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Speaker 1: Welcome to Real America's Voice News. This is Sunday The

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Speaker 1: Road Forward. While social media and the news cycles were

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Speaker 1: going wild this week, discussing everything from the Epstein files,

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Speaker 1: Obama and the Russia Gate, expose Hillary Clinton's email cover

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Speaker 1: up all over again, Adam Shift's mortgage fraud, and moore

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Speaker 1: My how the script has changed so much so that

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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump is calling for former President Barack Obama

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Speaker 1: to face federal prosecution over allegations that Obama pushed a

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Speaker 1: conspiracy that Russia had directly meddled in the twenty sixteen election.

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Speaker 1: And he said, they're bringing receipts with them if you

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Speaker 1: can believe We're only a couple of weeks away from

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Speaker 1: America goes back to school. All this and more on

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Speaker 1: this edition of Sunday The Rout Forward is always a

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Speaker 1: word of hope and encouragement for you and those you love,

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Speaker 1: especially in these challenging times. I'm doctor Tim Clinton. I'll

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Speaker 1: be your host our special guest joining us this week.

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Speaker 1: He is a practicing licensed psychologist, author, and former legislator.

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Speaker 1: Navy veteran doctor Tim Murphy's with us. He's lead pastor

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Speaker 1: of New Life Church International in Plant City. Florida. Bishop

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Speaker 1: Calvin Coberis is with us and he's a seasoned pastor

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Speaker 1: cultural commentator. Served as president and chancellor of Colorado Christian University.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Donald Sweeten is with us and she is a

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Speaker 1: licensed professional counselor and Director of Counseling for the American

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Speaker 1: Association of Christian Councils. Doctor Mercy Connors is with us.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for watching.

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Speaker 2: Us, christ love me, Sworthy love.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: It's been another wild week in America. Social media and

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Speaker 1: the news cycles are going while discussing everything from again

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Speaker 1: the Epstein files, to Obama to Hillary Clinton, Adams Shift.

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Speaker 1: It's been amazing. Speaking of scandals, the Trump Justice Department

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Speaker 1: is reportedly in talks with Jeffrey Epstein's partner, Joleen Maxwell,

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Speaker 1: to find out if she's willing to share an information

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Speaker 1: about anyone who committed crimes against victims. I guess we'll

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Speaker 1: see the Democrats. They're in trouble. An overwhelming majority of

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Speaker 1: Americans disapproved now of the Democratic Party. The approval for

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Speaker 1: the Congressional Democrats under Hackeen Jeffreys it's reached its lowest

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Speaker 1: point ever recorded nineteen percent. Veteran Democrats strategist James Carvell

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Speaker 1: published an opinion piece this week describing the state of

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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. He wrote, constipated, leaderless, confused, a cracked

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Speaker 1: out clown. Car divided. Those are the words he said,

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Speaker 1: I hear from my fellow Democrats using to describe our

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Speaker 1: party as of late. The truth is, he said, they're

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Speaker 1: not wrong. The Democratic Party is in shambles. And President

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Speaker 1: Trump ripped the blanket this week from the Oval Office

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Speaker 1: with cameras rolling as he accused President Barack Obama and

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Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton orchestrating the Russia hoax. He went on to

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Speaker 1: say it straight out Obama committed treason. He went on

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Speaker 1: to say also that we have all the documents, and

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Speaker 1: from what Telsea Gabbert told him, she's got thousands of

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Speaker 1: additional documents coming. Senator Marshall Blackburn weighed in and she said, hey,

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Speaker 1: we need a proper investigation with appropriate prosecutions. The Russia

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Speaker 1: collusion hoax was manufactured by former President Obama to derail

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Speaker 1: President Trump's first term, and we're not going to forget it.

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Speaker 1: Here's some good news. The economy is rolling. On Tuesday

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Speaker 1: this past week, the S and P five hundred edge higher,

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Speaker 1: actually to the third straight record close. It's incredible, especially

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Speaker 1: if you own stocks or have a four oh one

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Speaker 1: K retirement account. But embrace it with caution. As big

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Speaker 1: tech corpse are reporting second quarter earnings this week, especially

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Speaker 1: with Tesla coming down, we got to keep her eye

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Speaker 1: on that. Also this week, President Trump landed major trade

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Speaker 1: deals with Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines with billions of investment,

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Speaker 1: massive new markets tariffs that they are favoring the United States.

