Kelvin Cochran

The Eric Metaxas Show

Metaxas Media

Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Kelvin Cochran tells the story in his new book, "Facing the Fire," of his dismissal as chief of the Atlanta Fire Department because of his religious beliefs.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Eric Mettaxas show with your host, Eric Mettaxas.
0:15.8	Hey, folks, welcome. My calendar says it's Monday.
0:19.2	What is my calendar know? Albin, do you have Monday?
0:23.6	I have the day before the launch of your brand new book. That's what I have on my calendar.
0:28.7	Your enthusiasm warms my heart because launching a book, I mean, literally tomorrow, or actually no, midnight tonight.
0:38.7	Yes.
0:39.1	Midnight tonight, you can no longer pre-order is atheism dead.
0:44.3	So I've been begging people to pre-order.
0:48.2	Today is crazy.
0:50.0	The next two weeks, let me share where I am because I'm obviously in some kind of a hotel room, right?
0:57.0	People can see me.
0:58.3	Yeah.
0:59.4	Well, if you're watching a video.
1:01.5	But I can't even remember my nephew, Nick, named after my dad, Nicholas Mataxis, who's still in the hospital.
1:11.9	And I cover your prayers for my dad.
1:13.8	He's trying to beat this infection and he's 94.
1:17.3	So he couldn't come to the wedding yesterday.
1:19.8	That was tough.
1:21.0	But Suzanne and Ann Rose and I drove to Connecticut so that on Saturday I could visit my dad in the hospital.
1:31.6	And I had to get a special rapid COVID test for that because we know I'm not vaccinated.
1:37.7	And I'm taking horse medicine.
1:40.5	I'm eating ravenously.
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