Hi, this is Lily DeHoya Sanderson and you're listening to Choosing Glory.

Thank you for joining me. I always seem to take longer than I think I'm going to to get through my notes.

And I'm thinking some of this is going to end up on Patreon, which I'm finally getting back to posting on.

So thank you for your patience and support.

You are invaluable in your support of this podcast.

I literally would not be able to continue without that generous support.

So if you're interested, there are links below in the description underneath the YouTube parts and even the ones that appear in or that you just listen to on

Google or Spotify or Apple and places like that. There will be a link if you want to

subscribe on Patreon. Thanks to all of those of you who are doing it. So I'm going to start with a

little bit of a good news moment. It was short, so I can get going here.

But yesterday, which was the first Thursday of May,

and that is the designated day for the National Day of Prayer at the White House.

Or typically, there's some kind of event in D.C.,

and this was in the Rose Garden of the White House.

So there was the establishment announced at that National Day of Prayer

of a Religious Liberty Commission.

And there was a long list of people that were named to be on that commission,

but one of them was Dan Patrick from Texas, who is definitely

a Christian advocate, kind of, and then also Ben Carson. Dr. Ben Carson was named to that commission

and then a bunch of other people, many names that were not familiar to me, but that was really

nice because we have seen attacks on Christianity and unequally applied laws based on which side of the

belief aisle you fall. And that's a very big concern. We've noted that there are some very

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