We're live now on the conversations that matter podcast. It is Friday afternoon. It is a hot Friday afternoon. We got like a heat wave coming through. I don't know what it is. It's we we're in New York, but, which you think, it starts to get a little cold this time of year. In fact, I think I said that like a week or two ago, and, and, uh, no, it's, uh, decided to go back to some of the hottest days of the year, which is great if you want to go to a waterfall, which I did the other day. I just, there's a waterfall, about an hour from my house, I drove

there, I got wet, I went underneath and just I just stayed there for a while it felt so good

is there's nothing like that that is that might be the best feeling I'm not sure that might be the best

feeling though that God created when there's a nice where there's a hot day and

you have a nice waterfall but anyway enough about my appreciation for waterfalls we got

some conversations that matter some serious things to talk about today.

And there's so many things to be honest with you. I had a little bit of a difficult time even thinking through right before I decided to do this today, what I was to talk about so I have a whole list it's going to be a news roundup

One of the things I just want to update everyone on personally well, it's not just personal it It's bigger than that, I suppose. I've been doing a lot of research this week on classical liberalism. And part of it is for, I've been in the process of writing a book now for a while and it's I don't want to say I have

writers block it's just that it's not coming quite as easily to me it's it's been

harder work for me and I think I know why because I want to write on a positive vision.

It's easy to criticize, right? It's easier to criticize to look at, for example, social justice and say, well that's wrong, that's wrong, that's wrong, right?

And of course, we've talked about on this podcast alternatives, what the Bible teaches on justice, we've talked about American history a little bit and some of the assumptions that I think were formed through the biblical law being distilled through British common law and so we have some of this stuff, but I have to organize all of that and figure out what is it I really want to say about a positive vision.

We know 2020 was bad, we know social justice was bad and really what's happening right now are a lot of guys are writing their

Books on what's the alternative and it needs to happen. This is a conversation that needs to take

place. The fear I have I suppose is that in the Christian world, in the reform Christian

world in particular there are some very firm lines you're not supposed to cross to right outside of so to draw

outside of and and I've really clicked in my mind this week more than at any other time.

I've always known this.

Since before even the social justice thing started,

I've known this about Christianity

as far as the upper levels of evangelicalism.

That there, it's not just that there was a woke thing,

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