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Speaker 1: The President said, this week, prices are down, groceries are down,

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Speaker 1: Oil's down, energy is down. Gasoline he said, we hit

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Speaker 1: one ninety nine a gallon in five states. Pretty amazing.

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Speaker 1: But we need to continue to pray. We need to

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Speaker 1: pray that Christ would be exalted, and we got to

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Speaker 1: be praying for our nation. Hey, in times like this,

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Speaker 1: our hope, our strength comes from the Lord. Here's a

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Speaker 1: great verse to hold on to this week. Ecclesiastes three eleven.

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Speaker 1: He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has

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Speaker 1: also said eternity in the human heart. Yet no one

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Speaker 1: can fathom what God has done from the beginning to

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Speaker 1: Hey, let's pray and we'll get started. God be with us,

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Speaker 1: bless our time. Here, use it for your glory. Thank

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Speaker 5: Great to be with you, Tim, as.

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Speaker 1: We get started a what a wild week in America.

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Speaker 1: As a former congressman, Doctor Murphy, you must be blown

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Speaker 1: away by everything that you're seeing happen in Washington DC,

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Speaker 1: around the country. I know, since January twentieth, it's been wild.

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Speaker 1: With Trump in office running at warp speed. It's hard

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Speaker 1: to keep up with everything bringing change, kind of revolution

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Speaker 1: of source, if you will, to a very broken system, Tim,

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Speaker 1: and it's really showing up right now. You again, served

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Speaker 1: How did we get so wild? And how did this

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Speaker 1: thing get so out of control? Everybody's thinking the government

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Speaker 5: Well, it is crazy. I studied crazy. I know crazy,

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Speaker 5: that's my career crazy. And when I go back to

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Speaker 5: they talk about it is really bad. The atmosphere is

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Speaker 5: one where people continue to play up to social media

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Speaker 5: this is what happens in this tug of war over power.

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Speaker 5: But what's really fascinating is that people suspected for a

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Speaker 5: long time that all those movies and TV shows you

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Speaker 5: want to believe it because naively we trusted government would

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Speaker 5: as that blanket is pulled off, is that there was

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Speaker 5: it really is happening. There was no manipulation. These things

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Speaker 5: now we're realizing, much to our chagrin and a loss

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Speaker 5: level of the FBI to White House staff and Cabinet members.

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Speaker 5: Who knows who else is involved, But it certainly shook

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Speaker 5: major problem for people. They already don't trust government a lot,

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Speaker 5: and this certainly shakes it even worse.

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Speaker 1: Tim, in the midst of it, with all the questions

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Speaker 1: and the insanity the people went through, you think about it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they literally tried to put Trump in prison,

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Speaker 1: that it's corruption, the deep state is real, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: This week he ripped a blanket right there out of

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Speaker 1: President Obama has committed treason. And Tim, we're going to

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Speaker 1: a whole nother place here, you know that, And I

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Speaker 5: Well, what's what's frightening is we haven't faced this before.

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Speaker 5: When Tulsa Gabbert, the Director of National Intelligence, says she

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Speaker 5: pretty serious allegations, and we'll see what Justice Department comes

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Speaker 5: no longer deny. You know, the whole concept of cognitive

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Speaker 5: of phenomenal waste of money, money going into things that

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Speaker 5: shouldn't have gone into with the usaid program, which is

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Speaker 5: in getting involved in all sorts of trands and queens

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Speaker 5: and social engineering issues. You know, what stands out for

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Speaker 5: all this to him is that is that the people's

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Speaker 5: trust and government is shaken. But this will be a

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Speaker 5: way that they can restore trust in their government if

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Speaker 5: they realize that those who have on these massive wastes

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Speaker 5: turned out to be criminals, unvetted that as these actions

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Speaker 1: Doctor Murphy, before you go, you and I share a

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Speaker 1: common love and heart for veterans, first responders in their families,

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Speaker 1: and God's got you on a pretty important task right now.

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Speaker 1: Can you share a little bit of what you're thinking

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Speaker 1: and what you're working on.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm really excited about this that the American Associations

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Speaker 5: and Christian Counters is sponsoring this and very very important

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Speaker 5: program to train mental health coaches to work with veterans

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Speaker 5: and military and first responders. We know that there's millions

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Speaker 5: have the supports they need. You've heard the common numbers

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Speaker 1: Bishop, You've been traveling a little bit. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: Johnnys Now is doctor Donald Sweeting. He is a seasoned

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Speaker 1: pastor cultural commentator in the Fieful Servant Lord. He served

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Speaker 1: as President and Chancellor of Colorado Christian Universe and various

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Speaker 1: other roles. Doctor Sweeney, what'd liked to have you? Thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining me.

