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fine, fine books from Choir Publishing. What's up friends? Hello, welcome back. Another podcast episode coming your way. I've had a lot of questions about Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. He

seemed to have come out of nowhere. Some of the news I found is quite disturbing. He seems

like he's pretty deeply involved in the Christian nationalist world has some pretty extreme views on people who are queer on trying to outlaw all abortion for any kind of reason etc.

And I was like, you know, we have to do a deep dive on this so I talked to Matthew

Taylor right now he's been on the podcast before he is someone who really knows his stuff

especially when it comes to the charismatic and what he calls the new

Apostolic Reformation side of things and it turns out that Mike Johnson is

pretty freakishly embedded in the NAR world. And this makes sense when you realize that Mike Johnson tried to be

well he tried to overturn the 2020 election. He was one of the main people working behind the

scenes to try to stop the certification

process and now that man is second in line to the presidency after of course Joe Biden and

Kamala Harris.

So Matthew comes on to give us the deep dive and to kind of refresh all of us on what the NAR is and we get into some things listen this is not a feel good episode I'm telling you that right now

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