The Ride Home - Tuesday, May 11, 2021

@ 11:24 - Single Parent by Choice: More Unmarried Americans are Fostering and Adopting. How Can Churches Get Behind Them? GUEST Kara Bettis ... AssociateFeatures Editor for Christianity Today. @ 28:52 - Think outside the banana: eat the peel (NYT) ... + ... 10 ingredients you should be storing in your freezer, according to our readers (WashPo) @ 37:12 - White Evangelical Pastors Hesitant to Preach Vaccines: Advocates say more subtle approaches and one-on-one engagement may actually do more to inform the unvaccinated without further dividing the faithful … GUEST Kate Shellnutt … Senior News Editor, Christianity Today … and covers faith, women, and pop culture as a freelance writer. @ 50:53 - The first English Lutheran Church of Sharpsburg closes its doors after 134 years (Trib) @ 1:00:00 - Need a reset? The end of pandemic life can be a fresh start (NYT)** @ 1:12:35 - The Secular Creed: Engaging Five Contemporary Claims ... GUEST Rebecca McLaughlin ... holds a PhD in renaissance literature from Cambridge University and a theology degree from Oak Hill College in London ... cofounder of Vocable Communications and the author of “Confronting Christianity,” named Christianity Today's 2020 Beautiful Orthodoxy Book of the Year, and its follow-up edition for youth, “10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask (and Answer) about Christianity”. @ 1:38:32- US birthrates fall to lowest point in more than a century (AP) ... + ... US birthrate is falling; here's how other countries have persuaded people to have more children (NYT)** @ 1:50:34 - Smartphone is now the place where we live, anthropologists say (TheGuardian)**See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.