Welcome once again to the conversations. I'm out out of podcast I'm your host John Harris

thankful to be here thankful also today as I'm recording this on July 4th to be in the

United States to have the heritage we have which has been very much influenced by

Christianity and it's

forgotten in many ways it's unfortunate that we can look around us and see all the

signs I think of decay and God's judgment and there's still some silver linings as we saw a week and a half ago with the Supreme Court but we still have and we are reaping the blessings of a wonderful heritage and I think we can still

celebrate that and that's what I intend to do now you're probably listening to this on

July 5th because that's what I'm releasing it and as I'm releasing it actually I'm as you're as you're hearing it I'm

going to be either on my way to or in South Carolina. I'm wearing my South

Carolina hat I'll probably wear it the next week and I'll be in Charleston

for about five days and I'll be at a

conference down there that I went to in 2017 the Abovov Institute puts it on and

they have a number of great oftentimes really thought-provoking

history scholars and sometimes they'll have experts in literature and other areas

come and usually it's about southern history and or some facet of

southern history. This time though I think it's going to be a little broader they're

going to be we're going to have some scholars talking about American history

specifically Abraham Lincoln and I'm looking forward to this.

And one of the things though, I wanted to mention this to you because one of the things

I'm going to be doing, I mentioned this actually for the last year, is talking to a few of the

scholars there about the 1607 project. And I've talked about this and there's

conversations that have happened in the background. I haven't really updated people on,

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