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I have some interesting conversations once the microphones get turned off. This time I talked with Dr. Clauson about a rather wild story about him, the late Greg Bahnsen, and Liberty University. This one is a little nuts, but it's all true. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Here at MinistryWatch we bring you news about Christian ministries, as well as the latest in charity and philanthropy, news that we examine from a Christian worldview perspective.  Our goal is to help us become better stewards of the resources God has entrusted to us. These mid-week “Extra” episodes are a chance for us to go deep with a particular topic, and today I'm pleased to have back on the program David French.  David wrote an article about Liberty University that I wanted to explore more deeply. But first, a bit of David's background. David French is a graduate of Lipscomb University in Nashville, and also of Harvard Law School.  He spent many years as an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom.  He was a staff writer for the National Review from 2015 to 2019, and he currently serves as senior editor of The Dispatch. Before we go, I want to remind you that you can find the article we discussed today, about Liberty University, over at The Dispatch, where David is a senior editor. I'd like to add in closing that MinistryWatch has published nearly 100 articles in the past two years that either mentions or features Liberty University.  To find them, just go to MinitryWatch.com and type “Liberty University” into the search engine. Our Kanakuk coverage, which now amounts to more than 20 stories, as well as our coverage of the Southern Baptist Convention and other organizations we discussed today, can also be found at MinistryWatch.com. Finally, a reminder that because of the Thanksgiving holiday, we will not be posting an episode on Friday, and that means this will be the last episode of the podcast before Giving Tuesday.  If you've found the work of MinistryWatch to be a blessing to you, I hope you'll consider a gift on Giving Tuesday, or sometime between now and the end of the year.  Just go to MinistryWatch.com and hit the donate button at the top of the page. The producers for today's program are Rich Roszel and Ben Warwick . We get database and other technical support from Cathy Goddard, Stephen DuBarry, and Casey Sudduth. I'm Warren Smith, and – until next time – May God bless you.

Ep. 89 Moonstruck Pt. 2Ep. 89 Moonstruck Pt. 2November 5, 2021In this episode we take a look at the many NGO's, & businesses linked to the Moon family, & Unification members, & heads up, if you like sushi, you'll want to check out this episode all the way through. Like the Rockefellers, Carnegies, Gates, & George Soros, the Moons have figured out how to capitalize on tax exempt groups through through the guise of charity. The web of Moon linked organizations is mind blowing, & we only covered a part of them. Join me as we trek down that rabbit hole, far beyond the mainstream under the light of the Moon. Cheers, & Blessings The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, widely known as the Unification Church, is a new religious movement whose members are called Unificationists In a speech he instructed his followers to obey his orders so that the Movement could become economically powerful: In the future don't buy American products if Master says to buy from somewhere else. If you believe in what he says, you practice it; you will become the wealthiest people and the wealthiest nations, but not necessarily on earth. Buy from the company he designates in the future. It doesn't matter if it is a small or large item. Soon that product will be the one manufactured by us. We have to buy that one. Then the world or universal economy will come to us. Rev Moon Moon's Extensive Business List, Businesses Tied To The Unification Church https://freedomofmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Unification-Church-Front-List.pdf Sushi and Rev. Moon - Chicago Tribune https://www.chicagotribune.com/investigations/chi-0604sushi-1-story-story.html Moon Tax Exempt Groups See Equip Website- CRI- Moon/UC Timeline/Beliefs/Organozations https://www.equip.org/PDF/DM180.pdf Hyo Jeong World Peace Foundation (HJWPF), the International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace (IAPP), the Interreligious Association for Peace and Development (IAPD), the International Summit Council for Peace (ISCP), and the Hyo Jeong International Foundation for the Unity of the Sciences (HJIFUS) True World Group, Unification Church International Inc., or UCI, Washington Institute For Values, & Public Policy• Freedom Leadership Foundation• CAUSA• The Assembly of the World's Religions (AWR), the Council for World Religions, and the Youth Seminary on World Religions, later known as the Religious Youth Service, formed part of the church's inter-religious and ecumenical activities, the axis of which was the International Religious Foundation (IRF). https://www.hjifus.org/the-founders WANGO -The World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations https://wango.org/ The Unification Church Seeks Influence, Acceptance Among the Political (“Christian”) Right 2009 https://www.equip.org/article/the-unification-church-seeks-influence-acceptance-among-the-political-christian-right/ HAS REV. SUN MYUNG MOON PURCHASED THE TOP RIGHT-WING EVANGELISTIC LEADERSHIP LOCK-STOCK-BARREL? https://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1818.cfm Their Order Is Not Our Order! Moon gave Jerry Falwell $3.5 to establish Liberty University

Today's topics: "Concubisexual, Vienna museum Starts an OnlyFans, woman sues GEICO for getting HPV during car sex, Liberty University needs to give back our tax dollars" DTF: The Darryl & Timaree Fun Hour is the greatest sex-ed/comedy/game show (and now podcast), 8 years running! Wanna spend more time with Darryl Charles and Dr. Timaree? Of course you do. Darryl Charles: http://www.darrylcharlescomedy.com Dr. Timaree: https://www.drtimaree.com

Debbie Prowse had an amazing high school and college career at Holy Spirit High School and Boston University, before taking time away from rowing to raise her family. Now she is back in the mix as the head coach at Liberty University!

The World Famous Insurance Dudes chat with Ricky MurphyWe Are Insurance Dudes!!! We Are Here To Learn From All The Incredible Insurance Dudes And Dudettes We Speak With And To Pass The Knowledge Nuggets That We Learn To Our Dedicated And Amazing DudeNation!For All Things Related To Being An Insurance Dude or Dudette,  Incredible Tips, Amazing Tools, and Valuable Resources, Check Out The Insurance Dudes Hub!https://www.theidudes.com/Are you interested in learning  “How To Predictably Sell 6-Figures A Month From Insurance Internet Leads While Saving You Time And Money!?"Head over to our free masterclass  today! Click Herehttps://www.theidudes.com/masterclass-registration1619461457775..................................................................................................................................................................About RickyAs a North Mississippi native, I witnessed the transformation from rural farm areas to a major micropolitan area recognized for its charming small-towns, delicious food scenes, second to none entertainment options, major employment opportunities with world-class companies, and a state of the art health care system. My intimate knowledge of this region, and my experiences of having lived here all of my life, give me an enthusiasm and a desire to make my home, your home. Truly, I love North Mississippi!After earning my BS from Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, I worked in the restaurant management field until changes in my own life led me to want a change. Because of the changes, I shifted careers and went to work for a top producing real estate agent in North Mississippi - closing over 80 transactions in the 2018 to gross just shy of 10 million dollars in real estate sales.I work with buyers and sellers, and cater to those relocating to the area or purchasing a second home on our waterfronts. I strive to demonstrate the highest level of integrity and commitment, and to bring a little fun, into every real estate transaction. While working in partnership with you, to understand your needs and to best represent your interests, I will help you realize your Real Estate goals quickly and positively. Website: https://tmhomes.com/contact/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricky-murphy-24503a53/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brorickyhttps://www.facebook.com/therickymurphyYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjqymRpEIbSRPRGsiPmnGCgPodcasts:https://www.theredx.com/podcast-ricky-murphy/https://anchor.fm/redx-podcasts/episodes/How-to-Stay-Visible--Accessible---Consistent-as-a-New-Agent-with-Ricky-Murphy---The-REDX-Podcast-ejvnpt

In this week's episode, Jerry Falwell Jr sues Liberty University for not stopping him from fucking himself, we do NOT have a story about HUMAN ejaculate...but we do have a story in that general field, and on an only somewhat related note, Tom and Cecil from Cognitive Dissonance will be here. --- Learn more about Vulgarity for Charity here: https://scathingatheist.com/ To make a per episode donation at Patreon.com, click here: http://www.patreon.com/ScathingAtheist To buy our book, click there: https://www.amazon.com/Outbreak-Crisis-Religion-Ruined-Pandemic/dp/B08L2HSVS8/ To check out our sister show, The Skepticrat, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-skepticrat To check out our sister show's hot friend, God Awful Movies, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/god-awful-movies To check out our half-sister show, Citation Needed, click here: http://citationpod.com/ To check out our sister show's sister show, D and D minus, click here: https://danddminus.libsyn.com/ To hear more from our intrepid audio engineer Morgan Clarke, click here: https://www.morganclarkemusic.com/ --- Guest Links: Hear more from Tom and Cecil here: https://dissonancepod.com/ --- Headlines: Jerry Falwell Jr. resurrects defamation lawsuit against Liberty University: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/11/12/jerry-falwell-jr-resurrects-defamation-lawsuit-against-liberty-u/ Michael Flynn thinks America should only have one religion: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/11/14/maga-cultist-michael-flynn-in-the-united-states-we-have-to-have-one-religion/ NC Restaurant Turns Anti-Masker's One-Star “Satanic” Review Into Keepsake Shirt: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/11/08/nc-restaurant-turns-anti-maskers-one-star-satanic-review-into-keepsake-shirt/ Bishop who left church for satanic erotica writer now works for pig semen group: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/11/14/bishop-who-left-church-for-satanic-erotica-writer-now-works-for-pig-semen-group/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10184459/Spanish-bishop-quit-clergy-sexologist-lover-finds-new-job-exporting-pig-semen.html Archdiocese of New Orleans pays $1 million plus for false Katrina claims to FEMA: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/archdiocese-new-orleans-agrees-pay-more-1-million-resolve-hurricane-katrina-related-false “Prophet” Donna Rigney: A Future President “Will Be Even Greater Than Trump Was”: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/11/09/prophet-donna-rigney-a-future-president-will-be-even-greater-than-trump-was/

YouTubers Cole and Savannah LaBrant join Sadie and Christian to discuss how to lean into God's grace when your past mistakes are blinding, how to forgive the people who've hurt you the most, and what it takes to start a family vlog or podcast. Christian and Cole compare notes on their "judgmental Christian" phases, and they talk about how to make your relationship with Jesus about more than dos and don'ts. https://homedics.com/WHOA — Get a FREE gift worth $60 when you buy $100 or more in massage products with code WHOA https://liberty.edu/Sadie — Get your application fee WAIVED when you start your future with Liberty University today! https://auraframes.com/ — Get $30 OFF Aura's BEST deals of the year with code WHOA https://athleticgreens.com/whoa — Get TWO FREE GIFTS with your first purchase! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The World Famous Insurance Dudes chat with Ricky MurphyWe Are Insurance Dudes!!! We Are Here To Learn From All The Incredible Insurance Dudes And Dudettes We Speak With And To Pass The Knowledge Nuggets That We Learn To Our Dedicated And Amazing DudeNation!For All Things Related To Being An Insurance Dude or Dudette,  Incredible Tips, Amazing Tools, and Valuable Resources, Check Out The Insurance Dudes Hub!https://www.theidudes.com/Are you interested in learning  “How To Predictably Sell 6-Figures A Month From Insurance Internet Leads While Saving You Time And Money!?"Head over to our free masterclass  today! Click Herehttps://www.theidudes.com/masterclass-registration1619461457775..................................................................................................................................................................About RickyAs a North Mississippi native, I witnessed the transformation from rural farm areas to a major micropolitan area recognized for its charming small-towns, delicious food scenes, second to none entertainment options, major employment opportunities with world-class companies, and a state of the art health care system. My intimate knowledge of this region, and my experiences of having lived here all of my life, give me an enthusiasm and a desire to make my home, your home. Truly, I love North Mississippi!After earning my BS from Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, I worked in the restaurant management field until changes in my own life led me to want a change. Because of the changes, I shifted careers and went to work for a top producing real estate agent in North Mississippi - closing over 80 transactions in the 2018 to gross just shy of 10 million dollars in real estate sales.I work with buyers and sellers, and cater to those relocating to the area or purchasing a second home on our waterfronts. I strive to demonstrate the highest level of integrity and commitment, and to bring a little fun, into every real estate transaction. While working in partnership with you, to understand your needs and to best represent your interests, I will help you realize your Real Estate goals quickly and positively. Website: https://tmhomes.com/contact/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricky-murphy-24503a53/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brorickyhttps://www.facebook.com/therickymurphyYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjqymRpEIbSRPRGsiPmnGCgPodcasts:https://www.theredx.com/podcast-ricky-murphy/https://anchor.fm/redx-podcasts/episodes/How-to-Stay-Visible--Accessible---Consistent-as-a-New-Agent-with-Ricky-Murphy---The-REDX-Podcast-ejvnpt

