Read The Bible Together - with Bunni Pounds

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

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🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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What would it look like for America to hear the Bible out loud again, not as a slogan, but as the actual text from Genesis to Revelation? That question drives our conversation as we get ready for a major national moment in Washington, DC: America Reads the Bible, where nearly 500 leaders will read Scripture publicly and livestream it across the country. We talk about why public Bible reading has such a powerful track record, from Moses to King Josiah to Jesus reading Isaiah, and especially E...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. It's the Walboller Show. Hope you had a fantastic weekend on this Monday.
0:13.2	We're going to be talking about the importance of getting the Bible back into the culture and how important a role it played in the first 250 years of the country
0:20.9	and how we can lead into the next 250 years with public readings of the Bible and getting
0:27.5	people to read through the Bible and just getting it back into the culture in all these
0:31.3	different ways. Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton, thanks so much for listening to
0:35.1	the program. Be sure to visit the websites, wallbuilders.com and wallbuilders. Show. Later in the program, Buddy Pals will be with us from
0:42.2	Christians Engaged and America reads the Bible. And you guys are headed to D.C. to read the Bible
0:48.2	and to talk about the influence of the Bible in America this upcoming weekend, just a few days away.
0:53.8	Yeah, we are.'s uh it's interesting
0:55.5	there used to be an annual tradition for a number of years i don't know probably 30 years ago i
1:01.1	think tim you you even were part of this back much younger where that they would read the bible
1:07.1	um on the i guess there's the steps of the capital wasn't it Tim it was we did
1:11.5	on steps the capital I remember as you're alluding to that this was something we did I
1:17.2	think more than once and I feel like one time it it wasn't the capital I don't know if that
1:24.6	would be right or not I feel like it was one of the other buildings I feel like seeing the capital while we did it but I was a child and probably don't remember if that would be right or not. I feel like it was one of the other buildings.
1:30.2	I feel like seeing the Capitol while we did it, but I was a child and probably don't remember.
1:31.0	But I do remember one time as there was this effort to read through the Bible.
1:36.8	And they had a shorter time frame.
1:39.3	And so they were reading 24 hours a day.
1:42.8	And I remember we were there in the middle of the night, we hours of the morning, to read
1:48.7	through.
1:49.3	As a kid, probably everything feels like it was some kind of genealogical list, even though
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