Educate For Life with Kevin Conover

School shootings appear to be on the rise. According to some sources, there have already been 17 school shootings in 2018. That’s twice as many as the first two months of last year. What is causing this rise in school shootings? Is there a solution to this problem?

Kevin’s guest today is Nate Landis with Urban Youth Collaborative. According to Nate Landis, there is a good solution that would solve gun violence in schools and it isn’t gun control. The real solution is to get churches involved in schools.

Nate Landis and the Urban Youth Collaborative sponsor student-led Christian groups that work their schools and communities to impact them for Christ. Urban Youth Collaborative (UYC) is a coalition of 45 church partners that support student-initiated and student-led faith clubs at 97 middle and high school campuses in San Diego County and motivational assemblies in Mexico.  Students serve physical and spiritual food to over three thousands of their friends each week and look for practical ways to make a difference in their local communities. In 2017, young people generated over 30,000 hours of voluntary community service in Southern California and around the world!

Tune in to hear how Nate Landis believes the issue of school shooting can be solved by students from the inside out. If you want to find out more about Urban Youth Collaborative, head over to https://www.uyc.org. You can also learn how to get involved to change your community and/or your school.

This episode first aired on March 3, 2018.

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Today on Educate For Life, Kevin has as his guest Doug Axe. Douglas Axe is the director of Biologic Institute. His research uses both experiments and computer simulations to examine the functional and structural constraints on the evolution of proteins and protein systems.

After a Caltech PhD he held postdoctoral and research scientist positions at the University of Cambridge, the Cambridge Medical Research Council Centre, and the Babraham Institute in Cambridge. His work and ideas have been featured in many scientific journals, including the Journal of Molecular Biology, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Nature, and in such books as Signature in the Cell and Darwin’s Doubt by Stephen Meyer and Life’s Solution by Simon Conway Morris.

Throughout his distinguished and unconventional career, engineer-turned-molecular-biologist Douglas Axe has been asking the questions that much of the scientific community would rather silence. Now, he presents his conclusions in this brave and pioneering book. Axe argues that the key to understanding our origin is the “design intuition”—the innate belief held by all humans that tasks we would need knowledge to accomplish can only be accomplished by someone who has that knowledge. According to Axe, for the ingenious task of inventing life, this knower can only be God.

Starting with the hallowed halls of academic science, Axe dismantles the widespread belief that Darwin’s theory of evolution is indisputably true, showing instead that a gaping hole has been at its center from the beginning. He then explains in plain English the science that proves our design intuition scientifically valid. Lastly, he uses everyday experience to empower ordinary people to defend their design intuition, giving them the confidence and courage to explain why it has to be true and the vision to imagine what biology will become when people stand up for this truth.

This episode first aired on February 25, 2018.

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Today on Educate For Life, Kevin has as his guest Thomas Purifoy. Thomas Purifoy is the producer of “Is Genesis History?”, a movie all about determining whether Genesis can be proven to be actual history or a series of mere legends.

“Is Genesis History?” features over a dozen scientists and scholars explaining how the world intersects with the history recorded in Genesis.  From rock layers to fossils, from lions to stars, from the Bible to artifacts, this fascinating film will change the way you see the world.

The film’s goal is to provide a reasonable case for Creation in six normal days, a real Adam and Eve, an actual fall, a global flood, and a tower of Babel. Dr. Del Tackett, the creator of “The Truth Project,” serves as your guide—hiking through canyons, climbing up mountains, and diving below the sea—in an exploration of two competing views … one compelling truth.

If you want to learn more about the movie and the experts involved in making the film, check out IsGenesisHistory.com. You can also purchase the movie either on DVD or download and stream it.

This episode first aired on February 18, 2018.

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Suicide is the second leading cause of death for those age 10 to 24. Every day in the U.S. and average of over 3,470 people attempt suicide. These statistics are staggering and tragic. Why are so many considering and even attempting suicide? Is there anything we can do to reduce these numbers?

Today on Educate For Life Kevin has as his guest, Ray Comfort. Ray Comfort is the Founder/President/CEO of Living Waters Publications. Ray Comfort is a well-known evangelist and apologist. After relocating from New Zealand to Southern California in the late 1980s, Ray introduced a long line of pastors and churches to a biblical teaching which he called Hell’s Best Kept Secret. The positive and enthusiastic response that followed took Ray’s Living Waters Publications ministry to a whole new level.

Ray Comfort has produced several movies speaking to the truth of God and the Bible, including his newest film, Exit: The Appeal of Suicide. In this movie, he explores depression, its sources, and why so many see suicide as the only way out.

If you or someone you know is suffering from depression, please toon in and share this show. Please also check out and share Ray Comfort’s new video at https://www.livingwaters.com/movie/exit-the-appeal-of-suicide/

This episode first aired on February 11, 2018.

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Kevin Conover interviews Mayor Bill Wells heart as a Christian mayor. His faith, politics and public service.

El Cajon City Council members unanimously passed a ban on feeding the homeless in public in October, saying it would help protect the public from hepatitis A, which has spread predominantly among the homeless population. The temporary ordinance is set to be in place until San Diego County’s state of emergency related to the health crisis is lifted.

Does Mayor Bill Wells see the passage and enforcement of this ban as a conflict to his faith and beliefs? Tune in to find out.