Luke Wilson is a dope ass human working towards his PhD and currently working towards a post doc on the queer oral history of America's largest Evangelical university, Liberty University. Today we talk about surviving conversion therapy, the shit that's been going down at Liberty recently, and the rise and fall of Jerry Fallwell Jr. Follow Luke on insta @LukeSlamdunkWilson Join us on Patreon.com/thekevingarcia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Mike Cavaggioni and David Torrence on the 68th episode of the Average Joe Finances Podcast as they talk about how you can invest towards financial independence in 20 minutes. David is the CEO of Throne CG and the founder of KP Cares Foundation Inc. Throne CG is an investment consulting firm, while KP Cares is a non-profit geared towards assisting under-resourced communities, bridging the wealth gap. As an investor and philanthropist, David's mission is to serve and be of service to his community. So today, he continues to show minorities how to gain financial freedom by investing in the stock market.In this episode, you'll learn:●     The power of investing and how to know what type of investments work for you.●     Why educating yourself is essential before investing your money in any asset class.●     The difference between having the right skills for trading and having the discipline for it.●     Ways to better utilize your capital to build and scale a profitable business.●     How to beat inflation by investing your cash where you can instead of always holding it.●     And much more!About David Torrence:David Torrence, also known as King David, is a first-generation college graduate from the University of Central Florida, where he received his bachelor's degree in Kinesiology. Additionally, he earned a master's degree in Sports Management at Liberty University. And so, it is no surprise that his career started in sports.For a while, David worked as the Director of Strength and Performance at Westminster Academy, training athletes while playing for the Miami Heat. But even then, he knew that being in the sports industry would not be enough for him to have the lifestyle he wanted, given the time you need to dedicate to the field. Hence, David took up investing and even got his cousin, a financial analyst, to mentor him. And it was not long since then that he achieved financial freedom through investing in the stock market. Now retired at a young age, David gives back to his community by sharing his experience with the stock market so that they too can gain financial independence. Find David Torrence on: Throne CG: www.thronecg.netKP Cares: www.kpsystem.orgInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidmtorrence/Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidmtorrenceLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmtorrence/Average Joe Finances™Our social media links can be found here: https://flow.page/avgjoefinancesCheck out: https://averagejoefinances.comBalance Your Portfolio with Passiv: https://averagejoefinances.com/passivBuying or Selling a House? https://averagejoefinances.com/realtorInterested in getting your real estate license? https://averagejoefinances.com/prepagentUse the same Audio/Video Editing Team that I use: https://editpods.comHost your own Podcast here: https://averagejoefinances.com/buzzsproutSocial Media Management Tool: https://averagejoefinances.com/social-mediaFree Stocks:·         Robinhood: https://averagejoefinances.com/robinhood·         Webull: https://averagejoefinances.com/webullConsolidate debt: https://averagejoefinances.com/sofi-loans/Life Insurance: https://averagejoefinances.com/ladderSupport the Show: buymeacoffee.com/avgjoefinancesAverage Joe Finances Swag: averagejoefinances.com/resources/shopEpisode Sponsor: Your Multifamily Mentorhttp://www.yourmultifamilymentor.com/*DISCLAIMER* https://averagejoefinances.com/disclaimerSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/avgjoefinances)

Key Points In Interview: 5:53 - Kham shares how he accepted Christ into his life at 9 years old. 7:30 - While he was 16 years old, he watched his peers settle with drugs, weed, and sex. This made him wonder if there was more to life. Mom put the fear of God in him. 9:30 - Kham wants people to know that giving your life to Christ isn't all rainbows and you and God skipping through daisies. There are ebbs and flows. 10:05 - Kham opens up about being exposed to pornography at 12/13 years old by a friend. As a result, he struggled with lust during high school. During his sophomore year in college, he was delivered from it. 21:00 - He talks about his conservative PWI experience at Liberty University. While in school Kham became more involved with social justice issues. Kham says the university talked about service but when the opportunity to serve another race came up, they made it political. 27:00 - Kham talks about his excitement over “Charged Up” being on All American, and how it was surreal. 31:00 - He talks about his music start. 37:00 - Kham talks about meeting and opening up for Andy Mineo. 38:00 - He shares why he chooses to use his platform in the Christian music industry, to make songs about racial injustice. 42:00 - Kham talks about being a part of the Rapzilla Freshman class of 2021, the first class with a cypher, and a concert. 45:47 - Mother Brown's prayer. 50:00 - The 4-Song-Break-Down

In the second hour, Stokley and Zach debate what led George Paton to trade Von Miller this season. Broncos tight end Noah Fant joins the show to provide an update on his health status and discuss the team's mindset after an upset victory over the Cowboys. Zach asks Stoke what to make of George Paton's attendance at the game between Ole Miss and Liberty University last weekend.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the fourth hour, Tyler and DMac react to yesterday's blowout victory over the Cowboys. What does the victory mean for Vic Fangio's future as head coach. Mt Polumbus speaks on George Paton's attendance at the game between Ole Miss and Liberty University. Tyler tips his cap to Pat Shurmur for having a great offensive game plan against Dallas.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's Patreon episode, Dwight discusses Kyrsten Sinema's motivations for opposing the PRO Act, the Virginia gubernatorial election, US "energy independence," and a harrowing story about sexual assault at Liberty University. patreon.com/eattherich

In this weeks episode of Sacred Collective, Brien talks with Lucas Wilson. They chat about Lucas' time at Liberty University, going to gay conversion therapy at the school, the toxic and hatred the school had for the queer community, etc. We also talk about what allies can do to help those in the Queer community, and how so much of the church needs to recalibrate their views on homosexuality and the Queer community. Buckle up, this is a wild ride, it just might knock your socks off. Enjoy!Find us on IG:@sacredmn@rougetheologianProduced and edited by Chromatone Productions by Caleb Rowe in Seattle, WA See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we get more background on Christianity in Africa. In the news, Liberty University's leak about their real purpose, SCOTUS rules the right way on Maine's vaccine mandate, poll show's broad support for church state separation, QAnon craziness, pregnant hands, and more! The feedback form is at atheistnomads.com/contact Leave us voice message at atheistnomads.com/speakpipe Support the show at atheistnomads.com/donate Subscribe at atheistnomads.com/subscribe Join our Discord server at atheistnomads.com/discord Dustin' off the Degree Christianity in Africa News Liberty University could lose tax-exempt status after shocking recording went viral: columnist SCOTUS Rejects Religious Challenge to Maine's Vax Mandate for Healthcare Workers Idaho joins 18 other states suing Biden over vaccine mandates New Poll Shows That Americans Support Church-State Separation NC Lt. Gov.: “Christian Patriots… Will Own This Nation and Rule This Nation” This QAnon Influencer Accuses Democrats of Being Pedophiles. He Hides His Own Conviction With an Alias QAnon supporters gather to welcome JFK junior who they falsely believe faked his death and will run with Trump Modi's Diwali extravaganza shows why we need to tell the many stories of Rama Masturbation will leave hands pregnant in afterlife: Muslim televangelist To Rescue Two Hikers, Five Sikh Men Used Their Turbans to Create a Rope Ladder Feedback Keith Hamusute via the website Christiner BlasPhemer via Facebook Podcasts This episode is brought to you by: Henry K Danielle Pat Acks from the Humanists of Idaho SoJo Big Easy Blasphemy Darryl G Arthur K Samuel C Beatriz A Erik from Wyoming Levi C Richard G Balázs Steve F Brad R And by our $1 patrons and those who want no reward. Contact information, show notes, and links to Social Media and the like can be found at https://atheistnomads.com Theme music is provided by Sturdy Fred. Full show notes can always be found at https://atheistnomads.com/431 Download episode

On today's program, a lawsuit brought by indigenous people against New Tribes Mission could force many missionary organizations to re-think the way they do their work.  And a new study highlights the vital role churches play in helping those with food insecurities.  We begin today with more news from Liberty University.  The way Liberty University has handled sexual assault incidents has come under scrutiny in recent months.  This week, a new report by the investigative journalism organization Pro Publica alleges that Liberty has discouraged women from coming forward with their stories because to do so could get them expelled. There's a quick, easy, and FREE way you can support this podcast, and that is to give us a rating on your podcast app.  The more ratings we get, the more attention we get from search engines, and that helps new listeners find us.  And, by the way, when you give us a rating, leave us a comment, too.  I read them all. The producers for today's program are Rich Roszel and Steve Gandy. We get database and other technical support from Cathy Goddard, Stephen DuBarry, and Casey Sudduth.  Writers who contributed to today's program include Anne Stych, Steve Rabey, Brad Fulton, Bobby Ross Jr., Jessica Mundie, Hannah Dreyfus, and Bob Smietana—and you, Warren. Special thanks to Religion UnPlugged for contributing material for this week's program. Until next time, may God bless you.

