The NCAA, NAIA, and Women’s Sports – 8/22/24
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The NCAA, NAIA, and Women’s Sports – 8/22/24
Staycation Bonus Content – Drake Well & Pithole City – 8/16/24
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This week’s “Staycation Destinations” feature took you on a radio tour of Edwin Drake’s Well #1. It essentially became the birthplace of the modern petroleum industry.
The Drake Well Museum and Park, with its indoor and outdoor exhibits, tells of this history.
In this additional interview segment, Emily Weaver of the Friends of Drake Well Incorporated makes about 20 miles further south of Titusville, to another historic site in the Oil Creek Region.
In the 1860s, Pithole City sprung up and grew to a population of 15,000 as people flooded in there, in an oil-focused version of a gold rush.
Weaver tells us more of that story, and describes what people can see at the Pithole visitors center (open seasonally on weekend).
Pithole City is operated as a tourist site in conjunction with the Drake Well Museum.
If you haven’t yet heard the primary episode of this week’s Staycation, find that feature here among our news podcasts on FamilyLife.org.
“Staycation Destinations“ on Family Life maps out unique opportunities for you to discover somewhere unique in New York or Pennsylvania, fairly close to home and fairly affordable. These Staycation features aire during the Noon Report and 5 O’Clock Report each Friday during the summer. You can hear the broadcast on the air and streaming online. You can also find our features on the Family Life Now mobile app, on FamilyLife.org, and search for “Family Life News“ on most popular podcast compilations.
City On The Hill – Part Two – Today’s young Christian and cultural leaders – 8/12/24
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The next generation of young leaders — or, perhaps said more accurately, the incoming generation of young leaders — gets leadership development and hands-on training from the annual summer project called City On The Hill. The Pennsylvania Family Institute brought together 57 high school and college students for worship, workshops and a simulation of a state senate session with debates and legislative proposals.
This podcast features Part Two of our conversation with two of those participants, Jacob Reece and Amiya Montijo.
In Part One, we focused on the activities of that week of Biblical worldview and leadership development. [ It aired 8/01/2024 on Family Life. Listen to, share or download it here. ]
In this new interview, Greg Gillispie asks these guests about what is true for young people who have grown up in today’s culture. They offer their personal perspectives of hope, reassurance and commitment, coming from today’s Christian young adults.
Jacob Reece is a pre-law student from Blandon, PA. He also interned this summer with PFI. Amiya Montijo is a 2024 high school graduate. She has attended COTH across multiple summers.
Information about the 2025 City On The Hill — the 25th anniversary — is available on their website.
City on the Hill – Motivation for the Next Generation of Faithful Activitists – 8/01/24
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City on the Hill – Motivation for the Next Generation of Faithful Activists
A Family Life Interview on “Faith Under Fire” – 8/01/2024
Some five dozen young-adult Christians spent a week getting information and inspiration on how to live faithfully and act Biblically in the public square.
“City on the Hill” just completed its 24th year of motivating the next generation of Christian activists. The program is an outreach of the Pennsylvania Family Institute. It uses workshops, guest speakers, open discussions, and a simulation of a legislative debate to help the high school and college students wrestle with the social, political and cultural issues of the day. The subject matter ranges from Christians in the Public Square to The Case for Life to Why Religious Freedom Matters.
This is the first of a two-part interview with Amaya Montijo, a high school student from Annville, and Jacob Reece, a college student from Blandon. Both are multi-year participants in City on the Hill.
For your follow-up:
- The Pennsylvania Family Institute presents City on the Hill as a leadership development and worldview conference each July. Details are here.
- Their promotional video is also online.
- Jacob Reece also wrote a blog post, telling his first-person account of how he has been changed through his experiences at COTH.
Part Two of this conversation aired on 8/12/2024. The podcast version is available here.
Strategies for Presidential and Senate Races: National and in PA — Jeff Bloodworth
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A Family Life Interview: Political Strategies, in Changeable Times — 7/29/2024
A week ago, Erie-based political scientist Jeff Bloodworth offered us analysis of how the Democratic Party is handling a quick conversion of its ticket for the presidential and vice-presidential campaign.
During today’s Family Life Noon Report, Professor Bloodworth surveys options and strategies available to the Republicans, in light of Joe Biden’s withdrawal from seeking reelection. During this conversation, he says the GOP has immediate opportunities to allow the Democrats to publicly try to sort out its winning ticket. The political history professor at Gannon University also zooms in on three Pennsylvanians with prominent roles heading into the 2024 general elections:
- Governor Josh Shapiro, considered by many to be a likely candidate to run for his party nationally this fall
- Incumbent Democrat Bob Casey Junior, whose prospects for the U.S. Senate may be hampered by his vocal support for President Biden before and after the consequential June debate
- Republican Senate challenger Dave McCormick, whom Bloodworth says could campaign on whether Casey was telling the truth to his constituents or prioritizing his own political party’s interests
Dr. Bloodworth also gives us his current evaluation of how the 2024 results will shape up — two options, subject to potentially more week-by-week swings in political trends as have happened every week so far this summer.
