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Yesterday, a white mother found herself at the center of a firestorm when she told off a black child after he attempted to steal items from her purse. To put it plainly, she called him the N-word and when confronted by a TikTokker who happened to be nearby, she doubled down.The video went viral and within hours, Shiloh’s home address, social security number, school, and family were leaked to the public. She had to pull her two children out of school and is going to have to relocate. To support this, she started a fundraiser that quickly raised over $250,000 and is on track for much more. Most of the comments are in support of her, what she did, and expressing their frustration with the decay of public behavior.Now, some are drawing the correlation to Carmelo Anthony. If we critiqued the funds raised on his behalf for terrible behavior, why are we turning around and rewarding her bad behavior?This episode is brought to you by our premier sponsors, Armored Republic and Reece Fund, as well as our Patreon members and donors. You can join our Patreon at patreon.com/rightresponseministries or donate at rightresponseministries.com/donate.Let’s break this story down.MINISTRY SPONSORS:Reece Fund. Christian Capital. Boldly Deployedhttps://www.reecefund.com/Private Family Banking How to Connect with Private Family Banking: FREE 20-MINUTE COURSE HERE: View CourseSend an email inquiry to chuck@privatefamilybanking.comReceive a FREE e-book entitled "How to Build Multi-Generational Wealth Outside of Wall Street and Avoid the Coming Banking Meltdown": protectyourmoneynow.netSet up a FREE Private Family Banking Discovery call: Schedule HereMulti-Generational Wealth Planning Guide Book for only $4.99: Seven Generations LegacyMid State Accounting Does your small business need help with bookkeeping, tax returns, and fractional CFO services? Call Kailee Smith at Mid State Accounting at 573‑889‑7278 for a free, no‑obligation consultation. Mention the Right Response podcast and get 10% off your first three months. Squirrelly Joes Coffee – Caffeinating The Modern Reformation Get a free bag of coffee (just pay shipping): https://squirrellyjoes.com/rightresponse

Last year, South Korea hit a record fertility rate of just 0.72 — the lowest ever recorded in the world. Meanwhile, in the U.S., for the first time in history, women over 40 are having more children than teenagers. Global population growth isn’t just slowing; in some places, it’s collapsing. And no one seems to know how to stop it.From Beijing to Budapest to Boston, birth rates are in freefall. Governments have tried cash bonuses, tax breaks, even subsidized minivans — but none of it’s worked. Secular progressives cheer the decline, claiming it means liberation for women and fewer carbon footprints. Meanwhile, conservatives raise alarms, arguing that civilizational continuity is impossible without children. Beneath it all, lies a deeper conflict — between a culture that celebrates self and one that honors sacrifice.Population collapse isn’t just an economic or political problem — it’s a theological one. A culture that abandons marriage, motherhood, and the moral imagination required for building homes and futures is a culture that has already chosen death. No nation survives long when it forgets how to make families. And unless the West recovers its love for life — ordered, fruitful, and future-facing — it will not recover at all.This episode is brought to you by our premier sponsors, Armored Republic and Reece Fund, as well as our Patreon members and donors. You can join our Patreon at patreon.com/rightresponseministries or donate at rightresponseministries.com/donate.Today, we’ll break down the fertility crisis — what’s causing it, why conventional solutions aren’t working, and what a Christian response must look like. Let’s get into it.MINISTRY SPONSORS:Reece Fund. Christian Capital. Boldly Deployedhttps://www.reecefund.com/Private Family Banking How to Connect with Private Family Banking: FREE 20-MINUTE COURSE HERE: View CourseSend an email inquiry to chuck@privatefamilybanking.comReceive a FREE e-book entitled "How to Build Multi-Generational Wealth Outside of Wall Street and Avoid the Coming Banking Meltdown": protectyourmoneynow.netSet up a FREE Private Family Banking Discovery call: Schedule HereMulti-Generational Wealth Planning Guide Book for only $4.99: Seven Generations LegacySquirrelly Joes Coffee – Caffeinating The Modern Reformation Get a free bag of coffee (just pay shipping): https://squirrellyjoes.com/rightresponse

