Welcome to the Conversations That Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. We're

going to talk a little bit today about the Salvation Army and whether or not they

are going woke. I want to answer that question because it certainly does affect a lot of us.

You see the Santa Claus's bringing the bells. That's a Christmas staple. I love that actually.

It reminds me of Christmas especially when I was younger and occasionally we wouldn't do this most years,

but if we would go down to New York City or something or any major city, we would see that.

And most of us, or outside of a Walmart in your local community, that's often where I saw them,

and most of us would probably give to them at some point during the holiday season, I would imagine.

And this year is going to be different, I think, for me though though and this isn't a boycott but I just I I saw this article that showed that some quotes from one of their documents

Basically saying that you need to apologize even if you're

not guilty of racism for the racism on that the church has produced you need to

apologize for on behalf of the church somehow and that was it for for me. I just thought, I'm not given to them.

This, I give the Salvation Army because I want to help people, real tangible people, not a political cause.

And I think the focus of the organization is changing and so I don't want to just give you that bad news without giving you some good news.

The good news is there are other places that you can give your money and I would think maybe Samaritan's purse would be a place you could give some money or just look in your local community and see what organizations are doing charitable work without the social justice emphasis.

Maybe your local church is engaged in a soup kitchen or something like that,

but I would not give to Salvation Army at this point

just because of and then I started looking into it and I saw other things that I just thought,

you know what, they're they're in

Mission Drift right now they're losing track of why they exist in the first place and

so which is by the way not just feeding people and engaging in charity originally

it was supposed to be giving them the gospel of Jesus Christ which I've heard

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