Eric Church Gives BEST Graduation Speech EVER
Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
My wife's favorite country singer is Eric Church, and his commencement address at UNC is proof of why he's so great. Sit back and enjoy his description of the 6 strings of a guitar and the 6 pillars of life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Politics by Faith is where we take the news of the day. |
| 0:06.0 | We bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with peace and perspective. |
| 0:09.0 | New headlines every day. |
| 0:11.0 | But Ecclesiasty says there's nothing new under the sun. |
| 0:13.0 | So thanks to be in here to get the true story, the story of the day, Eric Church's commencement address. |
| 0:19.0 | My wife's, I think if you ask her her, favorite musician, |
| 0:22.9 | she'd say Eric Church has been forever. And he gave the commencement address at University |
| 0:30.6 | of North Carolina. He's a big Tar Heels fan. And I want to play it for you. |
| 0:38.3 | It's great. |
| 0:39.4 | It's really good. |
| 0:41.9 | I love how he starts off using music. |
| 0:44.2 | The whole beginning of his speech is I tried to sit down to write a speech. |
| 0:44.7 | I couldn't do it. |
| 0:45.7 | And finally I picked up my guitar. |
| 0:46.5 | It's what I do best. |
| 0:49.1 | So, of course, I'm going to use my guitar for it. |
| 1:00.8 | But I love the imagery or audio audio of music to prove the point about timeless truths. I've tried to make the music argument on the radio. I'm not great at it. He's better. But I make it a lot with |
| 1:05.3 | architecture. I talk about ugly architecture and modern art as the clearest example of how you can see the failure |
| 1:15.6 | of progressive ideology. |
| 1:17.6 | You can see it with your own eyes, how ugly this is. |
| 1:22.0 | And that is the fruit of their ugly ideology. |
| 1:25.7 | A worldview, a particular worldview, |
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