Hey, welcome to culture and Christianity.

It's always a treat to get to have a minute with you.

This is the one setting I get to engage in where it feels like kind of just a personal conversation.

I'm not managing a room full of people and outlines that I'm necessarily constrained to.

So grab a cup of coffee or a bottle of water and let's sit down and process what's happening

in our lives and in the world today.

What I want to do in this session is a little more personal.

I got an invitation on the Friday before Holy Week.

So the Friday in front of Palm Sunday, late in the day.

I got a call from the office.

I'm not in the office on Fridays.

And I got a call from the office late in the day.

And they said, we have a call from the White House.

And we think it's real.

And I said, well, you can talk to them.

It's okay.

And long story short, there was an invitation to an Easter luncheon for faith leaders at the White House. And I haven't processed this

on big platforms because that's not really what it's about. So there were about 75 faith leaders

that gathered and another 25 people that were probably in some way a part of the

apparatus of government.

And to really just to acknowledge God's goodness in our nation and to pray for our administration.

President Trump came and made a speech.

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