Headlines move fast, but good policy starts with first principles. We open the toolbox—biblical clarity, historical evidence, and constitutional guardrails—to make sense of today’s most charged debates and to chart a path that actually improves lives. With Matt Staver of Liberty Counsel, we map how culture drifted from strong families to fragile norms, and then we show how to reverse course with compassion, courage, and strategy.

We dig into the post-Dobbs reality: fewer clinics but more chemical abortions, and what that means for public health, wastewater systems, and environmental stewardship. The conversation goes beyond slogans, explaining how mifepristone works, why metabolites matter, and where state and local regulators can step in. On gender medicine, we talk about caring for hurting kids without rushing to irreversible treatments, and how pastors, parents, and policymakers can hold fast to truth while offering real help and hope.

Marriage takes center stage as a uniquely unitive, procreative, and spiritual covenant—and we unpack why that makes it a cultural flashpoint. From Kinsey’s ripple effects to no-fault divorce and Obergefell, we trace the steps that reshaped law and norms, then outline practical ways to strengthen marriage, parental rights, and conscience protections without falling into all-or-nothing thinking. Matt shares a proven approach: set a clear objective, take small wins, learn from setbacks, and never lose sight of the destination.

If you care about life, family, freedom, and the rule of law, this conversation gives you a roadmap and tools to act. Listen, share with a friend, and then subscribe and leave a review so more people can find the show and join the work.

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A single court order that barred a 12-year-old from church. A split jury that left Kim Davis with a six-figure judgment. A growing wave of state moves to protect conscience while testing the limits of federal marriage and gender rulings. We sat down at the Pro Family Legislators Conference with attorney Matt Staver of Liberty Counsel to trace how these flashpoints connect—and why the debate over marriage shapes everything from religious liberty to sports, pronouns, and public spaces.

Matt starts with a startling custody case from Maine, where a judge prohibited a young girl from attending religious services, reading the Bible, or even associating with church friends. He then walks us through the decade-long Kim Davis saga, the attempted accommodations that removed clerks’ names from licenses, and the Supreme Court’s refusal to revisit the case. Along the way, he makes a forceful claim: when marriage law treats gender as irrelevant, that logic spreads across policy. Whether you agree or not, the argument reveals why states are rewriting judicial ethics codes, proposing resolutions, and preparing legal challenges that reassert their authority over domestic relations.

We also dig into employment law, previewing a major Title VII fight over religious hiring standards at Liberty University that could reach the Supreme Court. Matt explains how faith-based institutions navigate federal mandates while staying true to their doctrines, and why blue and red states alike are lining up with dueling briefs. The conversation closes with a practical guide for leaders and listeners: get informed, prepare for resistance, and build durable strategies rooted in both legal rigor and moral clarity.

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Power you can count on changes everything—health, safety, jobs, and whether a storm becomes a headline or a hardship. We sit down with energy expert and former Texas legislator Jason Isaac to unpack why so many grids feel fragile despite record spending, and how policy signals have steered capital into intermittent capacity that often fails when demand spikes. From Texas’ post‑Uri reality to Europe’s price shocks, we connect real‑world outcomes to the engineering underneath the buzzwords.

Jason walks us through how subsidies per megawatt‑hour shape the buildout of wind, solar, and batteries, and why installed capacity is not the same as dependable generation. We cover land use tradeoffs, the true cost of storage, and the rising urgency for firm power sources such as advanced thermal and nuclear. Along the way, we examine Germany’s industrial retrenchment, the high price of electricity for households, and what happens when companies move production to countries with looser environmental and labor standards. Energy policy is not a spreadsheet exercise; it’s an industrial strategy that touches every family budget.

The conversation turns to human stakes often left out of climate debates. Cold kills more than heat when bills soar and homes can’t stay warm. In the developing world, energy poverty keeps children like Aisha walking for water instead of learning after school—proof that access to affordable, reliable electricity is a human rights issue. We challenge popular narratives, ask hard questions about “net zero” pledges, and argue for a path that values reliability, cost, and environmental stewardship together. If you care about keeping the lights on and lifting people out of poverty, this one’s for you.

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Want a clean, honest look at energy that starts with truth and ends with action? We open with our core lens—biblical, historical, and constitutional—and then sit down with former Texas legislator Jason Isaac to examine how policies shape lives on the ground. The result is a clear, human-centered tour through ESG pressures, energy poverty, reliability, and the global tradeoffs we rarely see on headlines.

Jason shares how financial tools are being used to choke off insurance and capital for traditional energy and agriculture, driving up costs for families who can least afford them. We test popular assumptions against real data—like why Austin’s air quality didn’t meaningfully improve even with far fewer cars on the road—and discuss how American emissions controls outperform most of the world. We also pull back the curtain on imported pollution and the moral costs of battery minerals, including child labor in cobalt mines, showing how feel-good goals can hide real human harm.

The conversation moves from slogans to standards. Rather than defaulting to all of the above, we ask tougher questions: Is the power affordable? Is it reliable? Does it reduce poverty and preserve human dignity? We explore why rising utility rates increase eviction risk and homelessness, why subsidies can distort markets and undermine grid stability, and how prosperity often enables better stewardship. Along the way, we point to practical steps—sharing credible information, hosting local Constitution classes, and pressing for policies that secure dependable energy while elevating the most vulnerable.

If you’re ready for a perspective that respects faith, follows evidence, and fights for people, this is your next listen. Subscribe, share with a friend who cares about energy and freedom, and leave a review telling us the one policy change you’d make first.

