Welcome to Politics by Faith.

Oh, it's on vacation last week and I had big plans to record episodes.

And I didn't.

A lot of high hopes, always on vacation.

Alas, we're back.

I want to play this clip of Erica Kirk at her husband's Medal of Freedom Ceremony.

I think in this 40-second clip, there are five profound truths that are worth knowing.

Charlie often said that without God, freedom becomes chaos.

And he believed liberty could only survive when anchored to truth.

And I remember in one of his speeches,

he told the audience that the opposite of liberty isn't law.

He said it's captivity.

And that the freest people in the world are those whose hearts belong to Christ.

But what's so powerful is that Charlie had the ability to communicate so brilliantly across all generations.

And he reminded us that in a world that tells us freedom is

doing whatever you want to do, the real freedom

is the power to live freely and to do what is right.

And in one of his journal entries, he wrote that he wanted everyone to know that you can't

have liberty without moral responsibility. Freedom divorced from faith eventually just destroys itself.

It's incredible stuff there. Incredible truths there. Without God, freedom becomes chaos. The opposite of liberty is not

law, it's captivity. The freest people are those whose heart belong to Christ. Freedom is not

doing whatever you want. True freedom is the power to live freely and do what is right. You can't

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