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Speaker 2: Great to be with you. You're talking about something very.

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Speaker 1: Important, yeah, doctor Sweeney. A summer's coming to an end.

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Speaker 1: America is going back to school, colleges and the university

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Speaker 1: is going to be packed. I read online about twenty

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Speaker 1: million individuals are going to be headed to colleges and

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Speaker 1: universities this fall. Doctor Sweating, It's amazing the story at

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Speaker 1: Colorado Christian University. I know you're still there in a

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Speaker 1: capacity of teaching, etc. But the mission of the university

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Speaker 1: go back to just that and what they seek to

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Speaker 1: do and pour into the hearts of their students.

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Speaker 2: Our mission is to transform students through Christ centered higher

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Speaker 2: education to impact the world. Our education is unapologetically Christian, conservative, evangelical.

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Speaker 2: At a time where higher education has really been shown

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Speaker 2: to be going off the rails, CCU, as a number

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Speaker 2: of other Christian schools, have tried to be faithful to

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Speaker 2: Scripture and to Christ and leaning into the light of

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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ not away from it. So I think these

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Speaker 2: are exciting times for Christian higher education.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, doctor Sweeting, when a lot of schools are fighting

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Speaker 1: for enrollment, c c u's been on a kind of

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Speaker 1: an upward trajectory. I mean, God's really put his hand

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Speaker 1: to favor and blessing on on the university anything in particular.

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Speaker 1: You think that really has fed that.

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Speaker 2: I think the main thing is that we have leaned

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Speaker 2: into what we say we believe in in terms of

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Speaker 2: Christ and Scripture and being a conservative university and not

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Speaker 2: away from that. A lot of schools have been putting

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Speaker 2: that under bushel, that light, and I think it shows up.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there are zillions of secular options, and we

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Speaker 2: don't need another secular university. We need universities that are

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Speaker 2: built on the foundation of truth, that believe in transcendental

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Speaker 2: values that permanent things. There's goodness, beauty and truth, and

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Speaker 2: it can ennoble Christian souls and set you for life

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Speaker 2: with a grand foundation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, are just Sweeting. If you look back over the

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Speaker 1: last few years, we've we've been up against it pretty tough,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of people are now saying, hey, America

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Speaker 1: is back. People are screaming, no, faith is back, that

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Speaker 1: God's doing something. And when you kind of canvas the

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Speaker 1: last couple of years too, you look at colleges and universities,

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Speaker 1: you're seeing revival breakout across the country, especially in that

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Speaker 1: particular age group. I know Barne came out with some

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Speaker 1: to be turning to Christ. Doctor Sweeting, are you sensing

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Speaker 1: that and do you see that at CCU?

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Speaker 2: Yes, we do. I mean this is very encouraging. Look,

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Speaker 2: I think young people are looking at the world, and

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Speaker 2: not just young people cultural shapers. You know a lot

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Speaker 2: of some of the intellectual elite now and they were

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Speaker 2: at one point thinking, Oh, wouldn't it be grand to

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Speaker 2: be post Christian? And now they've looked into that future

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Speaker 2: and they I've seen how dark it is. They see

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Speaker 2: that Western liberalism is cracking up, they see that the

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Speaker 2: Marxist alternative is dark, and they're looking for an alternative,

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Speaker 2: and they're finding that there's life in Christ. Of course

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Speaker 2: the Bible says that, but they're rediscovering it and we're

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Speaker 2: very excited to be there ready for.

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Speaker 1: Them, you know, doctor Sweetening. At that college level, you

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Speaker 1: have a regional accreditation where you're held to a standard

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Speaker 1: of are you accomplishing the state admission of the university,

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Speaker 1: And you go through a process called institutional effectiveness and

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Speaker 1: you have QEP type plans and responsibilities that are there

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day. What that really means

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Speaker 1: to a parent is what you say that you are

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Speaker 1: intending to do. Are you able to measure that and

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Speaker 1: demonstrate it? For example, if your goal is to make

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Speaker 1: disciples of Jesus Christ, are you making disciples of Jesus

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 1: Doctor Sweening, Yeah, walk us through that for a mom

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Speaker 1: or dad, watching maybe a perspective student talk to us

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Speaker 1: about what makes Christian education unique, regardless of major.

