health benefits of feeling and expressing gratitude, and offers a detailed guide to growing a sense of thanksgiving to God every day of the year.

Ann Voskamp, author of Gifts and Gratitudes, discusses the mental and physical health benefits of feeling and expressing gratitude, and offers a detailed guide to growing a sense of thanksgiving to God every day of the year.

Hezbollah drone gets through Israeli defenses and hits military base without warning, killing four soldiers and wounding dozens more, US sends an advanced missile defense system to Israel, Lebanon homes found to be filled with Hezbollah weapons, ...

'A Miracle from God': Lives and Livelihoods Restored as Operation Blessing Helps Brazil Flood Victims

Joseph is legally blind, making the cleanup after Hurricane Milton particularly challenging. Operation Blessing provides a team of volunteers to restore his property and minister to his spirit. 

What does success in your job look like? Is it advancing in your career to higher positions? Is it earning more money? Is it making a difference in the world? Would God ever call you to something knowing that your efforts would fail? I’ve often found these questions to be interesting thoughts to ponder. God called Moses to stand up to Pharaoh, but then hardened Pharaoh’s heart so that he wouldn’t give in until enduring the various plagues. Ultimately, I think most of us would consider Moses’ “...

If you are a Christian, then you are called to use your gifts at church in a volunteer role or perhaps professionally. Choosing the roles that best fit your personality and interests can lead to serving God and the church more effectively. Your job satisfaction will also increase as you serve people out of your strengths.  John Holland created a theory that can help you to have more job and ministry success and satisfaction. Holland identified six personality themes: Realistic, Investigative,...

The coronavirus pandemic is causing the world to realize just how fragile life can be.  More than ever, people need to hear that God is good and offers us salvation through Jesus.  As Christians, we have a unique opportunity to glorify God as we serve our neighbors. Through the ages, amazing things have occurred during difficult times. The story of C.S. Lewis writing the classic book Mere Christianity is one of those.  In the book, C. S. Lewis at War - The Dramatic Story Behind Mere...

Chuck Bentley is CEO of Crown Financial Ministries, the largest Christian financial ministry in the world, founded by the late Larry Burkett. He is the host of a daily radio broadcast, My MoneyLife, featured on more than 1,000 Christian Music and Talk stations in the U.S., and author of his most recent book, Money Problems, Marriage Solutions. I recently spoke with Chuck about his advice for managing our money during difficult financial times. Why is it important to follow God's principles for...

Rhonda Bell dreamt of a better financial future. She felt stuck working two jobs with irregular hours. “And I had to do both jobs even to have just enough. I remember one time when I out of work; I just dug around my house for change ended, and I up finding like, in change, $13.76. I was able to buy groceries; I had no food. I just really wanted a career. I wanted the Lord to bless me with something stable.” When friends encouraged Rhonda to go into healthcare, she prayed about it. She believed...

Chesapeake, VA Kyle says, “I knew that she was going to be great. She's very strong. She’s conquered a lot of things. She did great. So, very proud of her.”   Emily is a stay at home mom and homeschools all four kids. Managing the household on a sailor’s salary isn’t easy. In fact, the couple was often forced to buy food and other necessities on credit cards and personal loans. The monthly payments became too much to handle.  Emily says, “There's a lot of worry. A lot of how we're going to get...

New experiences actually rewire the brain. So after all we’ve been through this year, you have to wonder — are we different? We consider the "COVID brain" from the perspective of both neuroscience and the arts. Also, we go to Cavendish, Vermont to hear the remarkable story of Phineas Gage, the railroad worker whose traumatic brain injury changed the history of neuroscience.

Original Air Date: October 10, 2020

Guests:

Margo Caulfield — David Eagleman — llan Stavans

Interviews In This Hour:

How Phineas Gage's Freak Accident Changed Brain Science — 'COVID Brain' and the New Frontiers of Neuroplasticity — The Pandemic and the Poets

What does it take to win Olympic gold? To become "the world's fastest human"? This hour, Olympic fame, the politics of sports, and the science of running.

