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Election Night Coverage – 11/05/24 – Family Life News
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a Family Life News Feature
As two candidates race toward the end of this year’s campaign for the White House, what can we learn from all the Chief Executives who came before?
In this podcast from Family Life News, you’ll hear from a best-selling author and presidential historian. David M. Rubenstein has compiled stories, records and reflections on all 46 presidents so far, and says the American presidency is “The Highest Calling” in the world.
Rubenstein tells interviewer Greg Gillispie about how the presidency has been reshaped across U.S. history, the uniqueness of Americans choosing their own leaders, and how his broad scope across history provides insights into the 2024 election. He is concerned that 80 million citizens who are eligible to vote and shape their governance choose not to take part.
David M. Rubenstein is a lawyer, businessman, philanthropist, author and host of a history program on television. He has served as a government official, and is a co-owner of the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball.
His book The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency includes interviews with most of the living presidents, essays by other commentators and journalists, and anecdotes about the people who were chosen to lead their nation.
10/31/2024
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Concerned and compassionate listeners across Pennsylvania and New York want to help with the immediate human needs of many many thousands across six states ravaged by the winds and rain of Hurricane Helene.
In this special report from Family Life’s Sarah Harnisch, you can hear some of the sounds and descriptions of the destruction through some many communities in the southeast U.S. — from larger metro areas, to small towns and cities, to rural areas and mountainside hamlets.
You also will hear the story of one local religious group which is doing something tangible: filling a large trailer with water, food and other supplies. It will be delivered this weekend to western North Carolina, where some of the most widespread damage has happened.
Susan Weaver is coordinating this project for the Riverside Chapel in Salamanca, New York. Hear about her sense of God’s calling to take tangible action for people in deep need.
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Family Life Ministries is partnering with this collection of emergency supplies. For our listeners and web visitors in and near the Twin 
Tiers region, there is an enclosed trailer parked in the Family Life parking area near Bath, New York.
Harvest Baptist in Bath NY will be collecting similar items at their church building, from 3 pm to 7 pm, the week of October 7-11.
For those who live or work elsewhere in the Family Life radio region (and who connect with us online from other states), check with your local church or denomination for the most efficient way to make donations).
FamilyLife.org/relief also has direct links to a number of regional/national/international Christian disaster relief agencies. Tap that link to read the latest updates, see images from the flooded zone, and consider options for you to provide support.
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Separately, Family Life News received information on this other angle of this major ongoing story:
Watch out for scam charity appeals on your phone, computer and other devices
Law enforcement authorities are cautioning people to watch out for telephone and online scams, pretending to seek donations to help in hurricane recovery efforts across the southeastern U.S.
Their advice: If someone calls you — or sends a social media post, text or email — don’t reply right away, and don’t give-up your bank account or credit card numbers. Consumer advocates recommend that you initiate any donation you want to make. Do so through an established organization or your own local church.
Family Life Ministries has posted information about multiple reputable relief organizations on this special page on our website: FamilyLife.org/relief.
Hear highlights from the Pennsylvania March For Life, where an estimated 6,000 people gathered on the steps of the state capitol building, to pray, rally and march. This annual demonstration give witness to the year-round efforts to protect unborn children from the practice of abortion.
With highlights from speakers on the stage, plus exclusive Family Life News interviews with attendees and pro-life leaders, this special edition of “Faith Under Fire” offers you a recap of the issues and motivations which are important to those who rallied in Harrisburg on Monday, September 23.
The Pennsylvania Family Institute’s website and related social media posts have additional highlights, commentary, and videos.
The full one-hour video of all the Rally presentations is available here: www.PAFamily.org
Within this video is a speech by Dr. Eric Hussar, a Lancaster County physician who is State Director for the American Academy of Medical Ethics. He gives real-world stories of women who started a regimen of abortion-inducing drugs, but later would regret that decision and explored how pregnancies can often be saved, if the scared and fragile woman seeks out abortion-reversal treatments through their own physician or through a pro-life pregnancy resource center. [https://youtu.be/iLzJma3TA8o?t=2172] [The Lozier Institute has further information on the medical research about the Progesterone treatments.]
Note: Family Life Ministries has compiled information about Pregnancy Resource Centers and care centers throughout Pennsylvania and New York State.
Visit that map and get contact information here: www.FamilyLife.org/listening-area/pregnancy-resources/
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Bible2School – Time Out from the School Day for Faith Development
A Family Life Interview with Kori Pennypacker
A Pennsylvania-based program gives students the opportunity to leave the school building each week for a Bible-based time of fun and learning.