This episode first aired on January 27, 2018.

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There is a battle in the San Diego Unified School District over the current sex education curriculum. Tune in Description- today at 4pm, I will be interviewing Dean Broyles, with The National Center for Law & Policy, who is collecting signatures to present to the SDUSD board on Feb 27th for them to suspend SHEP because it blatantly promotes pornography, abortion, and a host of other dangerous habits. Find out what you can do to help keep kids healthy by promoting a practical and moral sex ed curriculum.

This episode first aired on January 20, 2018.

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A recent study by Point Loma Nazarene and the University of San Diego Kroc School of Peace uncovered some horrifying statistics about the extent of this underground industry in San Diego County. Human trafficking is estimated to be an $810 million annual business that could have more than 8,000 victims a year. Out of 20 high schools surveyed, 100 percent reported incidents of recruitment, and 42 percent of first-time prostitution arrests are in fact sex-trafficking cases.

Shockingly, San Diego is one of the cities this kind of crime is most prevalent in. Today on Educate for Life, Kevin has as guests Michele Shumaker, who is with the Point Loma Nazarene University Center for Justice and Reconciliation, Jessica, who is a survivor of human trafficking, and Dr. Jerry Andrews, who is the senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church in San Diego.

Michele Shumaker’s organization runs programs called kNOw More. The curriculum was developed based on the pedagogical understanding that students will best respond to and retain learning experiences gained through:

The curriculum is primarily co-facilitated by a survivor facilitator and a teaching artist/joker who move the participants through drama, interaction with peer facilitators, dialogue, and informative visuals. This program creatively empowers the students to recognize human trafficking in their current context and to respond when they or their peers may be targeted for trafficking.

They also offer a “Beauty For Ashes” scholarship for survivors of human trafficking. Jessica is a recipient of that scholarship and is here to tell an amazing story of how she was forced into that lifestyle and was later able to leave it.

Dr. Jerry Andrews’ church participates in Churches Against Trafficking. It is an organically started networking group that has come to fruition from the strong desire to connect Christian ministry leaders wanting to engage in the Anti-Trafficking work in San Diego. They currently meet bi-monthly in Mission Valley at Mission Church of the Nazarene, 4750 Mission Gorge Place, San Diego, CA 92120.

Tune in for an information packed show and learn how you can get involved in your community to fight human trafficking. If you want to learn more about the Center For Justice and Reconciliation and their kNOw More Program, check out. https://www.pointloma.edu/centers-institutes/center-justice-reconciliation/know-more-human-trafficking-awareness-prevention. If you want to learn more about Churches Against Trafficking, head over to https://www.churchesagainsttrafficking.com/about.html.

This episode first aired on January 13, 2018.

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Today on Educate For Life, Kevin has as guests Mari Rothman, Dora Breuninger and Chris Alley. Mari Rothman is the Founder of Sonshine Haven, an organization that runs biblical camps and clubs for kids of all ages and backgrounds. Dora Breuninger is on the staff and Chris Alley is a volunteer who helps with the clubs and camps.

The elementary school clubs are called Sonshine Clubs and the middle school clubs are called Higher Ground. The ministry started in 1991 by Mari Rothman with a Sonshine Club at Chase Ave Elementary school. After 26 years, Sonshine Haven now has 43 Sonshine & Higher Ground Clubs.

Sonshine and Higher Ground Clubs are held once a week after school in a classroom for 1 to 1 ½ hours.The clubs include worship, a Bible lesson,  a gospel invitation, memory verse, games, one on one prayer time and snacks. Sonshine Haven also offers other events to club kids and their families during the year, including Life Skills (hands-on learning during spring and summer vacations, held at Sonshine Haven), Cinderella/fella Day, Thanksgiving dinner baskets, Christmas  Adopt-a-Family, Padre Game tickets and other opportunities that God provides.

Everything Sonshine Haven does is free for the kids and families. They depend on volunteers and are funded by donations. If you want to learn more about Sunshine Haven, head over to sonshinehaven.org. If you want to volunteer or donate, you can also do that through their site.

This episode first aired on January 6, 2018.

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October 31st, 2017 marked the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing the 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church. That act began what would be known as the Protestant Reformation.

Today on Educate For Life, Kevin’s guest is Steve Whitten. He is a professor at San Diego Christian College in California. Professor Whitten has studied Martin Luther and the Reformation. He will describe why the Reformation was such a watershed moment in history and how it has practically changed the entire world.

He and Kevin will also discuss some of the key doctrinal differences between Protestants and Catholics both in Martin Luther’s time and today.

We hope you will be inspired and informed by today’s episode.

This episode first aired on December 23, 2017.

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What happens when you handcuff an evolutionist to a creationist? Today on Educate For Life, you will find out. Kevin is handcuffed to evolutionist and skeptic, John Rael while interviewing the man responsible for handcuffing these two men together.

Now, Kevin talks to Jordan Imbrey, a Buzzfeed producer who is responsible for handcuffing Kevin to evolutionist and skeptic John Rael. Find out what inspired Jordan to literally attach two people with opposing worldview and what he hopes will be the result.

If you want to learn more about John Rael, you can check out youtube.com/skepticallypwnd. If you want to see more content from Jordan Imbrey, head over https://www.buzzfeed.com/jordanimbrey.

This episode first aired on December 9, 2017.

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