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The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from Down with the (Burger) King with Michael Seifert and Russ Vought
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That's why we are here. Joining us now is Russ Vogt, president of the Center for Renewing America. It is September 26th. The shutdown is looming on September 30th. Russ, thank you for joining us. We've had a lot of congressmen on the program, some great guys, Congressman Dan Bishop, Matt Gaetz, we've had Chip Roy. But I'll be honest, it is a Chinese fire drill. It is disorganized. You have people on every single side. I was on the phone this morning. No one knows what the heck is going on. So Russ, what are you hearing? What can we expect coming to September 30th? Do you think the government's going to shut down? I do think it's going to shut down. I think that's where we are. And I think it's good because this is the last leverage point we have against the Biden administration. And you're right, Charlie, in the sense that when you have kind of an intentional strategy on the part of leadership to force this into a corner, it's going to leave something to be desired on the execution front. But here's the good news. I think the House conservatives are increasingly united in forcing a conversation about moving forward on bill by bill and really focusing on the woke and weaponized restrictions that need to be put in place to put a vice grip around the Biden administration's activities against the American people. I think you're going to see those kinds of debates this week, and it's going to move to a good place in terms of the theatrics of the last several weeks. I want to make sure that we calm down the alarmism. So I received a couple emails this weekend. Charlie, I can't believe you want a government shutdown. I need my Social Security checks. Russ, let's tell the truth about this. Social Security still goes out. Medicare still goes out. Essential government services, which I find hilarious because if they're not essential, why do they have jobs? They should all be fired. This is a partial, very partial, let's just call it a fractional government pause because it's not actually a shutdown because they all get back pay. It's basically the secret that no one wants to say is that a lot of government workers are hoping for this because they basically get a vacation. Russ, tell us what really happens because this is important. You've got the parameters of this. Two -thirds of the federal government is on autopilot. Not a good situation, but the reality of where we are. So a third of the federal government is subject to what we call the annual appropriations process. But if you're on Social Security, there's nothing to worry about. You're going to get your check, and you're going to get your check on time. Medicare, the Department of Defense is going to continue to be out there defending our country. All of the people that are in the business of securing this country are going to be similarly at their posts. What this does is this says for those of you who are working on the Biden climate regulations at the EPA or the Department of Interior, sorry, you're going to have to go home. You're not going to be able to be at your desk and working. So this is not something – there are tried and true ways, and I've managed this for President Trump, to make this painless as possible consistent with the law. We thankfully blazed a pretty good trail on that, that they're going to have a hard time playing politics with this. We'll be holding them accountable. But in terms of the – this is not a situation where you're going to go off a cliff, and somehow you're not going to get your government benefits. It's just not the case. Okay, so let's get into this here. What then is the ask? Because the way I look at it, the way the stars have aligned, the universe, all of a sudden – I'm not happy about this, but it just so happens the border has never been as bad as it is right now. And that's like intersecting right with this funding fight over border security. Russ, if Republicans can't get this done, when there's 8 ,500 people illegally entering an eagle pass alone, I mean, it's not as if this is something that happened six months ago. This is actively occurring. Then Republicans are completely worthless. Russ, so what is the ask, and strategically, what is your advice for how they actually get it done? So my view is that they have had a wonderful banner, a messaging parameter called no security, no funding, that allows them to be able to go at this seminal threat that we're seeing along the border, and to make that a very, very important issue. I also think it allows them to deal with the weaponization at the Department of Justice. I don't think that we can leave this leverage point without doing something against the regime that is trying to steal the next election, and at the same time going against half the country and considering them enemies of the state. So I think there's a lot of things that can be done, but if we don't get to the end of this process and have dealt with those two issues, and then spend a lot of time trying to defund the offices doing the bad activities, I'll consider it a failure. So the goal needs to be then not paperwork processors on the border, but actual border security. That's a major difference. But also, I think that the pressure needs to be that Joe Biden needs to start deporting these people. He's hosting them and just releasing them into the interior of the United States. Exactly. And there's a specific rider that needs to be put in place, and Stephen Miller has been calling for this some time, as well as Chip Roy. It needs to be illegal in the sense that you can't spend the money to be able to release someone into the border. That's the kind of thing that it's not just about changing laws that they ignore. It's about saying that a bureaucrat is going to be facing criminal charges in violation of the Anti -Deficiency Act if they ignore the appropriations law that's saying that they can't do that. And as a result, that will change a lot of the policies that we've been asking for. So we're looming towards this lockdown. Re -emphasize what you're saying about leadership. How has leadership basically set the table for failure? Build that out for us. Sure. The year started with much promise. For the first time, House Republicans were governing with conservatives in their caucus, and they were achieving things that no one thought was possible to pass $5 trillion in potential cuts. At the debt limit deal, Kevin McCarthy walked away from House conservatives and went essentially into coalition with House Democrats. At the time, he used it as an excuse. He said, we'll do all this through the appropriations process. That was an excuse, because they then didn't move any of the appropriations bills themselves. It's not like these bills are passed out of the House and sitting in the Senate. Instead, they've had a pileup in which we are now up against a deadline, and they're asking for more time. But the problem is that McCarthy has never governed from the standpoint of we're going to use leverage points to save the country. Instead, he puts a cartel view on it, which is we're going to try to minimize what is necessary to get past this leverage point, because otherwise it will have political risk. I think you and I agree, we're not going to save the country without managing political risk, and we can do that. We have done that previously in shutdowns, and the country will reward Republicans when they fight over these leverage points. That's what we're asking right now, and I think conservatives are insisting on it, and so far, he's having to go in their direction. Yeah, and I think we need to reject the framing of shutdown, which, by the way, ideologically, all I'm on board for. Maybe a pause? I mean, how else can we message this? Because, Russ, here's what's going to happen, right? So we are barreling towards not getting a deal done on Saturday, right? And honestly, I hope a deal doesn't get done in the sense of enough, draw a line in the sand, show your voters you're fighting. It's better for no deal than a bad deal. I think you would agree with that, right, Russ? It's better for no deal at all than a bad deal. And so September 30th happens, and again, your Social Security checks still go out, Medicare still goes out, military still do. You have the DEI, you know, lesbian bureaucrats at the Department of Homeland Security or whatever that might not, you know, be going to work for a couple days. Honestly, good thing. So, but Russ, let's just kind of think about this. How could we better message it? Because the media, Sunday morning, I face the nation, CBS, all that full court press, Republicans shut down the government once midnight hits on Saturday night. So how do we get ahead of this and preemptively message it, not just be on our heels and play defense? Yeah, I mean, I think the reality is, to go back to the facts, what is occurring here is a lapse in funding. It is a lapse in funding. The government is not shutting down. The Department of Defense is still up and running. That would be the case if it actually shut down. Those people would not be at their post. What is happening? Funding is lapsed. Funding will come back on when Congress reaches a deal. And I think if we can communicate facts in that vein, we will help our case and explain to the American people what's actually going on. But here's the thing that I would say. These leverage points in which there is confrontation, there is political risk, are incredibly important because the only chance that we get to get the country's attention. It's when people who are not listening to politics are listening to their Christian music station or whatever they're listening to. And all of a sudden they have the news update that's saying, OK, there's a government lapse. What are the terms that are being discussed? Oh, the weaponization of the Department of Justice. That's what we want. And that is a feature, not a bug, of our politicians here in the cartel of Washington, D .C. Russ, you're doing a wonderful job. Center for Renewing America. We're going to have you back on. September 30th is the big day. I think we're going to swing and miss. But honestly, I'd rather have us strike out with no deal than one that betrays our voters. Russ, thank you so much. You bet. Thanks, Charlie.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Fresh update on "bishop" discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Now, Congressman Joyce, I really would be interested. What are the mechanics here? Speaker McCarthy, otherwise known as Saint Kevin, has got to do this again. And Matt Gaetz, with whom if you're going to play four dimensional chess with Matt, you better be a pretty big chair because he's right ahead of me on this, because I don't get any of the politics of this or the policy. But assume that he shuts down the government and brings a motion to vacate before he does. How does the speaker survive that? Because you're going to lose four Republicans or five Republicans. Potentially, but I think at this point, he's done such a good job in the 10 years I've been here. Never once have we had a speaker who's been willing to work with everyone. He listens to them more than anyone should. Just last night, I had dinner with Boehner and he was talking about it. He said, Kevin's way too nice to the terrorist. You know, it's true. But he's been trying to make this something that's member driven and the members keep wanting to stick it to him. And, you know, we talk about Ukraine and you talk about funding the military. But also, I just don't get it. I am the Homeland Appropriations chair, but we have a reason for that. And they don't want to fund that all the language you and Ken, you and Ken Calvert, Ken runs defense approach, you run Homeland Security approach. You're normal conservative Republicans and you believe in funding the border in the military. It's kind of old fashioned to go back to Ike to fund the border in the military. I do not get how Gates, Maryland, Matt Rosendale and Dan Bishop is never going to be elected North Carolina senator or attorney general. And Ralph Norman thinks he's going to run against Lindsey Graham in South Carolina by shutting down the military. Have you talked to them? I mean, do they actually have a plan? Well, they haven't made me party to their plan. I have talked to them because I'm trying to get my bill passed. And, you know, when they talk about all this woke and broke and in the D.I. and all that, I walk them through that. Look, you know, I don't we operate in numbers. We're trying to fund departments. And everything you don't like. We took all the money out for the we took all the money out for moving people around the country, illegal aliens. Everything that they dislike, we took out and then they start to go into the policies. And I said, well, you know, maybe I miss your class of sixth grade civics, but we're not in control. We still have to go through the Senate. And the president still has to sign these things. So, you know, let's take what we can get in this point. Show the American people that this is our plan. Should we take back the Senate and the presidency? And beyond with it. But when you have all these people, you hit it right on the head. You have all these people running for office in the back of Kevin McCarthy. It's just not fair. Well, you had dinner last night with John Boehner. So I am I'm going to compliment you on not saying we only have one half of one third of the government, which I believe is trademarked John Boehner and the Dean Martin caucus, because he used to say that so much. We only have one half of one third of the government, but we only have one half of one third of the government. So what? You know, we're not going to leave the government shutdown.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Rep. French Hill and Sen. Tom Cotton on opposing the shutdown
"Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt, another gold bump in honor of Senator Goldbars Menendez. I'm joined by Representative French Hill from Arkansas. Representative Hill is one of the smart guys because he's on the Intel Committee. That's handpicked and the Republicans are always serious about that. He's also on foreign affairs and financial services. Our old friend John Campbell used to serve on financial services. That's one of the smart committees. So Representative Hill, welcome back. Good to have you. But you are a Vanderbilt grad, so we're not going to talk about football. Seriously, you lost to Wake Forest and the University of Las Vegas. Does that, how does that go down with the Commodore Nation? Well, it's we're always waiting for golf season. Congressman, the House is going to come up with a solution or the government's going to shut down. What's it going to be? Look, Hugh, if we want to be strong, if we want to lock in the wins that we got in the debt ceiling negotiation, when we put forward a plan that actually cut spending year over year, change the regulatory focus, encourage more people back into the workforce, we need to pass these 11 remaining appropriations bills. And that was not gotten to over the summer, even though now think about this, Hugh, even though each of those bills is written at a spending level below the debt ceiling deal and each one locks in conservative policies. It's really so frustrating to me that those have been delayed from coming to the House floor, including twice over the last week by a handful of members when they're missing this big picture. Lock in the wins, cut spending, reduce regulations, get more people back in the workforce, get the spotlight back on Joe Biden's failures and off of the House. Congressman Hill, I don't expect you to speak ill of a colleague, but I can. Congressman Gates wants to be governor of Florida. Congressman Maryland native Matt Rosendale wants to be senator from Montana. Ralph Norman, Congressman Ralph Norman wants to be senator from South Carolina. Going to run against Lindsey Graham. And Congressman Dan Bishop wants to be the attorney general of North Carolina. So I understand self -interest. Those guys have no interest in governing. But do they really want to bring down the Republican majority? Because they're going to get crushed if they do this. Right. But by this kind of of tactic, you're going to end up with a Biden Schumer clean debt ceiling deal and with spending levels, certainly at the Biden McCarthy level, but weaker policy, weaker policies. Because in order to be the strongest negotiator, get the most conservative win, we need to pass the appropriations bills. That's why McCarthy's plan this week of trying to get the rest of the bills across the floor, at least 70 percent of discretionary spending, plus plus a four week short term stopgap spending measure measure that cut spending, repeat cut spending for that one month and put border in the spotlight by putting H .R. two on. There is no conservative that should vote no on that. And this is just arguing against ourselves. It's a huge mistake. Now, Congressman Hill, I call him now St. Kevin. I've known the speaker for a long time, and now I'm going to have him nominated to be considered for sainthood because that is a difficult caucus to deal with. When you've got four members who are leading the Nuckelhead caucus and my buddy Ken Buck wants a CNN contract, there really isn't any appeal to their self -interest. How do you move them? I mean, are you going to have to use Democrat votes? And can and can Speaker McCarthy remain speaker if he uses Democrat votes? Well, I think that's what we have to try every single day to put a bill on the floor and find out that, as you say, this small group is the tyranny of the tiny, as I describe it, is violating the majority of the majority because they're going to hurt the conservative cause. They'll cause us to lose the House. And that's certainly not in the interest of the conservative cause when we're on the cusp, potentially of beating Biden in the presidential election and winning the Senate back. It's ridiculous. You know, if former President Trump gets reelected and the House switches to Democrats, they will impeach him in the first week. Do these allegedly Trump supporting congressmen. And it's Norman. It's Maryland native Matt Rosendale is running for Senate in Montana. It's Ralph Norman and it's Matt. Have they heard from the former president that he wants to be impeached again because they sure are acting like they want him impeached again? Well, look, they don't even they spend what he says now. President Trump last week said use the power of the purse to get control of Joe Biden's two trillion dollars of extra spending. I agree. That's what the debt ceiling does. And that's what these spending bills do. And that's why we have to get them across the House floor. He did not say he Trump did not say shut the government down and act like knuckleheads. He said, use the power of the purse to get the most conservative deal. Get this country back on track. I agree. That's what we could do if we had those four people assist us get these bills across the floor this week. Well, I just their their incentives are to get ink. And I mean, their incentives are not the incentives to govern. And I don't know how hot it gets in the caucus. Can you tell us that our members of the caucus about had it with these guys? There's nothing you can do because they're running for statewide office. But if they had it and expressed it. Well, I think they have had it and expressed it in blunt terms, including calling them out that if you vote against the rule on the House floor, you're working with the minority party. You're working with Democrats when you do that. That is not acting as a member of the majority. And I think you're seeing the country respond to look at Moody's comments yesterday, look at the VIX up to day three percent. Look at the 10 year Treasury rate up over four point five percent. This is going in the wrong direction when we should be taking a win right now of cutting spending 24 over 23, getting better rules and regulations in place, countering Joe Biden's bad policies. And as I say, encouraging more people back to work through our welfare reforms. These are classic conservative Republican wins. And we're squandering the opportunity. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is kind of a Republican specialty in the House. So let's let's focus on that for a moment. When do you get a test vote today or tomorrow on whether or not the four will move or they will stay for? They've got more than four right now, but you've got serious people like Chip Roy are not playing these games. Will the Freedom Caucus bring whatever persuasive influence they have to bear on them? Well, we're going to bring a rule. The rules committee met Friday and all day Saturday, so we'll be bringing a rule up either tonight or early in the morning. That will be the first test case to see if we can move these spending bills, which includes state and foreign operations spending, which is at one point seven billion below twenty nineteen levels.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Fresh update on "bishop" discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Right. Well, look, I mean, it comes down to a philosophical difference from where Biden is with where the other candidates are. I mean, Biden in his own economic report of the president earlier this year said that the root of all wealth creation in America is the government. And what the private sector can do is help the government redistribute that wealth once it's already been created. So that's the position of the current president of the United States. And so if your philosophical leaning is such that the government creates the wealth, then of course you need a bunch of employees at the federal government to help you create said wealth. But you're exactly right. I mean, a positive opportunistic economic message that I think the American people would respond to is one that trusts the American public, that believes in our creativity and the successes that we've had in the past and knows that we can have even greater successes in the future. And that's just not where the current president is, but it seems to be where some of the candidates are moving. Americans for Prosperity is a sponsor of our show. So I know this stuff cold, but they believe and I want people who want to be involved in good economics to go to Americansforprosperity.org. Paul, I've got a degree of difficulty question for you. Could a candidate put into the one minute they are allocated an explanation of why private investment is preferable to public investment? For example, the CHIPS Act widely supported because it's a lot of money to sprinkle over the United States, but it is not preferable in my book to private investment locating semiconductor manufacturing in the United States for all the reasons that it might normally go there. How do you put that into one minute? Because that's all they get one minute public versus private investment. So I would say two things. The first thing is that when people put up their private dollars rather than public dollars, they provide oversight over those funds and make sure that they're actually going to their highest use. So we're going to get more growth out of those kinds of opportunities. The second thing that I would point out is that when you've been running debt at the levels that we've been running debt and the labor market has essentially no slack, it has completely recovered since the beginning of the pandemic. That means that every dollar that Joe Biden is spending on manufacturing construction is taking away another dollar from elsewhere in the economy. And that's why you see private fixed investment actually falling since the enactment of the Build Back Better bill at the beginning of 2021. You also get one minute to tell people how they, any presidential candidate, could actually control inflation. I'm a monetarist. I don't think fiscal policy has anything to do with inflation except that it does raise debt. But what do you think? And what would a candidate say? Well, I'm with you, Hugh. I'm also a monetarist. And I think that the Federal Reserve is central to this question and the independent Fed is central to this question. And so ultimately, I think that one of the things that the president can and should do at the beginning is take a hard look at what the Fed has done. And honestly, it was too slow to act. It was too moderate at the beginning of their tightening. And I would pull Jerome Powell aside and say, look, we need a leadership change at the Fed. You can stay on the Fed. You've been appointed for a fixed term, but we need a leadership change over there. And I put somebody else in there who understood the issues and could get it back under control. That said, I think that there's also a lot that can be done to lessen the pressure that's put on the Fed. And that starts with restraining spending. You've got to get spending under control. And you've got to go all the way back to the major mandatory programs. I hate to say it, but Medicare, Medicaid are big, big issues. Paul, count me as fainting if anyone brings up entitlements on this stage tonight. I will faint if anyone says, let's cut the entitlements. I will just say, oh, my God, what happened? Paul Winfrey, Center for Economic Innovation. Thank you, my friends. Americansforprosperity.org. Go and join it. Become part of the movement to restore free market principles in America's government and its electoral process and among its media. Americansforprosperity.org. I'll be right back, America. Stay tuned to The Hugh Hewitt Show. Thank you, Paul Winfrey. Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. Olivia Beavers is with Politico. Good morning, Olivia. How are you? I'm good, Hugh. How are you? I'm great. Now, we have got a thing, references that should not be made during a presidential debate quiz for you. I just want to know if you are literate in things that ought not to be brought up, but might be brought up by Stuart Verney tonight. Number one, do you know what Cracker Jacks are? Yes. OK, that's a good snack. Baseball. OK. Do you know what good and plenty is? No. So, you're not going to be able to sing the good and plenty jingle. Have you ever heard of Lost in Space? You know what? I actually had heard you mention it earlier on the show, and I meant to Google it, because I swear you set out to stump me with at least one question every interview, and I was not – I couldn't even remember what the name was before I went to go Google it. So, you're not going to remember Dr. Smith. And then, finally, do you know what a close talker is? It's a Seinfeld reference. You ought to know this. Well, I feel like – isn't that the person who gets way too close to your face when you're trying to get some distance and they lean in? Yeah, that is my favorite episode of Seinfeld ever, but what I'm referring to, Olivia, is that tonight's debate, the directors are always telling the moderators, do not make references to things that people under the age of 25 or 30 will not remember. And these are – you've got one out of four, Cracker Jacks. Harley, our guamian at the controls, did not know what Cracker Jacks are. Here's a quick question for you. As you mentioned, Adele and Taylor Swift earlier on the show, who sang Love Story? Oh, dear. If I had a producer, they would whisper that in my ear. I'm stumped. Who did sing Love Story? Taylor Swift. Oh, really? Wait, Love Story was a movie when I was in high school. That can't possibly be true. Just stop. Just stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. I love that movie. Oh, no. It's an intervention. Dwayne was trying to do an intervention. Olivia, you covered Congress. I have to ask you about the Seinfeld shutdown. Now, the Seinfeld show was a comedy show about nothing. I think this is a shutdown about nothing except the electoral ambitions of the knucklehead caucus, Matt Gaetz, Marilyn Matt Rosendale, Dan Bishop, and Ralph Norman, who are all running statewide. What is this shutdown going to be about? It's going to be really kind of watching how Speaker McCurdy decides to navigate this. You know that the Senate CR was put forward, it includes Ukraine's funding, it includes the cuts that the House wanted. The House is not going to pass it. Republicans have already said it's dead on arrival, it won't be brought to the floor. McCarthy's in a really tough spot because he was able to pass at least a rule for four appropriations bills, but we don't even know if those are going to pass this week. Conversations with Republicans suggest it's going to be even close. And then he has enough Republicans, or at least he has in the past, saying that they won't pass a short-term spending bill. So we're going to be entering a government shutdown. From there, his hand gets a lot weaker. You're starting to have the government respond, you start hearing stories floating out, the President starts putting their hand in it of people who can't have their weddings in parks, and veterans who are not getting certain pay, and military service with delayed payments. And so it's going to be a really tough political landscape, and there are some people in that caucus, as you call it, who would be interested to see him swarm, and to see him in a politically vulnerable position. And as we mentioned on your show before, some of them are also seeking higher office, so it works for them to go against the Speaker. There are four members of the Knucklehead caucus, and then some affiliated members. And Matt Rosendale, Marilyn Matt, Matt Gaetz, Dan Bishop, and Ralph Norman all are seeking statewide office. Does anybody not know this in the press, that that's why they're doing this? Does anyone ever report it? We have a whole story, and I actually almost flagged it for you last week, and you know, ambitions play an important role. I will say, and when we ask some of the people that you've named about their position now, they say Kevin McCarthy should have canceled August recess. Now, do some of them really believe all of August recess? I think they had vacations planned, but they think that he should have been working to pass the appropriations bills throughout that time, and they think that they lost a lot of precious time for that, and now they feel like they're getting jammed. The time travel Republicans are always amusing to me, Olivia. They're just nonsense. Now I've got to ask you one more question before we run out of time, because the time travel Republicans overlap in a Venn diagram with the Knucklehead caucus. Do you have any idea how much a gold bar weighs? No, but I imagine it's sort of like a brick. If I took it and hit someone, it would really hurt. 27 pounds. So I am curious, if Senator Menendez picked up his gold bars in Egypt, as is speculated, how did he get them through customs? Has anyone asked him that yesterday? You know? I do not know, but actually I have an idea, because when you do codels, I don't know if he did a codel there, but you fly military air, and you don't have to go through customs, so members of Congress are known to sort of put in the bottom of the train, or the plane, rugs, wherever they go, if they're, you know, turkey, or different types of furniture, and you don't have to go through the standard process of getting it. Oh, you've got to run with that line. I'm wondering where the gold bars came from, and if they came from Egypt, he might have been given them in New Jersey, but he was very upset on yesterday's press corps asking him why he won't resign, but Olivia Beavers, we'll be talking to you, we'll be watching for your analysis of tonight's debate, thank you for joining me, good and plenty, go look it up, and lost in space. Get current, Olivia, get current, I'll be right back, America, hour number three, coming up. When the government used emergency edicts during COVID to restrict the gathering and events, and their own churches being ripped apart, took a courageous stand and reopened their doors in the face of a world that chose to comply. The Essential Church is a feature length documentary that explores the struggle between the church and government throughout history. This fascinating story uncovers those who've sacrificed their lives throughout history for what they truly believe in. We discover why the church is essential, and how we prove that this stand remains true from a scientific, legal, and most importantly, biblical perspective. This is not your typical movie, it'll change your life. You need to see this movie with your friends and family. The Essential Church is streaming today exclusively at salemnow.com. That's Essential Church, streaming at salemnow.com. Good morning America, Bonjour, hi Canada, Hugh Hewitt back inside the Beltway. The debate is tonight, Salem News Channel will be hosting coverage of it beginning at the West, and then after the debate at 11 p.m. in the East and 8 p.m. in the West, the Salem News Channel will be carrying all sorts of analysis of what is coming and what just happened. Jim Darity will also be, I'm sure, pounding out a morning jolt about what happens tonight. But Jim, I have much more pressing things to discuss with you. The debate moderator quiz, are you ready for it? Sure. All right. Do you know what good and plenty are? Yeah, they're a rather old-fashioned candy that they used to have in movie theaters. Sometimes you get it for Halloween. Really haven't seen it as much since, really since they told us not to go trick-or-treating in the 80s because there were going to be razor blades in our apples and stuff, which by the way turned out to be a good thing. I don't even think theaters carry them. Can you sing the good and plenty jingle as Dr. Michael Oren, former ambassador of Israel to the United States, did this morning in hour one? No. Anything written on parchment generally precludes me of you. Third entry in the moderators must not bring up things, do you have any reference to Lost in Space? Danger, Will Robinson. Danger. That's usually my reaction to whenever a debate moderator tries to make a cool hip moderate reference. I know. They tell you before you go on, please don't make Seinfeld jokes. That's on fleek, let me tell you. In fact, look, you're going to look sus. Well, I began the show this morning by calling Matt Gaetz the Dr. McCoy from Lost in Space of the House GOP caucus, and then I was quickly correct that it was Dr. Smith on Lost in Space, and Michael Oren correctly remembered him as being the incompetent villain, the rather humorous villain, and Matt Gaetz is the Dr. Smith of the GOP caucus. This is the Seinfeld shutdown because it's about nothing except the electoral ambitions of four Republicans, Matt Gaetz running for governor in Florida, Ralph Norman running against Lindsey Graham for Senate in South Carolina, Marilyn Matt Rosendale, who wants to be senator in Montana, but they don't like carpetbaggers, and then Dan Bishop, about whom you've never heard, but he wants to be the attorney general of North Carolina. What do you think of their electoral strategy, Jim Garrity, of shutting down the government in order to draw attention to their fact that they are doing so? Oh, it's terrible, terrible for the GOP, terrible for the country. I'm not, I mean, it'll help them in their primaries. I don't think it will necessarily help them in statewide races. Florida and North Carolina and places like that are fairly right of center, but I also think the electorate as a whole, like looking at 2022, they were not in love with these Trumpy, you know, anger for the sake of anger, table pounding, you know, theatrical circus types. Look, if you could point to something, we're going to get X out of this, border security funding or something like that, then at least maybe you could justify it. But right now, these five guys or these five lawmakers are basically saying, no, we're not going to let you House Republicans pass something so that at least McCarthy has leverage in the next round about raising the debt ceiling or the government shutdown and funding the government. It's the same thing as a debt ceiling fight, but it's very same dynamics in which if you want Republicans to get things, they have to have a unified front. If they don't, their Democrats and Biden just sit back and say, hey, we'll sign whatever you send our way, pal. You got to, you know, get yourself your own act together first. It's going to go bad. Oh, by the way, Hugh, what's going on here in my home state of Virginia right now? Oh, for Virginia's elections, for which I returned to the Beltway to vote specifically early. But these four, because Ken Buck changed his mind and said, this isn't going to help me get a CNN contract. We're down to the four members of the knucklehead caucus. They don't care about Virginia getting a Republican majority. They're destroying it. Yeah, I look, you know, will there be other factors at work? Sure. But look, it's Virginia. You have a lot of government workers. Even if you're your reflexive instinct is government workers. I hate these guys. Look, there's a lot of civilian DOD, there's a lot of DHS. There's a lot of people who are perfectly good and potentially open to voting for Republicans in the right circumstances, voters, particularly, you know, where I'm living right now in Fairfax County. McDonald won the county very narrowly. And if you're a Republican, you want to keep those margins narrow. Now, is it going to be is this going to be absolutely determined the state legislative races? I don't think so. But if the drumbeat is you're not getting paid because of these dumb Republicans, because they can't get their act together and get 218 votes to pass anything in the House, that's not going to make people in a good mood about Republicans when they go to the polls in November. And that is exactly what is going to happen. They cannot get there. They actually have their act together. These four are running for statewide. They're looking for clicks and donations. So they do not care about the party. We have like if you if you could point to something you knew you're going to get, there would be like also if this were happening six months earlier, six months later, this would not be an issue. They've managed to time it for the absolute worst time for the interests of, you know, all Republicans in Virginia who like would really like to have control of the statewide government so that Glenn Young can could actually, you know, get even more stuff done. I also get back to my look, I don't think Youngkin is running for president. I think it would be getting too late. I don't buy this idea that everybody would suddenly unify behind him. But look, this this is not helping. And if Republicans have a lousy, you know, state legislative elections, it's not going to help any calls for, you know, Youngkin being this political. Now, I really do, I'm open to being persuaded that it is good for a congressman from Florida, Matt Gaetz, South Carolina, Ralph Norman, North Carolina, Dan Bishop or Maryland, Montana, Rosendale to shut down the government until I look at the number of military families in those four states where they make up a significant percentage of the statewide electorate. And these four guys have written their name in blood on the shutdown. And the military ones through E4s don't get any money during this period of time. Jim, does that make any sense? Can they possibly make up in donations and small dollar attention what they're going to lose in branding? Because everybody in those states are going to know these four guys shut down the government and screwed up. I'm skeptical. And the other thing is, is that like, look, if maybe, you know, you help yourself among some segment of the, we want a fighter, you know, Republican primary voter, the offsetting damage to the rest of the country and, you know, soccer moms, the suburbanites, the white collar professionals who just want the government to do its job. And whenever there's a government shutdown, the people involved, like, there's no way to win a government shutdown fight. Everybody's numbers go down. Like, could this do some damage to Biden? Yeah, conceivably. I also would point out, though, that, look, I just yesterday's morning, Jill, it was all about how the outlook for the economy for the coming year is not great. High interest rates are really starting to have their bite on anybody wants to buy a house, anybody who wants to buy a car. Right. Straight up comments from Zandi over it's straightforward. The average American cannot afford a new car. The average American cannot afford to buy a new house. Right. This is a really bad economic outlook. If you're Joe Biden and you're turning 81 and people already don't feel good about the economy you're doing, if you have a government shutdown, you hand Joe Biden a scapegoat. Now, is the performance of the economy over the coming year going to be determined by the government shutdown? No, particularly if it's short. And I'd be really kind of shocked if, like, after a week or two, you didn't see other Republicans saying, fine, I'll vote with Democrats. Let's get the government reopened. This is stupid. We're not getting anything out of this, you know. But look, if you give Biden this, he'll say, oh, you know, if you're if you're having a hard time, remember, Republicans shut down the government and didn't say, you know, like, that's he's going to invoke it all the time. And if you get if you're getting something out of it, maybe it would be worth that risk. But I don't see him getting anything out of the Ted Cruz engineered shutdown. I always argued actually benefited Republicans, but he had a plan. These four do not have a plan and they're not it's the Seinfeld shutdown. It's about nothing. I want to fact check quickly before we go to break.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from Wake Me Up When September Ends with Rep. Dan Bishop and Alex Marlow
"Hey, feeling unsure about your finances these days? You're not alone. That's why Noble Gold Investments is here to help. Just hear it straight from the people who they've helped. The Noble crew walked me through everything with no stress. With their help, I could finally sleep easy at night. And now this month, Noble Gold Investments is handing out a free 5 -ounce silver America the Beautiful coin if you qualify for an IRA. Invest in gold and silver with Noble Gold Investments. Go to noblegoldinvestments .com right now. That is noblegoldinvestments .com right now. Hey, everybody. Today on The Charlie Kirk Show. Dan Bishop about the 930 funding fight. And then Alex Marlowe about the border and the approval of Joe Biden. Email us as always freedom at charliekirk .com. Subscribe to our podcast. Open up your podcast app and type in charliekirkshow. Get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Start a high school or college chapter today at tpusa .com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job. Building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created. Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives. And we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Fresh update on "bishop" discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Now I ask you, who among us has not gotten a quarter of a million dollars from Beijing sent to their house randomly? That could happen to anybody. And I am not going to join the mob accusing the president of complicity in Hunter Biden's nefarious schemes to get money sent to the family firm via Delaware simply because a quarter million dollars showed up from Beijing at the Biden family house. I'm not going to join that line. Not going to do it wouldn't be prudent. My other favorite story of the morning. This is a revelation. New York judges do not have any awareness of or access to Zillow because yesterday a New York judge ruled that Donald Trump committed fraud because he overvalued his property. And apparently, judging by Eric Trump's ex post yesterday, the New York judge valued Mar-a-Lago at about 80 bucks. And apparently it's worth more than that. Now, who among us have not Zillowed a property that you drove by when you saw it for sale? Who among us have not Zillowed a property that that we thought that would be a nice place to live? I wonder what it cost. Zillow has brought the multiple listing service to you. And and so apparently New York judges do not have access to Zillow because the idea that a real estate developer inflated their value. First of all, I work. I know real estate developers. I worked for a real estate developer. Real estate developers are my friend. I hope Leonard Frank is listening right now. Leonard is retired from Pardee, which was my largest and biggest client for a quarter century. And but I mean the Baldwin brothers and Sun Cal and Lusk and you name it. I represented him on Endangered Species Wetlands and CEQA NEPA issues. And I have never met in 25 years of legal practice, a developer who undervalued their properties. Never. It does not happen. But the judge in New York, because it's New York and by the way, this this helps Trump. This helps Trump as much as the story is Trump say he might want to buy a Glock as a felony. That story as well. At some point, you just laugh and you think, I hate the media so much, even if I don't like Donald Trump, I'm talking to you people out there who don't like Donald Trump. At some point, you know, you're going to vote for him because you want to see their heads explode on Election Night 2024. You know that. Now, the former president is not attending the debate tonight. And did I mention it will be on the Salem News Channel at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific for an hour pregame. And then there will be on the Salem News Channel at 11 p.m. Eastern, 8 p.m. Pacific for an hour postgame. So make sure you turn in the Salem News Channel if you are near a computer. The real news yesterday is that the Senate unveiled a bipartisan funding deal to avert the government shutdown. Now, it will take forever to pass because Rand Paul, Rand Paul is not an knucklehead. Rand Paul is a principled man. I just came home to finding he got a book that weighs about 50 pounds on the COVID cover up. And I love Senator Paul. I am not going to read that book. I'm not. I did the Washington read. I'm not in the index, so I don't have to worry about it. But I know what they did. I talked to Fauci and Dr. Collins, and I know they lied to me on this program. So I don't really need to read that book. But I mean, it is a desk stop there. It is a paperweight. It is a door jamb of a book. So he's not going to vote for this deal. So it's going to take three or four days to get out of the Senate. It's not going to arrive in time. And even then, it's going to go to the House. And the Knucklehead caucus has already met. They had a meeting yesterday chaired by Matt Gaetz, who wants to be governor of Florida. I think that's the funniest part. The four part members of the Knucklehead caucus are blowing up their statewide campaign. Matt Gaetz wants to run for Florida governor. And I understand there is five percent of Florida that just thinks he's great. But you shut down the government, you stop paying the military, and that's what's going to happen on Saturday. Those people are never going to vote for you, Matt, because they don't really have a lot of money like you do. They're going to remember that you made him scramble for two weeks to find money. Ralph Norman, part of the Knucklehead caucus, wants to be the senator from South Carolina. Lindsey Graham's going to be the senator for life, right? Now, we can never get Lindsey up early enough to talk to me about this, but I just think it's hilarious. Ralph Norman thinks he's going to beat Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. Marilyn Matt Rosendale, who moved to Montana after he developed all the property he could develop in Maryland and made his millions, went to high school, started college in Maryland, stopped, made money in Maryland because Marylanders are not very good at buying and selling things. And so Matt was able to make some money off of the marks in Maryland. And then Marilyn Matt Rosendale moved to Montana and got elected to the House before anyone realized he was a carpetbagger. He's not going to be the senator. And Dan Bishop, you've never heard of Dan Bishop. And this is the last time you're ever going to hear of Dan Bishop. Those four guys are going to bring the government to a halt because they want to run for statewide office. Just so you understand. It's not principle. They've got no principles. They're running for statewide office and they need some attention and small-dollar donors. So I don't know what Speaker McCarthy is going to do. Saint Kevin is going to have to come up with something. But the Senate passed a bipartisan continuing resolution or they agreed on it. They have not passed it. When we come back, an El Nino story, which I love, I love El Nino stories, I've got one of those. And then the Wall Street Journal has my favorite story of the day, the right amount of cash to keep at home for emergencies. Hint, not $480,000.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from John Amanchukwu (Encore)
"Welcome to the Eric Metaxas Show. We'll get you from point A to point B. But if you're looking for point C, well, buddy, you're on your own. But if you wait right here, in just about two minutes, the bus to point C will be coming right by. And now, here's your Ralph Kramden of the Airways, Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the show. We have a guest on who, man, I don't even know how to start. First of all, I'll try to pronounce his name correctly. John Amanchukwu. I got John correct. I think I got Amanchukwu correct. John Amanchukwu is someone I've come to admire tremendously. He's in North Carolina. He is he's been a pastor for years. He is a brave voice in the midst of the madness, one of the bravest voices. And it's my privilege to have him as my guest for this hour. John, welcome. Hey, thank you so much, Dr. Eric, for having me on your show. You can't call me Dr. Eric because I'm not a doctor, but you can call me whatever you want. Could you call me the Commodore or Admiral? I'd prefer I really prefer that. But no, seriously, you you have been such a brave voice and people have seen you, you know, probably on Instagram reels or whatever. Tell my audience, because this is it's always better when my guest tells the story. But you've been a brave voice speaking out against the. What would be a nice term for it, satanic lunacy of. Profoundly sexual material being given to children in our schools, very tough for most of us to believe that this is happening, but it has been happening. You've been exposing it and you've been bravely speaking against it. So let's just start, John, with how did you get involved in this? At what point did you say I'm going to step up and start confronting these crazy abusers? Because that's what they are, abusers of our children. How did that start for you? Well, I've been involved in this kind of work for the past 20 years. I joined a church in college called Upper Room Church for God in Christ. I joined at the age of 19. And the senior pastor is Bishop Patrick Langwood and senior. And he says that our church is a cause driven church. You know, we believe that there is a cause in Christ. There's a cause in the marketplace for us to bring our biblical world view to it, to engage the culture and to fight against evil and wickedness. Isaiah 520 says, woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness. And so we've just been on the front lines on the abortion clinic issue, fighting against fatherlessness and the black community. And now even with this indoctrination in the public school system, now, some people call it indoctrination and some people call it grooming. But I like to call it mental rape. That's the best way for me to define what has taken place in the public school system. I call it mental rape because it assaults the soul. It stains the brain and it robs children of their innocence. When you put pornographic material in a library and make it accessible for kids, K through 12, a child is going to pick that book up. And I went out to Asheville and spoke about a book entitled It's Perfectly Normal. That book is for kids 10 and up. It's hardcore porn. It's not soft porn. It's hardcore porn. That book gives Hugh Hefner a run for his money. When you open the book, it depicts images of heterosexual sex and homosexual sex. Why do 10 year olds need to see and learn how you should have lesbian sex at the age of 10? That's disgusting. That's evil. It's mental rape. There's an assault taking place upon children, and there's a critical point that's being left out of the equation. And that's the church. The church is not engaging. We need some modern day Karl Barth. We need some modern day Martin Niemol. We need some people who are willing to engage the culture and tell the church, listen, we are not supposed to be co -opted by the state. The state is not supposed to run the church. And when we go into a public school, we have this thing called parental choice. Some call it rights, but I call it parental choice. I call it parental choice because our rights come from God as parents. But choice parents have had the choice and the knowledge of being able to assess and know what's going on in the public school system and to have the freedom and the liberty to push back when there is an assault upon their children. Well, listen, everything you say, I mean, I agree with it violently. I am in churches effectively preaching what you just said in a little different way. But what basically this is called, what you are advocating for is called the technical term is Christianity. This is called Christian faith. If you do not do what what you're describing, if you're not pushing back, if you're not being salt and light in the culture, if you're not being a warrior for truth and speaking against evil, then you are not living out your Christian faith. But there are many, many churches and you and I know about that that do not do this. They don't get involved in this. They say we don't want to be divisive. These are the same people that would say, you know, we don't care if there's slavery happening, as long as it's not happening in my church. That's right. It's complete hypocrisy. And as Christians, we are called to step up. And I keep saying that the Lord has allowed it to get this bad to wake up those who are still sleeping, because what you just described is very tough for me and most people, even to hear that children would be exposed to this absolutely evil stuff. What do you call it if you don't call it evil? This is evil for children to be exposed to these kinds of things. And it's shameful that they're just a handful of brave souls like you speaking against it.