In this week's episode, you'll get the chance to vent your Election Day rage while doing some good, the Supreme Court lets Maine prevent mass death… but on a provisional basis, and we get audio proof that the people at Liberty University don't think. --- Vulgarity for Charity If you want to participate in this year's Vulgarity for Charity, here's all you need to do: 1 - Make a donation at Modest Needs. 2 - Email proof of that donation to VulgarityForCharity@gmail.com 3 - Include the name of (and details about) the person you want roasted. 200 roasts will be selected from donors pledging $50 or more to be read on air. --- To make a per episode donation at Patreon.com, click here: http://www.patreon.com/ScathingAtheist To buy our book, click there: https://www.amazon.com/Outbreak-Crisis-Religion-Ruined-Pandemic/dp/B08L2HSVS8/ To check out our sister show, The Skepticrat, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-skepticrat To check out our sister show's hot friend, God Awful Movies, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/god-awful-movies To check out our half-sister show, Citation Needed, click here: http://citationpod.com/ To check out our sister show's sister show, D and D minus, click here: https://danddminus.libsyn.com/ To hear more from our intrepid audio engineer Morgan Clarke, click here: https://www.morganclarkemusic.com/ --- Guest Links: Check out Julie's YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN54Zct1pZ_qjCDlhM8xgHQ --- Headlines: SCOTUS rejects religious challenge to Maine's vax mandate for healthcare workers: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/10/30/scotus-rejects-religious-challenge-to-maines-vax-mandate-for-healthcare-workers/ Mayoral frontrunner would rather not speak to satanists about blocking them from giving invocations: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/10/29/bostons-mayoral-frontrunner-may-spend-election-day-getting-deposed-by-satanists/ Secret Call Shows Liberty U “Think” Tank was Just a Tool to Elect Republicans: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/10/27/secret-call-shows-liberty-u-s-think-tank-was-just-a-tool-to-elect-republicans/ Evangelist Robin Bullock says "God will remove Biden as president...soon...somehow": https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/10/28/evangelist-robin-bullock-god-will-remove-biden-as-president-soon-somehow/ MAGA pastor says "God will overturn the election of this profane president": https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/10/28/maga-pastor-god-will-overturn-the-election-of-this-profane-president/ NY Diocese Fires Catholic School Music Teacher Who Married His Same-Sex Partner: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/10/27/ny-diocese-fires-catholic-school-music-teacher-who-married-his-same-sex-partner/ School district removes ban on “Satanic” clothing after Satanist complains: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/10/28/school-district-removes-ban-on-satanic-clothing-after-complaint-from-satanist/ --- This Week in Misogyny: Liberty U Kicked Students Out for Being the Victims of Sexual Assault: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-liberty-way-how-liberty-university-discourages-and-dismisses-students-reports-of-sexual-assaults SCOTUS hears challenge to Texas abortion ban: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/01/supreme-court-texas-abortion-live-updates/