FOR FURTHER LISTENING:
In addition to this interview about likely Republican strategies, a parallel conversation about Democratic strategies [online here] is also available from the “Family Life News” podcasts from the Family Life Now mobile app, most other podcast platforms, and on the NEWS tab at www.FamilyLife.org.
“Doing Church” in the Aftermath of an Assassination Attempt – 7/25/24
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“Doing Church” — “Being Church” — in the Aftermath of an Assassination Attempt
A Family Life Interview
For much of the nation, so much has happened in a two-week period, that the news-cycle has moved on from the assassination attempt in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
However, for the people of that immediate region an hour north of Pittsburgh, the trauma and the questions that started a mere two Saturdays ago will continue for quite some time.
Local churches there are responding — and will, into the long term.
Our Greg Gillispie talked with regional pastor Tom Harmon, asking about Christians’ local response, to an internationally-famous incident. Theirs is among many local congregations of multiple traditions and denominations reaching out in faithful responses in the aftermath of this shooting.
The Rev. Dr. Tom Harmon is executive presbyter for Beaver-Butler Presbytery, a network of 60 congregations in western Pennsylvania.
The organization to which Dr. Harmon refers is “Search for Common Ground”. The USA component of this worldwide movement released a public statement regarding the shooting of Donald Trump and three attendees at the Butler rally. The organization’s website is www.SFCG.org
Family Life News seeks to bring a Christian Worldview to what’s happening in New York, Pennsylvania, across the country, and around the world with 12 daily newscasts, special features, podcasts, and extended interviews like this one.
A Family Life Interview – Local analysis of the Biden-Harris campaign swap
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A Family Life Interview – Local analysis of Democrats’ next steps, post-Biden
In these early days since President Biden released a statement that he was stepping away from his reelection campaign, attention has centered around Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
We get local analysis on these fast-changing political and governmental developments, with a Family Life Interview with Professor Jeff Bloodworth of Gannon University in Erie. Bloodworth gives his initial reactions to Biden’s withdrawal from the race, historical perspectives on this year’s political machinations, and his observations about steps Democrats should take next to strengthen their electoral prospects.
Among those considerations, recruiting Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro to be the vice-presidential nominee — or perhaps even the new presidential candidate.
Dr. Jeff Bloodworth is one of our commentators for Family Life News on politics and history. He teaches both of those subjects at Gannon University.
Staycation – PA Trolley Museum – Bonus Content
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Here is more from the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum….
Volunteer tour guide Gary Malaskovitz gives Greg Gillispie and our listeners a vision of that history, plus a ride on one of the nine fully-restored trolleys which still offer rides to the museum’s visitors.
In this bonus online content, two additional stories: why families enjoy bringing children to experience the museum’s education center, plus his own first-person experiences of riding Pittsburgh’s trolleys when he was a child.
Click the ticket or go to www.FamilyLife.org to hear our full “Staycation Destinations” visit to the Trolley Museum in Washington County PA.
The Attack on Trump — Political & Christian perspectives from Michael Geer – 7/18/24
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The Attack on Trump — Political & Christian perspectives from Michael Geer – 7/18/2024
As part of the Family Life News continuing coverage of the attempt on Donald Trump’s life on July 13, we continue to seek out reactions and perspectives from the Family Life listening area.
Michael Geer is the founding president of the Pennsylvania Family Institute. (He had been a resident of that area north of the Pittsburgh metro area.) Family Life news producer Greg Gillispie asked Geer to comment on the likely political fallout in Pennsylvania. Winning a majority of Keystone State voters is seen by both major political parties as a key to who will win the presidency this fall. Geer says the assassination attempt, plus the former president’s actions in the immediate aftermath, are likely to influence a number of uncommitted and independent voters.
Geer also offers a faith-based perspective on how, moving forward, this near-death experience is likely to affect the 45th president — and many people for whom this event can be a significant turning point.
The Attack on Trump — reaction from PA’s Governor and a Congressman – 7/15/24
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The Attack on Trump — reaction from PA’s Governor and a Congressman – 7/15/2024
As part of the Family Life News continuing coverage of Saturday’s shooting attack which hit Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and three other people, here are reactions and updates from two elected officials in the Commonwealth.
Governor Josh Shapiro spoke at a news conference. He made the first public identification of the spectator who was killed by a gunman’s bullet.
Congressman Mike Kelly, whose district includes the Butler County site where the assassination attempt was made, was interviewed on Sunday.
