We've been told over and over and over and over and over and over again, and our young people have been educated by people pretending to be intellectuals,

that it was inappropriate for our faith to be in the public square. And if our faith is absent from the public square, the authoritarianism amongst us will

continue to grow. Again, it's not to establish a theocracy, but it's to bring our faith to bear.

Jesus is the head of theirs. He has the name above all names.

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I had a feeling that my heart would be full by the end of the conference.

And so I sat down this afternoon and I really, the session and the next are kind of the overflow, at least what I heard.

We've been talking about culture and Christianity, and the premise is very straightforward.

The reason we do a conference like this is we believe the church should shape culture, that we shouldn't be shaped by the culture.

And I think we have a very important role to play, and I don't mean politically, the values that shape our communities, the values that shape family, how we understand

that to be in our schools and what has held us together and given us strength.

You know, we're not bound in this nation by a singular ethnicity or we are a melting pot.

We've come from the nations of the world.

And there's not one way that Americans look

or one accent with which Americans speak.

You know, the concerns around what's been happening

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