Welcome to the Eric Mataxis show. Are you ready for the Eric Mataxis show?

We'll buckle your seatbelts, folks, and get ready for something so unexpected that if you are actually to expect it,

you'd go back in time and bump into your past self so hard that you'd both be bruised

to the point of never being able to recognize yourself again, or even be able to make any sense of this

sentence, or this one, or this one.

That was so confusing. My head hurts. And I just want to say,

thank you, Todd Wilkerson. What a sweet, confused soul he is. Pray for Todd. Folks, on this program,

we call this the program about everything. It's the show about everything. And a lot of stuff falls under the rubric of everything,

which gives us a lot of latitude. So today, I get to speak to someone whom I have followed for many,

many years and more recently have the privilege of calling him friend, and then even more recently,

former friend, Cal Thomas. Cal Thomas, welcome to the program.

Well, thank you, Eric. I'm glad to know this at the show about everything, the antithesis of Seinfeld.

You know what? That's quite right, actually. That's actually quite right, and it's not as though

that was lost on us. But you know, being the bright man that you are, and I only know this because Chuck Colson used to quote it all the time.

But Chuck Colson always used to quote Abraham Kuiper, the Dutch theologian and statesman,

who famously said, there is not one square inch of all creation over which Jesus Christ, who is sovereign, does not say mine.

So when I say it's the show about everything, what I really mean is that everything is fair game

for God because it's all of his creation.

So the idea that we should only talk about religious things is preposterous.

We should talk about everything and bring in our cacamamee

old-fashioned worldview. And that's why I wanted to have you on this program. Well, thank you.

When you mentioned Colson, I thought you were going to quote one of my favorite lines from him.

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