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, associate professor in George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government and global fellow in the Wilson Center's Latin America Program, leads a conversation on the future of U.S.-Mexico relations.   CASA: Welcome to today's session of the CFR Fall 2021 Academic Webinar Series. I am Maria Casa, director of the National Program and Outreach at CFR. Thank you all for joining us. Today's discussion is on the record and the video and transcript will be available on our website, CFR.org/academic if you would like to share it with your colleagues or classmates. As always CFR takes no institutional positions on matters of policy. We are delighted to have Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera with us to discuss the future of U.S.-Mexico relations. Dr. Correa-Cabrera is associate professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and global fellow in the Latin America Program at the Wilson Center. She also serves as nonresident scholar at the Center for the United States and Mexico in Rice University's Baker Institute, is a fellow at Small Wars Journal-El Centro, and is co-editor of the International Studies Perspectives Journal. Previously Dr. Correa-Cabrera was principal investigator of a research grant to study organized crime and trafficking in persons in Central America and Mexico, supported by the U.S. Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. She is past president of the Association for Borderland Studies and the author of several books. Welcome, Guadalupe. CORREA-CABRERA: Thank you, Maria. CASA: Thank you very much for speaking with us today. CORREA-CABRERA: Thank you, Maria. Thank you very much to everyone, especially the Council on Foreign Relations, for the opportunity to talk to you about the relationships of my two countries, the United States and Mexico. So today, I'm going to start by explaining what is the current state of Mexico-U.S. relations, but in the context of a very important event that took place some days ago, in the context of the U.S.-Mexico Bicentennial Framework for Security, Public Health, and Safe Communities. The bicentennial—so-called Bicentennial Understanding. There was a concern at the beginning of the current administration in the United States that the relationships between the United States and Mexico were going to be difficult. Notwithstanding the last, the current year has been extremely productive in many areas. And with this new understanding, the Bicentennial Understanding, that it states in the Bicentennial Framework for Security, Public Health, and Safe Communities, the United States and Mexico's relation has been reframed in a very important way. There is an understanding that the Mérida initiative that had been the center of the relationship between the United States and Mexico, focused on security, needed to be reframed. And then, you know, that was—that was considered that the priorities remained the same, the priorities of the two countries, with some changes that I'm going to be talking about. But the three—I mean, the high-level understanding, this high-level meeting told us what's supposed to be—I mean, where we're going to see in the future. So I just wanted to point out some of the points that were discussed. This framework was informed by each country's security priorities, that I'm going to be talking about. And the focus is addressing violence, but through a response that's driven by justice and use of intelligence against organized crime, and based on tactical cooperation in law enforcement, based on the previous mistakes that had been identified. But currently, the focus would be on public health and development as a part of the strategy of cooperation between the two countries. I'm taking some words from the—from the communique of this understanding. And, you know, with the consideration of—for a more secure and prosperous region, the Mexico-U.S. Bicentennial Framework serves to reaffirm the friendship and cooperation that exists between the two nations. You know, as you see, the language is very friendly. It's based on an understanding that the relationship is important, cooperation is important. Apparently the two countries are in the same boat in this regard. The United States recognizes that support of militarization is not the way probably to go. And a greater focus on public health and development to address the root causes of violence in the southern hemisphere, particularly in Mexico, is probably the way to go, with an understanding to promote a more secure and prosperous region. There are four themes—I mean, this is the idea. This was—I mean, that was the conversation that's on the table. We don't necessarily know ourselves today how this is going to be implemented, what are the particular policies that—or, the collaboration, or the amounts of money to make this happen. But this is kind of like the idea of the future of this collaboration. However, I am going to be talking about the opportunities, and particularly the challenges, considering the priorities of the two nations that, in a way, and when we have the meetings of this type, and when we listen to the language and read the media and talk to the politicians that were present, we have a sense. But then when everybody goes home, we kind of, like, think about this better and we see opportunities, but more challenges than we initially thought. So there are four main things in the United States-Mexico relations that need to be highlighted, plus one that has been also always important but today is more important due to the pandemic. Which is the theme of public health, where an important collaboration between Mexico and the United States has been observed but at the same time poses certain challenges with regard to the border management. Title 42 is still in place and the borders are going to be opened gradually, considering, you know, the vaccination status of people. But that has had a major impact on border communities, and certain impacts on trade and development, particularly at the U.S.-Mexico border. The other four main themes of U.S. Mexico relations that I want to talk about are immigration, security, trade, and energy. I mean, I don't want to place them in order of priority. I think that energy is going to define the future of Mexico-U.S. relations, but I'm going to mention the four in the context of the present—I mean, the present situation. So with regards to trade, the successful passage and, you know, implementation of renegotiation of NAFTA, today in the shape of USMCA, has been extremely successful. Poses some challenges, of course. And this is going to be connected with the last subject we'll be talking about, the proposal of the Mexican government to reform the electricity sector. This is something that is going to be very, very important, and what are the priorities of the United States in the framework of build back better? But with regards to trade, apparently their relationships could not be, you know, better than today. There are some challenges, of course, that have to be with labor rights and unions in Mexico that would cause some loss of competitiveness in the manufacturing sector. And in the framework build back better, of course, this is going to benefit the United States and it's going probably to affect the manufacturing sector of Mexico. Let's see how it works. But with regards to trade, things are mainly, you know, stable, with exception of the future. And this is going to be very, very important. The potential passage, we don't really know, it's very difficult that the electricity reform in Mexico will pass. But anyway, the president—the current president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has a very important amount of—I mean, segment of the population, and a very important support from his base that might help him to achieve his goal. I see it very differently, but we'll talk about that. So the next area that I would like to talk about is immigration. Here we have enormous challenges, enormous challenges that have been visualized with, you know, the current situations at the border that started since the beginning of this administration. During the past years, I mean, they had started to be increasing in magnitude, or at least in visibility. As I mentioned, Title 42 is maintained, and the migration protection protocol—Migrant Protection Protocols, so Stay in Mexico program, where a number of asylum seekers would have to wait for their cases to be decided in Mexico, there's a new definition in this framework. The Supreme Court of the United States very recently made a decision with regards to the reinstatement of the Migrant Protection Protocols. In the beginning the Department of Homeland Security, you know, made the declaration that they would—they would continue with that, but very recently they intention is not to continue with the Migrant Protection Protocols. In the end, and this is why this is very important in the very current conversation, in the end the continuation of this—of this program that has been highly criticized. Then it's also—it has put the human rights of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers at risk. That might—this will not work if Mexico—if the government of Mexico does not accept it. We have to see what is going to be the result. But we have a definition in this regard. The role of Mexico is key in the management of the U.S.-Mexico border, in the management of what some call migrant crisis, and then a crisis at the border. We observed that crisis very recently with a number of Haitian citizens that all left their country, went to South America, and from South America—from countries such as Ecuador, Brazil, Chile—traveled north through different countries, finding different challenges and dangers, and arrived to one point of the U.S.-Mexico border, with the help of a number of actors, such as migrant smugglers and corrupt authorities, but with the aim of making—I mean, escaping a terrible life and making a better life in the United States. We have a caravan that's now in direction to Mexico City. They were going go—they will put their demands on the table, but their intent is to continue going to the United States. There is a very big definition with regards to the migrant crisis, or what some call the migrant crisis, and the immigration issues that the government of the United States has recognized very accurately, and the Mexican government too, that there need to be collaboration to address the root causes of the situation that has to do with the development of the countries of Central America, of South America. And, you know, to achieve stability in South America, probably not through militarization. Secretary Blinken in a very surprising statement has led us to believe that today the United States is also reframing its aid to Latin America, to Central America and the Caribbean. And the focus is not going to be in aid in military equipment or in the militarization of the region. This is very important. And this brings me to talk about the third important—the third theme in the U.S.-Mexico relations. Mexico's security—the relationship of Mexico and the United States in the past few years has been focused on this connection between security and immigration. That's in the end centered on a specific attention of border enforcement, of border security cooperation. The situation in Mexico has deteriorated in the past few years, and the situation has not improved in an important way. Mexico's homicides remained at high levels, despite the pandemic. During the pandemic the decrease was very small, but today and we expect that this year the homicide rate continues growing in a trend that does not seem to be going down. The approach of the Mexican government since the transition period was—I mean, I can be summarized in the phrase talks not bullets. Which means, like, a completely—I mean, a complete shift of the declaration of Mexico's war on drugs to some other, like, approaches that will focus as well to solve the root causes of violence insecurity in Mexico, mainly development frameworks. However, the prior militarization of criminal groups in different parts of the country, and the events—the shootings and the diversification of criminal activities by armed groups in the country—has also caused a very complicated situation. The count of homicides in Mexico shows that killings remain essentially unchanged, more than 36,000 homicides in the year 2020. As I mentioned before, this year we expect an important increase. I don't know what will be the magnitude, but we have observed since the beginning of the year very unfortunate events. For example, at the U.S.-Mexico border, in the city of Reynosa, the massacre of migrants, and also assassinations and disappearances in a very key highway of Mexico from Nuevo Laredo and Monterrey. We still remember the Culiacanazo in the year 2019, which was a very complicated year. And today the situation in states like Michoacán, Guerrero, and Sinaloa, the massacres that be found, and people who disappear—or, that remain disappeared, is a very big concern, both to Mexico and the United States. There is not really an understanding of how this collaboration with regards to security will be framed. However, there was a very big advancement in the Bicentennial Understanding initial talks that the Mérida Initiative, at least on paper, supposed to be ending. But there's going to be a focus on dismantling transnational criminal organizations, probably in a different way and not with a focus on the military sector or on armed forces. At least, this is what we have on the paper. Mexico has been very straightforward with regards—and very critical with regards to the role of the DEA. And that has caused several tensions in this relationship. We also have the issue of security and the—I mean, the priorities of the United States with regards to build back better proposal or reform. And then we have, as I said, the reform of the electric sector in the Mexico state, who want to recover the control of the management of electricity, of the electricity market, and the capacity of the state to manage the lithium. So Mexico has—and the Mexican government has three main projects: the construction of the refinery in—the Dos Bocas in Tabasco, the Santa Lucia airport, and the Maya Train. There is a tension between Mexico and the United States with regards to priorities. Mexico has a priority to continue with the support of oil and gas. This is—this is reflected in the construction of the refinery. And here, we're probably going to see the main point of tension. Because of build back better and the commitment with build back better, and also focus on U.S. internal markets where Mexico has been benefitting from the growth of its manufacturing sector. We don't really know how this is going to be playing out, but at least, you know, on paper things are going to be good. But definitely the priorities with regards to energy are very different, and the focus of the U.S.-Mexico government on the lessening of climate change. And this focus is going to be very different—very difficult. The United States is committed to meet its climate goals, create millions of jobs inside the United States. And that has really changed their relationship. So we can talk more about these. Thank you for listening to this. And as I said, we'll probably be talking a lot about energy and the inequalities that public health and vaccination rates, that will also cause tensions. And immigration is another point that we need to talk about in greater depth. Thank you. CASA: Thank you, Guadalupe, for that introduction. There certainly is a lot to talk about. Now let's open this up to questions from our participants. (Gives queuing instructions.) Let's see. We will start with a written question from Paul Haber, who's a professor at University of Montana. He asks: Can you please provide some detail regarding the changes in labor required in Mexico by the USMCA? And what has happened to date? And do you expect a real deepening of the reforms between now and the end of the AMLO administration? CORREA-CABRERA: This is a very important question. With regard to the USMCA, mainly the main point that might cause tensions have to do—has to do with labor unions, particularly in the maquiladora sector, in manufacturing sector. The United States has been very clear with regards to that requirement, but that would, at the same time, lower the competitiveness of Mexico's manufacturing sector. As I said, there have been, I mean, in the past couple of years an attempt to create independent labor unions in the maquiladora sector, but there are still extreme tensions. And there have not been a real advance in this—in this sense. But at the same time, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, with his theme of primero los pobres, the poor first, and a support of Mexican labor, an increase—a very important increase since the beginning of his administration of wages, he is supposedly committed to help Mexican workers and to—and he has been focused as well on supporting not only the labor unions or the labor sector, but with his social programs that have been, I mean, advertised a great extent. Such as Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro, the Youth Constructing Future, which is a very important, for him, but also very criticized program. And the support of mothers without—I mean, single mothers. And, I mean Youth Constructing Future for those who don't have jobs. So on the one hand Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also in order to continue building his base of support or maintaining his base of support, focused—has focused on these programs, these social programs, that are not necessarily just focused on labor, as the way that the United States wants this to be seen in order to also rebuild the economy by changing the focus to internal development. I don't see in that regard if what—if your interest comes from the United States, what has happened with the union is—with the labor unions and their capacity to really, I mean, grow in the Mexican manufacturing sector—I don't see—I don't see a lot of advancement in that area. And definitely in this regard, there are very different priorities in Mexico versus the United States. But Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been able to convince a number of his supporters, a number of Mexican workers, because he has increased in a very important way Mexican wages. And he is probably going to be able to achieve more increases when the elections—the presidential elections approach. But definitely we don't see very definite changes with regards to this area as the USMCA has been posed. CASA: Next we have a raised hand from Sherice Nelson, assistant professor at Southern University in Baton Rouge. Sherice. Q: Good afternoon. Thank you so much for your talk. And I appreciate you leaving time for us to ask questions. As a professor, how do—the biggest challenge often is to get students to back away from some of the stereotypical information they get about U.S.-Mexico and the relationship, and the centering of that—of that relationship on immigration, when there's far—as you mentioned—there are far other issues that define our relationship. Where are places that we can lead students to, to get better information that is not as stereotypical about the relationship, that will pique their interest? Thanks so much. CORREA-CABRERA: That's a very important question. Thank you for asking. And absolutely, there is a way to present the issue on immigration, to place it in a political perspective—either from the right side or the left. The problem with immigration and the quality development and the access for jobs—I mean, it has been studied in depth by Mexican academics, United States academics. Issues have more to do with development and with the jobs that are offered in the United States, the pull and push factors of undocumented immigration, for example. And we have very different areas to be thinking about migration or immigration. And the focus recently has been at the border, has been with regards to asylum seekers, has been politicized in the United States, while many other areas have been, to some extent, ignored. There are—for educators, there are a number of analyses. One particular area that's important to know, it's United States—I mean, immigrants—how immigrants in the United States, coming from different countries, have been able to develop, have been able to make this country great. That's one area that we have to focus on. And there is a lot of information in that regard. Another, I mean, issue that it's important to know are the pull and push factors of undocumented immigration. And one important factor that usually we're not focused on are the jobs that exist in the United States, and the perspective from—I mean, the undocumented immigration from the perspective of employers. And that is connected to this analysis of the role of immigrants in the United States. Where are they coming from? What are they doing? How they came here, and not just of those who want to come. Another issue that has been widely covered is the one that has to do with migration. Migration flows that start in countries such as Chile, that dangerous journey where that media has been focused on, without analyzing this as a whole, without analyzing this understand that there are jobs in the United States, there is a comprehensive immigration reform that's on the table, and that that comprehensive immigration reform will definitely help to solve the problems of a system that needs the, I mean, immigrants to continue working, but it's creating all sorts of problem. The disfunctions of U.S. immigration system have been identified. There is a proposal that's bipartisan to solve these issues with temporary visas, pathway towards citizenship for those that are already here, that already have jobs, that already contribute to this economy. But unfortunately, immigration is definitely, as you correctly mention, a subject that has been utilized, that has been polarized, because it touches very important sentiments of the electorate. And we don't understand it. Definitely the immigration system in the United States needs to change. And there are—there is a very important amount of articles, of studies that analyze not just those who want to come or the so-called migrant crisis at the border, but how the market in the United States works, the labor markets, what undocumented migrants do in the United States, how to solve these issues with these bipartisan efforts that have been put together in documents, such as the Comprehensive Immigration Reform, and also those that want to work. And many of these problems would probably be solved through the mechanisms that think tanks, and analysts, and academics have done. Important work by think tanks like the Migration—MPI, the Migration Policy Institute, or the—I mean, other initiatives in Mexico. There have been a lot of—there's a lot of information about the possible policies to solve these issues. It's important to consider that information is there, that the work is done, but the problem is