Faith in Action

Show open: gas station steno pad bit

The produced show-open voiceover introduces Live From The Path from the Pathway studios in Johnston. The hosts trade opening banter about a gas station trip meant to buy a steno pad that ended with a large coffee, coffee cakes, and chocolate milk. One host describes his habit of shopping only at gas stations, including a $19 peanut-butter-and-jelly run, and a story about a $6 debit-card minimum at a mom-and-pop station where he bought Band-Aids as a link in a chain of events for the Lord's glory.

Guest introductions: Dominic Cox, Egypt Ali, Andrea

A host welcomes back Dominic Cox of Driven Eleven, who has traveled a long way to the studio. Egypt Ali is introduced; she has a new album coming out and will perform spoken word. Andrea is introduced as lending vocals to cuts from Dominic's new EP. The group previews tour stories and the night's lineup.

Game preview and street-preacher teaser

The hosts preview Secular vs Solomon and explain the premise: guess whether a proverb is Biblical or secular wisdom, naming the country of origin if secular. A host teases a story about a run-in with a street preacher at school who offered a dollar per correct trivia answer and placed a Bible tract, to be continued next week.

Dominic Cox: 30 Day Faith in Action and the tour

Dominic Cox describes Driven Eleven's 30 Day Faith in Action challenge, a daily resource designed to put prayer back into everyday life, created as an alternative to promo posters. He recounts the tour's kickoff at Camp Joy in New York for inner-city kids, where about half of the 100-plus attendees came to Christ. He discusses the band's partnership with Food for the Hungry, which has sponsored kids in Nicaragua, and the fellowship of touring together.

Egypt Ali: California-or-bust routing and the Camp Joy all-nighter

Egypt Ali explains how the tour's California-or-bust plan got rerouted through Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. She tells of an all-night hangout with kids at Camp Joy after promising to stand with them all night, learning about their struggles in the Brooklyn area. She looks ahead to a charter school visit in Ohio and describes the group's ministry philosophy: being Christian artists by how they exemplify love.

Tangents: corn, wind, and hail cereal

The conversation drifts to Iowa country living: corn blocking the wind and hiding the highway versus soybean years. A host tells of his child collecting hail in a bowl to eat like cereal and the airplane-bathroom warning he gave. The group commiserates about the wind, buffeting cars, and hail-cracked windshields.

'Open Wide' story and live performance

• How do you choose which songs make it onto an EP: do you write constantly and whittle, or record what you have?
• Where can listeners pick up the Driven Eleven EP?

A host asks how Dominic chooses songs for an EP; Dominic explains songs come from both the band and the producing team at Lift Productions. 'Open Wide' is about current sufferings and God's arms always being open wide, waiting. Dominic and Andrea perform the song live in studio, followed by banter about the EP cover photo shoot in the water and where to buy the EP: driven11.com, iTunes, and Amazon.

Egypt Ali: 'Letters and Scars' album interview

• What is the broad theme of the album Letters and Scars?

Egypt Ali explains her album 'Letters and Scars': as a child her mother had her write letters to process anger, and later she wrestled with doubt, depression, and anxiety that had no mailing address, leaving scars literal and emotional. Each poem is a letter to something she wishes she could talk to; all 16 tracks were written in under twelve hours. She discusses metal music's bluntness, her guinea pig Tux, and her partnership with photographer Chris Townsend on a 16-day visual countdown to the March 21 release.

'Dear God' spoken word performance

Egypt Ali performs her spoken-word piece 'Dear God,' a letter to God recalling childhood: dancing with socks on her feet, Blue's Clues mac and cheese, sleeping in a doorway waiting for God to knock. The piece moves through self-image struggles and drifting from faith to a plea to come home to the only peace she has known. The hosts react warmly, and Egypt describes the 16-day countdown with Chris Townsend's photography leading to release day.

Secular vs Solomon game

• What is a female bear called?

The full cast plays Secular vs Solomon: a host reads proverbs and players guess Biblical (Solomon) or secular with a country of origin. Rounds include the Turkish coffee proverb, 'a man who is kind benefits himself' (Proverbs 11), 'a she bear robbed of her cubs' (Proverbs 17, spawning the running joke that a female bear is an 'Eliza'), 'bald people can always find a comb' (secular Thailand), 'the earth does not shake when the flea coughs' (secular Austria), 'whoever walks in integrity' (Proverbs 10), 'the life of his beast' (Proverbs 12), the elephant-and-buffalo proverb, and 'the greatest love is a mother's' (secular Poland). A host's 'thrift store priest' (TSP) alter ego participates; final scores land deep in negative points.

'Left Field' story and live performance

Dominic explains 'Left Field,' the EP's title track, inspired by his sons asking 'where is outfield?' at their first baseball practice and his own early days with Driven Eleven: excited but clueless, diligent, eventually finding his place. Dominic and Andrea perform the song with the hosts joining in on a part. A host connects the song to Jesus' parables: simple stories that deepen every time you return for more.

Parables, prayer, and community

A host reflects on parables as simple stories that deepen with each return, like the song just discussed. Dominic revisits the 30 Day Faith in Action challenge, including its exercise of praying fifteen minutes for those who have offended you until you understand their situation. A host argues for celebrating what God does through other believers' communities, including through social media.

'Why do you do what you do?'

• Why do you do what you do?

A host puts Dominic on the spot: why does he do what he does? Dominic answers that Driven Eleven's mission is inspiring faith in action in daily life, investing in relationships within one's realm of influence. A host illustrates with the Gadarene demoniac (cited as Mark 6): Jesus told the healed man to stay and tell his friends, and ten cities changed. Egypt Ali then shares her why: years of bullying and worthlessness, learning 23 instruments to feel accepted, and a band that loved her like family; now she performs to be for others the person she needed.

'When I Was Younger' spoken word performance

Egypt Ali performs 'When I Was Younger,' tracing childhood dreams of being a chemist, a member of Congress, or Superwoman, through her mother's encouragement to reach for the sky, into the bullying and hopelessness of growing up. She urges listeners past weariness to dream again, closing with the hope that things change and it gets better. A host responds that her work expands his emotional and spiritual world, which he describes as two-dimensional.

Dear LFTP: the shared dog

• Who gets to keep the shared dog after the breakup?
• Do you play covers on your tour?

A host reads a Dear LFTP letter: the writer and her ex-boyfriend broke up two years ago but have shared their rescued dog on and off; she is in a new relationship, they had a falling out, and the ex, who has PTSD the dog helps, wants to keep sharing her. After a Solomon-and-the-baby joke about cutting the dog in half, Egypt advises closure and separating emotions from the puppy, and the hosts conclude: give the man the dog, unless the animal is mistreated. A host then asks whether the guests play covers on tour, and Neil Diamond songs come up.

Close

The hosts thank Dominic Cox, Andrea, and Egypt Ali for coming in. A host gives the contact email and a running joke about sending complaints to Chris Roloff at The Truth Network, then closes with the show's sign-off: be faithful in the means, God will handle the ends.