No one is coming to save you.It’s time to begin thinking about our current war as a struggle that could last a generation or longer. Like trench warfare in WWII, sometimes progress looks like advancing mere feet forward and battling for months over a single strategic objective. We have fights to win politically, culturally, personally, and ecclesiastically, and none of them will be easy.When it comes to the political, we talk about politics frequently but we often don’t dive into the strategy, practicals, and mechanics of how politics works. Why is that? Well, in a word, localism. See, the biggest impact most of us can have is actually not at the Federal level. We only have 1 president, 50 senators, and 428 federal representatives, and billions of dollars are poured into influencing those races. But while a House Representative race may cost $2.8 million to run on average, most STATE representative races cost barely 1/10th of that.In short, you are going to be able to have a lot more impact LOCALLY than you will NATIONALLY. You need to be thinking State, not Federal; County, not Country; and Town, not City.This episode is brought to you by our premier sponsors, Armored Republic and Reece Fund, as well as our Patreon members and donors. You can join our Patreon at patreon.com/rightresponseministries or donate at rightresponseministries.com/donate.Tune in today for your 2026 midterms game plan. Let’s dive in.MINISTRY SPONSORS: Armored Republic: We make Tools of Liberty for the defense of every free man’s God-given rights. https://www.ar500armor.com/ Private Family Banking How to Connect with Private Family Banking: FREE 20-MINUTE COURSE HERE: View Course Send an email inquiry to chuck@privatefamilybanking.com Receive a FREE e-book entitled "How to Build Multi-Generational Wealth Outside of Wall Street and Avoid the Coming Banking Meltdown": protectyourmoneynow.net Set up a FREE Private Family Banking Discovery call: Schedule Here Multi-Generational Wealth Planning Guide Book for only $4.99: Seven Generations Legacy Squirrelly Joes Coffee – Caffeinating The Modern Reformation Get a free bag of coffee (just pay shipping): https://squirrellyjoes.com/rightresponse

There is no sign that Matthew was searching for Jesus or intending to follow him. Therefore, Jesus called Matthew first, only then did Matthew choose to follow Him. No one chooses Christ; he chooses us. When Jesus said, 'Follow me,' his words carried the same divine power that healed the paralyzed man when Jesus told him, ‘Get up and walk.' Christ is the Author of salvation, and his Word is the means of salvation. For the Gospel is “the power of God for salvation” (Romans 1:16). And in Matthew’s case, the call of Christ was an effectual call. He immediately got up and followed Jesus without hesitation or delay.

Tune into the first panel of our 2025 Right Response Conference with Deace, Wolfe, Robinson, MacIntyre, Harris, and Webbon.

The discussion kicks off with the chaos in Christian debates and the importance of categorization in enhancing clarity. The hosts explore how proper categorization can transform engagement with complex issues like politics and culture, emphasizing multifaceted solutions. They delve into navigating various life roles while maintaining faith and critique contemporary views on authority in relationships. The conversation also highlights the theological implications of ethnicity and encourages critical thinking within conservative Christianity. Spheres of sovereignty and their responsibilities are examined, reinforcing compassion in civic engagement.

We are witnessing the birth of a new priesthood. They wear cardigans instead of cassocks, quote Brené Brown instead of the Bible, and dispense diagnoses in place of absolution. And for millions of Americans, they’ve become the final authority on the soul.In just one generation, we’ve gone from 'God save a wretch like me' to 'my therapist says.' The modern language of self-care and self-love have replaced self-denial and love for God. All the while, rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide have climbed—not fallen. The numbers are staggering. Nearly one in five U.S. adults is in therapy. Over 40 million are diagnosed with anxiety. Even children are being trained to identify as mentally ill.But here’s the real crisis: it’s not just that our nation is mentally unwell—it’s that the church is copying the world’s prescriptions. Christians now outsource the care of the soul to secular professionals who deny the soul even exists.Historically, the church called this affliction “melancholy”—a burden of body, yes, but also a trial of the conscience, a grief of the soul. The Puritans didn’t dismiss this pain. But they also never called it neutral. They traced it back to disordered loves, guilty consciences, spiritual darkness—and then pointed people to Christ, not a couch.This episode is brought to you by our premier sponsors, Armored Republic and Reece Fund, as well as our Patreon members and donors. You can join our Patreon at patreon.com/rightresponseministries or donate at rightresponseministries.com/donate.Today we’re asking a hard question: “What if our therapeutic age is not a solution to our suffering, but a refusal to see it rightly?” What if our feelings are not enemies, but signposts? And what if the Church still holds the cure—not in a padded office, but in Word, sacrament, and the communion of saints?Let’s get into it.MINISTRY SPONSORS: Reece Fund. Christian Capital. Boldly Deployed https://www.reecefund.com/ Private Family Banking How to Connect with Private Family Banking: FREE 20-MINUTE COURSE HERE: View Course Send an email inquiry to chuck@privatefamilybanking.com Receive a FREE e-book entitled "How to Build Multi-Generational Wealth Outside of Wall Street and Avoid the Coming Banking Meltdown": protectyourmoneynow.net Set up a FREE Private Family Banking Discovery call: Schedule Here Multi-Generational Wealth Planning Guide Book for only $4.99: Seven Generations Legacy Squirrelly Joes Coffee – Caffeinating The Modern Reformation Get a free bag of coffee (just pay shipping): https://squirrellyjoes.com/rightresponse

