Michael Johnathon: Calling Us Home to the Front Porch Again
Release Date: 03/01/2026
The Doom Scrollin' Blues
Grace, Grit & Hope
Join Paschal and Kevin as they trade their dignity for a Wi-Fi signal in this hilariously honest dive into our doom-scrolling insanity. From coffee shops filled with silent phone zombies to students walking on campus while staring into devices, they poke fun at themselves and our nation’s collective trance by featuring Kevin’s original song:"The Doom Scrollin’ Blues." This episode is a front-porch intervention for our screen-obsessed nation. Break the spell, interrupt the trance, and have a good, hard laugh about the inescapable conclusion: we’ve all gone bonkers from screens, mobile...
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Michael Johnathon: Calling Us Home to the Front Porch Again
Grace, Grit & Hope
Folksinger Michael Johnathon tells his life story and calls us to reclaim the soul of American music: the spirit of the front porch. He reflects on Pete Seeger’s belief that the audience is the true star and warns that today’s world of commercial music has lost its soul. From his Walden‑like years in Mousie, KY to founding WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour, he champions community, simplicity and the power of shared songs. He contrasts the inclusive front‑porch stage with the isolating commercial stage. He celebrates the brilliance of WoodSongs Kids and reminds us that love — not money...
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True Grit: Resilience to Outlast Every Life Storm
Grace, Grit & Hope
Paschal Baute has spent nearly a century forging grit. A 96‑year‑old veteran who served with four branches of the military, he is also a former monk, retired psychologist, and author of 50 books on resilience and hope. He has survived cancer, adapted to blindness, and recently endured the loss of his wife of 57 years. From childhood bullying to boxing in Guam, from military school to catastrophic disability, Paschal reveals how to choose courage over despair. This conversation is a masterclass about grit from a man who has spent his entire life drawing upon it.
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Paul Prather: Grace Changes Everything
Grace, Grit & Hope
Paul Prather revisits the 90-minute vision in 1980 that upended his understanding of God—a Damascus experience in which he saw that God is in control of everything, and that His deepest desire is to bless people, not to condemn. Pastor Paul’s experience echoes Jesus and St. Paul: whose teachings stressed forgiveness, love and grace—not judgment or measuring others. Grace, Prather argues, is the true center of the faith with God’s love and mercy accepting us exactly as we are. This frees us from sin consciousness and changes everything. His kingdom is not a distant promise; it’s here...
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Drs. Kitty Dotson and Sarah Schuetz: lifestyle medicine
Grace, Grit & Hope
Burned out from seeing patients nonstop, managing insurance paperwork and barely sleeping, two Lexington, Kentucky internal medicine doctors—Dr. Kitty Dotson and Dr. Sarah Schuetz—walked away from traditional medicine to build something radically different. Today, they focus exclusively on the six pillars of health (nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management, social connection, and avoiding risky substances), and their patients are reversing heart disease, slashing medications, dropping weight, and—most importantly—regaining power over their own health and lives. In this eye-opening...
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Clay Comer: Hiking from Mexico to Canada on the PCT
Grace, Grit & Hope
From mid-April until Sept. 27, Clay Comer, age 23, hiked from Mexico to Canada alone on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). During his incredible 2,650-mile journey, Clay braved a 40-foot fall off snowy Mount San Jacinto. For hundreds of miles, he battled swarming mosquitoes. Even when temperatures soared above 100, he walked 20 miles or more a day through the charred skeletons of burned forests. Despite the challenges, he met incredible people and saw beautiful mountains, lakes, giant Sequoias, deer, stoats, marmots and all kinds of wildlife. Surprisingly, he said the problems on the trail were...
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Carl Nordgren: Finding Common Ground for US
Grace, Grit & Hope
Best-selling Carl Nordgren talks about his great new book “Common Ground for US,” which outlines something few people talk about today: a hopeful vision for America. Carl draws on decades of experience, beginning with his years as a teenage fishing guide to his time building 14 successful cellular companies and through his years as a Duke professor, explaining how people can nurture their natural creativity and entrepreneurial instincts, while helping themselves and their communities to thrive. Carl suggests practical ways to find like-minded creative individuals who are solely interested...
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Paschal Baute: A Recipe for Aging Well
Grace, Grit & Hope
To celebrate his 96th birthday, co-host Paschal Baute shares his recipe for a long, fruitful life. Despite being blind, surviving cancer and dealing with pain each day, Paschal shares his wisdom about the things that have helped him get another year closer to the century mark. Foremost, he credits the grace of God and his wife. But he also stresses the importance of life purpose, goals, exercise and diet. And he’s emphatic about mental outlook, deep breathing, staying curious, creating projects and avoiding giving free-rent to bad stuff like cable news. Don’t miss Paschal’s...
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Joey Spencer: Facing Your Goliath
Grace, Grit & Hope
Joey Spencer faced his Goliath when his career came to a fork in the road. He could take a high-paying and safe job or follow a passion that was ignited by the movie Fireproof to become a firefighter. Joey took the less certain path and is glad he did. Today, he serves as a captain in the Montgomery County Fire Department in Kentucky. In this inspiring interview, Joey says nearly everyone has a giant challenging our lives: Bad habits, irrational fears, anxiety, poor choices, addictions or baggage from childhood. Though our first response is to run or do nothing, Joey says that putting...
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Kijuan Amey: Don’t Focus on Why Me
Grace, Grit & Hope
Kijuan Amey is the author of: “Don’t Focus on Why Me,” a powerful story about him being on top of the world one minute then suddenly losing his eyesight after a 2017 motorcycle accident. In this inspiring episode, Kijuan tells how he lost his sight but not his vision. Though he had many dark days of struggle, depression and even thoughts of ending his life, Kijuan has overcome severe injuries and maintained his sense of humor to get where he is today: motivating, inspiring and running a successful business. Don’t miss this episode of Kijuan telling his amazing story.
info_outlineFolksinger Michael Johnathon tells his life story and calls us to reclaim the soul of American music: the spirit of the front porch. He reflects on Pete Seeger’s belief that the audience is the true star and warns that today’s world of commercial music has lost its soul. From his Walden‑like years in Mousie, KY to founding WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour, he champions community, simplicity and the power of shared songs. He contrasts the inclusive front‑porch stage with the isolating commercial stage. He celebrates the brilliance of WoodSongs Kids and reminds us that love — not money — is the greatest transaction of the arts. His message is clear: America needs our front‑porch soul restored.