Leading Saints Podcast
Fresh update on "bishop" discussed on Leading Saints Podcast
"So I think those are probably two of the most contrasting experiences that I've had, both really fulfilling and really rewarding, but also very different stages of my life. I was in a different stage and it was very different kind of context for being a YSA. We would like to hear more about that experience that you've had with those callings that you currently have. So yes, right now I am serving on the Stake Relief Society Advisory Council, which is basically a group of members of the Relief Society who serve sort of with or under the Stake Relief Society presidency. We support them and their callings, help to minister to the Relief Society members, the Relief Society sisters that are in the Stake. And this could be anything from, I'll receive a text from the Stake Relief Society president saying, hey, can you visit this person? If you can, stop by, bring her something, bring her a treat, tell her, just visit with her for a little while. And usually I don't really have a context for why, but it could be anything serving on the Council can be anything from that to planning Stake Relief Society conferences or activities. And it's also a really wonderful way to build really good friendships that I would otherwise not have the opportunity to build. So my experience, I've been really blessed, similar to what Tamsa was saying, to learn from some great leaders throughout my life. Even going back to young men's and young men's advisors, I've had an opportunity to serve as an executive secretary, to a bishop in a YSA ward, as a clerk in a Stake presidency. So I've been really blessed to learn from some great leaders. And I think one thing that adult leaders, whether it be bishops or Stake presidents, they have such a tremendous impact on us as YSAs. And whether they know it or not, we watch them and we pick up a lot from them. And I think the opportunity to serve with them and just be around them is a really valuable opportunity for us. I was, prior to serving as second counselor to the bishopric, I was serving as an elders quorum president and we had the high counselor that was assigned to our ward and assigned to kind of work with me and help train me and help me learn, offered to go on visits with our presidency every Wednesday night. So every Wednesday night we would set up the visits. One of the members of our presidency would go with him and then the other two counselors would go together and we would normally visit two or three homes of members of our ward. And if I'm being honest at first, going out on a Wednesday night after a long day of work maybe wasn't something that we were looking forward to, but it was such a valuable experience not only to get to know members of our ward, better understand their needs, but just to spend time with this great priesthood leader that has so much experience, has served in so many different capacities. And I think as well, it really built trust. We were able to build trust with him and he's really been a mentor to all of us that were in that presidency. And I just think those opportunities that leaders should take to really reach out and to take YSA under their wings, not only do they have benefits in the immediate and helping that ward function and administer and bless people's lives, but those are experiences that I'll never forget and hopefully maybe one day I could have an opportunity to serve YSA or someone else in that capacity as well. What I'm hearing here is you both are in these leadership capacities, but there's also a strong mentorship culture. It's not just like, hey, we're going to throw you into the deep end and hope you figure it out, right? I don't think that would go over very well. That's crucial. And I think that part of that mentorship also is not, they are not these mentors in my experience are not there organizing everything and setting everything up for success. They're there giving pointers and showing by example, but giving a lot of responsibility and autonomy to the YSA that they're serving with. And I think that is also crucial. Mentor leaders for the YSA understand that we are, well, I just understand that we can take on responsibility and we can be successful with it. I think not to be negative, but I have experienced some times in the YSA where there's just kind of a general attitude that YSA are not as capable or not fully adults because we are not married.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from St. Padre Pio and the Healing of the Church Building a Kingdom of Love w/ Msgr. John Esseff podcast
"Monsignor Essif encountered Saint Padre Pio, who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world, serving in the Pontifical Missions, a Catholic organization established by Pope Saint John Paul II, to bring the good news to the world, especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops, priests and sisters, seminarians and other religious leaders. Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Good morning. Good morning, Monsignor. How are you today? Very good. Very good. Thank you. The Feast of Saint Padre Pio. What a great feast, huh? I can't even imagine what it must be like for you to have known those individuals who have been lifted up and are now saints. Does that make you a second -class relic? I feel very privileged to have known them, to have met them, to have been accompanied by them. And I believe all of us have various saints that we're just really looking forward to, to spending time with for eternity. And what would a visit be like with your favorite saints? Hagiography, which is the study of the saints, I really think needs a review, because so often we think that we almost make them unreal. Saint Pio suffered terribly in many, many ways. Yes, he is honored and praised now, but he was rejected, just like Jesus. What was his stigmata a sign of? The suffering of Jesus Christ. When I heard of him, I was very drawn to go to see him. And when I went to see him, the time that I saw him, he was banished to the furthest monastery that the Franciscan had. There he was, way off. Petriosina is not the center of the world. It's the furthest monastery they had. It's way up in the hills on the Adriatic side of Italy. Not the center, certainly, of Franciscan life. And I think they were trying to hide him, because why? Because the bishop suspected that his, and I didn't know this at the time, that his wounds were self -inflicted, that he was self -inducing the wounds. And his bishop was convinced that he had to be silenced, and he did. He was unable to preach. What kind of psychological, emotional, as well as physical pain does a priest have when he's been banished to a far remote place, silenced, unable to preach? The only thing he could do was hear confessions. And what a magnificent, he did, completely obedient. What example does he really give us when Jesus was lied about, when he was subjected to all kinds of examination and tests? Even the place that they sent him to said that they weren't sure that his wounds were not self -imposed.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
SPECIAL REPORT: SBF TRIAL 09/22 Update
"Welcome to the SBF trial, a Coindesk podcast network newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman -Fried will try to stay out of prison. Follow the Coindesk podcast network to get the audio each morning with content from the Coindesk regulation team and voiced by Wondercraft AI. Yesterday was arguably not a great day for Sam Bankman -Fried. First, the judge overseeing his case rejected all seven of his proposed expert witnesses, questioning at least one's qualifications and saying some others really wouldn't be relevant to the case. Shortly after the Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Bankman -Fried's appeal of Judge Lewis Kaplan's ruling to revoke his release on bail. These are both mostly procedural losses. I don't think the appeal denial is a surprise to anyone. Judge Kaplan even joked about his record on appeals in the August 11th hearing where he remanded Bankman -Fried into custody, and indeed the three -judge panel wrote that they discerned no error, much less clear error, in the district court's detention decision. What this means is Bankman -Fried will remain behind bars as his trial begins. Judge Kaplan's ruling is a lot more interesting. On the face of it, yes, he granted the Department of Justice's motion to bar all of the defense's proposed expert witnesses from testifying. But this is more of a mixed bag. The defense can still try and call for the witnesses provided they fill out better disclosures at least three days before they're supposed to testify. The DOJ can still object to the witnesses as well. We already know the DOJ plans to call witnesses as soon as the week of October 3rd, and while we haven't seen a full or final list of witnesses, we do now have some greater clarity about who we can expect to testify over the course of the trial. Gary Wang, Caroline Ellison, an FBI agent, and Peter Easton, a University of Notre Dame professor who will apparently explain FTX's financials, for starters. If the defense successfully calls them up, we may also hear from Thomas Bishop to rebut what Easton says, Brian Kim who may rebut the FBI agent's statements, and Joseph Pimbly to respond to a DOJ witness on FTX's software.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Why the House Can't Pass a Defense Bill With Rep. Bryan Steil
"Brian Stile is from Wisconsin's first congressional district. He chairs the House administration committee. Good morning, Representative. Good to have you on. Good morning. Thanks for having me. Well, I've tried with Mike Gallagher. I've tried with Juan Siscamani, and they're both being diplomatic about the knucklehead caucus within the GOP caucus. Five members refuse to vote for the defense appropriations rule. They are Dan Bishop, Ralph Norman, Matt Rosendale, Andy Biggs, and my old friend Ken Buck. I can't figure it out, except that I've read that Ken's gonna take a contract with CNN. So maybe he thinks this adds a couple of zeros to his number. What is wrong with these people, the defense appropriations rule? Well, at the end of the day, it looks like we're going to be able to get that across the line today. So maybe Republicans in the House of Representatives are a little bit like the United States and World War Two, we're gonna have to try all alternatives until we finally come to the table and assist. It sounds like we're going to be able to get this bill across the line today. That's a really positive thing for our Defense Department, but also our country. Hopefully, we're successful in that this afternoon. Roy, I can't believe Matt Rosendale is anti -military. Dan Bishop wants to be the Attorney General of North Carolina. I don't know what's going on with Andy Biggs, but do they understand what it means not to fund the DOD? In making sure we get these priorities right in the Department of Defense bill is absolutely essential. We're having a broader conversation about spending and what those levels need to be. I think that's appropriate in some sense, but we got to make sure that we're moving the appropriations forward. process And the Republican -drafted Department of Defense bill is an amazing step forward to make sure we're protecting the United States of America, funding the United States military, and putting forward conservative policies while doing that. And so hopefully later today, this does pass.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from POA5 Know your Commander and Comrades Put On The Armor A Manual for Spiritual Warfare w/Dr. Paul Thigpen Ph.D. Discerning Hears Catholic Podcasts
"Discerninghearts .com, in cooperation with TAN Books, presents Put on the Armor, A Manual for Spiritual Warfare, with Dr. Paul Thickepen. Dr. Thickepen is an internationally known speaker, bestselling author, and award -winning journalist who has published 43 books in a wide variety of genres and subjects, including The Rapture Trap, A Catholic Response to End Times Fever, and The Manual for Spiritual Warfare, the book on which this series is based. In 2008, Dr. Thickepen was appointed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to their National Advisory Council. He has served the Church as a theologian, historian, apologist, evangelist, and catechist in a number of settings, speaking frequently in Catholic and secular media broadcasts and at conferences, seminars, parish missions, and scholarly gatherings. Put on the Armor, A Manual for Spiritual Warfare, with Dr. Paul Thickepen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Paul, thank you again so much for joining me. Thanks for the invitation to be here, Chris. God bless you. Well, in our previous conversations, we've kind of delineated what the battle is and who the enemy and some of the different ways he and those evil spirits, essentially the diabolical spirits, can assail us. But in this particular series of conversations, we want to talk about the commanders and our comrades who are just incredible in why the victory has been won. And it's so important because it's the warfare can be intense. And you start thinking about the power that the devil has and his demons and those kinds of things. It could be easy to get terrified or intimidated. But the good news is that he's already been defeated and that our Lord, by his passion and death and resurrection, has already defeated him. And that's why St. Paul could say to the Corinthians, thanks be to God, who's given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. So that's so incredible. We would be lost without him. It would be terrible. You know, I think back to the days when my final days as an atheist and where I had begun to encounter demonic powers, but still didn't believe in God. And it shocked me out of my materialist position that all that existed was kind of what you could see in here, matter and energy. And I finally realized there are other things out there that are beyond this nature that I see around me and they're evil and they're out to eat my lunch. And, you know, came close to despair at that moment. If those things are real, I don't have a chance. And yet I realized, but, you know, the same people and the same books that told me so long ago that these things were real also said that there was a God and a Lord Jesus Christ who conquered them. I'm going to go back and read and I'm going to go back to those people and talk again. If there's a devil and there's no God, I'm really in trouble. But if there's a devil and there is God, then there's hope. And that's that's the message. There's hope because of our commander. In the manual for spiritual warfare, over and over and over again, you cite scripture passage upon scripture passage that really helps us to kind of like our Lord in the desert, just identify constantly what that is and then talk back to it in the sense that it's not our words, but it's his words. And of course, I mean with a capital H. And it is so much more powerful. There's, you know, it's one thing for us and our own words are important, too. But it's one thing for us to resist the enemy and tell him to flee or contradict what he says to us. But when we do it in the words of Jesus himself, our faith is so much greater, our confidence is so much greater that that what we say is true. And the enemy goes to accuse us and we take the words of scripture that the accuser of the brethren has been cast down. He is an accuser and he's been cast down or that in his glorious triumph he'll come with all the saints in the armies of heaven or Saint John's words, which I come to again and again. He says, you are of God, dear children, and have overcome him, the devil, because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. And how many times have I had to say that to the enemy? The one who's in me is greater than you are. So get lost. That's right. And that's something that we always have to remember. We had those two incredible witnesses, and in so many of the writings and scriptures, but in particular of Saint Paul and Saint John, Saint Paul says, it's not I who live, but it's Christ who lives in me. And here, just as you cited in 1 John, John the Apostle tells us once again, he who is in you, he is greater than he who is in the world. Who is in us? The great commander, our Lord Jesus Christ. In the end, the enemy is only a creature. He's a very powerful one. He has powers we don't have, but he's not some God of equal power to the good God. You know, so we're not dualists. We don't believe that there's a good God and a bad God who have to fight it out through history. He's a creature who went wrong, and even though he's very powerful, God is still God. There's only one God who's omnipotent, who's all -powerful and all -knowing. And as Saint Paul says, that he will soon crush the devil beneath your feet. And that's such a powerful promise to hold on to. And you alluded to earlier as well, those armies of heaven, which consist, as Saint Paul said in the letters to the Thessalonians 1 and 2, it's with all his saints and it's with the angels. It's that beautiful reference in Revelation that talks about Christ coming back as a warrior. And I know a lot of folks aren't comfortable with that image of Christ as warrior because we just think of him as the suffering servant and the lamb of God. And all that's true, but the book of Revelation shows him not just as the lamb who was slain, but also as the conquering warrior at the end who does finally totally crush and corral all the enemies of the saints, all the evil that we're fighting against. And talks about when he comes, he comes with the armies of heaven. And so you ask, well, who would be the armies of heaven? Well, Saint Paul then comes in and he specifies that in 1 Thessalonians 3, 13, he says he will come with all his saints. And in 2 Thessalonians, he says he'll come with the angels of his power. So those are like the two great divisions, you might say, of his army, of his host. Those are the comrades we have in battle. The queen of the saints, the queen of the angels, Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary, she is also referred to as the queen of humility. And yet it's in that humility that the irony of it, can we say, that she is able to crush the head of the servant. You know, I think it's important for us to see that what Our Lady did was to undo what Eve had done and to undo what the devil had done. How did the devil fall? Through his own pride. You know, we get in the book of Isaiah, the words that I will ascend to the mountain of the Lord, you know, and he wanted to take God's place. And so his great pride gets undone. It gets overturned by Our Lady's humility, by, you know, his fiat was, I will rule, and her fiat was, let it be done to me according to thy word. And so her humility overturns his. And she undoes what the devil did. She unties that knot that the devil tied, so to speak. And you get that predicted, prophesied all the way back in Genesis, when the Lord speaks to the serpent, who, of course, represents the devil, says, I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel. And that's why, of course, we have all these wonderful images of Our Lady, not just with the crown of stars above her head and the moon beneath her feet, as we get the image in the book of Revelation, but also with the head of the serpent crushed underneath her heel. Because though Jesus did the direct battle, she, by her fiat, by her agreement with the Lord, yes, of course, do what you want and I will bear your son. By that fiat, she also took part in that crushing of the serpent's head. And Eve gave a yes to the enemy's temptation and brought death and the devil's domination to the world. But Mary's yes to God instead of the enemy opened the door for the ultimate victory of her son over Satan. That's why we call her the new Eve. By her obedience to God, she undid what the first Eve had done by her disobedience. Well, one of the great saints that you mentioned here is not only a doctor of the church, but a loyal son of St. Francis, that St. Bonaventure, who writes so very strongly that, and he was a brilliant, brilliant, intelligent man, but even he had to acknowledge that men do not fear a powerful, hostile army as much as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary. And we get that, you know, it's not just a speculation. There's all kinds of experience of that and exorcisms. A recent exorcist who talks about how an enemy, a demon, was protesting over the praying of a Hail Mary and saying every time, I'm paraphrasing, but every time you say that Hail Mary, it's like a hammer hitting my head. They have such a hatred for Our Lady, and they know that she's overcome them. She's the Queen of Angels, and as I say in one of my prayers in here, she's the Queen of Angels, and she's the bane of devils. They fear her and they tremble before her. Her name is terrible and powerful, it's the name of Jesus. Well, to them particularly, it's so beautiful that in the Manual for Spiritual Warfare, you have a whole section on prayers to Our Lady.
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"Discerninghearts .com presents The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co -author of over 50 books, including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best -selling biographies of St. Damien of Malachi and St. Kateri Tekakawisa. He also serves as a senior editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Dr. Bunsen. Wonderful to be with you again, Chris. Thank you so much for joining us to talk about this particular doctor of the church who, it's rare, isn't it, in our lifetimes to have those saints elevated to the status of doctor who have quite a background like St. Hildegard Bingen. Yes, well, she is, of course, with John of Avila, one of the two of the newest doctors of the church proclaimed as such by Pope Benedict XVI, who has, I think, a special fondness for her. And as we get to know her, we certainly can understand why he holds her in such great repute and such great respect. It's easy to overlook the fact that in her lifetime, she was called the Sybil of the Rhine, and throughout that, the whole of the 12th century in which she lived. She was renowned for her visions, but she was especially loved and respected for her wisdom, the greatest minds of her age, and, of course, was renowned also for her great holiness. So this is a formidable figure in the medieval church, and somebody, I think, that we really need to look at today as we proceed with the reform and renewal of the church. I'll try to put this very sensitively when I say that her presence in our time is one that, unfortunately, was relegated maybe into a back corner by many because of those who tried to hijack, in some ways, her spirituality to try to move forward to certain agendas. Yes, I think that's a very diplomatic way of putting it. Hildegard, in the last 10 years or so, and Pope Benedict XVI, I think, helped lead the charge in this, has been reclaimed by the church. Her authentic writings, her authentic spirituality, and especially her love for the church and her obedience to the authority of the church have all been recaptured, reclaimed for the benefit of the entire church. It's absolutely true that over the previous decades, much as we saw with a few others, I'm thinking, for example, of a Julian of Norwich in England who lived a little after Hildegard, were sort of kidnapped by those with real agendas to try to portray Hildegard as a proto -radical feminist, as somebody who was hating of the church, who attempted to resist the teachings of the church, who rejected the teachings of the church. And yet, as we read her, as we come to appreciate her more fully, I think we can grasp her extraordinary gifts, but also her remarkable love for the church. She was one who allowed herself to be subjected to obedience, that wonderful, can we say it, a virtue, as well as a discipline. Absolutely, yeah. It's one of those ironies, again, to use that word, that here was somebody who was falsely claimed by feminists, who I think would have been just shocked at the notion of herself as a feminist, that she had instead a genuine love for the church, a profound mysticism. And you've hit on one of the key words that we're going to be talking about with her, and that is a perfection of the virtues of love for Christ and her obedience to the church, to the authority of the church in judging what is and authentic what is pure. And that, I think, holds her up as a great role model today when we have so many who are dissenting from the church and continue to cling to this notion of Hildegard as some sort of a herald of feminism in the church. I don't think I would understate it by saying that it was breathtaking in the fall of 2010 then when Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, began a series of Wednesday audiences on the holy women of the Middle Ages. And he began those reflections, especially on those who had such deep mystical prayer experiences, he began the audiences not with just one but two audiences on Hildegard. Yeah, he has made it very clear. He certainly did this as pope. He's done this throughout his life as a theologian, somebody who wants to make certain that the church recognizes and honors genius in all of his forms, but also profound holiness. And Pope Benedict, in that there's the set of audiences, especially regarding Hildegard, but I mean, when we run through the list of some of the great figures that he was looking at, he talked, for example, about Julian of Norwich, he covered Catherine of Siena, Brigid of Sweden, Elizabeth of Hungary, and of course Angela of Foligno, who just recently was canonized through equivalent canonization by Pope Francis. The gifts to the church, the contributions to the life of the church, to the holiness of the church by these remarkable women. It's something that we need to pause, and I really appreciate the fact that you want to do that, to credit Pope Benedict for doing that, but also again to turn our gaze to these extraordinary women. And it is significant that Hildegard of Bingen was included in that list. If you could, give us a sense of her time period. Well, she grew up in Germany and really was a member of the German nobility, and she belonged to the German feudal system. In other words, her father was a wealthy, powerful landowner at a time when owning land was everything. His name was Hildebert, and both in the service of, as the feudal system worked, a more powerful lord by the name of Meggenhard, who was Count of Spannheim. These are sort of dazzling names to people today, but what's really most important is that medieval feudal life in Germany was one of service, it was one of status, but this reflects on the upbringing of Hildegard, I think, in a into this noble environment. She had the opportunity to learn, to understand what it was to command, to know what it was to have special status, and yet from her earliest times, she displayed extraordinary intelligence, but also very powerful spiritual gifts and a desire for status conscious, as so many of the members of the feudal nobility were, and yet they recognized in their daughter the fact that she was called to something else other than the life of service and of status that they enjoyed. And for that reason, they offered her up, as was the custom of the time, as sort of a tithe to the church, as an oblet to the nearby Benedictine abbey of Disobodenburg, and she was only eight years old at the time, but that was the custom. And her life changed from that minute, but it was, I think, the greatest gift that her parents could have given her, because they placed her in exactly the environment that she needed the most to foster, really to develop her spiritual life, and all of the skills that she was given by God that she came to possess as an abbess and as a leading figure of the medieval church. The stability of the Benedictine role, that way of devoting time in your day, not only to work, the discipline of action, but then also to prayer, it really served her so well, didn't it? It did, and especially crucial in this was the fact that, as was again the wisdom of the Benedictines, they gave her over for her initial training to other women who were experienced in life, in the spiritual life, in the discipline of the Benedictine community, but also in the spiritual life they saw, I think, immediately needed to be developed in her. There was the first by a widow by the name of Uda, and then more important was another woman by the name of Uta of Spannheim, who was the daughter of Count Stefan of Spannheim. Now why is it that notable? It's notable because in Uta, not only did Hildegard receive a kind of spiritual mother, as well as a spiritual guide and mentor, but Uta was, being the daughter of nobility, clearly aware of Hildegard's background as well as her immense potential in dealing with other members of the nobility in future years. The position of abbess was one of great power. We don't encounter abbesses and abbots very much anymore, and yet because of the status of the Benedictine order, because of the lands it accumulated, but also because of its importance to the life of the community wherever you had a Benedictine monastery, abbots and abbesses acquired and wielded great influence in society and political life, economic life, and then of course their spiritual power. And Uta would have understood all of this, and over the next decades she helped train Hildegard in a life of prayer, of asceticism, but also of training the mind and personality to command, to lead with charity, and then of course to have the level of learning with the best they could give her to prepare her for the immense tasks that lay ahead. Let's talk about some of those tasks. It's an incredible time for a monastery life, and it would be affected by her example of how it could be transformed. Well Hildegard always seriously underestimated and sort of downplayed her own learning. She referred to herself as an indocte mulier or an unlearned woman, and yet while she may have had formal academic training that one might think of today, she nevertheless understood Latin, certainly the use of the Psalter. The Latin language of course was the language of the church. It was so much of the common language of ecclesiastical life, but she also continued to train other noble women who were sent to this community. And so when she was given, as they say, she took the veil from the Bishop of Bamberg when she was about 15 years old. From that point on, we can see a direct line of progress and advancement for Hildegard. This wasn't something