Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 712 ｜ How My Politics Have Changed Over the Past Two Years ｜ Q&A

00:00:00.000 How crunchy am I? Do I have any liberal opinions? How do you get over the fear of flying? How do

00:00:07.480 you share Christ as a high school teacher? We are answering all of these questions and more

00:00:14.460 on today's episode of Relatable. Also, before we get into it, make sure that you check out

00:00:21.360 our beautiful Christmas shirts that we have on sale for you right now, 30% off for Black Friday.

00:00:28.540 We will link them in the description of this episode, both on YouTube and on the listening

00:00:34.180 side. Check it out. Get it for a friend. I love the design. I can't wait to be wearing

00:00:40.900 mine. So just click on the link and it'll send you there. And for Black Friday, you've got

00:00:46.220 that 30% off. All right. This episode is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. So

00:00:51.760 go to GoodRanchers.com slash Allie. That's GoodRanchers.com slash Allie.

00:00:58.540 All right, guys. Lots of interesting questions that you sent me on Instagram that I'm going

00:01:10.820 to try to answer as quickly as possible to get as many answers in as I can. As you guys

00:01:16.740 know, I'm very verbose. And so sometimes it's hard for me to answer these questions quickly

00:01:22.400 because I just kind of answer them stream of consciousness. So I'll try to answer a variety

00:01:27.540 as well. Some serious, some fun. So let's see. Someone says, this is interesting. I've never

00:01:36.120 been asked this before. I am scared to fly. Describe a beautiful flight. Okay, girl. I'm scared

00:01:43.920 to fly too. I don't like flying. I fly a lot. And I've flown a lot in my life. And I don't like

00:01:50.620 flying. I get nervous every time we take off. I get nervous during turbulence. And I look around

00:01:56.620 to see how other people are reacting and how the flight attendants are reacting. And let me tell

00:02:01.960 you. So, okay, this is not what you asked for. It's the opposite of what you asked for, but it's

00:02:05.500 going to help. Just wait. I have been through some really scary flights. Let me tell you about a couple

00:02:10.540 scary flights. And I promise I'm going to bring this back to comforting you. So I remember I was flying

00:02:15.960 to like Lubbock, Texas on this tiny flight. I was in the back of the bus. This was several years ago.

00:02:22.020 And it was so turbulent. It was really rainy. It was thundering outside. It was not a good experience.

00:02:27.720 I mean, it was like all over the place. I was really, really nervous. And we were fine. I was on

00:02:34.000 a flight once to New York City. And I think I was coming from LA. So long flight. It was like,

00:02:41.300 I think it was a red eye. And that always kind of freaks me out anyway. And we were taking off.

00:02:46.900 And on our takeoff, we like dropped. I mean, so much so that everyone felt it. Everyone kind of

00:02:53.780 bounced. Everyone freaked out. We're like, this is it. And we were fine. There was a time that I was

00:02:59.400 flying to DC. And we started to land. And right before the wheels hit the runway, we zoomed back up into

00:03:10.840 the air. Also very freaky. But we were fine. There was another time that I was flying to,

00:03:17.340 I don't remember, Ohio, somewhere up there. And we were about to get on the runway. And the wheels

00:03:27.920 almost hit the ground. And we flew back into the air. And we had to go around and around and around

00:03:32.720 and around. And we were not communicated to about why. What was happening? Was there a threat on the

00:03:37.620 ground? Are the wheels not working? If so, how are we going to land? And then they tried to do it

00:03:42.720 again. They tried to do it. I think it was two more times, maybe one more time, but two more times,

00:03:47.520 I believe. They tried to land and they go back up into the air. I'm like, how many more times can we

00:03:52.460 do this? We ended up, it was that it was foggy and there wasn't enough visibility. And so they

00:03:57.700 couldn't land. And so we had to go to another airport in another state and get fuel and then go back to

00:04:05.100 where we were supposed to land. And we were fine. So I say all this to say, I've been through a lot

00:04:11.560 of turbulence. I've been through a lot of unknowns. I've been through a lot of nerve-wracking times on

00:04:18.740 planes. And every time it has been totally fine. Every time I have landed. So I try to remember that

00:04:24.840 whenever I am nervous on planes, I try to remember about the times when turbulence was worse than this,

00:04:30.940 when the flight attendants looked more anxious than this, when things seemed even more unsure and

00:04:36.500 more unknown than this. And I remember that, okay, all of those times things were fine and this isn't

00:04:42.040 as bad as that. So you asked for a beautiful flight. I gave you my bad flights too. So you can have

00:04:50.380 something to anchor you and remind you when you're in the air that there are different kinds of things

00:04:56.020 that happen all the time on flights and it's totally fine. Statistically, you are, you have

00:05:02.500 really, really, really, really, really good chances of having a smooth and safe flight, totally normal

00:05:09.760 landing. It's actually statistically more dangerous for us to drive than it is to fly. Of course, there

00:05:17.560 are beautiful flights. You can look out the window. You can see the formation of the clouds, sunrise, sunset.

