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Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

What "Blessed Are The Peacemakers" Really Means (with Hugo Gurdon)

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

The First Digital Inc.

Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9594 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In the Sermon on The Mount, Jesus says "Blessed Are The Peacemakers." This line has been used to describe President Trump's foreign peace deals. What does the bit of scripture really mean? Mike Slater breaks it down after setting the stage with Hugo Gurdon of the Washington Examiner. This is part two of a two-part episode on The First TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. This is part two of our special on

0:04.5

Donald Trump, the peace president. We talked to the editor-in-chief of the Washington

0:08.4

Examiner. He's great. You give some wonderful insight here. A lot of really good points.

0:12.8

And then I do a quick analysis on Matthew 5, 9, the Sermon on the Mount,

0:18.4

Blessed of the Peacemakers, for they will be the children of God, or child of God.

0:21.6

What is a peacemaker?

0:22.6

My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier.

0:32.6

That's what I want to be, a peacemaker and a unified.

0:40.3

Let's go right to Hugo Gurdon. He's the editor-in-chief of the Washington Examiner.

0:43.3

Hugo, how are you, sir?

0:45.3

I'm very well. How you doing, Matt?

0:47.3

Fantastic, especially after the wonderful news out of the Middle East.

0:51.3

Can you put this into words for us about your hope for what happened

0:56.6

and what is to come? Well, my hope is that the wider piece in the Middle East is not out of

1:03.5

regions. Clearly, the things that we're seeing, Hamas doing, you know, murdering people again in

1:10.1

Gaza, in sort of clan, gangland warfare,

1:13.0

doesn't look like much promise.

1:14.5

But it seems to me that Hamas is now entirely, is isolated.

1:18.9

What this piece has done, first of all, is obviously bring the hostages back to Israel.

1:26.2

Not all of those who are dead have been returned, but the live ones are now so back.

1:30.7

So Hamas has lost its leverage.

1:33.6

I think that this is a huge achievement just in doing that.

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