the coverage. And definitely our students need to go to understand the suggested—the suggested solutions, creating legal pathways to migration, to temporary work in the United States, is probably the way to go. But unfortunately, we got into these politicized moments, and these electoral moments, and the discourse gets politicized. But there is a lot there, a lot of analysis, a lot of proposals that you can find. Amazing work, both in the United States, in Mexico, and in many other countries of the Americas, because right now the issue of undocumented immigration, irregular immigration does not only have to do with Mexico and the United States. Immigrants have to pass through Mexico in order to get to where they want to go in order to go where the works are located. But we know and we have seen that a number of people, for example, that what was called the Haitian crisis at the border, like, the journey was done from countries as far as Chile, and so many countries have to deal with that. For example, the situation in Venezuela—many migrants that have been—I mean, finding jobs and a home in Colombia temporarily are also going—also moving up and are going to the border. So there's a lot there, and our students, you know, can find a lot of information. It's just to get out of the media discourses that are presented and that do not allow us to see the reality. But there is a lot out there that we can access, particularly for our students. CASA: Our next question is a written question and comes from Pedro Izquierdo, a graduate student at George Mason University. He asks, what improvements and flaws do you see in the bicentennial framework regarding arms trafficking, unlike the Mérida Initiative? CORREA-CABRERA: Well, it's—the Bicentennial Understanding is not—at this point it's just a number of good wishes and the recognition of certain problems. Arms trafficking has been recognized in this Bicentennial Understanding. As of today, we don't really know what the United States is going to be able to do with regards to arms trafficking, and there is a very important and complicated situation here because in the United States it's not by decree, it's not by—I mean, the arms possession and the way that United States citizens understand their rights with regards to bearing arms. It's a constitutional right; therefore—and there's a lot of—you know, there's a very, very big business that will not end so easily. Therefore, the two countries might, you know, might agree on—I mean verifying or collaborating to end or to lessen the issue of arms smuggling. However, this is going to be very difficult unless something important happens in the United States with regards to the legislation to place some limits on the bearing of arms. This is very important. As of today, Pedro, there is not a concrete plan of how the two countries are going to collaborate in this regard. As we know, the minister of foreign affairs—I mean the Mexican government through the minister of foreign affairs, I mean, has a lawsuit against United States arms manufacturers with regards to the arms that come to Mexico and end up in the hands of drug traffickers. There is nothing else that it's current today where we will know what the two countries are going to be doing. And this is the same with many of the good wishes, many of the areas of the collaboration, the end of the Mérida Initiative and the beginning of this understanding. We really don't know what specific programs are going to be implemented and how these programs are going to be implemented, how much money is going to be directed to these programs at this time. We just have an understanding of how the priorities can get together to improve and to reframe, to some extent, the collaboration in terms of security and development. CASA: Next we are going to a raised hand; we have Terron Adlam, an undergraduate student at Delaware State University. Please go ahead, Terron. Q: Can you hear me now? CASA: Yes. Q: Hi. Yes. So I'm thinking about more the energy sector of this talk. So in Mexico I know there's a lot of geothermal activity, so isn't there a more effective way of, like—because global warming is increasing more and more as time goes on, like, the flooding, the overheating of the ozone, stuff like—couldn't geothermal usage be more effective in Mexico and solar too, versus the oil refineries? CORREA-CABRERA: This is a very important question. The understanding of climate change in the United States is very different from Mexico. In the developed world, the concern about the environment has been focused—I mean, this has now been the center of the discussion and the center of the development programs and projects. In the developing nations, there are more immediate needs to be covered. With regards specifically to Mexico, there is not—climate change is not in the center of the discourse and the priorities of the Mexican government. Mexico has oil and gas and the current Mexican president—I mean, notwithstanding the analysis of other actors. What the Mexican government has had as a priority since the beginning of the administration has more to do with the development from the state, more centralization of the state, a greater role of the state in the sector of oil and gas. The climate change priority comes from the United States. Today, you know, the diplomatic efforts are going to be done to make Mexico to turn into the renewable sector, but at this point, it is not the priority of the Mexican government, neither the priority of a majority of the Mexican people, because in the developing world, climate change is important but it's more important sometimes in certain parts of Mexico, such as Guerrero, Michoacán, and Tamaulipas, and it's particularly the poorest regions of Mexico—Oaxaca or Chiapas—where there are several problems and, you know, immediate needs of people are not covered. And I'm talking about food. I'm talking about security very particularly. These pictures of children with arms in Guerrero and Michoacán tell us what the emergency situation is for a number of people, and the Mexican president has been able to create a discourse around these needs, around the needs for poor people, around the needs of those who can listen to that better, and he has a priority today—I mean, he sent a proposal to achieve an electric reform; well, the state is going to have more involvement and also a focus on electricity with the technologies that the Mexican state has been managed, which is not connected to solar or wind or the mindset that the United States has had in the past few years. So the priorities are very different and the studies are not directed there. The Department of Energy of the United States, through one of the laboratories of renewable energies, conducted a—I mean conducted a study and released the results of this report talking about the—according to the report—the negative effects in terms of emissions of carbon by Mexico and the increase in the cost of producing electricity. The Mexican government—the president alleged that that study was not based in reality. And you can see, then, what Mexico wants. And, you know, currently, Mexico has actively participated in the COP26 and it's been involved in the conversation, but definitely we don't know how much money or how this—(inaudible)—is going to be made. This is a very important question because I wasn't able to go in depth with this. This is probably going to be the main point of tensions between the two countries in the future—definitely for Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Andrés Manuel López Obrador was a very big critic of the recent energy reform of 2013, 2014, the energy reform that allowed private capital to get into the oil sector. He was a pretty big critic. There have been a number of events that link corrupt Mexican governments with the concessions in the oil sector, oil and gas sector, so this is probably going to be—continue to be discussed. And if the president has the capacity of passing the reform—that I see it very difficult because of the numbers that he needs—the situation is going to become more tense, because his vision is nationalistic and it's not—and nationalism—Mexican nationalism of today is not looking at climate change as its main priority. And you can see the supporters of Andrés Manuel López Obrador are really not discussing climate change. Mexican elites are discussing climate change and, of course, the opposition against Andrés Manuel López Obrador against the government of the Fourth Transformation, but they have an important majority—they don't have a majority, sorry, the opposition. The important majority is within the government of the Fourth Transformation, and their support for electric reform is important. I don't know how this is going to play out in the end, but in the United States and in Mexico, climate change is perceived in a very different way. That has to be understood very clearly because we don't see the media, we don't see how in the schools and how in Mexico overall the issue is well-ingrained into the society, because, of course, the society, the Mexican society, particularly the most vulnerable ones in the country, the very important number of poor people in the country has other priorities that have to do with food insecurity—have to do with food insecurity. CASA: Thank you. Our next question is a written question; it's from Yuri Mantilla, professor of law at Liberty University, and he writes, can you please analyze the influence of political ideologies in Mexico and the U.S. that are shaping both international relations between the two countries and perceptions of the Mexican and American people regarding the current political contexts under the Biden administration in the U.S. and the López Obrador leadership in Mexico? CORREA-CABRERA: That's an amazing question, but that is a very difficult question to answer very quickly. OK, let me try to do it. It's a very big challenge. This is a very challenging question. As I mentioned with regards to climate change, the ideologies in Mexico and the United States, what is right and what is left in the two countries is quite—it's, to some extent, different in the United States, the left and right. And today, because we have a president that ran on a left-wing platform and he was recognized as a left-wing president and also a very big critic of so-called neoliberal reforms and the neoliberal system that were represented by the previous administrations and that by the administrations that achieved democratization in Mexico. I'm talking about the National Action Party and all the parties that supported those reforms, the democratization in the country. And because of that, today, the ideology has transformed, to some extent; it's not about—I mean, support for the Washington consensus as it was in the previous decades versus—which was represented in the government—versus another project that direct—the relationship more with the people. Now that mindset, that discourse, sometimes propagandistic in certain ways, is in the government. So the government presents itself as a left-wing government. Nationalism and a conception of first the poor—the poor first, very big criticism, in discourse only, about neoliberalism, without, you know, a real perspective what neoliberalism is because of the support that the current Mexican government has provided to USMCA, which is one of the foundation parts of what is perceived as neoliberalism, which is mainly liberalism in—not in the perspective of the United States overall—free markets, the importance of free markets in the economy. It's a very challenging question because in the United States and Mexico there are important concepts that mean different things for people. Liberalism or neoliberalism for Mexicans mean support of markets and a support of the right, while in the United States, when we talk about liberalism, we think about progressive thinking; we think about equality but in a different way. In Mexico the center is equality in the economic regard, and the president today, the government, you know, is governing with the flag of equality, is governing with the flag of the left. And the so-called left is with the Mexican—or allegedly voted for the current Mexican president, but now some of them are debating themselves in different areas. So it's not as easy to place the right and the left as it is more in the United States; even in the United States there are many issues with regards to position yourself in right and left. We have the progressive part of the electorate in the United States versus a more moderate left, and, as you all know, the Republican Party or the conservative segment of the U.S. population that's more connected with Republican candidates, it's kind of like a very different conception in Mexico. The right wing in Mexico in many ways support, for example, the Democratic Party in the United States. What is conceived as the opposition to Andrés Manuel López Obrador even are very critical of Andrés Manuel López Obrador's relationship with feminism or the feminist movement. Andrés Manuel López Obrador is not supporting the feminist movement because Andrés Manuel López Obrador alleges the feminist movement has been supported by other countries and the opposition. So for the alleged left that is represented by the government, feminism is not a part of their agenda, while in the United States the LGBTQIA movement, the feminist movement, support for climate change, those important values are part of the progressive movement of the left. I mean, in Mexico, and I explain this is why this is very, very important and a very challenging question to answer—I mean, just very quickly—is that, for example, climate change is not in the agenda and climate change is in the—it has been taken by the opposition to the Mexican government. Many representatives of the opposition are criticizing the current Mexican government but not focusing on not going and continuing with the desire of constructing the Dos Bocas refinery and going with oil and gas and focusing on electricity as in the previous times of the PRI. So a number of the Mexican elite that is in opposition—I mean that's considered the opposition are supporting climate change. Why—not supporting climate change but are supporting, like, you know, the development of renewable energies and have as an objective climate change but mainly to criticize what the Mexican government is doing. So in that regard, we see a very big polarization between the ones that supported previous administrations versus this current government that connects with the left, while in the United States we see what is the ideological spectrum. A number of those who represent, as I said, the opposition are connected with the current administration objectives. For example, President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa presents very frequently his photographs with members of the Democratic Party, the current president, Joe Biden, and he's very critical of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, so there's a confusion that we can have based on our own ideologies that's not very easy to understand in very quick explanation. But I hope that I was, to some extent, clear in this regard. CASA: Next we're going to a raised hand. Ellen Chesler, who's senior fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Ellen? Q: I actually had put my question in the chat, I thought, but I'll ask it. Thank you so much for this interesting overview. I wanted to—I'm a historian by training and was going to ask you to historically frame some of your introductory remarks in a little bit more depth. First, of great interest to me, your comments about the importance of public health, specifically reproductive health policy. Have United States policies and support of Mexico in the last, you know, twenty-five years or so, in your view, been positive for the country, and what are the challenges that remain? And in a way linked to that, from your introductory comments, a question about labor: You mentioned, of course, that NAFTA, in your view, was successful, certainly from Mexico's standpoint, but has remaining challenges, largely relating to labor organization and the raising of wages in Mexico to equalize the situation between the two countries. Can you comment on what prospects there are for that happening today in Mexico? CORREA-CABRERA: Very interesting questions. With regards to reproductive health, this also has to do with the ideology. The left in Mexico, which is now represented, in a way, by the current Mexican government, the current Mexican government has adamantly—since Andrés Manuel López Obrador was head of the government of Mexico City there have been, you know, an advancement with regards to reproductive rights, reproductive health, and that is not under question of the current administration, which is very interesting because in the United States the—I mean, there's a different type of tension. And in other countries of the hemisphere too, we can see—you know, because we're Catholic countries we can see that area as very complex and a lot of opposition with regards to that. In Mexico, there needs to be an opposition because of the mentality, because of the culture, but there has been an advancement in the courts, and recently there was a decision in one state of Mexico that decriminalized—and it's very interesting how the Mexican government has been able to build a different discourse that has allowed the current government to advance in that direction. Decriminalization of abortion is a way that this has advanced. So I believe that possibly—I dare to say that possibly in the Americas, Mexico is one of the most progressive governments with regards to this subject, reproductive health and reproductive rights. It is very interesting—there must be a number of studies coming from this decision of the courts of one state of Mexico that's going to be defining the future of reproductive rights in the country. With regards to the second question about NAFTA, labor rights, there is an understanding in the United States that NAFTA has been good, particularly for Mexico. In the technocracy sector, particularly those that, you know, contributed to renegotiate NAFTA—I mean, the Mexican elites recognize the gains of Mexico in the framework of NAFTA, particularly if we focus on the manufacturing sector. The jobs that we're creating in maquiladoras, the jobs that were created due to NAFTA, were not enough to achieve or to allow Mexico to grow at rates that were acceptable. During the time of NAFTA, Mexico has grown at the same—almost at the same level of demographic rates of population rates. So overall, a number of jobs were lost in the beginning, the first years of NAFTA. Many of these people needed to move to the United States. So the effects of NAFTA in Mexico have been very extremely, extremely unequal. But what you will read probably in the reports that have been produced by Mexican academics, Mexican analysts and think tanks and in the think tanks of the United States is that NAFTA has been overall very good for Mexico. It has not been bad for Mexico. It has allowed the country to have access to a number of products but, at the same time, has affected some other sectors that could be considered of national security. And I'm thinking about the production of grain in the agricultural sector in particular. But with regards to labor rights—and this is why the question is very important, and I'm not sure that I answered it correctly. The United States has different priorities and has had different priorities that were manifested in the growth of dissatisfaction among an important segment of the U.S. population that has not been able to—I mean, become part of the development in the United States. That gave place to the Make America Great Again movement where the intention or the importance that a number of people in the United States, both in the left or in the right—the idea of a Green New Deal that it's right now in the form of the Build Back Better framework has this idea in mind, to generate jobs inside the United States, because globalization or very aggressive globalization after the end of the Cold War really put a number of people in the United States in a complicated situation because the jobs were performed outside the borders of the United States. So today, this is why it is important to understand what USMCA is about with regards to labor. There is an important pressure from the United States, in particular, to Mexico to increase or—the conditions of the workers in the manufacturing sector overall because there is an important focus on wages. But if wages are—increase more than what the president already increased, you know, into this framework and labor unions make more complicated the entrance of foreign capital and the foreign capital goes back to the United States, will Mexico lose its competitiveness? And the losses will be for Mexico. So there is a tension there and definitely this tension has not been solved. The wages in Mexico have been low but that has to do with the labor supply and with the conditions of labor markets overall. And if there is a force to create the labor unions, this is probably not going to be in the—I mean it's not going to benefit Mexican workers because the businesses are probably not going to generate those jobs and will probably relocate. That's a conversation that has been going on and we have not solved. And we have not seen an improvement overall in the conditions or the wages of workers, more than the one that Andrés Manuel López Obrador by decree—has been given to the workers by increasing in double, particularly at the border wages in the manufacturing sector. But in the framework of USMCA, we haven't yet seen the results and we have not yet seen also the pressure if Mexico has not because the unions have not been created and there are many tensions in that sector. There was an attempt to start with the first labor union in the maquiladora sector by—I mean today a person who is right now in Congress, Susana Prieto Terrazas—she ended up in jail in the state of Tamaulipas, so this is a very complicated subject that we haven't been able to solve. CASA: I'm afraid we have to close now. We're not able to get to all the questions, but we will give you the contacts for the professor and you can reach out to her directly, if you would like to continue the conversation. Guadalupe, thank you very much for being with us today, and to all of you for your great questions and comments. You can follow Guadalupe on Twitter @GCorreaCabrera. Our next Academic Webinar will take place on Wednesday, November 17, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Jason Bordoff, founding director of the Center of Global Energy Policy and professor of professional practice in international and public affairs at Columbia University, will lead a conversation on energy policy and efforts to combat climate change. In the meantime, I encourage you to follow @CFR_Academic on Twitter and visit CFR.org, ForeignAffairs.com, and ThinkGlobalHealth.org for new research and analysis on global issues. Thank you again for joining us today. We look forward to tuning in on November 17. (END)

