Today’s host is Kerby Anderson. In the first hour, he brings us an update on the top stories from the headlines. His first guest is Gary Thomas. Bestselling author and international speaker, Gary, will be chatting about his newest book, “Sacred Pathways.” And in the final hour we hear from Dr. Jay Richards, Executive Director of The Stream, about his latest book, “The Price of Panic.”
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Author and Speaker
Gary Thomas is a bestselling author, international speaker and Writer in Residence at Second Baptist Church Houston, Texas.
He has written 18 books, which have sold over 1 million copies and have been translated into more than a dozen languagesHis writings have established him as a thought-leader in the areas of marriage, parenting and spiritual formation. His book Sacred Marriage has sold more than 700,000 copies, and its accompanying devotional was an ECPA Gold Medallion Award finalist.
Sacred Pathways: Discover Your Soul's Path to God
Sacred Pathways reveals nine distinct spiritual temperaments--and their strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies--to help you improve your spiritual life and deepen your personal walk with God.
Executive Editor - The Stream
Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., is the Executive Editor of The Stream. He is an Assistant Research Professor in the School of Business and Economics at The Catholic University of America and a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute. He is author of many books including the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated (2013), and Indivisible (2012), co-authored with James Robison. He is also the author of Money, Greed, and God, winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award; and co-author of The Privileged Planet with astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez. His most recent book, co-authored with Jonathan Witt, is The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom that J.R.R. Tolkien Got and the West Forgot. He has a Ph.D., with honors, in philosophy and theology from Princeton Theological Seminary.
The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe
For the first time in history, the world shut itself down—by choice—all for fear of a virus, COVID-19, that wasn’t well understood. The government, with the support of most Americans, ordered the closure of tens of thousands of small businesses—many never to return. Almost every school and college in the country sent its students home to finish the school year in front of a computer. Churches cancelled worship services. “Social distancing” went from a non-word to a moral obligation overnight. Moral preening on social media achieved ever new heights.