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Listen Now Thursday, April 28, 2022
Today’s show is led by Kerby Anderson.
In the first hour, Kerby welcomes Jake Meador. The editor in chief of Mere Orthodoxy, Jake brings us his new book, “What Are Christians For?”
In the second hour, he welcomes Jim (Soni) Sonefeld. Soni will speak about his new book, a memoir, “Swimming with the Blowfish, coming out in June.” Joining them in the discussion is Stephen Miller, Point of View‘s Producer.
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Kerby Anderson
Host, Point of View Radio Talk Show
Kerby Anderson is host of Point of View Radio Talk Show and also serves as the President of Probe Ministries. He holds masters degrees from Yale University (science) and Georgetown University (government). He also serves as a visiting professor at Dallas Theological Seminary and has spoken on dozens of university campuses including University of Michigan, Vanderbilt University, Princeton University, Johns HopkinsRead More
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Jake Meador
Writer | Speaker | Editor in Chief - Mere Orthodoxy
Jake Meador is the editor in chief of Mere Orthodoxy, an online magazine covering the Christian faith in the public sphere, and a contributing editor with Plough. His first book was In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World. Jake's work has been published in First Things, National Review, Books & Culture, Commonweal, Christianity Today, Front Porch Republic, and the University Bookman. He lives with his wife and children in his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska.
What Are Christians For?: Life Together at the End of the World
Politics ought to be defined by fidelity to the common good of all the members of society. But our modern Western politics are defined by a determination to bend the natural world and human life to its own political and economic ends. This wholesale rejection of the natural order is behind the dominant revolutions in our history, and defines our experience in Western society today―our racialized hierarchy, modern industry, and the sexual revolution.
In What Are Christians For?, Jake Meador lays out a proposal for a Christian politics rooted in the givenness and goodness of the created world. He is uninterested in the cultural wars that have so often characterized American Christianity. Instead, he casts a vision for an ordered society that rejects the late modern revolution at every turn and is rooted in the natural law tradition and the great Protestant confessions. Here is a political approach that is antiracist, anticapitalist, and profoundly pro-life. A truly Christian political witness, Meador argues, must attend closely to the natural world and renounce the metallic fantasies that have poisoned common life in America life for too long.
In What Are Christians For?, Jake Meador lays out a proposal for a Christian politics rooted in the givenness and goodness of the created world. He is uninterested in the cultural wars that have so often characterized American Christianity. Instead, he casts a vision for an ordered society that rejects the late modern revolution at every turn and is rooted in the natural law tradition and the great Protestant confessions. Here is a political approach that is antiracist, anticapitalist, and profoundly pro-life. A truly Christian political witness, Meador argues, must attend closely to the natural world and renounce the metallic fantasies that have poisoned common life in America life for too long.
Jim (Soni) Sonefeld
Speaker | Author | Song-Writer | Drummer
As one of the principal songwriters for one of America’s more accomplished and top-selling groups, Hootie and the Blowfish, Jim (Soni) Sonefeld (drummer and writer of the hits) has had a lot of ups and downs, struggles and very bad highs. As he toured the world, fell into drugs, alcohol, sex, and more. He hit the ROCK Bottom so many in this lifestyle do. After the ego and wild days got a shock treatment, he has emerged as a man focused on his faith, his family, and a message of hope and redemption.
From his beginnings in the Chicago area as a storied, yet troubled soccer phenom, to his days as a player for University of South Carolina, to an unexpected ask to drum for the college “band”, he never really slowed down and applied his true talents. But once he did, he excelled. In sports and in his music/songwriting and the rest is history, as they say.
His recovery found him a new man with new meaning, a shift in his songwriting that has led to a catalogue of CCM-eques music. As he takes time to speak to groups on his path to recovery, he sprinkles in some music, and it is a strong and powerful place to be. Soni will precede the release of EP Remember Tomorrow with the release of his first book (memoir); Swimming with the Blowfish: Hootie, Healing, and One Hell of a Ride; on June 28, 2022.
From his beginnings in the Chicago area as a storied, yet troubled soccer phenom, to his days as a player for University of South Carolina, to an unexpected ask to drum for the college “band”, he never really slowed down and applied his true talents. But once he did, he excelled. In sports and in his music/songwriting and the rest is history, as they say.
His recovery found him a new man with new meaning, a shift in his songwriting that has led to a catalogue of CCM-eques music. As he takes time to speak to groups on his path to recovery, he sprinkles in some music, and it is a strong and powerful place to be. Soni will precede the release of EP Remember Tomorrow with the release of his first book (memoir); Swimming with the Blowfish: Hootie, Healing, and One Hell of a Ride; on June 28, 2022.
Swimming with the Blowfish:
The ultimate front-row seat to the rise, fall, and rebirth of a band that was—for a time—the biggest in the world, Hootie & the Blowish, and Jim Sonefeld’s shattering and redeeming spiritual path from addiction to recovery and a more fruitful life.
A book that encapsulates a band still beloved by legions of fans, Swimming with the Blowfish is much more—an unpretentious, emotional story of one man’s spiritual path to a more fruitful life. Jim’s journey is shattering, redeeming, and ultimately as comforting as your favorite flannel shirt.
A book that encapsulates a band still beloved by legions of fans, Swimming with the Blowfish is much more—an unpretentious, emotional story of one man’s spiritual path to a more fruitful life. Jim’s journey is shattering, redeeming, and ultimately as comforting as your favorite flannel shirt.
Stephen R. Miller
Actor | Producer - Point of View Radio Show
Stephen Miller is an actor and is the producer for the award-winning Point of View Radio Talk Show. He has a BA in Drama from Dallas Baptist University, and an MA in Media and Communication from Dallas Theological Seminary. He has also done graduate work at UT Dallas, where he studied Philosophy and Aesthetics. Before coming to Point of View, he taught Drama, Theology, and Rhetoric at The Covenant School in Dallas, TX.
He has been a stage, TV, and film actor since the early 1990s. Favorite roles include Fagin in "Oliver", Richard in "Richard III", Jack in "The Importance of Being Earnest", and Man in the Chair in "The Drowsy Chaperone."
He is married to April, and they have two children, Juliet and Brennan.
He has been a stage, TV, and film actor since the early 1990s. Favorite roles include Fagin in "Oliver", Richard in "Richard III", Jack in "The Importance of Being Earnest", and Man in the Chair in "The Drowsy Chaperone."
He is married to April, and they have two children, Juliet and Brennan.
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