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Okay, this week we're going to talk about something that was probably something I should

have jumped on a few weeks back.

I've talked about it before on our podcast, and we're just now starting a new season

where we're doing a longer podcast, and they're just audio.

And I haven't really come back to this issue yet, but I thought it's important for me to get back to it at some point.

And that is the nature of law enforcement in America right now.

And how we can respond, how we can kind of rethink our positions as Christians who hold a Christian worldview.

Hopefully you hold a thoughtful Christian

worldview and you're looking at what's happening in culture and I'm sure that my audience is

absolutely divided about whether or not they approve or disapprove of what they're seeing.

Totally get it. You know, earlier this year, for example, the big controversies related to law

enforcement weren't so much about specific shootings, but they were you know, earlier this year, for example, the big controversies related to law enforcement

weren't so much about specific shootings, but they were about the use of national resources,

ICE, in certain cities like Minneapolis. And of course, when those things don't go well,

all of law enforcement gets lumped in and considered the same way.

So I want to come address a couple of things here. I'll be covering stuff that I've talked about

in the past. And you might think, well, this is kind of a weird topic for a Christian casemaker,

but you know that I come at it from a perspective of having worked my entire career. That's the one profession I can

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