that she was craving, but it was something I think that she took to quite naturally, both because of her training, both because of her family background, but also just because of her genius level IQ. I say genius level IQ because if you spend much time reading the works of Hildegard, the unbelievable diversity of which she was capable, and we're going to talk a little bit about that, you appreciate the sheer level of her intelligence and how in that community life, in the wisdom of the Benedictine life, they were able to recognize that, to harness it, to train it, and then put it to the good of the community and the good of the wider church. Not just for the church's benefit, but to make of Hildegard's immense gifts exactly that. A gift to the church, a gift to the community, but especially a gift to God. And so we're seeing her move rapidly a from humble young girl, somebody who was then trained to become a teacher or a prioress of the sisters, and then of course, around the age of 38, she became the actual head of the community of women at Disobodenberg. I think it's so important to honor that intellectual aspect of Hildegard, I mean the fact that she would have this ability like a sponge to absorb everything around her, as though it seems, and also to wed that with her spiritual life and those mystical experiences, and when she had, how can we say this, it was very unique in that it wasn't that she would have a vision of something. She would even say she doesn't see things ocularly, I mean something that she would have in front of her. No, it was something much more compelling in which it incorporated all of her. I mean not only the the spiritual aspect, but it brought in to play all that intellectual knowledge so that you would end up getting tomes and tomes and tomes of writing. Yes, that's exactly it. For her, while she was certainly conscious of her limited education, she understood that the knowledge that she possessed came from what she always referred to in the Latin as the umbra viventis luminis, or the shadow of the living light. And for her, this is not something that she was too eager or all that willing to write about, which is, as you certainly know, Chris, of all people, that's one of the great signs of the genuineness of spiritual gifts, that she was reluctant to talk about this extraordinary series of visions and mystical experiences that she began having as a young girl, but chose not to speak of until she actually began to share them with Jutta, then with her spiritual director who is a monk by the name of Vomar, who really I think was a good influence on her. And only when she was really in her 40s did she begin to describe and to transcribe so much of what she saw. And part of that I think was because here was somebody who was receiving these these visions, these mystical experiences from a very young age, but who wanted to ruminate on them, who wanted to meditate on them. And for her, then, it was the command to talk about these. And as she wrote in the shivyas, one of her greatest of her writings, she talks about the fiery light coming out of a cloudless sky that flooded her entire mind and inflamed, she said, her whole heart and her whole like a flame. And she understood at that moment the exposition of the books of the Psalter, the Gospel, the Old and the New Testaments, and it was by command that she made these visions known. But it was again out of humility, out of obedience to the voice that she did this. And the full scale of what she saw and what she began to teach to transcribe took up almost the whole of the rest of her life. And yet even at that moment, as she did so, what was she doing? She sought additional counsel in the discernment of the authenticity and the truth of what she was seeing. Why? Because she was concerned that they might not be of God or that they were mere illusions or even possible delusions brought on by herself or by the evil one. And that commitment to obedience, I think, stands her in such great standing in the history of the church among the mystics. But it also tells us that, as often has been the case with some of the mystics in history, there have been those positivists and scientists and psychologists who try to dismiss these mystical experiences. In Hildegard's case, what have they claimed? They have said that she was receiving these simply psychological aberrations or they were various forms of neurological problems leading up to migraines or a host of other possible issues. And yet the clarity of her visions, the specificity of them, and also the theological depth of them, demolish any such claims by scientists today and instead really forces to look at what exactly she was seeing. I don't doubt that there will be many out there over the next century particularly that could achieve their doctorates just by writing on different aspects of her work. And if you are at all a student of the Benedictine rule, you can begin to see in those visions those connections with the life that she lived out. I mean, this was very organic. It wasn't like this were just coming. Though they seem foreign to us, when you, potentially, when you begin to look at those visions, if you understand the time, if you have a proper translation and you know the rule, you begin to see a little bit better the clarity of what she's communicating. Yes, exactly. And we also appreciate the staggering scale of what she saw. I mean, she beheld as well the sacraments. She understood the virtues. She appreciated angels. She saw vice. She saw, as Pope Benedict XVI talked in his letter proclaiming her a doctor of the church, what did he say? He says that the range of vision of the mystic of Bingen was not limited to treating individual matters but was a global synthesis of the Christian faith. So he talks about that this is a compendium of salvation history, literally from the beginning of the universe until the very eschatological consummation of all of creation. As he says, God's decision to bring about the work of creation is the first stage on a long journey that unfolds from the constitution of the heavenly hierarchy until it reaches the fall of the rebellious angels and the sin of our first parents. So she's touching on the very core of who we are and the most important aspects of redemption of the kingdom of God and the last judgment. That the scale of this again, I think, is difficult for much of a modern mind to comprehend. And it tells us that we have to be very careful from our perch here and surrounded by technology and modernity that we perhaps have lost our ability to see the sheer scale of salvation history. That this abbess sitting on the Rhine in the 12th century was able to and then was able to communicate it with language that is surprisingly modern. Oh, let's talk about that language not only with words but with music and with art. I mean, this woman was able to express herself in all manners of creative activity. Yes, I mean, this is somebody that designed, created her own kind of language. It's sort of a combination of Latin and German, which is a medieval German. But she also composed hymns, more than 70 hymns. She composed sequences and antiphons, what became known as the symphonia harmoniae celestium, the symphony of the harmony of heavenly revelations. And not only were they simply composed because, well, her community would need music, they were very much a reflection of the things that she had seen. And she wrote a very memorable letter in 1178 to the prelates of the city of Mainz, and she talks about the fact that music stirs our hearts and engages our souls in ways we can't really describe. But we're taken beyond our earthly banishment back to the divine melody Adam knew when he sang with the angels when he was whole in God before his exile. So here she's as seemingly simple as a hymn, and connecting it to the vision, connecting it to salvation history, and connecting to something far deeper theologically. So her hymns ranged from the creation of the Holy Spirit, but she was especially fond of composing music in honor of the saints, and especially the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yeah, as we're coming to a conclusion on this particular episode, I just don't want to miss out on just a little bit of a tidbit. We could have called her a doctor, I mean, in a very real way, a physician. This woman, this wonderful gift to the church, gift to all of us, I mean, she had that appreciation of creation and actually even how it will work to heal. Yes, yes. Again, it's hard to overestimate her genius. Why? Because beyond her visions, beyond her abilities as a composer, here was somebody who combined her genius with practical need. Her community had specific needs for her gifts. And so what did she do? She wrote books on the natural sciences, she wrote books on medicine, she wrote books on music. She looked at the study of nature to assist her sisters. So the result was a natural history, a book on causes and cures, a book on how to put medicine together. And it's a fascinating reading because she talks about plants and the elements and trees and birds and mammals and reptiles. But all of it was to reduce all of this knowledge to very practical purposes, the medicinal values of natural phenomena. And then she also wrote in a book on causes and cures, which is written from the traditional medieval understanding of humors. She lists 200 diseases or conditions with different cures and remedies that tend mostly to be herbal with sort of recipes for how to make them. This is all from somebody who at that time was an abbess of not just one but two monasteries along the Rhine, who was also being consulted on popes to kings to common people who came to her for help. And this is somebody who at that time was also working for her own perfection in the spiritual life and in the perfection of the virtues and who is also continuing to reflect and meditate on the incredible vision she was receiving. So this is a full life, but it was a life given completely to the service of others. And of course, she'll have to have two episodes. We do. Thank you so much, Dr. But looking forward to part two Chris. 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"Discerninghearts .com presents The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co -author of over 50 books, including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best -selling biographies of St. Damien of Malachi and St. Kateri Tekakawisa. He also serves as a senior editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Dr. Bunsen. Wonderful to be with you again, Chris. Thank you so much for joining us to talk about this particular doctor of the church who, it's rare, isn't it, in our lifetimes to have those saints elevated to the status of doctor who have quite a background like St. Hildegard Bingen. Yes, well, she is, of course, with John of Avila, one of the two of the newest doctors of the church proclaimed as such by Pope Benedict XVI, who has, I think, a special fondness for her. And as we get to know her, we certainly can understand why he holds her in such great repute and such great respect. It's easy to overlook the fact that in her lifetime, she was called the Sybil of the Rhine, and throughout that, the whole of the 12th century in which she lived. She was renowned for her visions, but she was especially loved and respected for her wisdom, the greatest minds of her age, and, of course, was renowned also for her great holiness. So this is a formidable figure in the medieval church, and somebody, I think, that we really need to look at today as we proceed with the reform and renewal of the church. I'll try to put this very sensitively when I say that her presence in our time is one that, unfortunately, was relegated maybe into a back corner by many because of those who tried to hijack, in some ways, her spirituality to try to move forward to certain agendas. Yes, I think that's a very diplomatic way of putting it. Hildegard, in the last 10 years or so, and Pope Benedict XVI, I think, helped lead the charge in this, has been reclaimed by the church. Her authentic writings, her authentic spirituality, and especially her love for the church and her obedience to the authority of the church have all been recaptured, reclaimed for the benefit of the entire church. It's absolutely true that over the previous decades, much as we saw with a few others, I'm thinking, for example, of a Julian of Norwich in England who lived a little after Hildegard, were sort of kidnapped by those with real agendas to try to portray Hildegard as a proto -radical feminist, as somebody who was hating of the church, who attempted to resist the teachings of the church, who rejected the teachings of the church. And yet, as we read her, as we come to appreciate her more fully, I think we can grasp her extraordinary gifts, but also her remarkable love for the church. She was one who allowed herself to be subjected to obedience, that wonderful, can we say it, a virtue, as well as a discipline. Absolutely, yeah. It's one of those ironies, again, to use that word, that here was somebody who was falsely claimed by feminists, who I think would have been just shocked at the notion of herself as a feminist, that she had instead a genuine love for the church, a profound mysticism. And you've hit on one of the key words that we're going to be talking about with her, and that is a perfection of the virtues of love for Christ and her obedience to the church, to the authority of the church in judging what is and authentic what is pure. And that, I think, holds her up as a great role model today when we have so many who are dissenting from the church and continue to cling to this notion of Hildegard as some sort of a herald of feminism in the church. I don't think I would understate it by saying that it was breathtaking in the fall of 2010 then when Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, began a series of Wednesday audiences on the holy women of the Middle Ages. And he began those reflections, especially on those who had such deep mystical prayer experiences, he began the audiences not with just one but two audiences on Hildegard. Yeah, he has made it very clear. He certainly did this as pope. He's done this throughout his life as a theologian, somebody who wants to make certain that the church recognizes and honors genius in all of his forms, but also profound holiness. And Pope Benedict, in that there's the set of audiences, especially regarding Hildegard, but I mean, when we run through the list of some of the great figures that he was looking at, he talked, for example, about Julian of Norwich, he covered Catherine of Siena, Brigid of Sweden, Elizabeth of Hungary, and of course Angela of Foligno, who just recently was canonized through equivalent canonization by Pope Francis. The gifts to the church, the contributions to the life of the church, to the holiness of the church by these remarkable women. It's something that we need to pause, and I really appreciate the fact that you want to do that, to credit Pope Benedict for doing that, but also again to turn our gaze to these extraordinary women. And it is significant that Hildegard of Bingen was included in that list. If you could, give us a sense of her time period. Well, she grew up in Germany and really was a member of the German nobility, and she belonged to the German feudal system. In other words, her father was a wealthy, powerful landowner at a time when owning land was everything. His name was Hildebert, and both in the service of, as the feudal system worked, a more powerful lord by the name of Meggenhard, who was Count of Spannheim. These are sort of dazzling names to people today, but what's really most important is that medieval feudal life in Germany was one of service, it was one of status, but this reflects on the upbringing of Hildegard, I think, in a into this noble environment. She had the opportunity to learn, to understand what it was to command, to know what it was to have special status, and yet from her earliest times, she displayed extraordinary intelligence, but also very powerful spiritual gifts and a desire for status conscious, as so many of the members of the feudal nobility were, and yet they recognized in their daughter the fact that she was called to something else other than the life of service and of status that they enjoyed. And for that reason, they offered her up, as was the custom of the time, as sort of a tithe to the church, as an oblet to the nearby Benedictine abbey of Disobodenburg, and she was only eight years old at the time, but that was the custom. And her life changed from that minute, but it was, I think, the greatest gift that her parents could have given her, because they placed her in exactly the environment that she needed the most to foster, really to develop her spiritual life, and all of the skills that she was given by God that she came to possess as an abbess and as a leading figure of the medieval church. The stability of the Benedictine role, that way of devoting time in your day, not only to work, the discipline of action, but then also to prayer, it really served her so well, didn't it? It did, and especially crucial in this was the fact that, as was again the wisdom of the Benedictines, they gave her over for her initial training to other women who were experienced in life, in the spiritual life, in the discipline of the Benedictine community, but also in the spiritual life they saw, I think, immediately needed to be developed in her. There was the first by a widow by the name of Uda, and then more important was another woman by the name of Uta of Spannheim, who was the daughter of Count Stefan of Spannheim. Now why is it that notable? It's notable because in Uta, not only did Hildegard receive a kind of spiritual mother, as well as a spiritual guide and mentor, but Uta was, being the daughter of nobility, clearly aware of Hildegard's background as well as her immense potential in dealing with other members of the nobility in future years. The position of abbess was one of great power. We don't encounter abbesses and abbots very much anymore, and yet because of the status of the Benedictine order, because of the lands it accumulated, but also because of its importance to the life of the community wherever you had a Benedictine monastery, abbots and abbesses acquired and wielded great influence in society and political life, economic life, and then of course their spiritual power. And Uta would have understood all of this, and over the next decades she helped train Hildegard in a life of prayer, of asceticism, but also of training the mind and personality to command, to lead with charity, and then of course to have the level of learning with the best they could give her to prepare her for the immense tasks that lay ahead. Let's talk about some of those tasks. It's an incredible time for a monastery life, and it would be affected by her example of how it could be transformed. Well Hildegard always seriously underestimated and sort of downplayed her own learning. She referred to herself as an indocte mulier or an unlearned woman, and yet while she may have had formal academic training that one might think of today, she nevertheless understood Latin, certainly the use of the Psalter. The Latin language of course was the language of the church. It was so much of the common language of ecclesiastical life, but she also continued to train other noble women who were sent to this community. And so when she was given, as they say, she took the veil from the Bishop of Bamberg when she was about 15 years old. From that point on, we can see a direct line of progress and advancement for Hildegard. This wasn't something that she was craving, but it was something I think that she took to quite naturally, both because of her training, both because of her family background, but also just because of her genius level IQ. I say genius level IQ because if you spend much time reading the works of Hildegard, the unbelievable diversity of which she was capable, and we're going to talk a little bit about that, you appreciate the sheer level of her intelligence and how in that community life, in the wisdom of the Benedictine life, they were able to recognize that, to harness it, to train it, and then put it to the good of the community and the good of the wider church. Not just for the church's benefit, but to make of Hildegard's immense gifts exactly that. A gift to the church, a gift to the community, but especially a gift to God. And so we're seeing her move rapidly a from humble young girl, somebody who was then trained to become a teacher or a prioress of the sisters, and then of course, around the age of 38, she became the actual head of the community of women at Disobodenberg. I think it's so important to honor that intellectual aspect of Hildegard, I mean the fact that she would have this ability like a sponge to absorb everything around her, as though it seems, and also to wed that with her spiritual life and those mystical experiences, and when she had, how can we say this, it was very unique in that it wasn't that she would have a vision of something. She would even say she doesn't see things ocularly, I mean something that she would have in front of her. No, it was something much more compelling in which it incorporated all of her. I mean not only the the spiritual aspect, but it brought in to play all that intellectual knowledge so that you would end up getting tomes and tomes and tomes of writing. Yes, that's exactly it. For her, while she was certainly conscious of her limited education, she understood that the knowledge that she possessed came from what she always referred to in the Latin as the umbra viventis luminis, or the shadow of the living light. And for her, this is not something that she was too eager or all that willing to write about, which is, as you certainly know, Chris, of all people, that's one of the great signs of the genuineness of spiritual gifts, that she was reluctant to talk about this extraordinary series of visions and mystical experiences that she began having as a young girl, but chose not to speak of until she actually began to share them with Jutta, then with her spiritual director who is a monk by the name of Vomar, who really I think was a good influence on her. And only when she was really in her 40s did she begin to describe and to transcribe so much of what she saw. And part of that I think was because here was somebody who was receiving these these visions, these mystical experiences from a very young age, but who wanted to ruminate on them, who wanted to meditate on them. And for her, then, it was the command to talk about these. And as she wrote in the shivyas, one of her greatest of her writings, she talks about the fiery light coming out of a cloudless sky that flooded her entire mind and inflamed, she said, her whole heart and her whole like a flame. And she understood at that moment the exposition of the books of the Psalter, the Gospel, the Old and the New Testaments, and it was by command that she made these visions known. But it was again out of humility, out of obedience to the voice that she did this. And the full scale of what she saw and what she began to teach to transcribe took up almost the whole of the rest of her life. And yet even at that moment, as she did so, what was she doing? She sought additional counsel in the discernment of the authenticity and the truth of what she was seeing. Why? Because she was concerned that they might not be of God or that they were mere illusions or even possible delusions brought on by herself or by the evil one. And that commitment to obedience, I think, stands her in such great standing in the history of the church among the mystics. But it also tells us that, as often has been the case with some of the mystics in history, there have been those positivists and scientists and psychologists who try to dismiss these mystical experiences. In Hildegard's case, what have they claimed? They have said that she was receiving these simply psychological aberrations or they were various forms of neurological problems leading up to migraines or a host of other possible issues. And yet the clarity of her visions, the specificity of them, and also the theological depth of them, demolish any such claims by scientists today and instead really forces to look at what exactly she was seeing. I don't doubt that there will be many out there over the next century particularly that could achieve their doctorates just by writing on different aspects of her work. And if you are at all a student of the Benedictine rule, you can begin to see in those visions those connections with the life that she lived out. I mean, this was very organic. It wasn't like this were just coming. Though they seem foreign to us, when you, potentially, when you begin to look at those visions, if you understand the time, if you have a proper translation and you know the rule, you begin to see a little bit better the clarity of what she's communicating. Yes, exactly. And we also appreciate the staggering scale of what she saw. I mean, she beheld as well the sacraments. She understood the virtues. She appreciated angels. She saw vice. She saw, as Pope Benedict XVI talked in his letter proclaiming her a doctor of the church, what did he say? He says that the range of vision of the mystic of Bingen was not limited to treating individual matters but was a global synthesis of the Christian faith. So he talks about that this is a compendium of salvation history, literally from the beginning of the universe until the very eschatological consummation of all of creation. As he says, God's decision to bring about the work of creation is the first stage on a long journey that unfolds from the constitution of the heavenly hierarchy until it reaches the fall of the rebellious angels and the sin of our first parents. So she's touching on the very core of who we are and the most important aspects of redemption of the kingdom of God and the last judgment. That the scale of this again, I think, is difficult for much of a modern mind to comprehend. And it tells us that we have to be very careful from our perch here and surrounded by technology and modernity that we perhaps have lost our ability to see the sheer scale of salvation history. That this abbess sitting on the Rhine in the 12th century was able to and then was able to communicate it with language that is surprisingly modern. Oh, let's talk about that language not only with words but with music and with art. I mean, this woman was able to express herself in all manners of creative activity. Yes, I mean, this is somebody that designed, created her own kind of language. It's sort of a combination of Latin and German, which is a medieval German. But she also composed hymns, more than 70 hymns. She composed sequences and antiphons, what became known as the symphonia harmoniae celestium, the symphony of the harmony of heavenly revelations. And not only were they simply composed because, well, her community would need music, they were very much a reflection of the things that she had seen. And she wrote a very memorable letter in 1178 to the prelates of the city of Mainz, and she talks about the fact that music stirs our hearts and engages our souls in ways we can't really describe. But we're taken beyond our earthly banishment back to the divine melody Adam knew when he sang with the angels when he was whole in God before his exile. So here she's as seemingly simple as a hymn, and connecting it to the vision, connecting it to salvation history, and connecting to something far deeper theologically. So her hymns ranged from the creation of the Holy Spirit, but she was especially fond of composing music in honor of the saints, and especially the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yeah, as we're coming to a conclusion on this particular episode, I just don't want to miss out on just a little bit of a tidbit. We could have called her a doctor, I mean, in a very real way, a physician. This woman, this wonderful gift to the church, gift to all of us, I mean, she had that appreciation of creation and actually even how it will work to heal. Yes, yes. Again, it's hard to overestimate her genius. Why? Because beyond her visions, beyond her abilities as a composer, here was somebody who combined her genius with practical need. Her community had specific needs for her gifts. And so what did she do? She wrote books on the natural sciences, she wrote books on medicine, she wrote books on music. She looked at the study of nature to assist her sisters. So the result was a natural history, a book on causes and cures, a book on how to put medicine together. And it's a fascinating reading because she talks about plants and the elements and trees and birds and mammals and reptiles. But all of it was to reduce all of this knowledge to very practical purposes, the medicinal values of natural phenomena. And then she also wrote in a book on causes and cures, which is written from the traditional medieval understanding of humors. She lists 200 diseases or conditions with different cures and remedies that tend mostly to be herbal with sort of recipes for how to make them. This is all from somebody who at that time was an abbess of not just one but two monasteries along the Rhine, who was also being consulted on popes to kings to common people who came to her for help. And this is somebody who at that time was also working for her own perfection in the spiritual life and in the perfection of the virtues and who is also continuing to reflect and meditate on the incredible vision she was receiving. So this is a full life, but it was a life given completely to the service of others. And of course, she'll have to have two episodes. We do. Thank you so much, Dr. But looking forward to part two Chris. 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"Discerninghearts .com presents Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essiff. Monsignor Essiff is a priest in the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has served as a retreat director and confessor to Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and retreats for the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity. Monsignor Essiff encountered Saint Padre Pio, who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world, serving in the Pontifical Missions, a Catholic organization established by Saint Pope John Paul II to bring the good news to the world, especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops, priests, sisters, seminarians, and other religious leaders. Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essiff. I'm your host, Chris McGregor.
