Nina Perry, Family Service Manager at Spring Hill Memorial Park, Funeral Home and Cremation, says planning and writing down your funeral is an endeavor that will prevent barriers for years to come.

Dr. Mark McEntire, Professor of Biblical Studies at Belmont University, discusses what he considers to be bad ideas in the Christian faith.

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Beekeeper, Mandy Giffin, discusses what it takes to have healthy, honey-producing bee hives

Keeping all of Tennessee's well traveled roads safe, maintained, funded, and improved is a complicated process.

The Rev. Stacy Rector, Executive Director of Tennesseans For Alternatives to the Death Penalty, discusses how Tennessee's death penalty is broken, costly, unfairly applied, creates more victims, ensnares the innocent, and puts murder victims’ families through a painfully, protracted process.  Millions of dollars are expended from the state’s budget on death penalty cases, though the state has acknowledged that it has no centralized way of tracking the true costs of the death penalty to Tennesseans. These resources could be better spent on measures that prevent violent crime such as education, mental health care, drug treatment, law enforcement as well as on victims’ compensation funds.

Randal has worked at Cumberland Heights in the recovery field for 35 years.  He speaks to those  who love someone who is impacted by addiction.

Lisa Samson, a local has over 40 published books.  She shares her experiences of being an author.

Looking for what's strong not wrong in our community.  The positive does exist and it's worth growing.  So many things are on fire, we loose site of what is good.  Our state has really been innovative to deal with childhood adverse experiences and encourage collaboration.  You can make a difference.

Eric Atkins, Co-Chair of Tennessee Poor People's Campaign expands the agenda items, shares recent successes, and current concerns.  "Everybody has the right to live!"  Also visit www.PoorPeoplesCampaign.org

Paul Schmitz, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Shower Up.  Providing mobile shower units to our friends on the street.