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Concordia University Chicago, with Christ at the center, we stand tall for the church.

And as an American leader, but also just as an American citizen, your compassion belongs first to your fellow citizens.

It doesn't mean you hate people from outside of your own borders, but there's this old school,

and I think it's a very Christian concept, by the way, that you love your family,

and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow

citizens in your own country, and then after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of the

world. A lot of the far left has completely inverted that. They seem to hate the citizens of their

own country and care

more about people outside their own borders. That is no way to run a society. That's Vice President

J.D. Vance speaking with Sean Hannity of Fox News about a teaching called Ordo Amorris,

ordered love or the order of love? Is he correct? Is it a something he simply made up or is it actually

a historic teaching in Christianity? Greetings and welcome to issues et cetera live on this

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