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Hey there, folks. Happy Valentine's Day. More importantly, Happy Ash Wednesday. But you don't say happy Ash Wednesday, do you? Well, I'm going to be doing an update on what's going on in Israel with an official spokesperson for Prime Minister Netanyahu in just a moment.

But right now, I have the privilege of having, as my guest in this segment,

Bishop Strickland, Bishop Strickland, really an honor to have you.

Thanks for being my guest today.

Thank you, Eric. It's an honor to be you. Thanks for being my guest today. Thank you, Eric. It's an honor to be here.

You know, I didn't plan to have you on Ash Wednesday as I was coming in here today,

trying to get a cab on Park Avenue in Manhattan, seeing people with the ashes on their foreheads.

And I thought, my goodness, what a day,

what a moment we're in as the American church.

The reason, of course, that I have you on today is because it was brought to my attention

a day or so ago that you

had on Twitter promoted my book, Letter to the American Church. And I have to say up front, you know,

when I wrote Letter to the American Church, I was thinking this is a book for anyone who calls

himself a Christian.

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