Welcome to the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Joy Pullman, the executive editor over here at The Federalist.

Joining to me today is my friend Amanda Bauk.

She is a pastor's wife and the author of the recently released book, One Nation Under God, out from Post Hill Press now.

It's a devotional for wives and mothers, which is what she is. And Amanda,

welcome to the program. Hi. Thank you, Joy. I'm so happy to be here to talk with you about the

book today. Thank you for having me. Now, what I really, I think this is a really great time of the

year to be releasing a book like this. I think people are thinking about cozy. They're thinking

about introspection. You know,

we've got some great mysteries of the Christian church you're coming up with Christmas,

obviously at the top of the list. And so, you know, especially people who prepare for the

Christmas season through the penitential season of Advent, you know, it's often a wonderful thing

to kind of add a devotional to your life.

And that's what, you know, your book is about. So first, can you just tell me, you know, give me the basic,

what was your motivation for writing a book, especially for women, short devotionals, you know,

focus, especially patriotic ones? And how did you, you know, get through the process of writing it? All right. Those are all

excellent and somewhat big questions. So I'll do my best to answer them in turn. So the book

originated in 2020. One morning, I was, after I did my morning devotionals, I was just

doomed scrolling through headlines and just despairing over all of the

violence and the death toll and just everything just so negative and toxic that was happening in our

world. And I just started crying. You know, and that I turned into a prayer to the Lord and just crying out to him

and just saying, Lord, what do we do in the face of all of this, this hatred and divisiveness

and death and darkness? How do we even stand up against all of this? You know, especially when I'm just me, you know, what do I do?

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