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Thank you for daring to listen. Today we have the honor of sharing B's story with you.

Her story is the first in a series that we are going to be sharing out of the Austin Stone in

Austin, Texas. To begin her episode, we wanted to share a message from B herself. Eight years ago, after the first inauguration of Donald Trump, I was told to not take things

personally, that I should respect our leadership. I was told it's best I kept silent and that I

need to trust God more. I was, in their words, an anomaly. And look at where we are now, at the verge of a

constitutional crisis, a time where many have left their faith due to treatment like this,

and a time where Christianity looks more like nationalism and oppression versus the love

and mercy of Jesus. For Jay Coyle, I'm John a Harris, and this is

the Bodies Behind the Bus podcast. I am all about blessed subtraction. There is a pile of dead

bodies behind the Mar Marsville bus.

And by God's grace it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.

You either get on the bus or you get run over by the bus.

Those are the options.

But the bus ain't going to stop.

You either get on the bus until you get run over by the bus those are the options but the

best I can stop all right welcome back everybody to the bodies behind the bus podcast we are

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