Original Air Date: July 31, 2021

Guests:

John Carlos — Gretchen Reynolds — Mark McClusky — Michael Powell

Interviews In This Hour:

The Fist and the 1968 Olympics — Walk, Run, Swim Or Bike — The Most Important Exercise Is Merely Movement — Faster, Higher, Stronger — The Magic of 'Rez Ball'

We all miss touching things — groceries, door knobs, hands, faces. And most of all, skin. The living tissue that simultaneously protects us from the world, and lets us feel it. In this episode, the politics, biology, and inner life of your skin.

Original Air Date: April 18, 2020

Guests:

Angelo Bautista — Tiffany Field — Alissa Waters — Nina Jablonski

Interviews In This Hour:

My Problem With Skincare — Even During Quarantine, You Need A 'Daily Dose Of Touch' — Reclaiming Scars As Works Of Art — The Science Of Skin Color

One of the toughest things about trying to understand climate change – arguably the most important story of our time - is wrapping our minds around it. To even imagine something so enormous, so life-changing, we need a story. Some characters, a metaphor, and even some lessons learned. For that, we turn to the novelists and journalists telling the story of climate change – as we – and our children – live it.

Original Air Date: August 14, 2021

Guests:

Alice Bell — Lydia Millet — Lidia Yuknavitch — John Lanchester

Interviews In This Hour:

The Climate Change Stories We Need To Hear — The Climate Crisis Gets Biblical — Lidia Yuknavitch’s Dream World: How Dreams Shaped Her Dazzling Speculative Novel — A Climate Dystopia Of Cold, Concrete, Wind and a Wall

Not everyone has a nice, big yard to stretch out in while sheltering in place from COVID-19. But maybe you don't need one. People are using virtual spaces to live out the real experiences they miss — like coffee shops, road trips, even building your own house on a deserted island, or Walden Pond. In a world where we're mostly confined to our homes and Zoom screens, does the line between virtual and real-life space mean much anymore?

Original Air Date: May 16, 2020

Guests:

Mark Riechers — Tracy Fullerton — Simon Parkin — Jane McGonigal — Donald D. Hoffman — Suzanne O’Sullivan

Interviews In This Hour:

There's No Pandemic In Animal Crossing — I Went To The Woods To Level Up Deliberately — The Most Boring Video Game Ever Made — Want to be Happier? Turn Everyday Tasks Into a Game — How We Fool Ourselves With The Concept of 'Reality'

Further Reading:

NYAS: Reality Is Not As It Seems

Before the time of commercial flights and road trips, we traveled to far off places without taking a single step. All you had to do was open a book. From Africa to England, to a kamikaze cockpit, and to realms of fantasy. Books aren’t just books. They’re passports to anywhere.

Original Air Date: March 14, 2020

Guests:

Philip Pullman — Ruth Ozeki — Robert Macfarlane — Petina Gappah

Interviews In This Hour:

Philip Pullman on 'The Pocket Atlas of the World' — 'His Dark Materials' Author Philip Pullman On The Consciousness Of All Things — A Diary Becomes A Time Capsule — Ruth Ozeki on 'Kamikaze Diaries' — Petina Gappah on 'Persuasion' — The Empire Writes Back: Author Discusses Explorer David Livingstone's Complicated Legacy — Robert Macfarlane on 'The Living Mountain'

After a pandemic year of social isolation, we knew loneliness would be a problem. But public health officials have been warning for years that in countries all over the world, rates of loneliness are skyrocketing. How did loneliness become a condition of modern life?

Original Air Date: April 10, 2021

Guests: 

Jason Rohrer — Samantha Rose Hill — Claudia Rankine

Interviews In This Hour: 

My Friend Samantha (The A.I.) — How Loneliness Can Lead to Totalitarianism — Being Black and Alone in America

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We’re in the holiday season of the worst pandemic of our lives. Canceling our gatherings is the safe thing to do. But, how can we still — creatively and safely — connect with the people we love? Maybe there are some opportunities for us this year, too.

