Christmas Courage From The Governor’s Office

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Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

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🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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A governor’s Christmas proclamation that actually says what Christmas is about. A president joking with kids about cookies while thanking service members. Federal agencies quietly restoring room for faith at work and school. The start of 2026 comes packed with moments that reveal where conviction and culture meet—and why it matters. We open with Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ proclamation naming Jesus and closing state offices so families can celebrate together, followed by the Fr...

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0:00.0	This is the intersection of faith and culture. It's the Wall Builders show on a Friday. In fact,
0:11.7	the first Friday of 2026. I don't know about you. I'm on the edge of my seat. I want to know what the
0:17.8	first piece of good news is going to be for 2026. And so we're about to find out. Anyway, Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton looking forward to a whole year of good news. Guys, I don't know. Can we break the record for all the good news from 2020? How much is still in your stack from 2025 that we never even got to? Like, are y'all going to start with something that happened at the end of the year?
0:38.8	Are we still catching up on March?
0:41.7	No, we're past March.
0:43.7	My first one's going to come out of December.
0:49.9	And first piece of good news right on the bat is it's only 357 days until Christmas.
0:52.7	So that's the, that's what we start with. I forgot again.
0:54.0	Oh, Merry Christmas, guys. Yeah yeah merry christmas it's exactly it
0:58.3	and that actually is my story it's such a fun story okay so back up christmas back up a week
1:05.2	christmas was on thursday and a lot of people got friday off because of of Christmas being on Thursday. It's a holiday.
1:13.7	And coming back in on Friday and then get Saturday off. So a lot of employers said, you know,
1:18.2	take off Friday, whatever. Well, one of the employers who said that was Governor Sarah Huckabee
1:24.4	Sanders in Arkansas. And she said, you know, state employees, hey, just go ahead
1:29.5	and take Friday off too. And so she issued a notice for state employees in celebration of Christmas
1:35.7	to take Friday off. And she came out with a really, a really good Christmas proclamation. It's not like
1:44.0	the Biden proclamation for a day of prayer
1:46.3	where he didn't even mention God. This one actually remembers what Christmas is all about.
1:51.1	It's short enough. I just want to read it. It's a great recap of Christmas, and it is just so fun
1:58.0	coming from the governor's office, but she says, whereas more than two millennia ago in the little town of Bethlehem,
2:04.5	far from the centers of power in first century Rome, Jesus Christ, the son of God, was born in a humble manger.
2:11.5	Whereas Jesus was the Messiah and became a teacher and leader, and he would be crucified,
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