Well, first of all, my role is to call balls and strikes and to give a voice to half or more than half or even sometimes like 80% of the country on the issues of the day.

CNN political commentator Scott Jennings talking about his presentation at the 2025 issues, et cetera, making the case conference.

I think what CNN is doing in particular with the 10 o'clock show.

It's a real debating show, and you're putting people at the table who have diverse viewpoints,

including conservative viewpoints.

I think our commitment to that, honestly, is good for American political discourse.

And my job is to robustly participate in that and give a whole bunch of people out there who thought

maybe the mainstream media was ignoring them or didn't care what they thought, somebody

to represent, authentically represent their values.

You can meet and hear Scott Jennings making the case for an alternative voice in the

mainstream media at this year's Making the Case Conference, July 18th and 19th at Concordia University, Chicago.

Learn more at Issuesetc.org.

Well, who wouldn't want a home sitting on top of a hill in Tennessee with woods all around

and neighbors just far enough away not to bother you?

And they're of the same political bent that you are.

The story comes from Religion News Service, Bob Smitana, in Appalachia. A developer hopes to

offer refuge to conservative Christians fleeing blue states. Welcome back to Issues, Etc. I'm Todd

Wilkin, joining us to discuss this story and other stories about the formation of Christian communities.

Terry Mattingly, he's Senior Fellow on Communications and Culture at St. Constantine College in Houston, Texas. He writes Rational Sheep,

a substack newsletter on faith family and mass media. He's author of the National On Religion

column for the Andrews-McMeal Universal Syndicate, and for two decades he let the

GetReligion.org website. Terry, welcome back. Glad to be here. It is pretty clear that exclusive

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