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"Discerninghearts .com presents Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. Monsignor Essif is a priest in the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has served as a retreat director and confessor to St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and retreats for the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity. Monsignor Essif encountered St. Padre Pio, who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world, serving in the Pontifical Missions, a Catholic organization established by St. Pope John Paul II to bring the good news to the world, especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops, priests, sisters, seminarians, and other religious leaders. Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. I'm your host, Chris McGregor.
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A highlight from POA4 Extraordinary Activity Put On The Armor A Manual for Spiritual Warfare with Dr. Paul Thigpen Ph.D. Discerning Hears Catholic Podcasts
"Discerninghearts .com, in cooperation with TAN Books, presents Put on the Armor, A Manual for Spiritual Warfare, with Dr. Paul Thickepen. Dr. Thickepen is an internationally known speaker, bestselling author, and award -winning journalist who has published 43 books in a wide variety of genres and subjects, including The Rapture Trap, A Catholic Response to End Times Fever, and The Manual for Spiritual Warfare, the book on which this series is based. In 2008, Dr. Thickepen was appointed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to their National Advisory Council. He has served the Church as a theologian, historian, apologist, evangelist, and catechist in a number of settings, speaking frequently in Catholic and secular media broadcasts and at conferences, seminars, parish missions, and scholarly gatherings. Put on the Armor, A Manual for Spiritual Warfare, with Dr. Paul Thickepen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Well, we've talked about the ordinary act. We do need to touch upon the extraordinary demonic activity. Well, this is the kind of stuff that, you know, that Hollywood likes to glorify. It's extraordinary in that it really isn't as common as just temptation, which is common to every man, woman, and child. By extraordinary activity, we're talking about a destructive work that's more powerful and that manifests itself not only in our thought realm, but also in the physical realm. Most observers of demonic tactics agree that there's certain activities that occur. They often use different labels for them, and so I allow for that in my book. I have a certain terminology. There are others who would use a different terminology. The kind of a whole series of levels of activity, each one a little more serious than the last, that kind of finds its worst form in possession, which is what most people in the world, when they think about demons, that's what they think about. But the first is called infestation. It's demonic activity that's connected to a particular location or an object. So if there's a house, for instance, that's infested, and people often think it's, you know, they call it ghost or something, but it's actually demonic activity. But folks, witnesses in an infested house, may see physical objects moving on their own or seemingly on their own, levitating, flying through the air, disappearing and reappearing in other places. They may smell offensive odors, often like sulfur. They may hear noises they can't explain, like crashes or laughter or screaming. So when people talk about, you know, a haunted house, often that's what we're talking about, something where there's a demonic association with that building or that location. The next level then is what I would call oppression. It describes demonic attacks on a victim's exterior life. So it may be influences on their bodily health, influences on their finances, on their work situation, on their family relations and other social relations. In some severe cases, it may even include physical assaults, invisible blows to the body, a push out of bed or downstairs, mysterious scratches appearing on the skin. I've seen all of these before. A number of saints throughout the ages have spoken about enduring this kind of thing. So St. Anthony of the Desert, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Ante, Padre Pio, St. Pio of Pietrelcina, a few of those. Next, then would be obsession. That refers to a more severe and relentless form of the struggle in the victim's interior life. It's a wrestling with disturbing thoughts planted by the enemy, but to a degree, not just temptation. So it's an inner torment that can be suffered while you're awake or in nightmares, becomes so intense that the sufferer may seem to be going insane to themselves and to others. There may be visual and auditory hallucinations, persistent temptations to suicide. We have to note that symptoms like this may well have physical causes and mental causes rather than spiritual ones. That's why the church is always careful and insists that those who experience these kinds of afflictions should first approach medical professionals for help before just, instead of just concluding that they're under attack from evil spirits. But then the most serious is possession, the one that's most dangerous and most rare form of extraordinary demonic activity. It involves periodic episodes in which an evil spirit controls the body of the victim, though the victim is usually not aware of what's taking place during that control. And we have several accounts of that in the Gospels, as we've talked about before. So the demon -possessed person may engage in bizarre bodily contortions that would normally be impossible. The body may levitate or act with superhuman strength. The victim may groan, hiss, make animal sounds. An alien voice may speak through the possessed person, sometimes without even the use of their vocal cords. Often they reveal knowledge of hidden things. Are they talking a language unknown to the victim and the victim's never studied? And at the same time, as in cases of infestation, often disturbing and even violent physical phenomena may take place in the victim's presence. And then finally, the victim of demon possession exhibits an extreme, sometimes violent, sense of to revulsion holy things, like the name of Mary and the name of Jesus, to the rites of the church, to a consecrated host, to sacred relics, to sacramental, such as holy water. So that would be the most serious thing. And I always like to make the point that a demon can never possess someone in the sense of owning that person, because all human beings, no matter what they've been through or what they've done, all human beings belong to God. They are his personal possession. Well, we speak of cases of demonic possession in which the enemy has basically become a usurper occupying the human body that was created to be indwelt by the Holy Spirit instead. Now one of the reasons why we are going over again this particular part of our conversation is to know the battle. And it doesn't necessarily mean that we're called to be the Navy SEALs that are called to go out there and engage in, OK, now we know what it is, so we're going to go out and deal with it. It's important, as you said, at certain levels that, yes, medical professionals absolutely have to be working in relationship with a person afflicted. In many cases now, Paul, isn't it true that in dioceses around the United States, as well as around the world, that if there are those who feel that they are encountering this, that they can go to the Chancery or maybe even to the local parish, and they will be able to work together to help bring that person once again to wholeness? Yes, and that's so important. If you're at the place where your sense is that it's beyond the ordinary and these other things, you find a priest that you're confident in and you trust, and lay it before them. If you have to go to several priests, but go and give them a chance to help you figure out if it may be something else than what you're thinking. They can make references, refer you to medical professionals who can help you to kind of rule those things out, and the church won't allow you to go through something of a major exorcism without having kind of ruled out the other things. But the church is there, resources are there to help you. Our Lord Jesus, who cast out demons very easily, has given his authority to them, and powers don't always come out with just a word because they're complex situations that involve kind of healing that has to go on in the soul, and sometimes a renunciation of certain things before it can all happen, but completely. If you have a trained exorcist, they'll know what to do. So the church has that help, and go to the church for sure while I'm meeting more and more folks who, you know, are, well, I hear there's this spiritual healer, you know, and often it's someone who's not even of a Christian background, but some kind of New Agey thing. Either you don't want to go that direction because folks who don't have the authority that Christ gave to, you know, leaders of his church, they can just get you into worse trouble than ever. Yeah, you can look at the Scriptures for an example, the one that jumps in my mind is Saul, King Saul, when he chose to go to an oracle because he was feeling, can we say, maybe oppressed or something like that, I'm not trying to diagnose this situation, but to the point where he went to the oracle to summon up Samuel, and it ended up leading to not only her madness, but to his. Well, it's just a very dangerous thing. Like I said, you know, in the book of Acts, you know, the other example where you have the seven sons of Seva who fancied themselves exorcists, and they see St. Paul casting out you out in the name of Paul or Jesus or whatever name they used, and the thing just looks at them and you can just hear the smirk and the words, Paul I know and Jesus I know, but who are you? And then jumps on them, you know, but especially folks, you know, kind of occult healers and that kind of thing. There's certain cultures that, you know, just have a tradition of this, it's extremely dangerous. Sometimes, you know, people accuse Jesus of casting out demons by the prince of demons, and in this case, it's almost like that, that they're not really casting them out, but by, they themselves can be demonically influenced in a way that will, you know, if there's actually a demonic power that's somehow oppressing someone, and they go to one of these healers who's actually demonically connected, yeah, that person can appeal to the demon, lay off of them for a while, and they'll seem to think, you know, they'll look like maybe they've been healed or helped. It's the wrong way to go about it because it's not the authority of Jesus that's overcoming the thing. It's just, you know, orders from a higher demon, so to speak. You have to be really careful. And I think it needs to be said, too, here, and I hope you agree, Paul, that as we spoke about the ordinary activity, that of temptation that is done, that even in this extraordinary activity, demonic activity, that trained exorcists will say that there, it usually begins with an entry point, you know, a demonic entry point. There's a point in which it's not necessarily where the guy's just walking down the street and all of a sudden, boom, this happens to him. I'm not going to say that it can happen that way, but most of the time, the overwhelming majority of the time, it's because there is some type of activity, whether it was an assault as a child or it's something that the person agreed to participate in, it might be a violent act that was perpetrated. There's usually some moment or a series of moments where this activity enters into the person's life and then it manifests itself into a greater situation. And that's when those who are trained in this area are able to untie those knots to get to those layers. Am I presenting that properly? Yeah, I think so. I'm certainly no expert in exorcism and I've never trained and I'm not a priest, so I couldn't be an exorcist, but I hear the same thing from those who are trained that often there is some particular point of access. And again, it's not necessarily that the person makes a choice to do something, but something could be done to them or they could even just move into a house that is infested for whatever reason because there's some earlier resident called some of the powers and into there by what they did, maybe the Ouija board or something, who knows. And that's why you do need some trained folks because it's not just so simple as snap my fingers, the devil's gone. There are certain kind of principles that seems to be of demonic activity like that that an exorcist is trained to look at, to understand and to begin to, as you say, untie the knot because these things usually are complicated knots because you still need the will of the victim to cooperate with what's going on. There needs to be some part of them that is saying, I want to be free of this and I will do what I need to to be free of this. And if it means renouncing what I did, you know, by going to that channel or going to the Ouija board or whatever, or if it means forgiving this person who did this to me or as a part of it, or if it means forgiving myself, making reparation in something, some demonstration that my will is to do the will of God and to be free, you know, always gets to me that one time, I don't want to read too much in it, but in the gospel where there's a man who's been ill all his life, he's lame all his life and Jesus looks at him and says, do you want to be healed? And that's always struck me that sometimes that's a question he has to ask us through the priest, through the counselor, through the exorcist that we go that far, do you want to be healed? Because it's going to require some cooperation on your part.
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"Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. It's the show featuring Go -Go the Chimp. Nothing like a chimp to liven up the radio show. Easy there. Go -Go, Go -Go. No, Go -Go, no! Hey there, folks. Welcome back. As you know, the unborn are important to God, and it turns out God is important to me, so the unborn are important to me and to many of you. And someone who's been a really heroic figure, a voice for unborn human beings is Father Frank Pavone. He's the head of Priests for Life, and I have wanted to get him on recently to talk about this issue and specifically to talk about what is troubling to many people, not just Catholics. But Pope Francis's kind of mixed messages and waffling on the issue of speaking out strongly on behalf of the unborn. So Father Frank Pavone, welcome back to this program. Hey, Eric. It's great to be with you. Thanks so much. It was great to see you in person not too long ago, and thank you for all your work and advocacy as well. Well, this is important stuff. My gosh, I feel honored that I get to do anything. I don't think I get to do much, but whatever I get to do, I praise the Lord for it. You have been really at the forefront of this issue for many years. How many years has this been, you know, something that you've been involved in so directly? 47. I got involved in the pro -life movement three years after Roe v. Wade. I was a high school senior 1976, in went on my first March for Life. And then, of course, I went into seminary. I got ordained in 88. But then in 93, I got Cardinal John O 'Connor's permission to make fighting abortion my full -time work. So, Eric, I've been leading this Priest for Life movement for 30 years now. Now, Cardinal O 'Connor, I'm a New Yorker, he was a heroic figure. He spoke strongly against evil in its various forms. But it seems like not just this pope, but that many American bishops are not in the mold of Cardinal O 'Connor. Since I'm not a Catholic, I'm a very pro -Catholic, non -Catholic, I'm always mystified. And I always want to ask my faithful Catholic friends, such as yourself, what do you make of so many leaders in the Catholic Church who don't seem to share your views on this issue? It's baffling to me. It is baffling, Eric. You're certainly not alone in that. You know, I often think about the fact that when it comes to popes, we've been spoiled for most of the lifetime of those listening to us now. We've had saints as popes, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II, right? What a great papacy he had. And there was clarity and there was conviction and there was pastoral compassion and there was the uniting of people across multiple, multiple avenues. And now we have a pope who seems to be just confusing people left and right with so many things that he says. You know, Eric, the way I'm dealing with this is very simple. I say to people, you know, it's okay to be confused about something the pope says. We never have to be confused about what the faith says. So I ask people to focus on six simple words, what the church has always taught. That's the anchor. That's an anchor to which the pope himself is responsible. He's the vicar of Christ. Vicar of Christ is a referential term, right? It's not the word of the pope. It's the word of Christ that he's supposed to be articulating as the rest of us are to do as well. So, you know, it's a time of confusion. These popes are men. They're human. They're sinners just like we are. And they're going to have their own ideologies at times. And I'm afraid that's what we're dealing with in this case. Well, I think not just non -Catholics, but many Catholics are themselves confused about the pope. They say, oh, isn't the pope infallible? And I have to I mean, I've been on Newsmax and I am, you know, as a non -Catholic having to clarify. No, the pope is not infallible. He can say idiotic things. If he's speaking ex cathedra, that's a different story. But he's almost never speaking. No pope is hardly ever speaks ex cathedra. So it's a doctrine that does not apply to the blitherings of human beings who happen to be pope. It applies in a different way. But so many people are confused by this. And so many people, particularly Catholics, think if the pope says something, I have to agree with it. Of course, that's not true. That's not the teaching of the Catholic Church. But can you say more about that? You just touched on it. Yeah, that's a crucially important point. I've been making that point recently as well. When we say the infallibility of the pope, what we're really talking about here is the faithfulness of Jesus Christ to his bride, the church. The Lord is never going to let his entire body, the church, depart from his teaching. I mean, that would be, when you think about it, a severing, right, of the head of the body, Christ from the rest of the body. That can never happen. Now, that doesn't mean that individuals in the church can't get it wrong or fall away. They can and they will. And so the pope has a particular role when he's talking about, in an official capacity, the things that the church already believes, the things that the church has always held, those things that are rooted in the word of God and the teaching of Christ. When he pronounces to the world, as you said, ex cathedra or in certain other circumstances where it's clear a he's articulating firmly held belief of the church, what we believe is the Lord is not going to let the church go astray. It has absolutely nothing to do with agreeing with everything the pope says, especially in an instance like this that came up recently. He's giving informal comments to a group that he's sitting with, where he'll give comments off the cuff on a plane ride back to the Vatican. And, you know, this is not the way that official church teaching gets proclaimed. This is the comment of a man who happens to be sharing his opinion. Well, that's what's so important to clarify. Now, you just wrote an article at gatewaypundit .com. What is the article at gatewaypundit .com about that you've just written? It responds to this statement of the pope recently that, oh, well, you know, in America, who's who are they are, they have a backwards mentality and they're replacing faith with ideology. And I basically made two points. If by going backwards, you mean holding on to the changeless teachings of the church? Well, then that we consider that being faithful. And secondly, as far as replacing faith with ideology, if you want to find the culprits there, it's the Democrat Party. It's people like Biden and Pelosi who will say, oh, I'm a practicing Catholic. And in the meantime, they're pushing for unrestricted abortion. That's replacing faith with ideology. And then they commit the further sin of saying, oh, but this is the faith. This is, you know, misguided if the pope is trying to talk to those of us who are in the conservative movement, those of us who are aligning with policies that essentially fall on the, quote, right side of the equation. Well, this is what the pope and the bishops and everybody in the church need to realize is the Democrats right now have set themselves up against everything we cherish, against faith, against human life, against freedom, against America. Unless we realize the nature of the battle right now and stand up and defend those things, we're not going to have a Catholic Church in America. We're going to have the preachers of the gospel increasingly persecuted, thrown in prison, and our religious freedom denied. That's what the agenda of the left is. I didn't know you were going to go there, but what you're saying is exactly what I've been saying a whole lot, especially over the course of the last year. I wrote a book called Letter to the American Church where I am trying to explain to people that times have changed and we cannot pretend that the Democrats are represented by Tip O 'Neill. We have to understand the reality. And when you're dealing with a political party, it would be like dealing with a political party that is pro -slavery. And then you say, well, I don't want to be political. Well, if you're some kind of a Christian, you're obliged to be political if one of the political parties has embraced slavery. If you're silent on that, you're a pig, you're a fool, you're a hypocrite. You cannot pretend that silence is an option when things are that stark. So we can talk about slavery, but what about abortion? What about all these other things? So when I come back or when we come back, I want to talk to you about all these other issues and how if you're any kind of a Christian, you have to take them seriously. We'll be right back.
