Dynamic Voices for a Diverse Church.

This is Pass the Mic.

Greetings and God bless.

Welcome to another episode of Pass the Mic.

And as you can already tell, we have a special episode for you.

I am coming at you, of course, as a regular host, but we also

have a frequent, should we say guest, you're really part of the show. Welcome to the show,

Ryan Gentry. Thanks. Happy to be here. Well, you have a pretty interesting life. You're soft-spoken,

but I feel like you have a lot of adventures. I try to.

Yeah. Yeah, you're squeezing the full juice out of the lemon here, and you are getting a lot of

comings and goings, and you travel a bunch. And so you recently went to Washington, D.C. Is that right?

Yep.

And it was a special occasion.

Yeah, I attended the National Prayer Breakfast in the Year of Our Lord 2025.

It was a real treat.

So as a historian, I should mention, like, the National prayer breakfast has not been something that's been around for 200 years.

No.

I think it was a 73rd.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That would be right.

So the 1950s, this is when we have this explosion in the sort of God language in our federal government. So the phrase in God we trust,

on coins, One Nation Under God, and then things like the National Prayer Breakfast are instituted

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