Welcome back to culture and Christianity.

Our objective is to take our faith beyond the walls of the church.

I'm grateful for the walls of the church and what we're able to do on our campuses and in our buildings and in our sanctuaries,

but our faith has to be vibrant beyond those buildings and those places.

And we hope this podcast is helping add some momentum to that.

This session, I'm going to give you an update on kind of current events and what's been happening.

I've been outside the church a little bit the last couple weeks.

I have traveled a bit.

I was in Washington, D.C. for about a day and a half for CPAC, conservative political action something committee.

But I got to hear the vice president, J.D. Vance. I heard Elon Musk. I heard the Attorney General, Pam Bondi.

It was helpful to hear them make the presentation for their agendas and what they're doing.

It was clear that they have the imagination.

They're a team of people working together in this season, not something that's easily gleaned from the news.

And then last week, I spent a couple of days in Dallas with the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, the NRB. A lot of the more influential platforms and voices in religious broadcasting. And that was a positive report. They were having record attendance and participation and open doors.

There's certainly a new atmosphere for Christian broadcasting since the election.

A bit more freedom and opportunities.

So all that said that I come to my comments today,

not just with the interviews from the television show and the people I engage with, but a bit broader arena.

A lot happening.

Just, you know, we were walking through a season of unprecedented discontinuity, kind of a,

there are so many breaks with the past.

You know, in the big picture, if we take a step back for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds, thousands of years, the life skills of a grandfather were adequate for his grandson to flourish in the world.

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