Original Air Date: November 28, 2020

Guests: 

Priya Parker — Stanley Weintraub — Peter Reinhart — Helen Macdonald — Gregg Krech

Interviews In This Hour: 

A Pandemic Holiday Season Offers Opportunities For Community, Too — Stanley Weintraub on the World War I Christmas Truce — Peter Reinhart on the Spiritual Importance of Bread — Helen Macdonald On 'The Dark Is Rising' — How to Cultivate Gratitude

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Jane Goodall has seen wild chimpanzees dance and bristle with excitement around roaring waterfalls — and she thinks it’s an experience of awe and wonder — and possibly a precursor to animistic religion. 

But can we ever know why our ancient human ancestors developed spiritual beliefs? Can evolutionary science uncover the roots of religion?  

At some point our ancestors went from admiring waterfalls to worshipping them - and all kinds of spirits and gods. They developed sacred rituals and turned stones into totems. And then came the Battle of the Gods. 

This was produced in partnership with the Center for Humans and Nature, an organization that brings together scholars from a diversity of disciplines to think creatively about our relationships with nature and each other. What do you think evolution can tell us about love and morality? Share your thoughts at humansandnature.org. This episode was made possible through the support of the John Templeton Foundation.

Original Air Date: May 14, 2017

Guests: 

Jane Goodall — Laura Kehoe — Frans de Waal — Barbara King — Ara Norenzayan — Jeff Schloss — Andrew Newberg

Interviews In This Hour: 

Do Chimpanzees Have Spiritual Experiences? — How 'Big Gods' Transformed Human History — An Evolutionary Biologist Searches for God — What Bliss Looks Like In Your Brain — Are Morals a Part of Our Evolution?

Further Reading:

Center for Humans and Nature

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“I have autoimmune diabetes, and my blood sugar was high and I couldn't get it down,” says Shanequa. On Sunday November 22, 2020, Shanequa Deas began having problems with comprehension. “I was sending texts to my medical director that I worked with and also a coworker that worked in Dallas asking, 'Why did I have to work on Sunday? And what presentation was I supposed to give?' And both of them were like, 'You don't work on Sunday and there's no presentation,'" said Shanequa. Mary, Shanequa’s...

Jeff Blackwell has been a beloved on-air talent for Catholic Community Radio in Baton Rouge for many years, but in 2020, Jeff was in a fight for his life. After going to dinner with his wife Diane, he became violently ill.   “I knew I was sick,” Jeff says. “I had never felt that bad before in my life. I couldn’t hold anything down. I finally told my wife, ‘I've got to go to the ER. I can't handle it.’"  Jeff was then admitted to a local hospital. He was later transferred to ICU where his...

The only source of water for Idealis was a river in their remote village in Indonesia.  But the path there can be dangerous.  Idealis explained, “When we went to the river to collect water, we often found snakes along the way. It took an hour to get water.”  Idealis lives with his mom, who is a widow.   His mother said, “The river water is contaminated because people put poison in it to kill fish. It makes the water smell bad and makes us sick when we drink it.”    Idealis explained, “When I...

CBN News gained exclusive access to private meetings between Republican presidential contender Marco Rubio and about 100 pastors in Iowa. Rubio sees this effort as just the beginning of his relationship with evangelicals.

A woman of valour who can find? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, and he hath no lack of gain…. She considereth a field, and buyeth it; with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. She girdeth her loins with strength, and maketh strong her arms… Strength and dignity are her clothing; and she laugheth at the time to come. (Proverbs 31:10-25, the Hebrew in English Translation)  Today I chose an unusual translation for this devotion...

It's been more than 30 years since I heard a sermon illustration that I will never forget. There was a man, explained the preacher, who was visiting northern Minnesota in the winter. As his cab driver took him from the airport to his destination, he noticed a man sitting in the middle of a frozen lake fishing.  The man wondered out loud, “Is that safe?” “Yes,” answered his driver, “Let me show you.” His driver maneuvered the cab to the edge of the water. “Try it,” he said. “It’s perfectly safe...

As this week unfolds, half of America will be furious, or crushed in spirit to say the least. Hundreds of millions of others will be elated, full of joy. Of course, a disinterested smaller segment of the population will yawn their way through the news of the day. Truly a nation divided, far from Jesus’ prayer for unity found in John 17. As news junkies and concerned citizens monitor election results and their given candidate’s victory or defeat, our gaze unfortunately shifts from loving God...