Hey, welcome to Politics by Faith.

I am Mike Slater. If you're new to the program, the point we take the news of the day,

even if it causes anxiety, especially if it causes anxiety.

Break it down, talk about what's really happening, try to do it as dispassionately

as possible, and then we lament the brokenness of it, and then give some historical perspective and some

biblical peace so that we can go to sleep, wake up, refreshed, ready to go, take on the world.

Thanks for all the comments emails all the rest

i got to read this one to start off with uh er ljr podcast has a great concept exclamation point

please stop changing things if you want to make it shorter don't Just do it. If you want to do more episodes, don't explain. Just do it. If you want to do a five-part, five-minute morning thing for a week, don't spend four minutes the first morning explaining. Just say you're going to do it in one sentence. The podcast is great. And even without your 1,000 reviews, it is working.

We've got to get to a thousand reviews still. The only thing that isn't working are the long-winded

explanations about how you're going to fix or tweak things. Just do it. It's already working.

All right. I won't waste anyone's time anymore with long-winded explanations in the beginning of things.

So I want to make sure we all know where we're going is all.

But this person left this comment and then five stars.

So the algorithm doesn't care of what you said, just that you left the five stars.

And I am grateful as well.

Story of the day.

Some members of Congress introduced a bill to ban TikTok.

So what's going on here? What is TikTok?

TikTok is the most addictive social media app that has ever been created,

and it is owned, operated, and controlled by the Chinese communist government.

The first thing to note is that it is spyware.

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