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Brian Fikkert is Associate Professor of Economics and the founder and Executive Director of the Chalmers Center at Covenant College. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Yale and has been a consultant to the World Bank.

Steve Corbett is an Assistant Professor of Community Development at Covenant College and serves as a Distance Learning Trainer for the Chalmers Center.

Find out more at WhenHelpingHurts.org.

Friday, November 13: David Crowder & Mike Hogan - Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, but Nobody Wants to Die: Or the Eschatology of Bluegrass

Friday, November 20: Tony Campolo - Our Favorite Lib

Friday, November 27: Nicole Daniels & John Whitehead

Nicole Daniels - New National Director of Public Relations for the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions

John Whitehead - Founder and president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Stand and Fight: It's Time for a Second American Revolution

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Join Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola on Steve Brown Etc. as we discuss A Jesus Manifesto for the 21st Century.

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Dr. Leonard Sweet is a historian of American culture, futurist, preacher and writer. His latest books include So Beautiful, 11: Indispensable Relationships You Can't Be Without and The Gospel According to Starbucks. Find out more at LeonardSweet.com.

Frank Viola is a speaker, organic church planter and author of Pagan Christianity?, Reimagining Church and From Eternity to Here. Click here for Frank's last appearance on SBE.

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As a young man, Andrew was consumed with the fear that God was disappointed with his performance as a Christian. He literally couldn't sleep at night unless he had witnessed to someone. Some nights he'd jump out of bed and run to a 24-hour convenience store to share the gospel. He's pretty much over that kind of thing now.

Andrew Farley is lead teaching pastor of Ecclesia. He served as a professor of linguistics at University of Notre Dame for five years and is now a tenured professor at Texas Tech University.

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One catch, our connection was so bad that Don might as well have been a million miles away. We only had him for a short time. But don't let that stop you from listening. We had a great discussion about the new book and the impact it can have as we begin to edit our own lives.

Donald Miller is also the author of Blue Like Jazz, To Own A Dragon, Searching for God Knows What and Through Painted Deserts. He's currently on tour promoting A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. Click here to find out if the tour is coming to your town and visit DonMillerIs.com for all things Don.

Also, don't miss Susan Isaacs' post from the million mile tour bus in the SBE Guest Room.

At Key Life, we really do believe that God is in control, even in the most difficult circumstances. Well, honestly, sometimes we forget that He's in control and we panic, but most of the time we really do believe that God is in control. That's why you seldom hear us make a big deal about giving to the ministry.

However, on rare occasions, we do have to let you know when Key Life really needs your help. This is one of those times. Please don't feel pressured or obligated to give. We're sensitive to the fact that you too may be facing a tough time financially. But if you can give, please pray about it. Every gift of any amount will go a long way toward helping this unique ministry of God's grace make a difference in a whole lot of lives.

Click here to visit KeyLife.org and find out how you can make a difference.

Check out this trailer for A Serious Man. I was blown away.

Friday, October 16: Donald Miller - Author of the phenomenal new book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Friday, October 23: Andrew Farley - Author of The Naked Gospel: The Truth You May Never Hear in Church

Friday, October 30: Leonard Sweet & Frank Viola - Authors of A Jesus Manifesto

Steve Brown Etc. is recorded on Fridays from noon - 1 ET, then aired on stations across the country that weekend. Listen live and call in at 1.888.54.STEVE (1.888.547.8383).

Join Laura Waters Hinson and Steve Brown on this week's SBE as they talk about radical reconciliation in Rwanda. Laura is the producer/director of As We Forgive and she's currently engaged in a nationwide screening tour, presenting the film to the U.S. Congress, the State Department and the World Bank, and at various universities and institutions.

You can join Laura as a voice for reconciliation. Go to AsWeForgiveMovie.com and be a part of the 4GIVE campaign by hosting an As We Forgive screening and discussion event focused on why Rwandans reconciling after genocide may be the most hopeful story for the world today. It’s a chance to spark a real conversation in your community about the power of forgiveness and the ways that giving is at the heart of it all.

Also, click here for our interview with Catherine Larson about the book, As We Forgive, that was inspired by Laura's documentary.

Join Dr. Ross on this week's Steve Brown Etc. as we discuss his long-awaited book, More Than a Theory.

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Dr. Hugh Ross is an astrophysicist who travels the world challenging students and faculty, churches and professional groups to consider what they believe and why. He's written numerous books on the intersection of faith and science, and he's the founder and president of Reasons to Believe, an organization that keeps tabs on the frontiers of research to share with scientists and non-scientists how new discoveries connect with biblical theology.

After you listen, check out the DVD of Dr. Ross at the Skeptics Society Conference with Victor Stenger that we mentioned on the show.

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Whether you're in full-time ministry or a regular churchgoer, don't miss Pete Scazzero on Steve Brown Etc. this week as he talks about moving past manic religious activity to emotionally healthy spirituality.

Pete Scazzero is the senior pastor of New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, New York and author of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality and The Emotionally Healthy Church. Visit EmotionallyHealthy.org for more info and helpful resources.

Friday, September 11: Peter Scazzero - Senior pastor of New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, New York and author of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality and The Emotionally Healthy Church

Friday, September 18: Dr. Hugh Ross - More Than a Theory: Revealing a Testable Model for Creation

Friday, September 25: Douglas Gresham - Growing up with C.S. Lewis

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Then Michael Craven joins us to talk about his book Uncompromised Faith: Overcoming Our Culturalized Christianity. Use one of the options below to hear a discussion about our compromised and boxed version of Christianity in relation to the vitality of the Kingdom of God.

