Thanks for listening to Politics by Faith.

I mean that really. Thank you for being here. Thanks for searching this out. This podcast, making it a part of your day. You could have been, you could be doing anything right now. And I don't want to talk about it too much because now you're thinking, I could be doing this and I should be doing that. be doing that and said, no, no, no, I'm glad you're here.

Try to keep your attention.

We did a TV special the other day on John MacArthur.

We're going to put it right here in the podcast feed as well.

And the theme is... No, no, no, I'm glad you're here. Try to keep your attention. We did a TV special the other day on John MacArthur.

We're going to put it right here in the podcast feed as well.

And the theme that emerged after talking about him for that hour was clarity and confidence.

And courage.

We'll add another C.

Three things we need more of in America.

For all things that are true. We need clarity for truth, confidence in it, and the courage to share it.

After recording this episode, I came across a poem.

If you've noticed that I've been quoting a lot more poetry lately, it's because I bought a book called The American Anthology by Edmund Stedman.

And it's all, it's just an anthology of amazing, the best, American poems from 1790 to 1901.

The book was published in 19, from 1700, excuse me, 1790 to 1900, the book was published in 1901.

And it's great.

I've just been going through it.

And every poem is awesome.

So this one is from Timothy Dwight.

I think we talked about Timothy Dwight the other day, former president of Yale University

from 1795 to 1817.

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