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Speaker 2: I had a parent say to me after this graduation.

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Speaker 2: He said, you know, you told us four years ago

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Speaker 2: when I entrusted my daughter to you that you stood

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Speaker 2: for these things, and I just want to tell you

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Speaker 2: it was a promise kept and that's wonderful news to

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Speaker 2: someone like myself. So a lot of times people think that,

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Speaker 2: you know, Christian education, you're getting less. The truth is

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Speaker 2: just the opposite. You are getting more because there's been

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Speaker 2: a shrinking of the purpose of higher education in the

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Speaker 2: secular world, and since especially October seventh, people are realizing

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Speaker 2: that higher education and a lot of schools are in trouble.

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Speaker 2: But in a Christian, in a committedly convictional Christian university,

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Speaker 2: you get much more because we aim to educate the

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Speaker 2: whole person, the mind and the heart, not just you know,

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Speaker 2: your critical faculties. We want to see character formation. We're

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Speaker 2: not post truth, post meaning, post goodness, post beauty, post truth,

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Speaker 2: post God. You know, we're leaning into those things. We

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Speaker 2: begin with the fear of the Lord, which Scripture says

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Speaker 2: is the beginning of wisdom. There's an integrating coherence to

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Speaker 2: our education because there's the lordship of Christ at the center.

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Speaker 2: It lays out a better vision for being a human,

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Speaker 2: and it's open to the revelation of God in Scripture,

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Speaker 2: and it points to Christ in whom Scripture says are

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Speaker 2: all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. So, jim my

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Speaker 2: conviction is that Christian arts education that's faithful is probably

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Speaker 2: the best education available to humanity at this point in time.

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Speaker 1: I love that doctor Sweeting. In this journey, I've learned

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Speaker 1: too that you know, life's been pretty brutal and tough,

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Speaker 1: especially in the younger generation. We see soaring race of

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Speaker 1: mental health related issues, depression, anxiety, even suicidality. A lot

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Speaker 1: of the students coming even to Christian colleges and universities,

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Speaker 1: are struggling. That's where the faith car factors in because

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Speaker 1: faith means so much to stabilizing what they're going through.

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Speaker 1: Talk to us about you know that, and what you've

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Speaker 1: learned and what you guys actually do to help move

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Speaker 1: that needle in a healthy direction.

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Speaker 2: I know this is your field and it's not my field,

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Speaker 2: but we observe young people, and of course Christians have

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Speaker 2: the same challenges. A lot of them are coming out

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Speaker 2: of secular settings. But the head of our counseling program,

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Speaker 2: Ryan Burkhart, said to me, you know, one reason we

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Speaker 2: have a growing mental health crisis in the United States

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Speaker 2: is because if you tell students that they came from nothing,

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Speaker 2: life has no meaning and it's all going to you know,

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Speaker 2: evaporate away in some big cosmic explosion. Well that does

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Speaker 2: a number on your mental health. But if you tell

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Speaker 2: students that, look, you are created in the image of God.

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Speaker 2: Your life has significance and purpose. There's something to live for,

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Speaker 2: and God calls us to a meaningful service, and there

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Speaker 2: is the hope of heaven and an eternity with Christ,

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Speaker 2: and there's going to be a new heaven and new

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Speaker 2: Earth that does something meant to you and to your health.

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Speaker 2: And if you take all that away, I think it

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Speaker 2: explains in part, just in part, some of the mess

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Speaker 2: that we're in right now.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to close this way, doctor Sweeting. And that

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Speaker 1: is again a perspective student, mom, dad out there watching

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Speaker 1: right now, just thinking about sending their son or daughter

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Speaker 1: on maybe their sophomore, junior in high school, senior year

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Speaker 1: coming up. What do they really need to be thinking

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Speaker 1: about and praying about.

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Speaker 2: Yes, well, your choice of a college matters. I think

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Speaker 2: college is in for everybody. But it still good schools

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Speaker 2: provide a really good education. It will determine the foundation

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Speaker 2: for your son or daughter's life. It will determine their friends.

