What's happening at Columbia?

Here's what I think is happening at Columbia.

What protesters are doing there and across the country is what they want to do in America more broadly.

Welcome to Grace and Truth. My name is

Owen Strand. I will be your host today. Please subscribe to the podcast on all relevant platforms.

Today I want to discuss what's happening at numerous university campuses, pro-Hamas demonstrations,

anti-Israel demonstrations, terrible stuff sweeping the nation. I'm joined by my dear friend

and very astute commentator,

Ryan Helfinbine. He is the VP for Communications at Liberty University. He's the founding

executive director of a terrific work to Standing for Freedom Center. Ryan, welcome back to Grace.

Hey, Dr. Strand, Owen, my friend, great to be with you. It is great to be with you. I've appreciated a lot of the

content you put out recently. Before you and I start chopping it up here, just in general terms,

on what's going on in America today, what that means about wokeness, what that means about Hamas,

what that means about Israel from a Christian vantage point. I want to play, Ryan, just very briefly,

a clip from UCLA. This is a student trying to enter campus just to go to class, and he's

blocked from doing so. Here it is. We're going this way. You guys have closed the entrance.

We are UCLA students. I have my ID right here. I'm being blocked off, not by the security guy, but by you two, you three. Oh, look, they're making their burr. Well, I'm going this way. This is what they do. Everybody, look at this. Look at this. I'm a UCLA student. I deserve to go here. We pay tuition. This is our school. And they're not letting me walk in my classes over there I want to use that

entrance well I can't think will you let me go in this can be over in a second

just let me and my friends go in to class then you can move will you move

okay we're going we're going. We're going.

I'm going in.

I don't, I have my hands up.

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