Some might wonder how this can happen with secular elementary schools, but it is legal and successful for families who choose it.
Kori Pennypacker is President of Bible2School, which essential offers a voluntary option to have experiences similar to Sunday School or an interactive Vacation Bible School. It happens during recesses or lunch periods, offsite, so Bible2School is free to have faith-based content.
Pennypacker explains the program, tells us about how this program benefits students who are already in churches and those who don’t yet have any interactions with faith, and how Scripture and values education benefits school and communities.
This interview was our daily News Feature during the Family Life Noon Report on our network of nearly 70 radio stations across PA and NY — and on our live stream.
For more information:
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Zooming Out to Bigger Views of the Issues surrounding this Election
A Special Edition of the Family Life Noon Report
Labor Day – 9/02/2024
The proverbial “start” of the election season traditionally kicks in Labor Day Weekend. As American culture slides past the holiday and into the school year, voters are within a couple of months of Election Day. While much of the public has been plugged in to this year’s unique campaign, others are just now ready to begin to explore who and what will be on the ballot.
In this half-hour special from Family Life News, we zoom out beyond the daily and weekly twists and turns of the candidates and their campaign. Today, we delve into some of the bigger issues about the election:
Bob Price and Greg Gillispie have extended interviews with these expert guests:
Click/tap each photograph for additional interviews with these guests, plus their biographies, or scroll through additional podcasts at www.FamilyLife.org/newspodcasts.
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An update: In the conversation about IRS regulations about churches which receive charitable contribution status, our guest mentioned the Johnson Amendment (starting at :19:37 in this recording). Now, the National Religious Broadcasters organization is leading other plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit against the IRS, contending those 1950’s-era regulations seek to place unconstitutional restrictions on free speech and freedom of religion. This new article from MinistryWatch.com explores the issues surrounding this complaint from the faith-based groups.
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Churches and Political Actions
A Family Life Interview with Kim Roberts
Many churches and denominations can be labeled as supportive of one side of the political spectrum or the other. Others avoid politics at all costs.
Part of the reason congregations avoid actions and speech related to electoral politics is fear of risking their non-profit status. However, federal law and IRS regulations do not silence Christian entities which want to promote voting and motivate their people into political action.
Family Life News asked reporter Kim Roberts to detail her research into what is and isn’t allowed when churches and campaigns overlap. Christian individuals can always be active with promoting or opposing a candidate, but when it comes to 501(c)3 organizations, they have to stay non-partisan about candidates. Yet churches and other religious ministries are free to speak out on public issues that weigh on the ballot box. There are no IRS consequences for churches to hold candidate forums, carry out voter registration or get-out-the-vote efforts, or offer rides to the polls. In fact, as you will hear in this conversation, the Church throughout history has been vibrant and vocal in the political and social issues around them.
Kim Roberts, a reporter for the Christian journalism organization Ministry Watch, also discusses how local, state and national candidates reach out to churches, in order to influence their members to vote a certain way. Also, political and culture-fight organizations are finding ways to motivate people of faith to elect certain candidates or stand for particular political issues.
Kim Robert’s detailed article “Church and Politics: What’s Allowed?” is available from www.MinistryWatch.com. She also has other reporting on many faith-based events and issues.
Among the resources for congregations and church leaders — and other groups — she mentions in this podcast:
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Elections: Christian voter turnout falls short at the ballot box
One public opinion poll says one-third of Christian voters stay home on election day and don’t cast ballots.
A Christian social advocate says people of faith who choose not to practice what he calls their “Biblical Citizenship” are instead handing over their influence to other groups who do not share the same values.
Executive Director Jason McGuire of the New York Family Foundation says other constituencies have voter turnout that tops 90 percent for every election.
This week (8/27/2024) Family Life News is airing (and podcasting) a series of extended interviews giving a deeper dive into this year’s elections, beyond the individual candidates and campaigns.
In this conversation about Christians’ roles to shape government, McGuire also talks about:
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PA as a swing state, and a narrow slice of undecided voters – 8/26/2024
In this special Family Life Interview, political scientist Mark Caleb Smith analyzes how the two major political parties will need to focus on about 5% of eligible voters, and to push huge turnout among their own base voters — in order to win the presidential race, seats on Capitol Hill, and other November races.
Dr. Smith also gives his insights into Pennsylvania’s role as perhaps the most-signficant among a handful of “swing” states in this election battle, and why Gov. Josh Shapiro was not the running mate on the Democratic ticket.
Dr. Mark Caleb Smith is dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Cedarville University, where he is also professor of political science.
Cedarville is a Christian university in southwestern Ohio.
