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Today’s guest was influenced in large part by his Mamaw, a devoted Christian woman with an unrepentant potty-mouth, and the bestselling memoir that made her, and him, famous. I'm reminded of the first saw him interviewed, shortly after the presidential election in 2016, by a panel of flabbergasted talking heads on CNN who were trying, desperately it seemed, to make sense of Trump’s unlikely victory.
As you might recall, most of the pollsters got that one wrong, and a lot of deeply confused journalists were wondering why Trump won in Ohio, and in many so other places where Hillary Clinton was expected to easily prevail. The author of Hillbilly Elegy offered a thoughtful explanation, which came down to the simple fact that a lot of Americans in a lot of flyover states felt overlooked and underserved and taken for granted by their elected officials. Coincidentally, around the same time, I was invited on to Meet the Press to answer the same question. Prior to the election, I had predicted that the outcome was going to be a lot closer than people thought, and Chuck Todd wanted to know if the men and women I’d highlighted on Dirty Jobs might have provided me with some unique insight.
After the interview, Kim Strossel – a reporter at the @WSJ who was also on the panel - asked me if I’d read Hillbilly Elegy or met the author.
“Not yet,” I said. “But I just saw him on @CNN and liked what he had to say.”
“There’s an obvious parallel,” she said. “You’ve gotten famous working alongside a lot of forgotten Americans, and he’s gotten famous writing about them. You two would probably have a lot to discuss.”
Ten years later, it seems that Kim was right. I do in fact, have a lot to discuss with the author of Hillbilly Elegy, including his latest bestseller, Communion, which he’s been writing for the last decade. I suspect he’d have published it sooner had he not been distracted with his run for the Ohio Senate and subsequent elevation to Vice President of the United States. But regardless, Communion is finally available, and @JDVance has dropped by to discuss it, along various matters of national importance.
Our whole conversation is here. https://t.co/KDReDQiX3h
Hopefully, Mamaw is watching…
The tilma of Guadalupe still hasn’t decayed after 500 years.
Its colors can’t be reproduced. And in her eye? A reflection of witnesses, 1/100th of a millimeter.
This is the story of the image that shouldn’t exist:
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I appreciate the Israeli government’s security concerns. I understand that they’ve closed all holy sites. They have no right whatsoever to ban the Latin Patriarch from the Holy Sepulchre on any occasion, much less on Palm Sunday.
This famous prayer is called “The Lorica of St. Patrick” and it dates back to 5th century Ireland. “Lorica” is Latin for breastplate and it’s a genre of prayer meant to act as spiritual armor. Patrick prayed Christ into every direction, every moment, and every encounter.
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Worship. Prayer. Baptisms. Altar calls.
Calling America back to God as we approach our 250th birthday.
Excited to have my friend Russell Brand joining us tonight as well.
St. Augustine tomorrow.
Orlando Sunday.
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“Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.” (Matthew 27:45)
“And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.” (Mark 15:33)
“It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, while the sun’s light failed; and the curtain of the temple was torn in two.” (Luke 23:44-45)
“And on that day,” says the Lord GOD, “I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight.” (Amos 8:9)
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