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Speaker 2: As one student said, you know, I came to school

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Speaker 2: not to find a husband, but my bride'smaids. It will

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Speaker 2: determine perhaps you know who you're married to. It will

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Speaker 2: set a principal foundation for your life. You can't get

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Speaker 2: that at a lot of places. In fact, that the

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Speaker 2: men the secular schools, they've not only questioned God, they've

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Speaker 2: questioned morality, and now they're questioning excellence and the whole

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Speaker 2: thing is breaking down. You will not find that at

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Speaker 2: a school that is committed to follow Christ faithfully.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, doctor Donald Sweeten, what a delight to have you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining me. Great to be

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Speaker 1: with you coming up next. She is a licensed professional

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Speaker 1: counselor and Director of Counseling for the American Association of

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Speaker 1: Christian Council. Doctor Mercy Connors is with us.

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Speaker 6: Clinton on Facebook, Instagram and X we love being a

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Speaker 6: part of your life.

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Speaker 1: Johnnas Now is doctor Mercy Connor. She's a licensed professional counselor,

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Speaker 1: Senior Director of Counseling and Continuing at and Credentialing at

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Speaker 1: the American Association of Christian Counselors. Mercy, welcome, thank you

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Speaker 1: for joining me.

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Speaker 7: Thank you so much for having me mercer.

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Speaker 1: If you get started. It's the end of summer. It's

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Speaker 1: hard to believe. I mean, I cannot believe that we're

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Speaker 1: heading into August already. But that means obviously back to school.

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Speaker 1: I saw where some but almost fifty million students will

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Speaker 1: be going back in public school, probably ad another five

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Speaker 1: to six million in private school, and then you've got

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Speaker 1: a lot people out there who are now doing homeschooling Mercy.

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Speaker 1: Back to school changes everything, the routine, everything gets blown up.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, there's a little expense going back

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Speaker 1: to school, isn't there?

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Speaker 7: Yes, yes, there is so much more expense with going

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Speaker 7: back to school. You know, you're seeing that parents are

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Speaker 7: often spending over seven to eight hundred dollars for just

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Speaker 7: they're spending like thirteen hundred dollars. Like it's a lot

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Speaker 7: have them prepared for those times. So yeah, it's it's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, in the midst of it, too, Mercy. It's like

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Speaker 1: You know, that's a that's a pretty big challenge because

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Speaker 1: for me, I didn't like getting up in the morning

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Speaker 1: too much, if you know what I mean.

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Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 7: It's funny because I am about ready to have two

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Speaker 7: already starting to put their bedtime a little bit earlier

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Speaker 7: transition is a little bit easier. We're starting to talk

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Speaker 7: about that so our youngest daughter is aware that, you know,

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Speaker 7: both of her older sisters are going to be going

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Speaker 7: to school and all the fun things that she's going

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Speaker 7: to get to do at home, so that they're prepared

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Speaker 7: talking about what school is going to be like, being

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Speaker 7: on the bus, different things like that. I think that

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Speaker 7: about those transitions getting them prepared, that that really does

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Speaker 7: help for that because if you just do try to

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Speaker 7: right back to school, it's it seems to be a

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Speaker 7: that process. Now it's really going to help them be

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Speaker 1: I know there are a number of issues that are

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Speaker 1: of concern to parents as they go back to school,

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Speaker 1: because not all of it's just about getting backpacks and

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Speaker 1: it comes back to concern about what's happening inside the schools.

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Speaker 1: We've talked a lot about education versus indoctrination, Mercy, are

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Speaker 1: some pretty good strong rulings are coming down, it's still

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Speaker 7: And this is where parents really need to be involved.

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Speaker 7: They really do need to be talking to their children

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Speaker 7: just to make sure that you're keeping up with your child.

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Speaker 7: But then sometimes your child will say certain things and

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Speaker 7: sometimes they get it wrong, but sometimes they get it

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Speaker 7: that's when you can really have those really good conversations. So,

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Speaker 7: you know, family dinners is one of the most important

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Speaker 7: So it doesn't seem like I'm inquiring too much about

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Speaker 7: you know, it's really important to have those conversations about

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Speaker 7: sometimes different families believe different ways, and sometimes our family

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Speaker 7: believes differently from maybe one of your friends. And that's okay,

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Speaker 7: but this is what our family thinks, this is what

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Speaker 7: our family does, this is how we understand it. This

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Speaker 7: something to hold on to that. Okay, this is what

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that's really important. Bullying is definitely something, unfortunately,

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Speaker 7: So oftentimes we thought, Okay, when the child is at

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Speaker 7: it's really really important that parents are staying connected with

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Speaker 7: I also think it's very very important that you as

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Speaker 7: parents really do uplift the child, give them good social skills,

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Speaker 1: One of the encouraging things to me that we're finding

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