Welcome to the conversations the matter

podcast. My name is John Harris.

Coming your way today is a mega edition of the

podcast, not only because the world has lost its mind since

Thanksgiving. I don't know if it's the

turkey football and stuffing or what. But because there's a backlog of

information. I didn't make a podcast last week because I was traveling due to the

holiday and

getting some final papers done for classes and so the news cycle does not settle down and so there's just a lot of stuff to talk about and you know sometimes I think

during the holidays maybe it's gonna be smooth sailing one week and I can talk about maybe a book review or a historical figure or an aspect of theology I'd love to talk about and yeah it just doesn't happen.

Last week was nuts and this week is even crazier and today there's some really big

breaking news. May even be the biggest breaking news in the Southern Baptist Convention

all year. I mean resolution 9 is big right but this is well we'll see what

you think this has the potential to develop but it is Giving Tuesday so

welcome to this episode on Giving Tuesday and I'm going to start off

talking about Giving Tuesday and providing some alternative organizations to donate to because you know a lot of people tell me I've been giving to this

denomination this organization this evangelistic group and now I find out they're going

in a social justice direction I don don't believe that. What's an

alternative? And it's been difficult for some people and I understand that. Believe me

nothing is more frustrating than thinking that you are supporting a noble cause that you agree with only

to find out they're actually doing sometimes the exact opposite of what you paid them to do, right?

And so I'm going to give you some organizations that I can personally vouch for because I most of them I know the people inside the organization and they have either taken public stands I believe in every case they have or they are certainly not going the way of

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