Hey everybody, Mike here.

Good day to you or good night to you whenever it is you're listening, however it is you're listening,

so grateful to be a part of your life and play a small part in your journey.

Welcome to the Vox Podcast.

Again, just a reminder,

we are in the business of helping people thoughtfully deconstruct and reconstruct their faith. These days there are lots of great big

questions and things that people are wrestling with and it feels like all of that has been

accelerated and amplified by social media and so we think there is a spot

Before people having these sorts of conversations around these sorts of topics. We're trying to get through some talk on politics.

And before I dive in, I just again want to say,

and I know I say it every week, but thank you to those of you who like and subscribe us and review us on iTunes.

That's huge, huge, huge.

That keeps it keeps iTunes aware of us and helps people to find us.

For those of you supporting us on Patreon,

I cannot just simply thank you enough for that

and for our new Patreon supporters welcome and then

and then lastly just so grateful for your feedback your questions I'll probably do

a question episode next episode just because we've got a lot of really, really good stuff kind of accumulating.

So before we were so rudely interrupted by my SD card running out of memory last week. I was in the middle of trying to paint a picture about how faith and politics are to be reconciled in a Christian kind of way.

And we were using the apostle Paul in his journey as an example.

Now remember politics of course is just talking about our ordering the ordering of our social life

together it deals with something called a Polis which is some sort of community or

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