Wayfaring with friends and brothers in search of the holy.

As we come to the 250th celebration of America’s founding, what is happening in our country? Pundits, writers, historians, political scientists, and average citizens are all trying to take stock of where we are as a nation. In this episode, we seek perspective by returning to the conversation between Mark Labberton and David Brooks immediately following the 2024 election, before the beginning of Trump’s second term and all the events that have unfolded since.
Whether you come to the 250th celebrating our national life, or questioning our national life; whether you’re in support of what’s happening currently in America, or whether you’re overwhelmed by so much that you wish was different, may we give thanks.
Thanks be to God for the place that we get to live, even as it’s a place that is struggling to reach its ideals, and may we continue to pray and seek its welfare, its justice, its purpose, its fairness, and its equity.
Mark Labberton hosts the Conversing podcast and is the Clifford L. Penner Presidential Chair Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Preaching at Fuller Seminary.
David Brooks is a staff writer for The Atlantic and is a Presidential Senior Fellow at Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs.
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