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A highlight from Special Encore The Canonization of St. Teresa of Calcutta Building a Kingdom of Love w/ Msgr. John Esseff
"Discerninghearts .com presents Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. Monsignor Essif is a priest of the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has served as a retreat director and confessor to Saint Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and retreats for the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity. Monsignor Essif encountered Saint Padre Pio, who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world, serving in the Pontifical Missions, a Catholic organization established by Pope Saint John Paul II, to bring the good news to the world, especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops, priests and sisters, seminarians and other religious leaders. Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. What was this glorious pilgrimage like? I would say what brought us there, there were 16 of us who left to go there, and the ones who you would meet along the way, that each of them were loved by Mother Teresa. That's the way I would describe, each one of them had a personal experience of the enduring love that touched them. I certainly had to be there. It was like something that, as a pilgrim, I felt called to be at this celebration. And I felt God wanted me to be there, therefore he would provide. And he provided for me to get there to the vehicle of these 16 people that I went with. And it was just a very caring young priest who, Father Mike was our leader of the group, and I was kind of the senior citizen, I was the oldest member of the group. The streets of Rome, as you know, are really architectural hazards. Someone who doesn't see, I could easily fall anyplace and break a hip or whatever, but I was really cared for. And there was a young girl, a woman that I met, and she was in a wheelchair, and she kind of summed it up for me when she said, Mother Teresa touched me when I was 16. And she said she just came in the crowd and touched me, and she touched me on my head. And it was like an unforgettable touch from this woman who was such an instrument, just reminded me of Jesus going through the world, and everyone that he touched remembered that touch. And so it was with me. I experienced the love and being loved by her so that she was this instrument of love in the world. There were millions and millions who saw that by television or heard it by radio in so many parts of the world. So really, wouldn't you say that maybe a billion people were touched through this instrument of God's love, because she followed what God asked her to do, and in some way experienced being loved by God as the poorest of the poor, because that's what she considered herself, that he loved her and touched her with that love. And then she began to touch one by one by one. That was her way of looking at it. We arrived together as a group on September the 1st, and we went by van to Newark, New Jersey, where we all got on a plane, and we got to know each other's names, because not everybody, there were married people, there were priests, there were single people who were on that, just getting to know each other. And then we all had different parts on the plane going over, arrived and gathered together in a group, and there was a van to meet us, to take us to our hotel. We still stayed in a little hotel called Hotel De Petrus, which was about a 20 -minute subway ride from the Vatican. That evening, I went by subway to St. John Lateran, where I heard confessions, and it was so beautiful. I heard, because of my languages, I heard confessions in English, Spanish, Italian. And who comes along but walking right in front of me is Marty McDermott that I had met in Beirut. And he and I just kind of hooked together. He was there. And again, the love, it was there in Beirut that I met the sisters, it was there that I met Mother Teresa, so we just kind of laughed as two old men. He was an aging Jesuit that they kind of wanted to get out of Beirut to bring him home to their northeastern province in New York, but he stayed there, he remained there. I think he's from Hartford, Connecticut. And we just chatted while all of the sisters that we had known through the years come pouring out at the end of the celebration there, and I just saw Sister Joy and all the sisters that I had known through the years, Missionaries of Charity. And then we hopped on a subway and came home, and I got home maybe around midnight. That was our first day. And so it was a beautiful time. On the third day, we were there September the 3rd, and more confessions, and St. Mary Major was again a beautiful church, and confessions. And then the fourth day was a canonization. And Mother has always just loved Our Lady. On the cover of the celebrated Mass was Our Blessed Mother. And if you notice her hand always pointing, Mary is such a direct link to Jesus. Her whole life pointing, you say Mary, she says Jesus. And Mother then is on September the 5th. She was beatified by John Paul II, 2002. And I was there, and when her picture went up as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta and John Paul, that's the day I consecrated myself to Our Lady. All her life Mother Teresa had said, you should consecrate yourself to Mary. Oh, Mother, I have the Sacred Heart. That's where she was pointing. She wanted me to be with the Sacred Heart. No, but the best way to do it is through her. Oh, no, thank you very much. But the Pope, he told us to us, no, no. So I resisted. But when I saw those two up there, the aging, elder John Paul II, such a powerful, powerful instrument of God. And this little less than five foot woman, such a powerful instrument. I thought, what do you need to follow that? So that's the day I consecrated myself to Mary. And here she is. They really captured her look. And it was on the second missalette that we had on the following day on September the 5th, which is her feast day. So on the 4th, we had the canonization mass. The incident that was most, I sat with a couple of sisters on the way home in the airport. And one of them said it was such a powerful experience, but I have to say I couldn't get by the heat. I just couldn't get by the heat. It was 98 degrees. It was hot and a beating, beating heat down on the whole place. All I could recall during the mass with that intense heat was the time when I was at the chapter meeting in Calcutta, where it was 100 degrees heat and 100 percent humidity. And it was so stifling. And Mother would not allow a fan. They were begging her, let us get a fan. No, we have to live like the poor. What is the authenticity of our sacrifice? If we could have a fan? No. And we need a microphone. We can't hear. No. But get one for Monseigneur. So I had a microphone for the presentations and I had a fan when I was giving my presentations. She turned it off for the whole community. And I'll never forget this nun who was at that celebration. With this intense heat, every time there was the slightest breeze, she just thanked God for the breeze. She was an American nun and she was communicating to me how we are not used to that Indian heat nor the humidity. And I noticed that at the mass, her massive canonization. But everyone had to wait for that slight breeze. And that I was so aware of that every once in a while, when you thought you were going to pass out, there was a breeze. Everyone was reminded, though, of just how poor we are and how lacking in control of the events of life. And that total dependence. So she gave us all a marvelous lesson. And anyone who had been there, if they were there, including the Pope, that intense heat was down on a million people who were there. And everyone came through that and endured it. So Mother Teresa was very active during that canonization. It streamlined it, so it made it very simple, which is really what I think she wanted. Don't have the focus on me. But as the mass itself, the focus was all on God. It was the glory and the praise and the honor of God. Thank you, Lord, for the slightest breeze. Thank you, Lord, for just being here. And I found myself thanking God. And I was there. The other thing I noticed in her gathering us, there was a multiracial, the whites were far outnumbered at this mass. Not only because of the Indian priests, the African priests, the Asian priests, the Koreans, the Chinese, the Vietnamese, South Africa, and all of the world was really... ...that we are just one family. And the main, I think, lesson that I learned is dependence on God and that we are all very, very poor and the poorest of the poor. The opening day, the day before we got there, the Missionaries of Charity had in the Olympic Stadium, which they were able to get, a thousand of the poorest of the poor from their houses in Rome that they served the poor. They invited them all to come and have a feast. And they actually had this huge feast and banquet for the poorest of the poor because this was what it was all about. If Mother was going to have the celebration, the first ones to have the feast was the poorest of the poor, and she invited them to the table. And all of them were invited to come to the celebration, so they all had tickets to the event. You could see different ones as they were coming were obviously the poorest of the poor, meeting all of us, the poorest of the poor who were coming. So the universality and multiracial was what I felt was very outstanding for me on the day. Sounds a lot like Pentecost. Yeah, and the language just didn't seem to, it was like both hearing confessions and the celebration itself. And of course we had the Latin and all of us joined in were able to participate with the Latin and the singing. And again that language, that unity of our worshipping and glorifying God in that mass. Some lady was wheeling us onto the plane when we were at the Newark Airport, and she was a young girl, a young black girl, and I said we were going to be going to Mother Teresa's canonization. Well she had never heard of Mother Teresa, she was 20 years old. Oh, she said, what are you going to have, a party? I said yeah, and what is the mass but a party that God wanted? So he gets this heavenly banquet together, and that's why I was so happy when you see all these priests going out and bringing the Eucharist to every single one that was there. That was the day celebration, and I think there was a big difference then with the celebration on the 5th. And again, we can't celebrate it, but it was much more intimate. Maybe there must have been, maybe 300 ,000 there. How do you get just intimate? So there was this smaller crowd, and the priests and the participation was still so joyous and so beautiful. The day there was a cloud coverage, so that the heat wasn't as intense, so it was cooler, it was more refreshing, it was more relaxed. And at the end, one of the priests stood up, the sisters came in. The greatest gift I always felt that Mother has given us is her community. And these sisters coming in from all over the world were certainly well represented there, and lines and lines of missionaries of charity coming in. There were also the brothers, and there were also the missionaries of charity fathers. And one of the fathers got up at the end and he said, Today is a day of thanksgiving, and we are just so filled with thankfulness that God has recognized our foundress as a saint, and that we are able to participate in this canonization. And we rejoice, and you can just see St. Teresa of Calcutta in heaven with all the poorest of the poor, and us, poorest of the poor, having experienced being touched by her. And we are now celebrating, because she has touched our lives. And she always said, Unless you have experienced the thirst God has for you as the poorest of the poor, you'll never be able to know the thirst he has for the poorest of the poor. So that having had that experience of that love that God has for me through her, that that tasting of that is an enduring bond that you experience, and it just endures in it, it lasts. The love of God is enduring. The love that Mother Teresa gave, that touch that tapped that girl on the head when she was 16, that love lasts. It's an everlasting love. It's tasting the divine love. And it's the thirst that God has for us as people, so that when we pass that on, and if we were a million there, and the millions and millions that saw it on television are able to receive it and to pass it on, it was a great joy in heaven, and a great celebration on earth, and it was time for a party. The possibility of someone coming into a crowd like that and throwing some bombs, it was like the furthest thought, I believe, that peace and love is contagious. It has a power that's overcoming hatred and violence, and the way to bring this about is through that divine love. This is the force and the power that I believe is really necessary in the world today. So it was a great experience. You know, it's really striking, Monsignor, that the endurance of those who came, those who had to endure suffering during the celebration, because I watched it all cozy on my couch at 3 in the morning, back here in Omaha with my puppy and my coffee, and that was really nice, but you could see how hot it was. You could just see how people were just baking under the sun, and yet that enduring that suffering is essentially a message of her life. For all weekend, the build -up was not just on EWTN and other Catholic outlets, but it was on secular news broadcasts, CNN, Fox, all of these different news outlets were covering this great gathering. And so as you're watching these people, literally suffering with joy through the mass, it was almost like a major witness. And there's something really unique when that happens, isn't there, Monsignor, that if you can endure it, if you can enter into it like she did, there's grace somehow, even for the participants. I know you're just a couple days out of this, but for you, I mean, can you describe that now? It intensifies your interior self. You become very aware that I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able, and that's the word, endure this, whatever that be, this stress, this heat, this cross, however you want to call it. Each one has to go in there because that's where you're drawn to, and that is the center of the inner self. And that's where your dependency comes, and that's where you experience the God on whom you have to depend. So what gives you the endurance is the dependence. It stays, and it remains, and it burns, and whatever it is, you cannot last through it, and it just keeps coming on in a way, just when you think, it's going to let up. No. And then it comes just at the right time, a kind of a breeze, where it comes from, and the refreshment. And then you're drawing something in from this power, and I would call it the spirit. The spirit is now bringing you into the inner rest that's going on, is only had by those who are willing to endure. I don't know how others would describe that, but that's how I was experiencing it. As you were speaking about that, that endurance, I think that's the suffering of love, isn't it? I mean, at its very, very heart. And I know that's one of the, you had spoken so poignantly that for many who heard your reflection prior to leaving, and you were seeking a particular grace, that entering into the Immaculate Heart of Mary, even more deeply into the Sacred Heart, and I don't want to put more words on it than what you were hoping for, because sometimes even the grace we think we're going for is smaller than the one that God wants to give us. So how would you describe your experience for those who have been eagerly waiting? Well, did it happen for them? Did you receive what you were hoping for? More, more than I ever had anticipated. That which I wanted, I received, but much more abundantly. There was more. It's so difficult to describe, because you have to use the same words. But the words don't carry the meaning that the inner self has that you want to convey. That life in the inner self, that enduring bond of love. Like, excuse me, you're supposed to look ragged and tired and beleaguered for an 88 -year -old man who, you know, has traveled around the world, and I have not seen you look so buoyant and glowing and energized. I mean, this is just, it's a joy to behold you. Yeah, yeah. And I feel that way. I feel my cup runneth over. You know, they use that expression, but it's just like brimming over, full and I. I just don't know how else to express it. So if you see it, that's wonderful. And if you hear it, that's wonderful. But I'm experiencing it. And so whatever I wanted out of this, I received with a hundredfold. You're like a beautiful monstrance right now that's sitting on top of an altar with a whole bunch of light shining. And I know you're just a vessel. You're just a monstrance. But what's making everybody, it's just breathtaking is how Christ is radiating out of you right now. What I was experiencing was that inner heart of Mary. And what's the inner heart of Mary? Completely empty. Completely empty. So that every single moment you can receive whatever that is that's coming. I think that's really what I'm experiencing. The emptiness of Mary's heart. So that she has none of her own cares, but those of everyone around her. You know, everyone was caring. I felt being cared for. But it was like the kind of being cared for so that I too could experience how to care for others. Well now you got me crying. Oh my gosh. Now I'm a big weepy mess. Well Monsignor, you know, I usually ask you if you have a final thought, but I just can't even believe that there could be a finality to this experience. What are you feeling right now in this moment? The thing that I'm really kind of filled with is Mary's spirit. It's always crying out. Magnificat. Magnificat. Have a beautiful, beautiful day. Along with hundreds of other spiritual formation programs, visit discerning hearts .com. Or you can find it within the free discerning hearts app. This has been a production of discerning hearts. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. We hope that if this has been helpful for you that you will first pray for our mission, which is to offer rock solid and authentic spiritual formation freely to souls around the world. And if you feel us worthy, consider a charitable donation, which is fully tax deductible to help support our efforts. 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A highlight from IP#499 Gil Bailie The Apocalypse of the Sovereign Self on Inside the Pages with Kris McGregor Discerning Hearts podcasts
"Discerninghearts .com presents Inside the Pages, insights from today's most compelling authors. I'm your host, Chris McGregor, and I'm delighted to be joined by Gil Bailey, who is the founder of the Cornerstone Forum and a member of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars and the College of Fellows of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology. He is the author of God's Gamble, The Gravitational Power of Crucified Love. With Gil Bailey, we go inside the pages of The Apocalypse of the Sovereign Self, Recovering the Christian Mystery of Personhood, published by Angelico Press. Gil, thank you so much for joining me. Thank you so much for having me. Pleasure to be here. It was just wonderful being able to dive into the pages of The Apocalypse of the Sovereign Self. I found it to be so provocative and also very compelling. It's one of those kind of books that causes you to look at things through different, maybe clear lenses. Does that make sense? Well, I hope so. That flatters me, but that was my intent. It's a complex problem we face, but I tried to lay it out in a way that would be at least interesting to the reader. Now, I should bring out the full name, including the subtitle, The Apocalypse of the Sovereign Self, Recovering the Christian Mystery of Personhood. Could you break that open for folks and help them understand why this is such an important subject right now? Well, first of all, before you get to the two, really two halves of the book, the first part, The Apocalypse of the Sovereign Self, and the second part, Recovering the Christian Mystery of Personhood. We're in a civilizational crisis, and it's a political and a political crisis, a deep relative to moral and spiritual crisis. And my friend and mentor, Rene Girard, summed up in one of their books when he wrote, No one takes the trouble to reflect uncompromisingly on the enigma of a historical situation here that is without precedent the death of all cultures. Now, that's a sweeping statement, but it's like statements made by Benedict XVI on Balthasar and others. It recognizes the unique depth of the crisis that we've been entering into for a long time. I think one of the key features of this crisis is that we have failed to recognize and do justice to the very thing that sets us apart, sets our human beings apart from the whole created order, namely our religious longing. It's a longing which cannot be extinguished. It's the only question of orienting it towards its fulfillment or squandering it on idols. And in our time as faith has receded, many are eager to reflect before any ideological fraction that promises to relieve the boredom of not having a real collision. So that's the situation we face. And in the first part of the book, I try to draw it out in that chapters are, you know, I'm not an academic. I have a law degree and I never practiced law, but I began reading Western China many, many years ago. So the way to make this crisis intelligible and easy to recognize is I lay it out in chapters where I talk about people like Bob Dylan and Theresa Mitzvah and Flannery O 'Connor and Virginia Woolf and Descartes and Rousseau and Nietzsche and T .F. Eliot and Freud and all these. But in each of these chapters, I try to tease out one of the facets of spiritual crisis. And in the second half of the book, there's an edition on something. I mean, the way to summarize it is from Romano Lardini wrote in the 20th century, a book strikingly entitled The End of the Modern World. And in it, there's something that summarizes the second half of the book. Well, it actually connects the first half and the second half. And I'm going to quote it to you. The knowledge of what it means to be a person is inextricably bound up with the faith of Christianity. An affirmation and cultivation of the personal can endure for a time perhaps after faith has been extinguished. But gradually, they too will be lost. So the knowledge of what it means to be a person inextricably bound up with Christianity came into our vocabulary, our intellectual vocabulary. When Tertullian defined the Trinity as three persons and one God. So the word self and the word person are not only not synonymous, they are antonyms in a way. A person called in sin. The self is an antonymic creature who regards the will and the essential component of this being. And that whole triumph of will to coin a threat, not to coin a threat, but to pick up on Christ, so to say, with Nietzsche and Hitler. We think everything depends on our will. And I don't have a quote in front of me, but in the Casey decision, I think it was 1990, the Supreme Court said in the majority opinion that everyone has a right to use their own reality, to define reality. That's Nietzsche. That's that, of course. Right. But now it's become part of our it's what it's what a lot of people believe. And that's why we have friends, gender nonsense and who knows what else. But you can just make it up as you go along. If it's your reality is entirely up to you to determine by an act of will. And it's unbelievable what comes of that. And what we have to understand is that we are not the world does not conform to our will. We conform to our own. We are called in them. So anyway, the crisis we're living in is a crisis that became cultural with Nancy and Piddler and so on. But now it's become conventional in the sense that triumph of the will is everywhere. It's at one time, of course, and it's degradation of our real person to be a person is to be called in sin. And I think it's imperative we understand the predicament that we're in. And I think that's really important. I think for most in the culture today, for several generations, at the very least, if not many more in that we've never had the types of conversations in our formation, our educational venues about this particular subject. I mean, you spoke of a great friendship you had with Rene Girard, an important figure, philosopher, teacher, Stanford, and some would say a theologian. I know that Bishop Baron referred to him as one day. He may be considered, as he said, a father of modern theology because of what he described as that mimic theory that we as individuals and not necessarily as persons, because there's that distinction between the individual and what it is to be a person. And you knew him very well. That whole understanding of, as some would say, the mimic theory. What are your thoughts about that? Well, it was a great privilege to know him and he dispensed with him for decades. And I think his work will take a while, like all great thinkers. It takes a while to sort itself out. The first take on Girard is that it's all about violence and imitation. And of course, in some way it is. And my first book was all about that. But there's so much more to it. And one of the things I tried in this book is to expand the understanding of Girard's his favorite theologians are the same as mine. It was John Culver II, Benedict, Van Valken, even though Van Valken had some complaints about Rene's early work. And that's before the real theological implications came out in its later book. But he had great affection for John Culver II and especially for Cardinal Ratzinger, Benedict XVI, but also do it again, and so on. So I try to integrate Rene's work with these theologians. And I think it helped fill out a deep Catholic understanding of our crisis. And so I think we're in a difficult situation. But we have been given intellectual and spiritual giant whose work now we can make available to ourselves that would reckon with the predicament we're in. Well, I think that's how Rene Girard and how someone even like a G .K. Chesterton, for example, they were able to challenge them in their early lives when they looked at literature, when they looked at art and those popular cultural icons, those types of works that had deeper meanings to them. And they were able to see certain truths and certain movements and things. And then they came out and then they expressed it, why it touches the human heart in certain ways, either for good or for ill. And they were able to distinguish that. And I think that's the importance of looking at those figures who have a gift for that. And you do that, like you said, whether it's Bob Dylan or it's Flannery O 'Connor or even someone who captures the heart and imagination of the world like a tres. What is it that they're trying to communicate to us in? What is the potential, the beauty, the good, the true, but also the warning that are contained in their expressions of their works? And I think that's what you're trying to do in the book, in each of the many, many chapters that you have on those different type of whether it's literature or it's prose or, again, even in music. And so I think that is a wonderful way to go about it, don't you? You know, I'm so happy you mentioned it because it reminds me of something that I think your listeners might be interested in. It's a way of approaching the situation we're in. von Balfour Jarre, in one of his writings, says to human history after the Christian revelation, consist of a mutual intensification of the yes and no to Christ. Now pause and think about that. History after Christ consists of the mutual intensification of the yes and no to Christ. If that seems to require too much theological sophistication. Bob Dylan said something exactly like that in this 1979 song, God Accured Somebody, in which he said, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord, but you're going to have to bury somebody. So both the theologian and the popular poet listed only two choices. The theologian said it's the yes or no to Christ, and the poet musician said we're going to end up serving either the devil or the Lord. Now where Testament comes in is the Testament said once that if everyone, I'm going to paraphrase him because I think it's a little punchier to say this, like if everyone lived a thousand years they would all die Catholic, which is the paraphrase of what he once said. And the reason is, I would say, he didn't spell it out, I'm going to, if we had a thousand years of experience to look back on, we would realize that all the little choices were made along the way were in some small way the yes or the no to Christ, or the choice between the devil and the Lord. And then we would understand, if we had a thousand years of experience, that the drama of history is the mutual intensification of yes and no to Christ. 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So when Dylan talks about whether you are to serve, you got to serve somebody, it's either going to be the devil or it's going to be Christ. And that entails when you serve, it's going to be relational. You can't get out of it. And to say that I have this individual autonomy all to myself to do and think the way I want to, it's to negate the relationship. And you can't get around that. But yet that's what the culture is implying, isn't it? It is. And one of the things that's lost in that emphasis on self and self -will is the idea and this is involved with our great contribution, the idea of the field drama that we are in, we live dramatically, we're part of a drama that's unfolding and our task is to live and our task is to fulfill the obligation that are incumbent upon us as members of the cast. We have to live in such a way that we ourselves and our loved ones and spreading out for those we know or maybe those of you catch a glimpse of us coming out of the church on Wednesday morning and wonder what the heck are people doing in church on Wednesday morning. Whatever it is, we have an obligation to live in the drama on behalf of Christ in this church in whatever way we can. Whatever our role in life, our vocation in life, our situation, there's always an opportunity to be an icon of Christ and to contribute to the historical field drama that way. And for years I've quoted the 13th century Islamic poet Rumi who said, and I'm gonna quote, he said, be like one who when he walks into the room, luck shifts to the one who needs you. And there's a Christian analog to that which is of course St. Peter who said always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks here to give a reason for the hope you have. So we have to be beacons of a hope that may be totally puzzling to others but if we live in such a way that it's compelling, they will at some point want to find out how we tend to have that hope and a conversation can be had that could be very fruitful. So we live dramatically, not in some self -conscious way or in a physical way, but our lives should be evangelical in the sense that we should be willing and eager to allow anyone who cares to know why it is we had hope even when the situation is, it's never hopeless, but is dire as there is today and may very well be more so in the future.
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"Welcome back. Talking to Tho Bishop, T.H.O. Bishop. He's the editorial head at the Mises Institute, Mises.org. You can read his articles there. And I was just saying, um, though, that we have, um, the reason I would put my money on Trump is because the, the work that has to be done is so huge, uh, to, we have to, we have to tear out, uh, the, the deep state bureaucracy route and branch. This is not, you know, oh, we're going to fix our, you know, we're going to change some economic policies, whatever. There's an entrenched, uh, group of bureaucrats who are at war with the United States of America, with we, the people and Donald Trump is a threat to them. And I think that because of the hell they put him through, he has the willingness to do what needs to be done, not to worry about who he's going to upset as he does it. And you know, when you said you see him sometimes not as an ideologue, but as, um, ideal, like in the positive sense, the way Reagan was, but as somebody who's transactional, I think we've come to a place where if you're pro reality, if you're pro business, pro common sense, you are an ideologue. In other words, the, the ideology that I'm for truth, I'm for what works versus what doesn't work. Trump really represents that and sees things fairly clearly in that sense. And that's a staggering thing. If you're an ideologue on the left. Well, I know one of the presidents that Trump likes to see himself as the model of Andrew Jackson, who I'm a big fan of, I think the Jacksonian period of politics is one of America's best. And one of the things that Jackson was so good at was again, the himself, you know, you're kind of a kind of a man of action, the much like Trump is, is that, you know, he understood the importance of circulation of elites. And it's funny, you read your classic high school textbook today, right. And it decries the spoil system as sort of this era of political corruption and likes like, Oh, how, how dare a president actually appoint his own people into positions of power after he wins elections. And we can't allow that to happen. Right. And I think that that is a dynamic where Trump, you know, with all the reports about his interest in, you know, firing 50,000 bureaucrats day one, replacing it, that circulation of elites, bringing in people that actually want to work and actually build towards restoring that sort of truth and normality and getting business back on the table that ultimately, again, like that's, that's a, that's a blueprint for future success. And that's what I'm like. That's where I think Trump 2.0 could be far more potent from a policy standpoint than Trump 1.0. And again, I think the, the overreach of the elites is creating a dynamic where that's very well can happen. Well, I really do think that he scares them to death as well. He should, because he is the only one effectively to call a spade a spade. I think that previous, uh, Republicans and many of the Republicans in Congress and in the Senate today, they are not willing to fight or to lose anything. They kind of want to go along. They want to play patty cake with evil. Uh, uh, I, I say in my most recent book, letter to the American church, I talk about how Reagan was not that kind of a guy. He wanted to win the cold war. He was not interested in detente. If it was possible actually to defeat the, this evil empire of the Soviet union. I think you see something like that, uh, in Trump. And if he wasn't there before he's there now, because the way they treated him and his family, I think he gets it and he would not allow, he would not hire people that he hired in the past. 30 seconds left final word. Speaking about the Republican Congress, just the same way. We need a rotation of elites within the bureaucracy. We need a lot of rotation, I think, and who is representing the Republican party in DC. Cause most of them do not have a Trump's spirit of fighting. And so hopefully we need to change the party from within, I think as well, from the representation standpoint, because we need some real fighters that the stakes are too high. And I, I'd like to start with Mitch McConnell's head on a pike. I don't know if that's just too, just too obvious. Cause that's what everybody always says. But, um, fun to talk to you. Uh, so Bishop, thank you for being my guest. We'll have you back. And, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, check out mises.org. It's M I S E S dot org. Uh, and you can read more of what so Bishop has to say. Uh, thanks for listening, uh, to this program. And again, so thank you for being with us.To those who visit Mickey Dees for their favorite breakfast item, and then go somewhere else for coffee, give this Mickey Dees brew a second chance. The glow up was real. Try any size iced coffee brewed with 100% Arabica beans for just 99 cents until 11 AM. And pair it with a savory sausage McMuffin with egg for $2.79. Prices and participation may vary. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Ba da ba ba ba.