This morning, Pope Francis, the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, died. Francis was the first Pope from the Society of the Jesuits and the first that was born outside of Europe since the 8th century. Since being elected in 2013, his time as Pope was marked by a strong humanitarian agenda, with an emphasis on climate change, opposition to the death penalty, advocacy for decriminalization of homosexuality, and criticism of anti-immigration policies. He was heavily criticized throughout his time by conservatives both inside and outside the Catholic Church for policies and statements that seemed at odds with the historic and traditional teachings of the church on marriage, homosexuality, immigration, and the death penalty.But now, with Francis’s passing, a new Pope will be elected. Roman Catholicism is still the largest Christian tradition, numbering 1.4 billion adherents to Protestantism’s roughly 800 million. It holds massive amounts of land—over 150 million acres worldwide—and billions of dollars in real estate, stocks, and bonds. In short, it’s not going anywhere. But even with all of its assets, it still sits in a precarious position.The young members of the Roman Catholic Church are shockingly conservative. According to the New York Times in 2024, “In an era of deep divisions in the church, newly ordained [Roman Catholic] priests overwhelmingly lean right in their theology, practices and politics.” Local dioceses are bursting at the seams with young families and conservative men who are fed up with modernity and uninterested in a rock concert at the local megachurch.This episode is brought to you by our premier sponsors, Armored Republic and Reece Fund, as well as our Patreon members and donors. You can join our Patreon at patreon.com/rightresponseministries or donate at rightresponseministries.com/donate.So what will the next Pope do? Will he attempt to reform the church from the inroads that liberalism has made? Imagine what would happen with a Pope open to revisiting Vatican II and Trent. The fate of the West—especially Europe, which is more Catholic than Protestant—may hang in the balance. Join us now as we discuss.MINISTRY SPONSORS: Reece Fund. Christian Capital. Boldly Deployed https://www.reecefund.com/ Private Family Banking How to Connect with Private Family Banking: FREE 20-MINUTE COURSE HERE: View Course Send an email inquiry to chuck@privatefamilybanking.com Receive a FREE e-book entitled "How to Build Multi-Generational Wealth Outside of Wall Street and Avoid the Coming Banking Meltdown": protectyourmoneynow.net Set up a FREE Private Family Banking Discovery call: Schedule Here Multi-Generational Wealth Planning Guide Book for only $4.99: Seven Generations Legacy Squirrelly Joes Coffee – Caffeinating The Modern Reformation Get a free bag of coffee (just pay shipping): https://squirrellyjoes.com/rightresponse

Tune into the second session of our 2025 Right Response Conference with Calvin Robinson.To purchase tickets to our 2026 conference visit https://rightresponseconference.com

Explore the moral dilemmas of military service from a Christian perspective, questioning the impact of corporate interests on national defense. Delve into the significant representation of Christians in the military and how it shapes cultural views. Discuss recent policy shifts, including DEI changes and their effects on military readiness. Analyze America's role in global conflicts, particularly in the Red Sea, and consider the motivations for military service in today's comfort-driven society. Reflect on the challenges of military life and its impacts on personal faith.