The WallBuilders Show
The WallBuilders Show is a daily journey to examine today's issues from a Biblical, Historical and Constitutional perspective. Featured guests include elected officials, experts, activists, authors, and commentators.
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A Thousand Pounds Of Glass And A Lot Of Prayer - With Logan Ryser
See the flag here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1018566781065855A thousand pounds of glass hangs mid-air… and somehow it looks like it’s waving. That’s the true s...
Victory Mindset For Young Civic Leaders - with Thomas Umstattd and Elias Coop-Gonzalez
We’re coming to you from the Patriot Academy National Leadership Congress in Constitution City, Texas, where more than a hundred young adults are debating bills on the floor in a full legislative simulation. It’s constitutional education with r...
How Patriot Academy Trains Young Leaders And Protects Its Mission
A neighboring property can look like “just real estate” until it becomes a direct challenge to your mission. We open Good News Friday with a major update from Patriot Academy’s campus in Constitution City, Texas and then pivot into the kind of ...
Faith That Stands Up - with Jaco Booyens
Washington, DC doesn’t just run on policy, it runs on pressure, influence, and competing spiritual visions. We sit down with Jaco Booyens, a longtime abolitionist fighting human trafficking, to hear what happened when he felt called to move his...
Trauma, Truth, And Freedom - with Jaco Booyens
Trauma can steal more than peace, it can steal your story. We pick up our conversation with Jaco Booyens at the intersection of faith and culture, where he lays out a sobering idea: spiritual accusation often targets the very wounds we carry, a...
Not Another One - with Jaco Booyens
A childhood shaped by abandonment. A nation on the edge of civil war. A 12-year-old girl who wins a singing contest and then gets trafficked through a powerful corporate pipeline. That’s the true story pastor and anti-trafficking advocate Jaco ...
America First Counterterrorism Update On Syria Lebanon And Iran - with Rudy Atallah
The headlines make global conflict feel random, but the patterns are there if you know where to look. We sit down with Rudy Atallah for a fast, detailed national security update that connects the dots across Syria, Lebanon, Iran, and the Russia...
Faith And Culture Updates From Iran To America
You can feel it in the air right now: a lot of people are exhausted, cynical, and tempted to believe nothing good is happening. We refuse to live there. This Good News Friday brings stories that are concrete, surprising, and worth sharing, espe...
Franklin’s Prayer And The Constitution
Benjamin Franklin didn’t just give a clever speech at the Constitutional Convention, he tried to keep the whole thing from collapsing. When tempers rise, delegates start heading home, and the nation’s future hangs in the balance, Franklin point...
Smithsonian Under The Microscope
A museum doesn’t just display artifacts, it teaches people what to believe about themselves. That’s why we dig into the growing spotlight on the Smithsonian and the recent congressional hearing that raises a blunt question: who is curating Amer...
The Gap Year That Builds Leaders - with Krish Dhanam
Your teenager is smart, motivated, and still unsure what they’re called to do. Or maybe they’re already in college and feel like they’re paying to “find themselves.” We talk about a different path: a focused, high-intensity gap year that builds...
How Local History And Public Prayer Can Renew America - with David Kubal
A Bronze Star for writing a prayer sounds like a punchline, but it’s tied to one of the most gripping faith and American history stories we’ve ever told. We start with a behind-the-scenes recap from Washington, DC, then walk straight into the G...
Who Controls What You Own After You Buy It
If you’ve ever been told you “own” something but can’t actually fix it, you already understand the fight at the center of this Good News Friday. We start with John Deere and the right to repair, unpacking why farmers and equipment owners get sq...
When Federal Courts Try To Run Immigration
One federal district judge can’t be allowed to function like a national legislature, yet that’s exactly what it feels like when courts block immigration enforcement and claim constitutional protections in ways the Founders never intended. We di...
What Happens When You Raise The Bar For Young Leaders
Teenagers are debating monetary policy, health care, and constitutional questions on the actual Idaho House floor and they’re doing it with more seriousness than most adults expect. We’re at Patriot Academy’s Leadership Congress to find out why...
Building on the American Heritage Series - Preserving America's Heritage
The phrase “Christian nation” gets thrown around like a slogan, but we wanted to slow down and ask a more precise question: what did American courts, lawmakers, and leaders historically mean when they used it? We start with the definition that ...
After Lindsey Graham: South Carolina’s Sudden Senate Fight - with Chad Connelly
A US Senate seat can reshape the country overnight and South Carolina is staring at one of the fastest timelines you’ll ever hear. We’re processing the sudden passing of Senator Lindsey Graham, what his career meant for the state and the nation...
A Patriotic Night In Washington
Eight hundred fifty thousand fireworks can light up the sky, but it cannot fix a country that forgets what it is celebrating. We start with the 250th weekend energy in Washington, D.C., including the heat, the crowds, and a fireworks display so...
America’s Freedom Works Only With Religion And Morality
The detail most people miss says a lot about what we’ve forgotten: an open Bible sitting on the table in the iconic Constitutional Convention painting. From there, we follow a thread that runs through the Founders’ writings, early American serm...
Rebuilding Liberty’s Missing Foundation
A lot of people can celebrate America. Far fewer can explain it. As we head toward the 250th anniversary, we’re sharing week three of Rebuilding Liberty with Tim Barton to make sure the next generation knows what freedom is, why it matters, and...
History Shows Religious Expression Belongs In Public Life
The story we’re told about faith in public life is usually simple: religion belongs at home, and anything more is a modern political invention. The receipts say otherwise. We trace a straight line from the founding era through the 1800s and int...
America’s Schools Once Taught The Bible By Law
A single Supreme Court test helped drive 50 years of fights over prayer, the Bible, and religious symbols in public life and most people never learned its name. We unpack how rulings like Engel v. Vitale and Lemon v. Kurtzman changed the rules ...
Good News From Washington That Points To Renewal
July 4 isn’t just a summer holiday, it’s a living inheritance, and we’re feeling that up close from Washington, DC. With America approaching the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we zoom in on a wild detail most people miss:...
Pastors, Power, And The American Founding - with Pastor Josh McPherson
The Declaration of Independence didn’t just come from brilliant men in a room, it came from a culture shaped by pulpits, sermons, and a belief that our rights come from God, not government. From Washington, DC during America 250 events, we sit ...