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"Welcome back. I'm talking to Tho Bishop with the Mises Institute. So talk more about this article that you've written that people can find at mises.org. Yeah, the breaking point here between the class of, it's the politically connected class versus everyone else, with Trump as their figure that must be destroyed by these folks. You know, again, this is, I think the core of this is very important populist moment that it's not only existing in America, but it can go broader. And, you know, I think the important dynamic is looking at, you know, how can we strike at the roots of this? The regime is making itself weaker by overplaying its hand, but we also need to understand why the regime has the power that it has. The biggest thing is that, you know, they enrich themselves directly off the back of, you know, the American Patriots that you were discussing in the last segment, right? You know, not only, but the way that, you know, a taxation policy and all of the incredible spending that we have in DC creating debt that generations are going to pay off. But one of the big focuses of the Mises Institute is the aspect of the federal reserve and monetary policy. The way that inflation doesn't only diminish our paychecks, but the money that is created goes directly into the pockets of, you know, wherever the financial classes, again, like the extent to which big tech, which played a major censorship aspect in the 2020 campaign, the extent to which their debt was made cheaper because of what the Fed was doing, right? We have this entire class right now, fiat elites, people that are directly benefiting from not only the political power they have, but the economic system that has been built towards enriching them and everyone else. And, you know, this, this, this political environment, they had the, can the campaign of 2024. Yeah, I'm, I'm here in Florida. I have a great deal of respect for governor of Santas. You know, it's, it's exhausting to see some of the, the primary rhetoric that is going on right now as a result of this is what elections do, but ultimately, you know, nothing should distract from, you know, the, the power at the, the real, the real battleground here is not Santas versus Trump. It's the elites versus us. And again, the way that the, the way that they keep punching at Trump, you know, it, it shows exactly, um, you know, that there's something about him that makes him that figure. And, and so, you know, we, we are in a potential period of real political realignment. Hopefully we can capitalize on it because this energy, all of this, you know, they've, they've made themselves clear. It has to be, we need follow through, um, that's gonna require action at the state level. I'm a big fan of what Chris Rufo has been doing in higher education here. It's gonna require people getting up to vote. It's required people have never voted Republican saying, I'm tired of the system. That's ripped me off. I'm even going to go in Trump going with Trump this, this next time, but it's gonna require a collective effort to take down this very dangerous sinister ruling class. That's right. And I want to ask you, I don't know if you want to comment on national review, but I have to say that a lot of the folks that have been never Trump that, you know, I was a big fan of Buckley got to meet him a few times. And he famously said that I would rather be governed by, you know, the first, uh, 300 names in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard university. In other words, he came out as, as a populist. This is, you know, I guess it was in the sixties when he made that comment, uh, basically saying that I trust the average American because he has common sense because he has to raise a family and pay taxes and work at a job. Whereas the Harvard faculty, the elites, they don't. And I don't trust them. And that seems to have been a fundamental conservative value, uh, at least as Buckley framed it so famously, but now, um, it really seems that many in the conservative movement who don't like Trump have drifted to be part of this kind of ruling elite class that was once decried by William F. Buckley. You're absolutely correct. Misa himself has a quote about how, you know, the, the average housewife that handles the family budget has a better sense of economics than the other PhD economists out there. So that, that very much is, I think an important, uh, part of conservative wisdom of respect for common sense that gets drilled out of your head. The more, more times you go to college. Um, but you're right there, there has been this, this baked in hostility. Um, and, and I think, I think this, this, this goes even beyond Trump, right? There's, there's always this sort of preference for reform within the system. Um, you know, there's, you can talk about the networks, you know, the, the different, um, you know, collegiate connections there, the different, you know, the preference for respect within DC. I mean, I, I, myself was a Capitol Hill staff where I served with the house financial services committee for three years. And the amount of disdain that your average Republican staff or had for your average Republican voter, um, which was something that made it only a three-year stay rather than anything much longer. And that has, that I think has been a constant problem with the American right broadly is that in order to really challenge the current American regime, and we can go back to the progressive era and between the Roosevelt's and the build of the state there, we can talk about, um, you know, the 1960s and the various changes that LBJ made, you know, we, we have created a system far beyond any sort of, of a constitutional roots, anything from away from the vision, the founding fathers, if you're going to be, you know, a conservative, if you're going to actually try to restore things back to what America was supposed to be its promise, then it requires you to be a radical on the perspective of what Washington is. And people in Washington, they don't want radicals. Now, I think one of the promising things is that while, you know, you, you have seen pushback between the national review and dispatch and Doug French and that class of, of, you know, conservative intellectuals. That's so, so the longest time really kind of relied upon like Fox news as a way of propping up their standing right there. If Bill Kristol wasn't on Fox news, the relevance of Bill Kristol, even in the two thousands with average Republicans, when very, very low, um, you're seeing a change now, maybe not so much for Fox news ever since they got rid of Tucker Carlson, but I think the institutions, the organizations around it, I think her heritage is much better now than it was several years ago. I think that you've seen the, the creation of a variety of conservative organizations. You've seen funding go into important legal firms. You've seen changes being made at the state policy strategy level. So I think finally, because of Trump, and again, the fact that Trump sparked this intellectual change within the right is, is quite funny. Cause I don't, I take him to be more of a transactional guy than some sort of ideologue, but the intellectual revolution that has followed this populist moment is one of the reasons I have optimism because ultimately the left has been able to win because they don't simply win elections, but they've got a plan afterwards. They've got, you know, well-funded political groups to put operatives in there. You know, it wasn't until, you know, 2019 till the Trump administration really started getting serious on the hiring side of things within the white house. So should you get Trump 2.0, um, whatever conservative victory is going to in the future, I think you now have organizations prepared to govern and hopefully we'll have not only simply a reaction to whatever the craziest thing left is seeing right now, but a positive vision forward. And I think recognizing that we need, you know, you're strong. They'll be able to fight the culture war, not simply kind of take a hands-off view. That is a very important change. And it's being reflected at the state level. Hopefully it will be reflected nationally in the future. And it's going to take what we call draining the swamp, which is a monumental, uh, Herculean labor. Uh, it is, it's, uh, cleaning out the audience stables. It's a big thing and you need real fighters. People who get it. We'll be right back. We're talking to Tho Bishop. Don't go away.
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"Welcome back, folks. I'm talking to the editorial head of Mises dot org or the Mises Institute. Forgive me, you can find them at Mises dot org, Mises dot org. And his name is Tho Bishop, and he is talking about a lot of things. But we're talking about the article so that you wrote about how they are coming after Trump right now. I can't remember the title of the article. I hope you will. Yes, I believe so. Donald Trump versus the United States of America. OK, so that the actual court case. Yes. Yes. That says a lot. Yes. Think of the irony, because what when they say the United States of America, it is not the United States of America. It's the United States of America, in quotes. They dare call the people going after Donald Trump, the United States of America, as though that represented the United States of America. Ironically, it is Donald Trump who represents the United States of America far more than the bad actors, including Jack Smith, who are going after him. But talk about what you say in the article. Yes, sir. It was a breakdown on the court case and the absurdity of the court case itself, right, where basically Trump is guilty of not listening to government officials and the opinion of Mike Pence about the credibility of the election. And again, this has a tremendous free speech consequences. The entire idea of crimes against democracy is ridiculous on its notion and the fact that they were having to pull out from 1871 Ku Klux Klan legislation as a way of justifying this case. I think I mean, it's a beautiful story for your average New York Times listeners exactly what they want, of course. Oh, it's it's their wet dream. And let's be honest. Think of the irony. The KKK was Democrats. Ladies and gentlemen, in case you didn't know, the KKK was Democrats. The the racists who were pro slavery and pro Jim Crow were almost all Democrats in the Democratic Party. So they've tried to flip that script. Obviously, since LBJ, they pretend that they've always been about civil rights. And the reality is that that's not the case. But but but the idea that they would would have KKK legislation as part of how they go after Donald Trump, it fits their narrative, because according to their narrative, if you're Trump voter, you are a racist. That's kind of all they have. And they bring it every time. Right. And I mean, there's another delicious irony where the one most prominent stolen election was directly by The New York Times with the 1876. And so The New York Times not very self-aware out there. But, you know, it does. Again, I think it reflects, as we were talking about on the other segment, it's the people in power in this this ideological minority that have captured the institutions of D.C., the various mechanisms that create the political ruling class. They're so out of touch with, again, I think even a large percentage of even rank and file Democrats, you're seeing massive voting changes with Hispanic voters, Asian voters, because, again, this this this woke ideology, this this religious jihad that is propelling where the modern political left is in the halls of power is completely out of step with what normal people want. And the dangerous thing or the perhaps it's the silver lining to it is not not only are they so out of step culturally, they're also intellectually, I think, far more mediocre than kingmakers of the past. Right. If this was LBJ, for all the sins that LBJ had, he was not a dumb man. You know, they would have he would have found a way to nip this in the bud. Right. He wouldn't have kept rubbing people's face in this to continue to make this an ulcer that continues to show the public just how little their concerns are are considered. For example, the easiest way to a preventing like a January six is what Senator Hawley and Senator Cruz wanted to do and having a commission at the at the national level talking about all the irregularities with voting laws and like. But we can't have those conversations. We can't treat as as honest discussions the concerns of the deplorable class that so loves Trump. And I think the way to look at politics in the last eight years or so is that Trump elevated the table deplorable is giving them a voice and in response, the Democrats have unleashed their own deplorables of the anti fall of the BLM type riot rioters. But the problem is those are actual those are actual deplorables. Unemployed, unhinged adolescents versus or even if they're not adolescents, people who behave in emotionally unhinged ways versus hardworking middle Americans who've been tagged by Hillary Clinton and others as deplorable. So it really is the heartland of America. It is the Patriots versus people that are at war with the whole system. And the I think the reason I personally became so pro Trump was the way they went after his voters. I thought that's really despicable. That's my mother and my father. That's all the people that I grew up with. These are good people. These are not racists. These are the backbone of this country. They love this country. Many of them fought for this country. And so the way the elites, in a sense, have outed themselves as who they are, this is a recent development because they always talked a good game about being for the people, for the poor. But in a sense, they really have they've shown themselves for who they are. And there was something about Trump that made them do that. I don't think he did that intentionally. I just think it's who he was. And as you say, he's such a threat to everything. George W. Bush was not a threat. John McCain was not a threat. Mitt Romney was not a threat. Bob Dole was not a threat. Ronald Reagan was something of a threat. But we haven't seen a threat like the threat of Donald Trump. And this scares them to death. And they have no boundaries. They will do and say anything, including go after a former president of the United States in nakedly political terms, the way they've done. And you write about it in this article, Trump versus the United States of America. Folks will be right back. I'm talking to Tho Bishop. It's spelled Tho Bishop. You know how to spell. He's the editorial director at the Mises Institute, and that's Mises.org. We'll be right back.
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"Yeah. Well, and I want to be very clear. Ludwig von Mises is not to be confused with confused with Mises van der Rohe, who was an architect. Just want to be very clear. OK, folks. All right. So we're talking about economics, Austrian economics, conservatism. But ultimately, you wrote an article that I want to discuss with you about kind of where we are in America today with regard to free speech and Donald Trump. Where's the article, by the way? Where did you publish the article that we're discussing? I've read the article, but where can it be found? And you can find it at Mises.org. That's Mises.org. OK, by Tho Bishop, T-H-O. OK, so talk about that article. Let's let's get into it. Well, I think that the current political environment is very interesting because very obvious things are becoming a lot less obvious. And one of the things that Ludwig von Mises wrote about, he was a defender of democracy. And the importance of democracy in his mind was that it was a way of elevating kind of political legitimacy. You had the ability to engage freely within the political process, that this helped for allowing for a change in ideas, a change of ideologies. If the public started rejecting the doctrines of the king or whatever, you don't need to revolution to have a change of the ideology of the government itself. And yet what we have right now is it's a very illiberal system. It's a weaponization of democracy. It is a situation where more and more kind of the ideology of Washington, D.C. is kind of imposed by fiat on the people. It is not reflecting, I think, the real political sentiment up there of where the nation is. And I think particularly see this on the culture dynamics. And so I think what the Trump dynamic is and find myself being exhausted by Trump at times or just the spectacle around him. But the most recent indictment, I thought, was a very important illustration of how I think the regime is maybe overplaying its hand. It's relying too much. Oh, you think they're overplaying their hand? This is to me the delight of it is that they're overplaying their hand. Look, I think that the left is so dramatically overplaying its various hands. That normal people who've never heard of Ludwig von Mises, they've never thought of themselves as having to think about the deeper stuff. But they say, wait a minute, what I know, something is wrong in America. Something fundamental is wrong because maybe I was never too far left, but I didn't think that they would go this far. And where they're going on the transgender ideology, where they're going on wanting to abolish borders, abolish police, abolish transparency in elections, abolish free speech. Generally speaking, it's horrifying to your average American. In other words, they're getting the attention of average Americans who normally wouldn't be paying attention to this. And when they go after Donald Trump the way they've gone after him recently, it's almost as though they were calculating that they they wanted to drive people toward him because you can't help but say there's there's something wrong here. There's something wrong in the way they're going after him, the aggressiveness, because they could go after me if they're doing this to him. Well, I think there is a dynamic there where, you know, I have no doubt there are some Democrat operatives out there that much prefer to run against a Donald Trump than a Ron DeSantis because of some of the approval ratings and things like that. But I think ultimately the reason why they're going so strong after Donald Trump is because he threatens the legitimacy of the entire apparatus. Going out there and accusing elections of being rigged. And one does not have to agree with every claim that Sidney Powell made to understand that when you change the rules of the game during the game, when you have these executive orders changing the way the elections are run outside of constitutional orders within the state, when you have the mass cartel, cartelized censorship of information with big tech platforms involving the 100 Biden laptop story, when you have this influx of various groups doing ballot harvesting, the like, that is not the way that a serious country runs elections. And much the same way that we take the the custody dynamics of a criminal case, right, where you don't allow criminal evidence to be transported through the mail. You know, you do that because ultimately we're dealing with the use of the state to punish people. It's the same exact way with elections, right? And so the entire integrity of the entire situation that Donald Trump refuses to just go along with the script on it, that is the biggest threat that any state has is the removal of the perception of legitimacy, which, again, if you looked at it after the election was two thirds of the Trump voters that thought the election was illegitimate. When you add that with all the other chaos, when you had with the covid lockdowns and you add it with the cultural insanity, the people that are seeing the regime as something that does not represent them, that is a direct threat to them. If there is if there is a way to translate and to turn the 2024 election away from a referendum on whether you like Donald Trump, yes or no, and on to a referendum on the system that exists right now, I think that creates a very important opportunity for political change in this country. Now, whether or not that happens, the media, we obviously know what direction they're going to go. But but I also think there's an interesting parallel with our friends down in Brazil, because you saw the same exact situation with the Brazilian elections where they have prevented the former president, Javier Bolsonaro, from running for office for the last eight years because his followers didn't believe in the credibility of the election. You had the Biden regime going down there and saying, oh, this is the most secure and stable election of all time, while a socialist rise to power with the help of drug cartels. And so you have this dynamic where in the case of Brazil is the Supreme Court actively censoring information prior to the prior to the election. And also it was the big tech cartel. But I think the parallels between the playbook that went on the US and what we've seen going on in Brazil, this is this is something I think you're going to see continue to grow globally again as this this this Western neoliberal regime is threatened. We will be right back talking to Tho Bishop, T.H.O. Bishop. You can find him at Mises dot org, Mises dot org. We'll be right back.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"bishop" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Well, you wonder why I always welcome back. I'm privileged to welcome a new guest to the program. His last name is Bishop. He's not a bishop. He's just a civilian. He's just a normal guy. His last name is Bishop. His first name is T.H.O. Pronounced Tho, and he is the editorial director of the Mises Institute. And you're saying, what is the Mises Institute? Some of you have heard of the Austrian Ludwig von Mises. So welcome. I'm assuming that the Mises Institute has something to do with him. A very good guest right there. It's an honor to be here. Tell us. It's good to have you tell us a little bit about who Ludwig von Mises was. Was he a friend with Friedrich Hayek? He was. He was a mentor for Hayek. They were just a guess. Yes, yes. And they were both products of the University of Austria, which itself is very interesting. Because what we have right now is there's kind of a capture of what the economics discipline became during the 20th century with John Maynard Keynes and the rise of metrics. And this became this very quantified sort of science. The Austrian school was very much a sort of throwback to viewing economics as a very logically deductive school of reasoning, understanding tradeoffs and these sort of dynamics founded by Carl Menger, whose work inspired Ludwig von Mises. Mises himself was, I think, one of the greatest intellectuals of the 20th century. He wrote at a very young age a theory of money and credit, which was a profound book on money and fiduciary media, kind of money substitutes and the way that creates business cycles. He had to serve in World War I after that as an officer. And what's interesting is that he kind of saw the world around him change dramatically. When the Nazis took over Austria, he had to flee. He went to Switzerland, worked on a great treatise there. He had to escape there because the Nazis were trying to assassinate him. It turns out Hitler was not a fan of free market Jewish economists, and they really didn't like his work. Yeah, really. And so then he escaped to the US. And even in the United States, in spite of all of his great accomplishments, multiple books, just this wonderfully respected economic thinker. He could not get a paid position teaching in FDR's America because of how wildly the economics profession had turned in favor of the Keynesian revolution. So he had a job at NYU. He was able to have a seminar there. He had students, but it was all paid for by outside parties. And because of him escaping the Nazis coming to the United States, the Austrian School of Economics, which originally was actually kind of a slur that the German Historical School is kind of like all of those bumpkins in Austria. They're not us Germans, right? Like Paul Krugman talking to us about Alabama economics today. The Austrian School of Economics has largely been a US based kind of school of thought since that move over there inspired a number of great proteges in his own right, including Murray Rothbard, who was a founder that helped found the Mises Institute. And if a Hayek, of course, went on to win the Nobel Prize shortly after Mises's death, working on this business cycle theory that the two of them developed. And so it's great to see some recognition for understanding kind of the booms and busts, the way central banks play a role in there. But for the most part, sort of the Austrian School has always been on the outs of the way that most economic programs are, you know, what you learn in most American universities. But so we try to keep that tradition alive. And just to just to sum up or to try to clarify for those who aren't clear, we're talking about the free market. We're talking about freedom. So I guess you would describe yourself as a conservative as far as that goes. I mean, I certainly would describe myself that way, but you would. Yes, and particularly in respect, a lot of Austrian economists have been kind of associated with libertarianism, right, kind of this very strong respect for limited government, free markets and the like. But I think in this kind of current age, the respect for cultural tradition is very important. I think that Mises very much embodies that sort of old Europe appreciation for culture and tradition there. And so I'm a lot less comfortable with the L word based off some of the institutions out there using it. So I find myself completely, increasingly comfortable with conservatism.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"bishop" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Most of us don't suffer in the way these people suffer. And I just want you to imagine that this were your family or your kids or someone you knew. And then you realize that there are these wonderful Christians out there listening to a radio program who want to help you and who do help you. And it all adds up, which is why I ask everybody to participate. Chris, before we go to our guest, whose real name is Tho Tho, I just want to say that if you're watching this program or if you see me on. Video or an Instagram or whatever. I'm very tan right now, and a lot of people say, Eric, is that an illusion? No, I'm really this tan. And then it brings up the philosophical question, which we're going to answer at some future Socrates in the city. How tan is to tan? That's really the question. How tan is an age old question is to tan. It's an age old question. Socrates failed to answer it. And it's also an old age question. And it's an old age question, too, because tanning because ages your skin really badly. Speaking of. Of answering questions that haven't yet been answered. Eric, what do you think of the new Wes Anderson film Asteroid City? Someone asked, and I have to tell you. I'm a big Wes Anderson fan. He has made like five of the greatest films ever, you know, which like whatever Moonrise Kingdom, the Grand Budapest Hotel, the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Rushmore, and then the one on Royal the Royal Tenenbaums. These are just genius films. So, so great. His last film was The French Dispatch. And a friend of mine said to me, oh, yeah, it's really self-indulgent. And I thought, what are you talking about? And then I watched it. And, you know, it was really self-indulgent. And it was it was really disappointing because I expect so much from Wes Anderson that it was just wildly self-indulgent. That's The French Dispatch. So I can't recommend it. But then I thought his next film is sure to be awesome. And it certainly looked awesome. All the the publicity stuff, it's called Asteroid City. And here's the thing. It's not awesome. And it's a it's it's a pity because it makes me wonder. Like, if you're as talented, this is kind of like if you're if you're incredibly beautiful or incredibly rich, incredibly charming, incredibly talented, people tend to surround you that that are not critical of you because they're in awe of your talent or whatever it is. And and his and asteroid city is is hugely disappointing because. Wes Anderson is so great that he could do something really great, and then when he doesn't, you think, well, didn't you have anybody around you to tell you, excuse me, that's not funny. So I think the answer to that would be no. I think sometimes when you get, you know, success early on for the thing that you do, you just kind of listen to it and then, you know, maybe that gets in the way of the creative process. Well, that's exactly what didn't happen to me. Like I had so little success for so long that it humbled me severely up front. So I'm so grateful for anything that happens that goes well. I'm not kidding. I mean, it was like so many years of brutal struggle. And I always worry about people who have early success because early success is it can really be a curse. And and when you have the kind of talent, he does just amazing. But asteroid city was just a huge disappointment. I cannot recommend it at all. And I'm very, very sorry to say that. I mean, there's great moments in it, but very few. OK, food for the poor. In case I haven't mentioned it, you can text Eric to nine one nine nine nine. And I think you want to do that right now. Text Eric to nine one nine nine nine. Go to Metaxas talk dot com. We need your help and we'll be right back. Thank you.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"bishop" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"I'm excited to have a new guest coming up. His first name is Tho. And I ask him, is that short for something? And his answer is clever. He's really good. He's really good. You'll notice through the course of the interview, I will resist the very strong temptation to say, throw us up, bro, or something like that. I will resist that. I will. Or throw me the ball. Throw it to me. You know, there's a lot you can do with it. Right. And we and we will not do any of those things. OK. OK, so let's move on. So, OK, so I. We had some American hour one, and we've got these young bloods coming up, young bloods like Tho Bishop, who's coming up in the next segment, because I want to know, hey, pal, you better, you know, not coast on your laurels, not rest on your laurels, because these young bloods are coming up. They want to take you down. They want to be the next Smirak. So we need everybody's a game. It's all about the game. Yeah, it's all it's all about the game on this show. Right. As of now. So I want to say we're doing a fundraiser for food for the poor folks. Some of you, you're haunted. Like every time I bring this up, you kind of this weird guilt feeling. Why don't you just get it over with today and give a small amount? Because if everyone would give a small amount, believe me, that's fine with me as long as you give something right. So you can give five or ten dollars you get on your phone. You can text Eric. To nine one nine nine nine. We would love for you to do that. You could do that right now. Frankly, text Eric to nine one nine nine nine. We need your help. I didn't say it in the first segment, but food for the poor helps the poorest of the poor in our hemisphere. These are people who can't feed their kids. And the reason we're doing such a big push this month is because hurricane season is coming up and they know that hurricanes will devastate and tropical storms will devastate this part of the world. We don't know exactly where, but we know it happens every single year. And we're going to need money to build new houses for these people who lose their homes. Food for the poor can build an entire home for forty nine hundred dollars. So there are people out there I know who can give forty nine hundred dollars and actually to bait you. I always say this.
