Current events involving politics, political office holders, political candidates, world events, local events, crime and other public affairs issues are discussed. Business news items as well as science and technology issues may appear.
Scientists say SpudCell can grow and replicate like a natural cell—but did they actually create life? Dr. James Tour and the Conversations team examine the research in detail, separating its remarkable engineering from the headlines and asking whether constant feeding, borrowed biological machinery, and mechanically forced division truly constitute a living cell.
While writing his book Miracles, author Eric Metaxas realized that the single greatest miracle in existence wasn't a supernatural event like the parting of the Red Sea, but the physical universe itself. He discovered that the overwhelming scientific evidence for cosmic fine-tuning was entirely missing from mainstream culture, leaving even serious Christians in the dark. To combat this media blackout, Metaxas penned a bold op-ed questioning if science was leading us to God, which a chance connection unexpectedly landed in the Wall Street Journal. Renamed "Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God," the article rapidly went viral on Christmas Eve, shattering publication records as readers scrambled to share the data. Metaxas reflects on how our upside-down culture platforms atheist figures like Bill Nye while ignoring the staggering, bulletproof evidence that points directly to a Creator.
Paul and Silas get beaten and thrown in the deepest cell for the crime of freeing a girl from the spirit that made her owners rich. At midnight, backs raw and feet in stocks, they are singing hymns loud enough for the other prisoners to hear, when an earthquake opens the doors and Paul stays to keep the jailer from taking his own life. By morning the man who locked them up is washing their wounds and bringing his whole household to baptism. It is hard to read this chapter and keep believing that any situation is past hope.
Two great missionaries get into an argument sharp enough to end their partnership, and the subject is whether to give a young man named Mark a second chance. Out of that painful split, two mission teams go out instead of one, and the work spreads further than it would have. God keeps building his church through imperfect people and even through their disagreements. This episode is honest medicine for anyone who has watched a falling-out in the family of faith.
The Rev. Dan Torkelson, pastor of Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Madison, WI, joins the Rev. Dr. Phil Booe to study Acts 15:36-16:15.
