The Ride Home - Thursday, June 17, 2021

4:10 PM - Character Is Destiny for the Southern Baptist Convention: When it comes to the crisis of character in the SBC, please Baptists, heed your own true words ... GUEST David French ... senior editor at The Dispatch, an attorney (concentrating his practice in constitutional law and the law of armed conflict), and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom ... He’s the author or co-author of several books including the #1 NYT bestselling “Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can’t Ignore” ... his newest book is "Divided we Fall: America's Secession Threat and how to restore our Nation" ... He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and the past president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. 4:25 PM **Flying Treats: can dogs and cats safely eat cicadas? (NYT)** 4:35 PM - Addiction: the hopeless drunk and addict … GUEST David Louis … Adult and Teen Challenge. 4:50 PM **Olympic path clears as Japan ends state of emergency (WSJ)** 5:00 PM **Want a job? Employers say Talk to the Computer (AP)** 5:15 PM - The social-mediaexamined life is not the one that sustains us. The public life is not what feeds the desires of the heart. Guest: Karen Swallow Prior. 5:35 PM - The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other (new book) … GUEST Charlotte Donlon … writer, spiritual director, and host of the “Hope for the Lonely” podcast … (Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, & elsewhere … She holds a master of fine arts in creative writing from Seattle Pacific Univ … She and her husband live in Birmingham AL, with their 2 teenage children). 5:50 PM **Local News: Workers at a Family Dollar in Garfield quit as a group via hand-written note they taped to the door (PG) ... + ... Pirates announce re-opening celebrations (Trib) ... + ... PItt makes 2 big property buys in Oakland ... + ... Rachel Bunny Mellon’s grandson lists Cape Cod mansion for $19.8 (WSJ)**See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.