Hey everyone, this is Heidi St. John. I'm glad you guys have found me at the off the bench podcast today

I am excited to have an old friend on the show Bill jack the founder of World View Academy is here

And we're gonna tear it up today talking about the future of free speech and why it matters to every American stick around

I think you're gonna be encouraged

Well, welcome to the show. Hope you guys had a wonderful new year's celebration with your families and that you're ready to hit the ground running in 2023

One of the reasons I love having guests here at the show is because I am very interested and encouraged to hear from people who were doing more than just talking

They're putting their feet in and and on to the pavement and actually doing what God has asked us all to do which is to have dominion to really work at bringing the gospel and work at bringing the message of Christ to the culture

Bill Jack is on the show you guys remember bill he's the co founder of World View Academy

He's an educator with 10 years of experience in the secular schools and then 14 years with the Caleb campaign

He's a creationist youth ministry bill has spoken to thousands of students and parents around the nation and appeared on radio and podcast and television programs

And you guys are gonna hear at his passion is to raise up a generation who have the vision to reach the culture with the gospel and the valor to engage that culture with the truth

To rely on the virtue of the word of God bills a widower he's the father of three grown children and two grandkids and he lives in castle rock Colorado

Bill my friend welcome back to the show thank you for having me and we do need to put our feet on the pavement but too often I put my foot in my mouth

So I hope you can edit this heavily so it's good to see you well you know it's good to see you you and I have even more in common now than we did the show

Even more in common now than we did last time we talked because we both ran for elected office in 2022

You ran for you as congress so that's a that's a bigger pond that's a that's an ocean compared to my little pond

But it was the similar similar results

Well it seems to me that the similarities are still there yeah well we both had similar results in that we didn't make it through the primary

But honestly in talking with you it sounds like we had experienced a lot of the same things

You know in terms of the political landscape I just said on my podcast last week politics is downstream from culture

Yes and the culture is on its head right now yes and so we're gonna look we're gonna focus a little more upstream

What about you I agree and what we were told in Colorado what candidates were told conservative candidates stay away from abortion stay away from

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