58. Congressman John Curtis with Terryl Givens—Healing our Nation's Wounds

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🗓️ 31 January 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

One of John Curtis’s first votes after winning reelection as a U.S. Congressman in 2020 was one of the toughest decisions of his life—whether or not to impeach Donald Trump for instigating a mob attack on the US Senate during its vote to ratify Joe Biden’s election as the next U.S. President.

In this conversation with his longtime friend, Terryl Givens, Curtis talks about that vote, the current political climate in America and how we might heal the divisions in our country. They also talk about what role Curtis’s deep personal faith plays in his public life, first as Mayor and now as a U.S. Congressman. He explores this and more in this very personal conversation with Terryl Givens.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Conversations with Terrell Givens, sponsored by Faith Matters
0:06.1	Organization. I'm your host Teril Givens. And today we have as a guest, one of my oldest and truest of friends.
0:16.0	Oldest, ouch.
0:18.0	And mentors.
0:19.0	A really dear and beloved friend to me.
0:22.0	John Curtis, who is currently serving as Congressman
0:25.8	John Curtis.
0:27.5	Welcome to the show.
0:29.1	Terrell, I can't tell you how pleased I am to be with you.
0:31.6	You alluded to our friendship. it's just a warm warm
0:35.5	friendship for me and your wife and your family and so many good memories for so many
0:40.7	years. Thank you yeah that's true. You were Bishop of the
0:46.2	Monument. So it was started as the Tuckahoe Ward.
0:49.6	Tuckahoe Ward. That's right. That's right. The Tuckahoe Ward. Yeah. We split part way through and it became the Gateen Ward, that's right. The Tukoh award. Yeah.
0:52.9	We split part way through and it became the Gateen Ward.
0:54.8	That's right.
0:55.5	And so you were Bishop, you were my Bishop,
0:57.1	and then I inherited that mantle a few years later,
1:00.3	she was down the road.
1:01.7	Let me just throw this in.
1:02.6	You were our gospel doctrine teacher.
1:04.7	And I'm just telling you, there is nothing like sitting.
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