The Catch with John Fischer

Please join us on March 18th at 6PT/9ET with out special guest George Barna.

George Barna has filled executive roles in politics, marketing, advertising, media development, research and ministry. He founded the Barna Research Group in 1984 (now The Barna Group) and helped it become a leading marketing research firm focused on the intersection of faith and culture.

He has served more than 200 parachurch ministries, several thousand Christian churches, and many other non-profit and for-profit organizations as well as the military. In addition to his continuing role in The Barna Group, he is the principal in Metaformation, a company dedicated to helping people optimize their life journey, and a Senior Partner in Strategenius Group, which provides strategic marketing and business development services. 

Barna has written more than 40 books addressing leadership, social trends, spiritual development, and church dynamics. They include best-sellers such as Revolution, Transforming Children into Spiritual Champions, The Frog in the Kettle, Pagan Christianity?, and The Power of Vision. His most recent books are Maximum Faith and The Cause within You.

We are excited to have George on our show!

Join us this Tuesday, March 11th with our special guest Frank Schaeffer.

Frank Schaeffer is a New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books. Frank is a survivor of both polio and an evangelical/fundamentalist childhood, an acclaimed writer who overcame severe dyslexia, a home-schooled and self-taught documentary movie director, a feature film director of four low budget Hollywood features Frank has described as “pretty terrible.” He is also an acclaimed author of both fiction and nonfiction and an artist with a loyal following of international collectors who own many of his oil paintings. 

Frank has been a frequent guest on the Rachel Maddow Show on NBC, has appeared on Oprah, been interviewed by Terri Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air and appeared on the Today Show, BBC News and many other media outlets. He is a much sought after speaker and has lectured at a wide range of venues from Harvard’s Kennedy School to the Hammer Museum/UCLA, Princeton University, Riverside Church Cathedral, DePaul University and the Kansas City Public Library.

Please visit his website here.

Please join us with this special interview with the former publisher of CCM magazine and President/CEO of the Gospel music Association John Styll!!

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Please join John with his very special guest, Bill Mallonee.

Paste Music Magazine, in a poll conducted by both writers and artists, listed Bill Mallonee as 65 in their "100 Greatest Living Songwriters Poll." "At the end of the day, it's about the story living under your own skin. In my work, I've just tried to chase that story down and put something of a frame around it for a spell."

Mallonee, (pronounced MAL-O-KNEE) the lyrical and musical source behind the late Vigilantes of Love, started playing music in Athens in the late 80's. Mallonee learned guitar quickly and the post-punk-pop of the La's, XTC, Joy Division, the Clash and Echo and the Bunnymen. Great college scene bands that passed through Athens, Georgia during that time were Athen's own R.E.M., the dbs (with the great Chris Stamey and Peter Hosapple), Mitch Easter's 'Let's Active. These were also big influences. Each of those bands proudly wove indebtedness to the first "British Invasion" into their musical flags.

www.billmallonee.net

Join John and Marti for their weekly show.

A powerful one hour conversation with John and Marti about the rise and fall of the Christian sub culture, Francis Schaeffer, and why Jesus wept.

Singer/songwriter Enric Sifa grew up in Rwanda and lived through the Rwandan Genocide. After losing his parents at the age of nine, Sifa lived on the streets struggling daily for food, shelter, and suffering from loneliness and abuse. To combat loneliness, he sang his mother’s songs and brought comfort to many other street kids. He became known on the streets for his extraordinary talent.

In 2002, Sifa met American business people Tony and Serena Morones who were working to develop Africa New Life Ministries. They helped him get off the street, attend school and gave him a guitar.

Soon after in 2004, he won a national singing competition that put him on Rwandan radio and TV. Sifa speaks and performs in Rwanda and the US, advocating for marginalized children. Many of Sifa’s songs are popular on Rwandan radio and he has released three albums in the United States. He now attends college in Portland, Oregon and hopes to pursue a career in conflict resolution and human rights advocacy.

For more info, please visit www.enricsifa.com

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Join us on January 28th at 6PT/9ET as we kick off season 2 of the Catch on BlogTalkRadio. Our special guest will be Chuck Smith Jr.

More details coming soon. Mark your calendars.

Join John Fischer for The Catch on Blog Talk Radio with special guest Dan Merchant. 

Dan is an Emmy Award winning television writer and producer, known for Lord, Save Us from Your Followers (2008), Strange Frequency (2001) and Strange Frequency 2 (2003).

Lord, Save Us From Your Followers is a fast-paced, highly engaging documentary that explores the collision of faith and culture in America while opening up this important conversation to all of us.

With humor more common in a comedy than a documentary, Lord, Save Us provides a provocative, funny, and redemptive discussion that is sure to continue long after the credits run.

Our special guest is president of The Menroing Project, Dr. John Sowers.

John Sowers is president of The Mentoring Project, a movement that is re-writing the fatherless story through mentoring. He has been apart of the White House Task Force on Fatherhood and Healthy Families. John received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and attended Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, where wrote his doctoral thesis on the crisis of fatherlessness. This dissertation was published by Zondervan under the title, Fatherless Generation: Redeeming the Story. John and his wife, Kari, currently reside in Portland, Oregon

The Mentoring Project (TMP) is an advocacy and training organization that serves as a liaison between faith communities and matching agencies to provide mentors for fatherless youth. Through dynamic church trainings, national mentor recruitment, and the creation of sustainable mentoring communities, The Mentoring Project seeks to rewrite the story of the fatherless generation.

For more info, please visit www.thementoringproject.org