Brad Soucie is the Associate head basketball coach at Liberty University. He began his coaching career in 1995 and has the distinction of serving as an assistant under current Liberty head coach Ritchie McKay every day of his head coaching career. The partnership began in 1995 when the two helped resurrect the program at Portland State, which had been dormant for 15 years. He followed McKay to Colorado State, Oregon State, and New Mexico, before joining him in his first stint with the Flames (2007-09). Soucie also served with Virginia and returned with McKay in 2015.  He has helped Liberty to three straight NCAA Tournament berths and been an integral part in helping the Flames stay atop the Atlantic Sun conference.  In August of 2020, Soucie's wife Kendra passed away after being diagnosed with breast cancer a few years earlier in 2018.  Today we talk to Brad Soucie about his journey from playing to coaching basketball, the lessons learned from Ritchie McKay, learning of his wife's cancer diagnosis and the process of grief that he has walked through in trusting Jesus to guide him.  --- Receive our 10-day Sports Spectrum Devotional written by professional athletes for FREE when you sign up for our Sports Spectrum Weekly Email Newsletter. Sign up here.

In this episode, I have a second conversation with Tyler Lee. Tyler is a serial entrepreneur who is now running for the United States Congress. He will tell us why. I have known Tyler since 2006 when he was a student of mine at Liberty University. He brings some business sensibilities to politics. You will be impressed as I was. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider subscribing and tell others who might benefit from this podcast. I would like to hear from you. You can leave a comment below.  I would like to hear if this was useful. Contact me on Twitter or Gettr @daringerdes or leave a video message: https://flipgrid.com/leadersmith  Join our FACEBOOK COMMUNITY and continue the discussion there: https://www.facebook.com/groups/learnleadership/   or Join our LinkedIn community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13966891/   WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR? Reach out with a comment or question: https://forms.gle/fJP6ym4LDxJrKX2c8

From addict, to ordained Pastor, to running a recovery center with one of the highest recovery rates in the United States. Listen as Adam Comer speaks about his documentary on addiction, “The Forgotten Pandemic”, and why it is so important to not let this blight go unnoticed. Each one of us can help in some way or ways. Pray, give, serve, refer, expose, mentor. Help in giving addicts a new identity and a new life in Christ. As an ordained pastor, Adam has played a major role in developing and establishing one of the highest addiction recovery program success rates in the country, and is a highly respected leader around the community and in Middle Tennessee. He also has professional experience in healthcare and mental healthcare fields.Adam's studies at Liberty University include religion, ministry leadership, people management, and Christian counseling. In recovery, Adam has truly been set free from the grips of addiction. He went through the program at S2L a decade ago, and now his passions, pursuits and purpose revolve around the belief that all who are weary from life-controlling issues and addiction can be led to freedom.Adam is also the Executive Producer and Director of The Forgotten Pandemic, a newly released documentary that explores Christ-centered addiction recovery.Adam is a proud husband to his high school sweetheart, Katie. They have been married since 2008 and have 2 children Elijah and Ellasyn. God called Adam and Katie to Middle Tennessee and they love investing into this community, both personally and professionally.https://www.s2lrecovery.org/about-us/http://forgottenpandemic.com/

We are so excited to share this week's episode, “Placing Your Hope in Christ | Overcoming Postpartum Depression” with Scott and Vanessa Martindale, and special guests Daniel, and Ashley Morgan Jackson. This podcast is for you if you're currently battling Postpartum Depression or any variation of depression or anxiety, or you're looking for practical and spiritual tips to support a loved one battling depression.Daniel and Ashley have been married for 12 years, and they have 2 little boys. Daniel grew up in a blended family, with 2 half-siblings and 5 full siblings. He graduated from Liberty University with a Bachelor's Degree in Communications. Daniel loves being a dad, husband, and coaching youth sports. Ashley is currently the COMPEL community coordinator. COMPEL is a branch of Proverbs 31 Ministries, which is a writer's training program. She is the author of “The Blessing of Being Broken” as well as “Called to Build”, a Bible study on the book of Nehemiah. Recently, she released a podcast also by the same name of “Called To Build” in order to equip women to take steps toward the dreams God has placed in their hearts.IN THIS EPISODE, WE DISCUSS:Enduring through and triumphing over depressionThe paralyzing nature of depressionGod's love for you that surpasses understandingThe authority you have after going through the wilderness seasonAnd more!!This podcast is available on all major podcast platforms! You can also find our podcast on our website at www.blendedkingdomfamilies.com. Be sure to subscribe to never miss an episode!! We pray that this podcast blesses you today!#blendedkingdomfamilies #restoredfamilymovementWant to connect with Daniel and Ashley Morgan Jackson?Website: ashleymorganjackson.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/AshleyMorganJacksonblogInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashley.morgan.jackson/Twitter: twitter.com/ashleymjackson

She is ordained and ecclesiastically endorsed by the Assemblies of God. Kimberly graduated with a Master of Divinity degree from Assemblies of God Theological Seminary in Springfield, Missouri. Prior to graduate school, Kimberly received her Bachelor of Science in Religion from Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia. Before joining Lighthouse, Kimberly completed her Clinical Pastoral Education at Advocate Good Samaritan in Downers Grove, Illinois and at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, Illinois. Kimberly lives with her family in LaGrange, Illinois. She has one dog, Java. Kimberly loves nature and travelling.

Polish school cancels Halloween, Biden visits the pope, Sikh men rescue two hikers, Liberty University "think tank," Supreme Court lets Maine vaccine mandate stand, school revises clothing ban, and Christians can't help but be upset about Halloween.

Guest Bios Show Transcript Did Liberty University mishandle Title IX sexual assault allegations? The school's former spokesman says it did—and he joins Julie Roys in a special edition of The Roys Report to tell his inside story. Lamb this week filed a federal lawsuit against Liberty, accusing the school of firing him for raising objections to Liberty's “mishandling” of Title IX allegations.

On today's program,  Ravi Zacharias's daughter forms a new ministry, but some former staff members and donors have concerns.  And TD Jakes is doing a big real estate deal in Atlanta. We begin today with the latest chapter in the continuing saga at Liberty University. Before we go…I want to let everyone know that we have a limited supply of hardback copies of Faith Based Fraud.  We're offering these books for a gift of any size as our thank you gift to anyone who makes a donation by the end of October.  So that's just the next few days.  And if you're one of the first 100 who respond, you'll get an autographed copy.  So if you haven't gotten your copy of Faith Based Fraud, or if you want a special hardback copy for your bookshelf or for a gift, go to MinistryWatch.com and hit the donate button at the top of the page.  Also…There's a quick, easy, and FREE way you can support this podcast, and that is to give us a rating on your podcast app.  The more ratings we get, the more attention we get from search engines, and that helps new listeners find us.  And, by the way, when you give us a rating, leave us a comment, too.  I read them all. The producers for today's program are Rich Roszel and Steve Gandy. We get database and other technical support from Cathy Goddard, Stephen DuBarry, and Casey Sudduth.  Writers who contributed to today's program include Rod Pitzer, Christina Darnell, Anne Stych, Paul Glader, John Semakula, Kathryn Post, Pierre-Richard Luxama, Nancy Benac, Steve Rabey, and Bob Smietana. Special thanks to Religion UnPlugged for contributing material for this week's program. Until next time, may God bless you.

In this Halloween Special episode, the boys get spooky as they talk horror bands, Justin tells a scary story about the dark web. Then, Steve tells us about the dark, controversial behavior Liberty University contains, especially the latest news there. They also discuss more about the Alec Baldwin news and Dave Chappelle's response on his comedy special backlash. https://www.propublica.org/article/the-liberty-way-how-liberty-university-discourages-and-dismisses-students-reports-of-sexual-assaults ADVICE HOTLINE: (540) 358-1583 https://twitter.com/unhelpfulpod https://www.facebook.com/groups/146927174112555/ Instagram: @unhelpfuladvicepodcast Email: unhelpfuladvicepodcast@gmail.com

Support us by shopping at our Amazon store: Shop.BradandBritt.com Donald Trump has a bullshit letter published in The Wall Street Journal, Mort Sahl passes, Senator Burr (R-NC) gets caught red-handed, Liberty University gets caught red-handed, President Biden scrambles to get Dems on board, Joe Manchin (D?-WV) no likey the billionaire's tax Donate via PayPal: @bradandbritt Venmo: @BBCast Cash App: $bdub336

Deelynn Leigh was born in South Boston, Virginia and grew up with her family in Carson City, Nevada. As a young girl she engulfed her life with athletics and outdoor activities. For relaxation she found her gift for writing while creating short stories. In grade school she wrote her first haiku poem which ignited her love for poetry and the ability to utilize words and strategic rhythms to express herself. Throughout the course of her life, she shared her poetry through spoken word opportunities from private to public stages and published independent works across various poetic volumes. Deelynn attended George Mason University where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and English with a concentration in Poetry. Immediately following she obtained her Master of Arts degree in Religious Education from Liberty University. Deelynn is very passionate about her faith in God through Jesus Christ and seeks to create poetry that glorifies God and encourages others. Her purpose in life is to spread the Word of God to all, striving to do this effectively through her written words. Her poems are a testimony of God's love, His mercy, and His grace. One of her most motivated scriptures is Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to make you prosper and not to harm you, to give you hope and a future.” Her latest book is Lift Up: Inspirational Poems & Devotions which can be purchased online at Amazon.com.