Michael is the president of the Center for Christ & Culture located in Dallas, Texas, where he studies, writes and lectures on the relevant intersection of theology, philosophy and culture.

Tony Campolo is a speaker, author, sociologist, pastor, social activist, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Eastern University and the Founder and President of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education. But most importantly…he’s Our Favorite Lib.”

Have you ever struggled with being a Bible-believing Christian without becoming an out-of-touch fundamentalist or wacky liberal? If so, don't miss Scot McKnight on this week's SBE. If not, listen anyway.

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Scot McKnight is a biblical scholar, beliefnet blogger and author of The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible. Join Steve and Scot as they discuss blue parakeets and how to handle the biblical view of homosexuality without being an uptight jerk.

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Maren Angelotti joins us on this week's Steve Brown Etc. to discuss the latest research on AD/HD and how it's part of God's plan for kids with learning differences. We also talk about where to start if you suspect your child may have ADD or dyslexia.

Maren Angelotti is a reading therapist for dyslexic students and an ADD coach. Three of her four children have learning differences and she's the author of Of Different Minds: Seeing Your AD/HD Child Through the Eyes of God. Visit OfDifferentMinds.com for more.

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You’ve probably seen Tony talking about politics and religion on Nightline, CNN, MSNBC, Politically Incorrect, etc. He's Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Eastern University and the Founder and President of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education. Find out more about our favorite lib at TonyCampolo.org.

Tony Campolo is the author of 35 books, his latest three being Letters to a Young Evangelical, The God of Intimacy and Action and his most recent release, Red Letter Christians: A Citizen’s Guide to Faith and Politics.

Friday, August 14: Maren Angelotti - Author of Of Different Minds: Seeing Your AD/HD Child Through the Eyes of God

Friday, August 21: Matt Woodley & Alan Godwin

Matt Woodly is the author of The Folly of Prayer: Practicing the Presence and Absence of God

Alan Godwin is the author of How to Solve Your People Problems: Dealing with Your Difficult Relationships

Friday, August 28: Scot McKnight (Re-Air) - Author of The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

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Larry Dixon is a theology professor at Columbia International University Seminary and School of Missions, and the author of When Temptation Strikes. Listen as we discuss his book, cheap grace, temptation and how our demons die in the light.

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Join Steve and Jim on this week's Steve Brown Etc. as they talk about Jim's book, Recover Your Good Heart: Living Free from Religious Guilt and the Shame of Not Good-Enough.

Then get more from Jim at RobbinsWritings.com and look for his entire interview with Steve next week on The Brown Sessions.

A: The meaning of life.

Frank Viola stopped by Steve Brown Etc. to talk about that "eternal purpose" in the context of the three stories in his new book, From Eternity to Here: Rediscovering the Ageless Purpose of God.

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If you've been burned or bored by religion, don't miss this program.

Frank Viola is a speaker, organic church planter and author of Pagan Christianity?, Reimagining Church and the newly-released From Eternity to Here. Click here for Frank's last appearance on SBE and go to FromEternityToHere.org for more on the book.

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Jason Berggren is the founder and former front-man of the hardcore band Strongarm and author of 10 Things I Hate About Christianity: Working Through the Frustrations of Faith. After you listen, visit 10ThingsIHate.com to find out more about the book and check out Jason's blog, MoreThingsIHate.com.*

Also, here's a link to Jason's appearance on ABC that's mentioned during the show.**

* Warning: Both of these websites are portals to Hell.

** ABC may, or may not, be a portal to Hell.

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If your city canceled their 4th of July celebration because of budget cuts, here's a recipe for fireworks. Combine one part federal hate crimes law and two parts new methods of government surveillance. Light it up with greedy big business and power hungry big government. Then, step back and wait for the explosion.

Constitutional attorney, John Whitehead, is the founder and president of the Rutherford Institute, an organization dedicated to the defense of civil liberties and human rights. Call 1.800.225.1791 and John will send you a free copy of the Bill of Rights. Also, read his book The Change Manifesto and join the block by block movement to remake America.

Friday, July 10: Jason Berggren - Author of 10 Things I Hate About Christianity: Working Through the Frustrations of Faith

Friday, July 17: Frank Viola - Author of Pagan Christianity?, Reimagining Church and From Eternity to Here

Friday, July 24: Jim Robbins - Author of Recover Your Good Heart

Friday, July 31: Larry Dixon - Author of When Temptation Strikes

Steve Brown Etc. is recorded on Fridays from noon - 1 ET, then aired on stations across the country that weekend. Listen live and call in at 1.888.54.STEVE (1.888.547.8383).

Join Steve and biographer Paul Batura on this week's Steve Brown Etc. to hear the rest of the story about the man who brought us The Rest of the Story and Paul Harvey News and Comment.

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Paul Batura is a student of radio, a researcher and author of Good Day!: The Paul Harvey Story. Don't miss Batura's stories about the remarkable life and career of one of Steve's heroes, radio pioneer-turned-legend, Paul Harvey.

Should we try to get it back? Should we even care? If so, what can the average ham and egger Christian do about it?

Join founder and president of ACT 3, John Armstrong, on this edition of SBE as we talk about the end of Christian America, Oprah and civil religion.

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Then, a nod to Father's Day with Coach Larry Gelwix. Coach Gelwix is arguably the top high school coach in the country with 379 wins, 9 losses and 18 national championships during his 33-year career. He’s passionate about coaching, but he’s even more passionate about mentoring young men.

With Father’s Day coming up, Coach Gelwix is here to give us some advice for fathers and talk about the movie based on him and his boys, Forever Strong.

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