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A breakthrough in safety, a hard line on security, and a surprising plea for civility—this episode brings three big themes into sharp focus. We start with the long-overdue debut of a female-specific crash test dummy and why that matters for real-world outcomes. With higher injury and fatality rates for women in identical collisions, better biomechanical models mean better seats, belts, and airbags—design decisions that can finally reflect how female bodies experience force in a crash. It’s a case study in what happens when engineering catches up to the data.

We then tackle a charged policy shift: Texas designating the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations, along with updates on federal actions. We dig into why state and national security frameworks are tightening, how property and legal standing could be affected, and what this signals for border enforcement and counterterror efforts. The thread running through it all is sovereignty and prudence—how a free society balances civil liberties with its duty to protect citizens from groups committed to undermining it.

From there, we pivot to the culture in our airports. A simple request—skip pajamas and slippers at the gate—opens a larger conversation about manners, presentation, and how dress can nudge behavior. Unruly incidents spiked during the pandemic and never returned to prior lows. Reclaiming a baseline of respect, like the founders’ emphasis on civility, isn’t performative—it’s practical. Finally, we unpack a pro-life courtroom win: a judge dismissed the Satanic Temple’s argument that abortion is a protected religious ritual, reaffirming that free exercise ends where harm begins and the right to life takes precedence.

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What if the most meaningful Thanksgiving starts with only five kernels of corn? We revisit the holiday’s unvarnished origins and follow a line of gratitude that runs through blizzards, barracks, and battlefields. The Pilgrims faced disease, hunger, and loss, yet learned to give thanks for small mercies: a buried kettle of corn, new allies, enough wood for the fire, and the hope that the next winter might not claim them all. That stubborn gratitude didn’t ignore suffering; it taught people how to endure it, rebuild after it, and turn scarcity into wisdom.

We connect those early lessons to moments when America needed backbone, not platitudes. Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 proclamation barely mentions the Civil War and instead points the nation toward God’s character and providence. The Continental Congress and FDR did likewise, calling citizens to read Scripture, to reflect, and to anchor hope beyond turmoil. These proclamations remind us that gratitude is not a luxury emotion reserved for easy times. It’s a civic and spiritual discipline that cools outrage, tempers envy, and restores perspective when public life grows harsh.

Along the way, we unpack how the Pilgrims’ biblical principles shaped durable institutions: moving from communal sharing to household responsibility and free exchange, insisting on consent and fair purchase of land, and building common schools so boys and girls could read for themselves. These choices fueled productivity, dignity, and self-government under the Mayflower Compact. If today’s climate feels brittle and angry, there’s a path back: practice gratitude on purpose. Read a historic proclamation at dinner. Place five kernels on each plate to remember scarcity before abundance. Name one hard thing you’re thankful for. Then share this conversation with someone who needs a lift, subscribe for more history with purpose, and leave a review to help others find the show.

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Persecution, closed doors, and shipboard vows—our journey starts where power tried to silence conscience and ends with a small band drafting a covenant that rewired how authority works. We sit down with Bill Federer to map the Pilgrims’ path from England’s star chamber to the rocky shore where consent became the basis for order. Along the way, we explore how the Reformation, censorship laws, and the flight to Holland set the stage for a bold experiment that would echo through New England town meetings and, eventually, into the American idea.

What unfolds is a grounded, vivid look at the Mayflower Compact as more than a paragraph in a textbook. It was a civic translation of church covenant—neighbors choosing obligation, accountability, and shared rule. We unpack why Romans 13 reads differently under a king than under a republic, and why citizens must see themselves as co-sovereigns with duties as real as their rights. We also take on Thanksgiving myths with the fuller story of Squanto—kidnapped to Europe, freed by monks, fluent in English—whose help, along with Massasoit’s alliance, anchored a decades-long peace. The first Thanksgiving looks less like legend and more like gratitude under pressure, with prayer, games, and shared meat binding two communities.

We go deeper into Bradford’s pivot from failing communal rules to private property, the leap in harvests that followed, and the way pastors helped found cities where worship and civic life overlapped. There’s drama too: trade seized by corsairs, risky diplomacy, and marriages that put Pilgrim leaders at odds with crown law. Through it all runs a clear theme—freedom of conscience, consent of the governed, and the steady work of self-government. If you care about the real roots of Thanksgiving, religious liberty, and how citizens become the “kings” in a republic, this conversation will sharpen your view and strengthen your gratitude.

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Tired of hearing America is beyond repair? We make a grounded case for renewal—rooted in first principles, legal clarity, and a fuller telling of our national story. With Mike Berry from First Liberty, we unpack how recent Supreme Court victories have reopened space for faith and conscience in public life, including schools, and why that matters for culture as much as law. When rights are secured in the real world—teachers protected, students free to express belief, communities able to build moral formation—confidence rises and civic duty starts to make sense again.

We also confront a hard question: how do you recruit young people to defend a country they’re taught to hate? The answer isn’t spin or nostalgia. It’s honest history—the good, the bad, and the ugly—paired with the founders’ radical design that places sovereignty with the people and limits government power. That framework doesn’t make us perfect, but it uniquely equips us to correct course through peaceful means. Think Declaration of Independence, constitutional processes, separation of powers, and real elections that let us alter what’s broken and abolish what never worked.

From classrooms to chaplaincy to family tables, there’s a hunger for truth over ideology. We talk about practical steps for rebuilding civic memory, compare free societies with closed regimes, and apply a simple test—are people trying to get in or out?—to cut through noise. The takeaway is clear: teach the full story, protect liberty, and invite the next generation to serve something worthy. That’s how you restore faith in America and keep the American spirit alive.

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