Sadie speaks with author, singer, and songwriter Lauren Chandler about cultivating your character, overcoming purpose anxiety, and not rushing the process. They also get into navigating difficult times in marriage, overcoming misunderstandings and disagreements, and how to just have fun.  https://homechef.com/whoa — Get $90 OFF your first month for a limited time. That's a value of 10 free meals! https://athleticgreens.com/whoa — Get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D & 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase! https://www.shopshereadstruth.com — Get 15% OFF your Advent Bible Study with code WHOA! https://liberty.edu/Sadie — Get your application fee WAIVED when you start your future with Liberty University today! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week The President of Mar-A-Lago and Tech Stuff Guy welcome a special guest. The future Mrs. 4th Trump, Adelia Acker. Adelia is on Only Fans and has a new podcast called Offensive. The discuss Only Fans, Ivanka, social media platform TRUTH, Liberty University, and more.We are sponsored by the huge BetOnline.AG for all your sports betting needs. Use Promo Code CLNS50 to receive a 50% Welcome Bonus on your first deposit.Adelia Acker - Itsdeelz.comTwitter: @its_deelz - IG: @itsdaddydeelzwww.MPGApod.com

For our first story, we have a scandal right out of Liberty University. Next, let's do an update on the spending bill in Congress, before getting to the billionaire tax proposal. Plus, Spanx founder Sara Blakely just sold her company to Blackstone at a valuation of about $1.2 billion dollars. Then, we cover Princess Mako's wedding, a new U.S. private refugee sponsorship program, and Pfizer's Covid vaccine for kids ages 5-11. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode: ProPublica: "'The Liberty Way': How Liberty University Discourages and Dismisses Students' Reports of Sexual Assaults" CNN: "Americans may finally get paid family leave. Here's what to know" Axios: "Biden plan expected to include at least $500B for climate" Washington Post: "The world needs to cut its emissions seven times as fast to hit climate goals, U.N. report finds" Washington Post: "Democrats' billionaire tax would heavily target 10 wealthiest Americans, but alternative plan is emerging" NY Times: "At Last, a Royal Wedding. But No Trumpets, Just a News Conference" NPR: "Spanx CEO surprises employees with 2 first-class plane tickets and $10,000" Axios: "U.S. will now allow private citizens to sponsor Afghan refugees"

On today's episode, David and Sarah celebrate the Supreme Court finally bending to their will and then preview the upcoming oral arguments regarding SB 8, the Texas abortion law. They then move on to a discussion of a wild case involving videotaping police, highlight Liberty University's problems with sexual assault, and then wonder whether an important free speech case is dead or just "mostly dead."   Show Notes: -United States v. Texas -SCOTUSblog on oral arguments in the Texas abortion law case -303 Creative v. Elenis -Kristen Waggoner letter -ProPublica “The Liberty Way” -Sarah's piece in Politico See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Curb is back, Eli Zaret is back, Dave & Chuck fans strike back, Lyla barks, Dave Chappelle breaks his silence, Lisa Rinna in diapers and all of our equipment breaks.The equipment goes haywire at the beginning of the episode and we are too lazy to start over.Drew lied to his mother about smoking cigarettes.Eli Zaret joins the show to brag about his golf prowess, talk up Jerkmate, take shots at BranDon's aging and discuss the Detroit Lions in his new segment 'See It My Way' sponsored by Dr. Yaldo.Other sports items: The Tampa Bay Bucs fan who caught Tom Brady's 600th TD pass got ripped off. Matt Millen once called Johnny Morton the F word. Is the Phoenix Suns owner, Robert Sarver, canceled or not? Where will Deshaun Watson end up? M vs MSU build up.Don't Pfizer-shame Trudi.Dr. Fauci is a mass dog murderer.Dave & Chuck the Freak fans really didn't like last week's WATP episode.Four Hours At The Capitol explores January 6th. Trump's favorite cowboy has turned against him. Rolling Stone breaks some news about the Congressional investigation. The new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm is finally out.RIP James Michael Tyler... the 7th Friend. Jennifer Aniston makes up a lie to virtue signal.Joe Rogan vs CNN Part II.More details on the Alec Baldwin / Rust shooting. Hilarious Baldwin breaks her silence.Don Jr is selling mean t-shirts. It's not nice.Meanwhile, the current president's son had his latest art show and it was lightly attended. His art dealer wears Camp David swag.Dave Chappelle has broken his silence over the fallout of The Closer. One of the Netflix protesters is getting called out for not being very tolerant.Drew Crime: Drew somehow came across even more details of The Unicorn Killer, Ira Einhorn. We also learn of the York Race Riots.Influencer Olivia Mathers cutting the lawn is the latest internet battle.Feces news: Would you pick a dropped phone out of a Porta Potty? Check out this NSFW scat video. The Cannonball Dookie remains our #1.Ric Ocasek's dying wishes are disrespected as Paulina Porizkova lands some of his money. Watch her cry on Instagram.Scott Disick's Instagram is nothing but shady advertisements.Lisa Rinna wears diapers. This is her best commercial.Trudi kills Susan Dey.Note to WATP Karl... The Danny Bonaduce & Sarah Morning Show is on KZOK.The Burning Platform is the Bonerline's top news source.Jack Dorsey is worried about/hoping for hyperinflation.Update: The Bucs fan who caught Tom Brady's 600th TD got some prizes.Liberty University reportedly punished 22 students who reported rape to their Title IX office.Somebody stole $20,000 worth of clothes from Jeremy Piven's house. Find out all about it on the next shitty episode of How U Livin J. Piven Podcast.Check out 10-Inch-Greg on today's Clarktober.Social media is dumb but we're on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (Drew and Mike Show, Marc Fellhauer, Trudi Daniels and BranDon).

In this episode, The search for Brian Laundrie has ended and it raises even more unanswered questions for both families. While Americans face a border of crisis, Biden strengthens his personal property borders. Latest Biden report card is out and he receives failing grades.

Graham Sikes is a recruiting coordinator and assistant coach at Michigan State University, a Division I program who's a part of the well-known Big 10 conference. He played collegiately at Liberty University a Division I program located in Lynchburg, Virginia. He graduated from there in 2002 and obtained his first coaching job at Independence Community College in 2004. Than from 2005-2007 he coached at Nicholls State, Young Harris College, and James Madison University. From 2008-2010 he was a volunteer for the Notre Dame baseball program before joining Michigan State University in 2011 where he still remains. In this episode, we start off talking about his coaching journey and why he went from jumping from school to school to staying at Michigan State for now 11 years. Than coach Graham explains what it's like to coach in a college baseball program as well as everything that goes into it. We also talk about thoroughly about catching and the art of receiving at the college versus professional level. Than we dive into what makes a good college level hitter today and has the thoughts of that changed in his time coaching. Give this podcast a listen to hear from long-tenured college baseball coach, Graham Sikes of Michigan State University. It can be beneficial whether you're a player or a coach. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fiob/support

This week I have something a little different for you.  We talk a lot on this podcast about making life changes, living adventurously and not cruising through life on autopilot.  My guests this week are here to help you with the ''how''!  They are sisters, Lauren and Candice Henry - success and influence strategists and co-founders of Aretios. They hold degrees in communications, business marketing and management, as well as master's degrees in executive leadership from Liberty University. Candice and Lauren are both top-rated college professors teaching courses in personal and organizational leadership at Southeastern University. Candice is also a published author, and Lauren has served alongside several for-profit and not-for-profit organizations raising near $1million for charitable causes. Together they also have a combined 13 years of experience as leadership trainers for young adults as well as a background serving in youth ministry. Through their company, Aretios, Candice and Lauren have done speaking and training sessions for global companies, non-profit organizations, and various colleges and universities. This is a really great chat and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

In this episode, I have a conversation with Tyler Lee. Tyler is a serial entrepreneur who has a wonderful understanding of the lessons needed to be successful in business. They are probably not what you think. I have known Tyler since 2006 when he was a student of mine at Liberty University. He impressed me then, and he impressed me now. If he wrote in a paper what he told me in this episode, he would deserve an A. What is more important is that he was relaying his own practical experience. He did it. This is not just theory. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider subscribing and tell others who might benefit from this podcast. I would like to hear from you. You can leave a comment below.  I would like to hear if this was useful. Contact me on Twitter or Gettr @daringerdes or leave a video message: https://flipgrid.com/leadersmith  Join our FACEBOOK COMMUNITY and continue the discussion there: https://www.facebook.com/groups/learnleadership/   or Join our LinkedIn community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13966891/   WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR? Reach out with a comment or question: https://forms.gle/fJP6ym4LDxJrKX2c8

Episode 83: Step into the life of Jill Freeze. Join Kristen Eargle, a fellow coach's wife and long-time TV Sports Reporter, as she goes one-on-one with the wife of Hugh Freeze, Head Football Coach at Liberty University.

Accidental Success is a self-motivational book for someone stressed out with their life, career, or personal finances and needs the motivation to get up and get going. This book inspires, motivates, and teaches the readers how to build generational wealth step by step. The book contains the inspiring real-life story of Michael Dillard and the secret formula that he used to go from unemployed on a Friday to traveling around the world as a Foreign Service Officer (what he calls an Accidental Diplomat) on a Monday. Michael Dillard was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, and raised in Clarksville, Tennessee. Michael graduated from Northeast High School. From age 7, he was raised in a single-parent house when his parents divorced. The U.S. federal program called Upward Bound motivated him to develop a vision for his life. It provided tutoring and cultural exposure while in high school on the campus of Austin Peay State University. In addition to being an author, Michael Dillard is an Executive Coach. He completed his ICF executive coach training from the Center for Executive Coaches. One can book or schedule a coaching session with Michael at www.madillard.com. Michael received his Bachelor's Degree from Middle Tennessee State University, his MBA with a specialization in Financial Planning from Strayer University, and a Master's Degree in Accounting from Liberty University. Michael has put all the secret ingredients to success and happiness in the book, as he wants a maximum number of people to learn from his diverse experiences in life.  “I really enjoyed reading about Michael's life and how he made it…. proving that despite setbacks, you can achieve success. This book is an inspiration to all, and I recommend it wholeheartedly,” says Mary H, a reviewer. Website: www.madillard.com

In this episode we talk about the first amendment battle between Jerry Falwell and Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt.

