Hey everyone, before we get started, I just wanted to give a shout out of thanks to everyone who showed up to our April 19th big national launch event in Washington, D.C. for the after party live.

We had hundreds of folks come.

It was so touching to hear stories,

to meet people and just be together in person,

celebrating Jesus as the Lord of all of us, including over all of our

political divisions and we had a great especially evening concert with

Porter's Gate where we began to unveil some of the songs of the after party that we're

super excited to be seeing together as a church. So all in all it was an

incredibly encouraging event. Thank you for the hundreds of folks who showed up from places as

far as Oregon, Idaho, California, just the the friendships that got formed and the

stories that were shared really a memorable day and evening.

Thanks again everyone. Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast. I'm your host, Curtis Chang and the Good Faith

Podcast is a production of Redeeming Babel. And it's where friends who follow Jesus help each other make

sense of the world. And we've covered in past podcasts, particularly the one with Andy

Crouch recently,

about how music is crucial to how God has created us

to make sense of the world,

which means music makers are an especially important guide to us in making sense of the world.

And for this podcast, I have the special privilege of welcoming a music maker that has been very important to me for me in making sense of the world

and that's Sandra McCracken. Sandra McCracken is a Grammy nominated and Dove Award winning singer-songwriter and him writer from Nashville, Tennessee.

She's the author of Send Out Your Light,

the illuminating power of scripture and song is a topic we're going to talk about.

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