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4/16/24 – Family Life 5 O’Clock Report

4/16/24 - Family Life 5 O'Clock Report

Bible Quizzing Nationals – Local youth on the way to Wisconsin – 4/16/24

Bible Quizzing Nationals - Local youth on the way to Wisconsin - 4/16/24 Teams of teens and preteens from the Twin Tiers are among the young people from coast to coast who gather in the Wisconsin Dells this week for the Bible Quizzing Nationals. What is Bible Quizzing? Young people and their coaches invest large blocks of time to memorize large swaths of Scripture. At local, regional and national competitions, teams of five pop up out of their seats, answer questions based on the wording of...

Family Life Noon Report – 04/16/24

Family Life Noon Report - 04/16/24

4/15/24 – 5 O’Clock Report

5 O'Clock Report - 4/15/24

Issues in Education – Short-term Covid Cash leads to Long-term Layoffs – 4/15/24

School Layoffs Paying Student Teachers Deadline for School Board Candidates     Dr. Ralph Kerr with the Teaching and Learning Institute has a mission to encourage Christians to get involved with their local public schools.  Here’s the latest on this week’s “Issues in Education” report.  

Family Life Noon Report – 04/15/24

4/08/24 – 5 O’Clock Report – Family Life

4/08/24 - 5 O'Clock Report - Family Life

4/08/24 – 5 O’Clock Report

Learning about eclipses, attendance, and financial aid – Issues in Education – 4/08/24

Eclipse Impact at School Chronic Absenteeism Later School Start Time More Glitches with FAFSA Forms Dr. Ralph Kerr with the Teaching and Learning Institute discusses the weighty issues impacting our public school families each Monday on our “Issues in Education” Noon News Feature and online Podcast. Find out more about TLI and about Dr. Kerr's work at WhyRun.org.

Solar Eclipse Science – A Family Life special report – 4/08/24

Family Life Noon Report – 04/08/24

4/05/24 5 O’Clock Report

Capital Connection – Politics & Easter, Marijuana Biz, and more – 4/05/24

Capital Connection - Politics & Easter, Marijuana Biz, and more - 4/05/24 This week's Capital Connection roundtable examines the "big issues" in New York and Pennsylvania. The agenda for this episode includes: Politics and faith had a big overlap during Easter Week, with Joe Biden's triple Sunday proclamations and Donald Trump's promotion of a specialty Bible Legalization of marijuana in Pennsylvania could trigger the same economic, criminal and social problems other states have already ...

Family Life Noon Report – 04/05/24

4/4/24 5 O ‘Clock Report

4/4/24 5 O 'Clock Report

Hostility against churches – Faith Under Fire – 4/04/24

Rising Hostility Against Churches - This week on "Faith Under Fire" The number of incidents of assaults, violence, vandalism and other hostile actions against Churches across the USA doubled in 2023, compared to the relatively high number of incidents reported the previous year. Threats and actual attacks became eight times more frequent than just six years ago. The Family Research Council has studied law enforcement statistics, news reports and other information to compile a study of Hostil...

Family Life Noon Report – 04/04/24

4/3/24 5 O’Clock Report

4/3/24 5 O'Clock Report

Ministry to Dads, and Other Men – “Dad Tired” Men’s Ministry – 4/03/24

Many men are tired, feeling guilty, and beat down -- because of the challenge of meeting expectations, and (often) because they don't feel the presence of a support system around them. Into those realities, comes a national men's ministry named Dad Tired.  It's founder, Christian pastor Jerrad Lopes, tells Family Life's Greg Gillispie about the unexpectedly profound rationale behind the group's name. He talks about why most men today feel like they struggle, about the one common theme he sen...

Family Life Noon Report – 04/03/24

4/2/24 5 O ‘Clock Report

4/2/24 5 O 'Clock Report

Family Life Noon Report – 04/02/24

4/1/24 5 O ‘Clock Report

4/1/24 5 O 'Clock Report

The state of today’s News Business – Sarah Stonbely

The journalism school at Northwestern University released a study about the state of news coverage in the United States. The study's director, researcher Sarah Stonbely, joined Family Life News for a conversation about how the media landscape has changed, and how the biases of many national media outlets makes local news coverage that much more important. However, she says, local news is hurting too. As traditional sources for news are hurting, many more Americans are living in what is descr...

