Once upon a time in Radio Land, a towering man strode to a silver microphone and announced to the world these words.

Welcome to the Eric Mataxis show.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am that announcer, and my name is Todd Wilkerson.

And this is the show I announce.

I'm announcing it right now, in fact.

And you have a front row seat to history.

Yeah, and here's Eric.

Folks talking to Jim Caviesel, Jim, you said you had been raised a Catholic.

You were making some important theological points.

Please continue.

I'm just saying the face of Jesus in that movie were all the people that lived Jesus in their lives that were so authentic.

They broke my heart.

And they didn't, it wasn't necessarily, they were all Catholic, as many of them weren't.

They were of different, the head of young life who had a big part of my young, of life who brought me into the church and got me on my knee and put his hands over me

in the entire whole young life at the University of Washington, and they prayed over me,

and he never did it again.

He just did it that one time, and then he just passed away.

That man was part of my experience of who God was.

You know, Frank Stewart, my lawyer of 30 years,

and people in this business that know who that man was, that man's a saint. He lived a certain way in his life that made me want to be a different man. I look, I used to go into strip joints, okay?

And there was a part where I just, I broke God's heart so bad.

I finally was walking in.

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