Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is the editor of City Journal Brian Anderson.

First off, a heads up to our regular listeners. We usually post new episodes of the podcast on Wednesday mornings,

but next Wednesday is Christmas, so we'll be posting it a day or two earlier next week, so look out for that.

It'll be a shorter episode with a special update for our listeners

and City Journal readers, so you want to check it out at some point during the long holiday

week. Coming up on today's show is another relatively light item just in time for the season

that means so much to people of faith around the world. City Journal's assistant editor, Charles McAwee, will interview Timothy Gagline.

He's the vice president at the Faith-Based Group Focus on the Family and a longtime friend of the magazine.

He recently co-authored a book called American Restoration, How Faith, Family, and Personal Sacrifice

Can Heal Our Nation. It's an invigorating book that outlines the deterioration of

parts of American society and family life and advances an argument about how Christians

and members of other faith communities can engage with the culture to help the nation overcome some of the difficulties facing it.

You can find the book on Amazon,

and we'll have a link to the book also in the description.

That's it for me.

The conversation between Charles McAwee and Timothy Gagline begins after this.

Thank you. Michaelwey and Timothy Gagline begins after this. Welcome back to the 10 Blocks podcast. This is your host for this episode, Charles McAwee, Assistant Editor of City Journal.

Joining me on the show today is Timothy Gagline.

Tim is the Vice President for External and Government Relations at Focus on the Family in Washington.

He has served in high-level government posts for two decades,

including Press Secretary for Former Senator Dan Coates of Indiana, special assistant

to President George W. Bush, and deputy director of the White House Office of Public Liaison.

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