Let's Go Brandon and more on today's CrossPolitic Daily Newsbrief. I'm Toby Sumpter and today is October 12, 2021. What do you do when you're a Christian University — say Liberty University — and you really want to join in the trend, but you're a Christian University? Play during opening music: 0:00-0:06 FEMA Failed to […]

Let's Go Brandon and more on today's CrossPolitic Daily Newsbrief. I'm Toby Sumpter and today is October 12, 2021. What do you do when you're a Christian University -- say Liberty University -- and you really want to join in the trend, but you're a Christian University? Play during opening music: 0:00-0:06 FEMA Failed to Investigate Half of the Sexual Misconduct Allegations https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/federal-sexcapades-fema-failed-properly-investigate-half-its-sexual Turns out FEMA is like the worst youth group missions trip on steroids. The U.S. government's disaster recovery agency received more than 300 allegations of workplace sexual misconduct and harassment from 2012 to 2018 and failed to properly investigate more than half of them, according to an internal watchdog report. This article says that the report “exposes the limits [of] the #MeToo movement has met inside the federal bureaucracy.” The limits of the #metoo movement… The article continues: The Federal Emergency Management Agency's problems extend beyond proper handling of complaints, as a survey of its workforce exposed a potentially pervasive hostile work environment, according to a report issued this month by the Homeland Security Department's inspector general. "One-third (255 of 765) of the employees who responded to our questionnaire indicated they had experienced sexual harassment or sexual misconduct, but they did not report it because they did not believe the allegations would be investigated," the inspector general reported. "Unaddressed sexual harassment and sexual misconduct in the workplace can have negative effects on employees, including decreased performance, low morale, and increased turnover," the report added [stating the screaming obvious.] They also noted that if you can't breathe it is not conducive to a long life. Also from the report: "The agency mustered a poor response to the flood of allegations," investigators said. These people are hilarious. Get it? Flood of allegations? FEMA? Hurricanes and floods and... "We were unable to determine whether FEMA properly handled 153 of these allegations, because it could not provide complete investigative and disciplinary files," the report said. "For allegations that had complete files available, at times we were unable to determine whether FEMA conducted an investigation. Finally, we found FEMA did not document whether it reviewed some sexual harassment-related Equal Employment Opportunity complaints to determine whether potential employee misconduct occurred." Look, I don't really trust the report -- since I have little confidence that biblical standards for evidence, testimony, and witnesses were follwed , but I do know that we live in a debauched culture, where public school sex education courses encourage pagan kids to do whatever feels good, and then we are somehow shocked when they grow up and do just that. I mean is Darwin right or not? Are we just highly evolved animals or not? 1:11-1:18 But of course rather than completely defunding FEMA as we ought to and letting the states and counties take care of themselves, we will no doubt create another government agency that is tasked with studying the sex habits of government employees. I actually do think this is tied to youth group mission trip culture. While I don't object to very carefully crafted mission trips, I'm generally against the whole lot because I think there's a high degree of likelihood that a bunch of hormonal teenagers can actually do a lot more harm than good. And I also think that those who are most invested in a community are in the best position to help their own communities. They have to live with the results of all their help. I mean I really do feel for Haiti-- for example. But we should all be looking at Haiti as a cautionary tale. How many millions were poured into that country after the earthquakes? And how's it doing? A complete mess? Right. Ditto for FEMA. Guitar AD Have you always wanted to play guitar but didn't know where to start? Learning to play the guitar can be a lonely, confusing and expensive experience. But it doesn't have to be that way. Fight Laugh Feast member David Harsh has created a unique, online monthly membership, that has community, a clear success path, and it's super affordable. 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Head on over to GuitarSuccess4U.com to start your guitar journey. That's Guitar Success, the number “4” and the letter “U,” dot com. Doug Wilson Responds to the Maricopa County Audit https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s7-engaging-the-culture/maricopa-pudding.html “So I will look sideways—squinty-eyed and scowling—at this particular election to my dying day. And I will do so with sunshine in my conscience. Anomalies do require explanation. As Thoreau once put it, “Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.” You know, like a turtle on top of a fence post. When you are driving down a country road, and you happen to see a turtle on top of a fence post, the situation is clear, and the first thing that comes to mind is President Biden. You understand he didn't get there by himself, he really doesn't belong there, he doesn't know what to do as long as he's up there, and all you want to do is help the poor little guy get down. This election in Maricopa is like that. Not everything in this mess goes together. It is like you went to dig into your vanilla Maricopa pudding, made fresh just this morning, and you discover that it is resting on a bed of cole slaw.” Pastor Wilson also linked to this doozy of a conversation that happened in Maricopa County regarding the deleted/archived files from the voting machines that audit did not have access to. Play Audio: 0:00-1:54 When the voting machine records were subpoenaed, they just deleted/archived certain files and figured that the subpoena didn't apply to those records. Bring back my laugh track: HAHAHAHA! Former Pentagon Softwar Chief Says China Has Won the Tech War https://nypost.com/2021/10/11/pentagon-software-chief-nicolas-chaillan-resigns/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow From the New York Post: The Pentagon's former software chief said he quit because China has already won the tech war guaranteeing global dominance — with some US government systems mere “kindergarten level” in comparison. Nicolas Chaillan, 37, told the Financial Times on Sunday that there is “good reason to be angry” at the US failing to rise to China's cyber threat, even fearing that it puts his children's future at risk. “We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years. Right now, it's already a done deal; it is already over, in my opinion,” Nicolas Chaillan, 37, told the paper. Chaillan — who was the Pentagon's first chief software officer — said China will dominate the future of the world by controlling everything from media narratives to geopolitics. He claimed that the US, like Beijing, should have prioritized artificial intelligence, machine learning and cyber capabilities over traditional military spending like building new fighter jets. “Whether it takes a war or not is kind of anecdotal,” he told the paper of his prediction of China's route to future world dominance. He attacked Google for not working on AI with the US Defense Department, while Chinese companies are obliged to work with Beijing. The US is also wasting time debating the ethics of AI while China makes “massive investment” and eschews such concerns, he said. Some US government cyber-defense systems are so dated, they are merely at “kindergarten level,” he insisted. “While we wasted time in bureaucracy, our adversaries moved further ahead,” Chaillan wrote in a scathing letter on LinkedIn last month when first announcing his resignation. “At this point, I am just tired of continuously chasing support and money to do my job,” he said of the pioneering Pentagon job that was “probably the most challenging and infuriating of my entire career.” Chaillan told the Financial Times that he plans in the coming weeks to testify to Congress about the Chinese cyber threat to US supremacy, including in classified briefings. [This] comes as a new poll shows that about 9 in 10 Americans are at least somewhat concerned about hacking, while about two-thirds say they are very or extremely concerned. The poll by the Pearson Institute and the Associated Press shows that roughly three-quarters also eye the Chinese and Russian governments as major threats to the cybersecurity of the US government. I mean, if we put this together with what we've already covered on today's newsbrief, there are troubling trends. Maricopa county voting officials have no concerns about deleting (I mean archiving) files before turning them over to an audit. And our Federal Emergency Management Agency cannot even manage the emergency of sexual misconduct in its own ranks. Put that together, and how likely does it seem that some of our governmental tech programs are kindergarten level compared to China? I would say the chances are pretty high. Remember Solomon: when he went in for all the sex, he had to build altars and shrines for all the gods of his wives and concubines. Instead of using his strength to continue to build productive and useful things, his strength was used to destroy his family and nation. Is America strong? Sure. But we are pouring our strength down the tubes. But let's not end on a sour note. Remember God is God, and this is His world. China's so-called strength isn't real strength either. As it happens, pure coercive power will crush LGBT flower power every day of the week, but both are false versions of power. Neither will ultimately work. Both are parasitic on Christian virtues. Both have to assume certain creational realities are real and true. They have to deny Darwin and believe that there is order and goodness in the universe in order to maintain a semblance of coherence. Psalm of the Day: Psalm 20 0:00-0:57 Remember you can always find the links to our news stories and these psalms at crosspolitic dot com – just click on the daily news brief and follow the links. This is Toby Sumpter with Crosspolitic News. 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How can coaches build a truly excellent program? By defining what 'excellence' is. That's what today's guest would make the case for: Giancarlo Lemmi is the Associate Head Coach for Liberty University women's tennis, and has helped the program amass over 100 wins since 2012. In the process of his coaching work at the university, Lemmi has advocated for coaches to become better at defining their vision for their careers and programs, and the working towards achieving that vision. As a by product of that effort, Lemmi just published his first book, "The Court of Excellence: Using Your Life Story to Shape Your Coaching Philosophy". The book is available here: https://amzn.to/3iEkFcu Coach Lemmi also co-hosts the popular "The Christian Coach Podcast" - listen to their interviews with lots of fellow coaches and how they are building their lives, careers and program here: https://www.coachlemmi.com/podcast His website also offers ways coaches can get help developing their own stories to define their program, and attract the right recruits: https://www.coachlemmi.com/ Thanks for listening, Coach! If you have questions or podcast guest ideas, email me at dan@dantudor.com.

A small town cop is gunned down in a swamp in the summer of 2015. He quickly became a martyr in the national media, until a dogged investigator uncovered the officer's bizarre and dark past. When the truth comes out, the townspeople must reconcile betrayal, corruption and the secrets of an American hero. From Wondery, the makers of The Shrink Next Door and Dr. Death comes the third season of Over My Dead Body: Fox Lake.Listen to Over My Dead Body Fox Lake - wondery.fm/FL_InGodWeLustSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Lamar has an MDiv from Emory University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Liberty University. Over the years Lamar has served as a youth pastor, hospice chaplain, football coach, and pastor but his most important role is serving his wife of 16 years and their three beautiful children ages 11, 8, and 3. In 2014, after years of silently struggling with social anxiety and sensory processing disorder, and a host of other significant issues, Dr. Hardwick was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. He was 36 years old when diagnosed. Dr. Hardwick has had articles published by various autism and disability websites such as The Mighty,The Huffington Post, Key Ministry, and The Autistic Self Advocacy Network to name a few. His articles and blogs can also be found on his website www.autismpastor.com. Dr. Hardwick is the author of the best-selling book I am Strong: The Life and Journey of an Autistic Pastor and the recently released Disability and the Church: A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion.In this episode, Larmer tells his story and helps us understand how the church can better understand and include people with Disabilities. Theology in the Raw Conference - Exiles in Babylon At the Theology in the Raw conference, we will be challenged to think like exiles about race, sexuality, gender, critical race theory, hell, transgender identities, climate change, creation care, American politics, and what it means to love your democratic or republican neighbor as yourself. Different views will be presented. No question is off limits. No political party will be praised. Everyone will be challenged to think. And Jesus will be upheld as supreme.Faith, Sexuality, and Gender Conference - Live in Boise or Stream OnlineIn the all-day conference, Dr. Preston Sprinkle dives deep into the theological, relational, and ministry-related questions that come up in the LGBTQ conversation.Support PrestonSupport Preston by going to patreon.comVenmo: @Preston-Sprinkle-1Connect with PrestonTwitter | @PrestonSprinkleInstagram | @preston.sprinkleYoutube | Preston SprinkleCheck out Dr. Sprinkle's website prestonsprinkle.comStay Up to Date with the PodcastTwitter | @RawTheologyInstagram | @TheologyintheRawIf you enjoy the podcast, be sure to leave a review.

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Think of your favorite pop-culture super star. Do you know their life inside and out? Do you know them so well that you might know them better than they know themselves? From Wondery, Celeb vs. Superfan is a new podcast hosted by comedian Taylor Tomlinson where celebrity guests go face to face against their biggest fans in a trivia contest about themselves. Each week, Taylor will introduce a musician, influencer, actor, or personality to a super fan who has always wanted to meet them. You're listening to a preview of Celeb vs Superfan with guest Bobby Berk, where he and energetic superfan Schereeya face off on their “Queer Eye” trivia knowledge, but also bond over how Bobby has helped the queer community, and what makes a good kitchen. Listen to the full episode at wondery.fm/CvS_InGodWeLust.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.