Retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn taking the 5th before the Congressional January 6 Select Committee, promoting the lie of a stolen election in 2020 and avoiding the truth of the violent insurrection on January 6? Donald Trump stealing top secret government files and hiding them at Mar-a-Lago? Roger Stone, Alex Jones, Congresswomen Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene interpreting scripture and invoking Jesus in a political crusade? Calls for civil war.
As a Christ-follower, I am at a loss to answer my daughter, who troubled by all the political factions affecting our country, political parties and even families... her dad, asked me "where is the Gospel in all of this?"

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On March 10, 2022, while testifying before the Congressional Select Committee on January 6, retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn was asked if he thought the violence on January 6 (2021) was justified. He invoked his 5th Amendment right not to answer the question on the grounds that it might incriminate him. He was next asked if he supported the peaceful transition of power in the United States of America. Again, he invoked the 5th Amendment.

This shocking answer strikes at the heart of our 225 year history of living with the outcomes of free elections. Some candidates running for Congress on November 8, 2022, still embrace Michael Flynn and his willingness to sacrifice our most cherished principle that sustains our constitutional democracy, in order to seize office and power. This cannot stand.

The introduction to this episode is a video aired by NBC News: Concession Speeches From the Last 60 Years of Presidential Races (1960 to 2016). Donald Trump did not concede his loss in 2020.

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Would you consider voting for an Independent candidate running against Senator Ted Cruz in 2024?

Tom Noble lays out the principles/ positions that an Independent candidate could stand on in 2024.

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"Ironically, it was his very struggle against the forces at the base of the dam that killed him. He didn't know that the only way out was counterintuitive. If he hadn't tried to keep his head above water, but instead dived down to where the current flowed downstream, he would have survived." Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline

The same could be said for the Republican Party.

Music, These Open Roads Are Calling, by Joshua Spacht, Soundstripe

Tom Noble, a Christ-follower, explores the dangers of Christian Nationalism from the perspectives of both the Constitution and the Bible.

Supporting audio clips from James Robison's "The Stream" January, 2016, and National Public Radio (NPR) All Things Considered, October 16, 2016.

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"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." Sometimes the truth is a hard thing. Tom Noble deals with the truth of CRT as it involves his family and its history. He tells the story of his grandfather, Preacher, who was the grandson of a man who enslaved black Americans.

There is no moving on without first understanding and acknowledging the truth, understanding its implications today, and learning from it.

Tom Noble explains his "why" - confronting and accepting the truth, becoming our best selves, choosing better servant leaders, and in the process, building "a more perfect Union."