The Catch with John Fischer

Char Binkley has been active in Christian radio for over 35 years with the WBCL Radio Network, Fort Wayne, Indiana, first as Director of Women’s Programming, then Assistant General Manager and then as Executive Director for 21 years. She is best known as the hostess of MID-MORNING. Char has served on numerous national and local boards including The KeyLife Network in Orlando FL; National Religious Broadcasters in Washington D.C. and American Bible Society in New York City.

In addition to her work in radio, she founded A DAY AWAY, which brought over 30,000 women together for seminars. In 2007, after stepping down from leadership of the radio network; Char founded RemedyLIVE, an Internet, interactive site for troubled teens.

McNair Wilson is one of the leading forces for creativity in all facets of corporate and personal life. His powerful, engaging keynote presentations and practical workshops in creative thinking, inventive problem solving, and teamwork are widely regarded as the best available. His client list runs from from Apple, Inc. to the Salvation Army, Chick-fil-A Corporate, Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, and aerospace companies that currently have objects orbiting the Earth..

McNair draws on his professional experience in: theme park design (as a Disney Imagineer), theatre, graphic design, cartooning and illustration, creative writing, and entertainment design.

His most recent published book, HATCH!:Brainstorming Secrets of a Theme Park Designer, is McNair’s muchanticipated book on creative team building and inventive problem solving. HATCH! is on two of Amazon’s top ten lists: “brainstorming” and “theme parks.”

For more info contact McNair by email :: [email protected]

McNair’s BLOG on the actively creative life :: http://www.TeaWithMcNair.com

Twitter :: @mcnairwilson

Facebook :: McNair Wilson International Fan Club & Dry Cleaning

Joni Rehnborg is a member of the Leadership group of Women of Vision, a voluntary organization of World Vision, responsible for our involvement in Palestine/Israel/Gaza

Phil Callaway is the best-selling author of more than 25 books, a speaker, humorist and host of Laugh Again radio which airs across North America, the UK, and Africa. His humorous stories on family life have been featured in hundreds of magazines worldwide. But he insists that his greatest achievement was convincing his wife to marry him. Phil is a father of three adult children and has been married to his high school sweetheart for 33rd years in a row.

Our special Guest tonight is Lawyer, Writer, and Poet, Steve West. Steve also owned and operated Silent Planet Records for a number of years, a record company dedicated to putting out really fine acoustic folk, and folk/rock music from extremely talented but not the most popular musicians. Eclectic might be the right word. It was a record company with a heart, believe me. I know, because my latest CD, “Some Folks’ World” was on Silent Planet Records and made possible by Steve’s passion to see it made. We are going to talk about music, artistic excellence, poetry, writing and especially, in honor of Marti's story this week for our new granddaughter, fairy tale. What roll does fairy tale play in understanding and appreciating truth?

Steve’s writing and poetry can be found on his website, outwalking.net as well as on his Facebook page: SlntPlanet. This will be a delightful conversation you won’t want to miss.

Join us tonight...

In the context of relationships, practicing the way of Jesus, we meet spiritual and physical needs of homeless and street-connected youth and young adults.  We seek to equip and inspire all involved to relieve suffering, facilitate reconciliation, and free the heart to love.

We accomplish this mission through three main areas of focus.  Each part applies to everyone involved in the Dry Bones community.  

Learn more here..

We welcome bestlseeing author and speaker Rick Johnson back to the show to discuss his new book 10 Things Great Dads Do.

From the back of the book:

Great dads raise great kids who tend to be happier, healthier, and more successful in life. But men sometimes struggle with how to go about being that great dad, especially if their own fathers were not positive role models. Fathering expert Rick Johnson offers men ten practical strategies to become the dads they want to be. He helps dads

- help their kids find the humor in life 

- surround their family with healthy friends and role models

- communicate clearly with their children

- "brand" their families with memorable sayings and traditions

- help their kids develop self-esteem and respect for others

- be a gatekeeper when it comes to their kids' social circle

- and set reachable goals for themselves and their children

Every father can be a great dad. This clear and to-the-point book gives them the tools they need to do it well.

Learn more: www.BetterDads.net

We're talking romance on this week's episode of The Catch on Blog Talk Radio with John Fischer.

Glenn Kaiser has been singing the blues - and sometimes soul, R&B or rock - since he was twelve years old.

Growing up in a poor family living hand-to-mouth in central Wisconsin, Glenn eventually gravitated to Milwaukee’s local music scene where he fronted over a dozen bands, as well as writing and performing solo acoustic music, all before turning nineteen years of age. With his adolescence plagued by drug and alcohol abuse, Glenn got clean through following Jesus after a life-changing spiritual confrontation right around his eighteenth birthday. During this time his music got heavier and in many ways, deeper. His former song writing motif of celebrating drugs, sex and other vices gave way to lyrics about spiritual struggles: personal temptation, institutional sin, poverty, exploitation, racism, materialism and other issues that few musicians seemed willing to tackle.

Now after more than three decades of making original music, Kaiser is known for his raw, bluesy vocals, firey guitar playing, bottleneck slide and harmonica work on thirty recordings and innumerable live shows. Glenn and his family have lived in Chicago’s inner city for over thirty years doing mission work with people who live as he once did.

Kaiser has released several acoustic-based cds in between his electric blues and blues/rock albums. His seminal delta blues projects “Trimmed and Burnin’” and follow-up “Slow Burn” (both with harp-player/singer Darrell Mansfield) established him as a singular and authentic christian bluesman. Three contemporary worship albums along with the folk-pop “Time Will Tell”, fill out the acoustic discography. Acoustic cuts also comprise half of Kaiser’s critically acclaimed “Ripley County Blues” project recorded in a log cabin lodge in rural Missouri.