Dateable Podcast
"bishop" Discussed on Dateable Podcast
"And I'm glad that we're at a place now, at least in this place of dateable podcast, both Julie and I have a pretty strong stance on dating and what we like and what we don't like in a partnership, but I think that took years of our own past relationships and also just talking to other daters and learning from that. Yeah, and today's episode we have a comedian des bishop, who was a delight to talk to and, you know, I didn't know how deep we were going to get. With comedians, you think a lot of times it's going to be light and funny. And there were definitely those moments in it. But we got pretty deep. We got pretty deep into the relationship we've had with others and also the relationship we have with ourselves, which is clearly a recurring theme on this podcast. And one of the reasons we found him too, we've been seeing some of his comedy but also his now wife was on the bravo show summer house. And she also has a podcast that's pretty popular, Hannah burner is her name. And I definitely, I never had seen summer house before. The interview with him, but I had heard about it and had friends that watched it. It's not, but it's pretty funny. It's pretty interesting. It reminds me of real world, but in 2022, or 20, I think it started a couple of years ago. Basically, they all go to a Hamptons house and get fucked up and hook up with each other. And you know there's a lot of relationships that have stem from it. And I actually watched the episode where Dez came to the summer house. So that was kind of funny to watch it after talking to him. Well, their relationship started while she was filming summer house, right? So there's a lot of variables
"You're In Charge: Conversation that Spark Change" with Glenn Pasch
"bishop" Discussed on "You're In Charge: Conversation that Spark Change" with Glenn Pasch
"While I am so excited today for this conversation, Eric bishop, author of the body man, phenomenal political thriller, all of you should get this. He was kind enough to join me today and some of the conversations we had was about this idea of never quitting. That we could be our reasons why we never accomplished what we set out to do..
The Right Time with Bomani Jones
"bishop" Discussed on The Right Time with Bomani Jones
"You don't say that brother would have really benefited from a program institution such as bishop sikkim. The best part of that story in jolt slid it in there. I wanna make sure you understand this. This man went and tried out photo oilers and then went back to play college football. You know what let me. Just start back. Oh he's like that workout. Might have gone a little bit. Better now bro. I might be able to pull some no so he goes fort pierce college which i think. La somewhere. i wanna say. That's where the brother they used to play for the giants say antonio linebacker antonio peer may actually i may just be saying pearson careful right right right but pierce college win there and then figured out. You don't put enough on tape that the university of texas that is the dream that would have really benefited was though lies. You could tell four the et before. Here's business nicobar more out here with all this internet still telling these lives and you know what part of it was. This is how we should have noted this assets right. The name of the school is bishop sycamore. Like a treat. You know what. I'm saying in a bishop. Nobody's name name bishop nothing at all the bishops anymore. But it sounds like a school that plays good. Football is when you hear that sound like school. Plays good football. Oh yeah top programme in the greater columbus ohio area. Why would anybody doubt that. That's the school that exists. That's call all kinds of stuff. Do you remember eastern christian academy like see this is another. I'm deeper to the scams eastern christian academy becca two thousand twelve. They tried to build a program around brother. That i know that you're going to remember. David sills you remember. David sills who ended up being all american wide receiver. It was virginia but at the time he was top quarterback prospect and in fact he was such a good quarterback prospect lane. Kiffin offered him a scholarship aid. Yeah exactly exactly. And they got that finesse. So good sports illustrated wrote about him and the headline of that story. And i'm going to read it here. Eastern christian academy has no field. No home uniforms no listed phone number. It isn't even a school. Just a national football powerhouse. You know so people have been trying this man. They've been. I mean people people right now. Listen to this watching this unfold. And they're like oh. I can do that though. Yeah i can pull it off. The bishops sycamore level. To me is they didn't realize everything that would come from playing against high profile schools Because if they had not played that game. I am geeta weekend. Espn were not there. And logan bill and them to audibly. What is this thought anything about it. Like nobody would are really dug into it but then they win and google up that address. It was a duplex somewhere. Old buddy we have a problem here and they still go. They sounded like What was it would rental takes. Thought larry homes howard. Cosell was so disgusted off. This is an outrage. That's hot ability of sounded watch the bishops from the creative is not like a plane and go do it but i want it so i guess it must've been paragon that got the hall of fame like that's the thing they play at the hall of fame. Okay i'm not even labor day weekend keep in mind right right man. You make a really good point man. If that game if they hadn't just lucked out just enough to get tv for people to expose nickleby playing games right now without people bothering you know what they'll give it a couple of weeks. They'd be playing games and nobody bothered. Oh yeah i mean. They're still playing. They still people scheduled other. I mean and that's the thing man like what's your schedule is locked in you kinda. I mean it's really tough to cancel a game. You only get so many football games. If i was in high school ambitious more still on my schedule our had no concerns. We place somebody this we might as well be do. Here's the thing though. I with you because i'm trying to put us a feel you know what i'm saying this your opportunity to put us fill where i would be worried. Though is a lot of stress to be putting the sycamore under at some point. Mad he's gonna start playing dirty. You know what. I'm saying way enough like what is clear about the bishops sycamore. Roster is as a whole lot of dues with nothing to lose. because they're because they're at bishop sycamore. I would argue that. They love football as much more than anybody know. If you play football under those circumstances. I mean bra anybody. That has play football before. We'll tell you like if there's no goal in mind what's your dreams of whatever you envision your career over the game becomes that much less appealing. You hurt yourself bro. Like why would. I throw myself onto ground. Forty times a day later doesn't make a lot of sense but these dudes like well on finish school. Probably not gonna go. Nowhere but must apply. Jesus week i mean. They love football more than almost anybody you know. I admire dedication to the game. I don't think it's smart. But i admire how much they love the game here. Yeah i think there's something to that. Do they learn game and then he's ain't got nothing else to do. They've got to work. I mean yeah. I think that's the ball of the story here. This i know they need start. A raise the minimum wage to fifty dollars an hour. These these radical about here as adults play high school football for free. Go find a job. Judging them for this by the way. Oh wait clear. Hey look be now they just like. Hey man these jobs paying enough. I don't want to be a an essential worker. Said i wanted just lit a dream a little bit long. If i knew that there was some goal in mind if there was something i could do to get to. Sec school or whatever even some bill school. And i knew that i could do. I might chart even at this at my good forty-three years of age south carolina state or whatever. Yeah man look br stadium. I'll just a smell the grass. And i just look at the stands. Boy i got high school. Read down the street here. I'll tell my wife and we passed by practice by boy. I go out there right now. Give them a good two yards a carry see. I saw the some dude. Africa was school. You play for want us to eastern washington. Some like that and they said dude is in year. Eight of a college careers in washington used to washington one of those but he is in year eight. And i'm like son go assume he has a masters at this point right. I mean maybe. I don't know son go get a job like whenever i hear about these. Like he's gonna come back for his six year son. Go get a job. You missed the fundamental lesson of mo money. Another old realized. I'm old person. The fundamental lesson of mo money job ain't none were what is football is a game the game. We played a game right now. This like some that you do all game night. Which is you know what i'm saying. You sit around and tell stories and stuff. College is a job. I could get the appeal if you can play football until you can't play football no more i understand. Sometimes i get that feeling myself like you know saying if i was twenty one years old and these jobs whacking i might get covert. I guess you'd get cobra. Plan football that much colder playing football. I would be working shift somewhere. Go get a job. I don't want to be that person. I don't like how i feel like you. You you tell them that. Yeah i mean you look we already know by you. Know what i'm saying. That is the exodus nucci. Doing right there go get a job. You know what. I'm saying. That's us you know it's like when you talk to your older jones or whatever and they and they talked to your shiftless cousins and they're like well why don't you go up to the job and go apply. You should go on up. Watch going up there to the railroad apply for something. They think that you know this is the one thousand nine hundred seventy four economy or whatever. That's how you're coming at this joe joe. These dudes was sleeping on the floor in a room. Full of other. He mad with the line to the bathroom..
Slate's Hang Up and Listen
"bishop" Discussed on Slate's Hang Up and Listen
"They were almost close to being more honest about it than anybody else is. I mean this is just a floating football program on wheels or whatever. That's not actually school. It's like a summer basketball team but the problem is that like made some half ass kind of pointless attempt to pretend that it was actually providing educational opportunities. Like why bother with that. I'm almost overwhelmed by how not rare. This is going to be because we see it and go bishop sycamore quite the laughable scam in entertaining story with a lot of depth that we can use to examine issues. Which will surely be corrected. There's the illusion here because somebody else saw this and thought business model that there's somebody else who saw it and thought well if they just done this this and this it would've worked now mind you. I just did that. I'm not going to do that. I am not any future investigations of the academy. I am going to form right after this podcast. It is amazing to me how somebody saw this business plan and how much it might work. I mean ch- channels streaming little football. You never know but look get some to think about. But i'll say this a couple years ago not long after. I'd done the img stuff. A member of a famous football family who had another top recruit in their family reached out to me and wanted to know if i wanted to write about their plans. Apparently that were going on in the background between all of these national football program. So at the time was eastern christian safe francis in maryland. I g a bunch of other schools in a school that was getting started in texas and their plan was the star national high school football league for these elite programs that they could pitch the tv. And i was like that actually sounds like that might work. You know and so. I just think people are working on these sorts of things behind the scenes. Right and it's possible that maybe we could see. Bishops sicker more or bishops. Sycamore like schools or bishopric. More like programs maybe not schools because it isn't actually a school right floors in the future said somebody saw this ad said i could make that shit work though. I know somebody that can get me on netflix. I know somebody that can get me on. Espn or whatever or amazon prime. And it's going to work. Like i mean i know. We're you know bishop sycamore as a joke. But it's a symptom of a larger problem because people can capitalize on this for sure fake middle school. That's where this going spencer hall..
The Bellarmine Forum Podcast
"bishop" Discussed on The Bellarmine Forum Podcast
"How much risk has to be there for you to say okay. They can tell me to do that. When young men sign up. Now i guess young persons we should use inclusive language there because there are enlisted Women when soldiers join the military. They know that there's a risk of death to it when policemen graduate from the academy and put their badge on and take the beet. They know that There's a risk and they're trained. How to reduce those risks but those are activities that we know are helpful defense of the country protection. The common good Keeping civil order those are things that have a risk of death but they also are of great importance to society became. Bishop tell you you have to do this. Can bishop tell you have to get surgery. No can your boss tell you you must get surgery. No and part of this is the relationship that they have with you. Any other part is what mother church tells us who is the person who makes a choice for healthcare decisions. Let's start with last week on knocks on august seventeenth. We're gonna talk about. I'm going to pick one there. Several of these bishops that done this and mandated that their employees clergy must get vaccinated for cove. It i'm going to pick the one from chicago Particularly there's several reasons for it because we're going to go through things that Bishop when he was bishop soup kitchen the past has said compared to what he's saying today we're going to compare it to guidance on healthcare decisions from the. Uscc be telling deal. Let's do so not august seventeenth. I have a copy of a letter from a cardinal super-rich and it's Was sent by email to the priests. And let's i'm just gonna read part of it. He's addressing priest so it says dear brothers during my vicarious meeting with the priest i was told that some petitioners are asking their pastors to provide war sign a document testifying that their refusal to be vaccinated against the covert virus is supported by the teaching of the catholic church. I do know that. Some bishops individually or by state have been provided templates for such declaration even though there is no basis in catholic moral teaching for rejecting vaccine mandates on religious grounds. Let's stop there. That's the first paragraph..
Leading Saints Podcast
"bishop" Discussed on Leading Saints Podcast
"Presidents callings they have the right to receive inspiration to then give to the bishop. And that's awesome. And probably 8 if not 9 times out of ten that will be what the bishopric go with because it generally makes sense. The spirit generally works through different people in the same way. Every once in a while there will be additional context that a bishop or bishopric member will have because of the purview that a bishopric member has of the ward in its entirety. Sometimes it's worthiness but sometimes it's other things as well. And the bishop has the responsibility to receive the revelation on calling and thanking members for callings. And it's important that each ward officer each organizational head trusts in that process. And not just trusts the person who happens to be bishop at that time but trusts the mantle of the bishop that keys are bestowed in certain rights are given with that according to God's order not just according to pride or ego or whatever that might be then interpreted as. But it's what God is wanting to do. And there are times where member leaders organizational leaders might have an opinion and they might feel very passionately about that opinion. They may even say this is revelation that I've received. And it's important at that time to help correct where there might be falsehoods do it in a loving way obviously but to help teach what's stewardship means. That the lord has an order and an organization not to not to be little anyone or to make anybody feel less important but because that's the way God set it up. And if you're receiving revelation outside of your stewardship then there may be a misunderstanding somewhere. And it's okay because everyone isn't perfect and sometimes we do misunderstand things. And by the way maybe you giving that recommendation to the bishop about a certain person allowed for a conversation to happen that allowed for amazing ministering. And that was the only way that God could have allowed that to happen. And that's why he set that up. And that's great. You know recognize that for what it is and the role that you played in God doing his greater work and accept that is happiness right? And accept that as being a tool in the hands of the lord. It's when sometimes we let pride or ego dominate those types of approaches and those types of feelings that suddenly things become much more complicated than they ever needed to be. And then it doesn't become a question of listening to the spirit but more so what do I want versus what do you want? And that takes away from the spirit of God it takes away from what he's trying to build. And there are times where as a leader you have to help somebody recognize where they may need to change where they may need to repent in that thinking and it's hard. And it's very easy for people to get offended and sometimes you even have to use your counselors in a place where maybe it's a little bit too delicate for you as a bishop to do that. But that's okay because you can delegate certain keys and responsibilities to your counselors and the bishopric. That's the whole point of having counselors. But it's not easy but more than anything I've learned and I don't know if this is a bad thing to say. But I've learned to be okay. With people disagreeing with me right? Or maybe even being offended by something that I said very much out of love but it hurt because sometimes truth hurts you know? And I think first year bishop Lewis I had a hard time with that. And I've heard you say many times that as a member of the state presidency you would tell new bishops 20% of the world is going to hate you. There's nothing that you can do to stop that. That's just the reality. I wanted to prove you wrong right? But I've now repented and learned that that's probably a true principle. And as a leader you sometimes have to be okay knowing that you did the right thing but it's going to take a while and maybe even eternity for somebody else to recognize that. And to not let that keep you up at night. To be able to still get up the next day and focus and focus on your family when you need to and then try and love other people and not suddenly change the way that you work with people because you're scared of making someone else upset. It's a hard thing and it doesn't come naturally to people until they're in a leadership position to actually learn how to do that. But it's so important. And that's where sometimes you know we need to show empathy as leaders but then also empathy two leaders and there's a two way street there you know? Yeah yeah. This has been fantastic. I've just looking to book a plane ticket to Luxembourg so I'm coming to visit hopefully that's okay. You're welcome. You can give a talk as well I'll set you up. Okay. Just tell me what Sunday I'll be there. The last question I have for you is you reflect on your time serving as bishop or in any leadership capacity. How is being a leader helped you become a better follower of Jesus Christ? Yeah it's a question I've heard many times to other people on your podcast. I think to be a leader in the church means to try and walk the steps as Christ walk them. That's what we're trying to do. We're trying to replicate our master in that context. And I think every once in a while especially as a bishop you're put in a position where you very much represent Jesus Christ you know whether it's different counsels where you're helping members make changes in their lives or when you're doing temple recommend interviews or whatever it might be you're very much representing Jesus Christ. And for little glimpse his little moments you begin to understand Christ from a very real setting and what he must have felt or how he must have been when he was trying to help people come closer to his father. So for me being a leader and the church is one of those it's one of those life-changing opportunities where if you give yourself to the calling in terms of trying to be worthy trying to follow the spirit and trying to represent Jesus Christ it changes you forever. So I've learned who my brother is in a different context in this calling than my last calling and from that calling to the one before because every time I try and get a little bit closer to the source. And I think as a bishop it's one of those special callings where you're asked to represent him in different settings. And knowing knowing what it means to look at a member's eyes and to see them not as Lewis sees them but to see them how crises and to see them how heavenly father sees them there are certain keys I think where sometimes that's necessary in order to help somebody move forward. And those are moments that I will I will hang on to for the eternities. And for me that has been an absolute tender mercy as a bishop where you have all that stress all that frustration all of.
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Unfuck Nation with Gary John Bishop
"bishop" Discussed on Unfuck Nation with Gary John Bishop
"John all right all alright and welcome to this week's episode of fuck nation. I am your host gary. John bishop thank you for given the time of your life feeling whatever that says this next thirty minutes or forty minutes or so of your life to being part of the conversation that we fucked nation are putting out there and to the world because ultimately the whole point of this. Podcast is to make a difference for people ted this now. This isn't designed to make money of something right. She's not for that at all. This is really giveaway. As much as i can give away through the medium of conversation that will impact has many allies as possible. So thank you. For being part of what would create in here and this week's episode is something. I think everybody needs to hear guy for various reasons. If you've followed me at all you'll know. I'm interested in specific kind of philosophy and specifically what i'm talking about. He and his on technology oncology as the study the observation the interest and being so you are a human being but ontological shelly address his just about everything not just a human beings and specifically what i want to talk about this week. Is this subject of money. Then there and yeah money wanna talk about the cash la and it's often a subject that i stayed away from because it's so overdone it. So saturated and basically the genre is felled with how to gauge filled. With how to but when you can get at a metaphysical site thanks Right there's a lot of manifesting in your fashion boards in the law of attraction and just as a side note of many people who are big believers in the law of attraction and can rub two dollar bills together because we only have one. I'm not saying the law of attraction. Bullshit far froma. Actually.
Unfuck Nation with Gary John Bishop
"bishop" Discussed on Unfuck Nation with Gary John Bishop
"John all right all right. Welcome to this week's episode of unfussy nation. I am your host gary. John bishop thank you for taking the time out of your life to be with his this week. I'm always out to give you the most powerful and valuable show that i possibly can and this week as in any different this week. I want to talk about what it takes from you. The kind of effort that it takes from you to reinvent yourself right now as you know. I'm fine of certain philosophies that i can dive into and can dissect and unpacked certain ideas so that i can give them to you but this one came from a lot of the stuff that i get from people. A lotta the questions. That i get is particularly in emails but included in dm's and through the website and even the voice mounts a lot of stuff. That's already in my books. I couple ready retina. thus i've already put that as already in the public domain or it's on video is a marine or you'll see it and my instagram. My twitter feed or facebook. Which really got me thinking like. What is it about arts right we. What is it that goes on with thoughts. Such that you know i would already have put stuff out there then somebody then e emails me calls me says yeah but what about an essence just little. Things like is pretty sizable things that have put the and a member a long time ago. I read something. And i'm pretty sure it was martin heidegger and is particularly germanic style. He said something like people are just too lazy. Interrupt the draft of the lives. I don't think i'll go along with lazy right down. But i do think we're always looking to find the easiest to do something. I do think we're always looking for ways to make things quicker shorter easier and so you know. Why would that read a book. When i could you send your fucking email of course so when it comes.