Family Life Noon Report – 04/01/24

Family Life Noon Report – 03/29/24

Good Friday – Reflections on the significance of Good Friday – 3/29/24

Good Friday - Reflections on the significance of Good Friday It's an age-old question:  What is "good" about "Good" Friday? Family Life News asked two pastors -- both of whom serve in regional roles guiding Pennsylvania and New York congregations -- for their stories and interpretations of why we enter the solemn moods of remembering Jesus Christ at Golgotha and Calvary. Listen for the recommendations of the Rev. Mel McGuiness and the Rev. John Pingel. They talk about Holy Week worship and ...

3/28/24 – 5 O’Clock Report

An Insider’s Perspective on Haiti – Faith Under Fire – 3/28/24

An Insider's Perspective on Haiti - Faith Under Fire When gangs burst into prisons throughout the island nation of Haiti, it launched a cascade of violence and brutality which shook the residents, toppled the standing of government, and opened the doors to crime and murder. Family Life News offers you a perspective on what it has been like to live in Haiti and offer Christian ministry and hands-on development there.  Darren Hercyk is a native of New York's Southern Tier, a current resident o...

Family Life Noon Report – 03/28/24

3/27/24 – 5 O’Clock Report

Inside Out – Hope for Widows – 3/27/24

Hope for Widows (and their friends) “I rest in who God is to get me though my day. And that, I think, is what the hope for widows is.”  -- Marilyn Nutter  Twenty-eight hundred women a day are widowed in the US. For those women, everything changes.   “A widow has not only lost her husband, but she has lost the life that she knew,” says Marilyn Nutter. “And life looks dramatically different.”  Nutter knows there are better and worse ways to comfort the widows in our lives. A widow herself si...

Family Life Noon Report – 03/27/24

3/26/24 5 O’ Clock Report

3/26/24 5 O' Clock Report

Family Life Noon Report – 03/26/24

3/25/24 5 O ‘Clock Report

3/25/24 5 O 'Clock Report

Issues in Education – 3/25/24

  Teacher Evaluations Gym Class “Opt-Out” Saving SUNY   Lots of “Issues in Education” to discuss this week. Our guest is Dr. Ralph Kerr at the Teaching and Learning Institute

Family Life Noon Report – 03/25/24

3/22/24 5 O’Clock Report

Capital Connection – 3/22/24

"Capital Connection" on Family Life Two family-values watchdogs join the Family Life Noon Report each Friday, to recap and analyze the biggest social, cultural and political stories of the week. Among the events and issues on the agenda for Jason McGuire and Michael Geer this week: New York is losing support for government support of legalized marijuana (but doubling down anyway) Pro-abortion matters in the PA legislature and pro-life matters in a number of Pennsylvania communities Byp...

Family Life Noon Report – 03/22/24

3/21/24 5 O ‘Clock Report

3/21/24 5 O 'Clock Report

Gender, Sports, the First Amendment – Faith Under Fire – 3/21/24

Gender, Sports, Parental Rights, and the First Amendment - "Faith Under Fire" A small Christian school has sued its state sports association, after the Vermont Principals Association evicted the school's teams  from the group. The Mid Vermont Christian School's girls basketball team forfeited a state tournament game, rather than play an opposing team which included a 6-foot tall player who was born male. Attorney Jake Reed says the forfeit which ended a successful sports season was a sharp ...

Family Life Noon Report – 03/21/24

3/20/24 5 O’Clock Report

3/20/24 5 O'Clock Report

Real Answers – Making Friends – 3/20/24

"Real Answers" about: making friends In an age of social media, online connections, and political divisiveness, it can be hard to find a good friend. The same challenge is also true of being a good friend. Our "Real Answers" commentator Christopher Anderson offers perspectives and advice on why adult friendship are so valuable, as well as steps to maintain friendships.   Christopher Anderson is a licensed professional counselor who works with clients through his private practice in the So...

Family Life Noon Report – 03/20/24

3/19/24 5 O’Clock Report

3/19/24 5 O'Clock Report

An Interactive Good Friday Experience – Hometown Heroes – 3/19/24

A Tonawanda Church invites the surrounding communities to experience first-hand what Jesus experienced on the original Good Friday. Their interactive Good Friday experience takes place on Good Friday, March 29. Guests can drop in for as long or as little as they like, anytime between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. First Trinity Lutheran Church is at 1570 Niagara Falls Boulevard in the northern Buffalo suburb. Carolyn Doster is one of the coordinators. She tells our "Hometown Heroes" interviewer Mark We...

Family Life Noon Report – 03/19/24