00:05:22.120 That's always nice. I'm not a window seat gal, but if you are a window seat person, it comforts you to

00:05:29.200 kind of like look outside. Then I understand that. Try to get yourself a window seat. And it really can

00:05:36.260 be a good time to just say, wow, God created all of this. He's sovereign over all of this. That's really

00:05:43.060 amazing. So, and that's just my reminder to you is that God is completely and totally in control,

00:05:50.700 completely and totally in control, and that there is nothing that can surpass or transcend his care

00:05:59.280 for you. Remember that every single head on your, every single hair, and he has also counted all of

00:06:06.280 the heads that you have. Hopefully it's just one, but every single hair on your head is numbered, and

00:06:11.540 you are more valuable to him than the lilies of the field, which he dresses in splendor. And so understand

00:06:19.160 that he is with you. He cares about you more than you care about yourself. And that actually the time

00:06:25.900 that you are going to die has already been ordained. It was ordained before you were even born. And a

00:06:32.800 plane ride can't change that. And so just go forward in the comfort that he has you and that every single

00:06:39.600 day of your life was already planned before any of them came to be. All right. Next question is

00:06:45.600 somewhat of a theological one. And that question is, who is my favorite saint? St. Joseph, St. Paul,

00:06:53.600 St. Augustine. Mine is probably St. Ignatius. Now, my sweet friend, my sweet Catholic friend,

00:07:01.580 thank you for asking this question. I love my Catholic friends and my Catholic listeners,

00:07:06.980 but as you probably know by now, I am very Protestant. And the Protestant belief is that we,

00:07:12.820 as Christians, as the body of Christ are all saints. Whereas the Roman Catholic Church believes

00:07:18.520 that saints have to be canonized by the Pope or a prominent bishop in order to be recognized as

00:07:25.800 saints. It's kind of a different status or a different category than the rest of the church.

00:07:32.300 That's not what Protestants believe. And we base our belief that all who are in Christ are saints

00:07:38.120 on scripture. There are several references, especially in the epistles from Paul to the

00:07:45.180 churches in Ephesus, in Corinth, for example, that address Christians as saints. For example,

00:07:54.420 Ephesians 1.1, Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God to the saints who are in Ephesus and

00:08:00.260 are faithful in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2.19, so then you are no longer strangers and aliens,

00:08:07.060 but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God. Romans 1. Similar

00:08:14.560 greeting to all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints. To all those who are in

00:08:20.080 Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints, grace to you and peace from God our Father and the

00:08:28.220 Lord Jesus Christ. Also Romans 16.2, that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of

00:08:37.000 the saints. Ephesians 4.12, for the equipping of the saints, for the work of ministry, for the

00:08:41.460 building up of the body of Christ. Ephesians 5.3, but immorality or any impurity or greed must not

00:08:46.540 even be named among you as is proper among the saints. Here in context, Paul is addressing

00:08:53.960 Christians. There are several other references to this. Acts 9.32, Acts 9.13, Acts 26.10, Philippians 4.21.

00:09:02.960 And I know I'm kind of going all over the place within the New Testament when I am looking at

00:09:08.380 who the saints are, but we as the body of Christ, we are saints. When you look at the Greek word for

00:09:15.320 saint, which is hagios, I hope that I'm pronouncing that correctly, that simply means consecrated to God,

00:09:22.700 holy, sacred, and pious. And what we know about Christians is that we are all called to be

00:09:30.120 consecrated by God. We are all called to be holy as God is holy. We are all sacred because we are set

00:09:38.440 apart. 1 Corinthians 1.2, to the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and

00:09:45.080 called to be holy. Those are the same words or they come from the same word hagios as saints. And so

00:09:54.300 Christians are all saints. While I do say St. Augustine because people understand what I'm

00:09:59.860 talking about or who I'm talking about when I say St. Augustine, I don't have a favorite saint in the

00:10:05.900 sense that I don't believe that they are in a different category at all than the rest of

00:10:11.840 Christians. If you just mean, do I have a favorite Christian? I don't know the answer to that quite yet,

00:10:17.100 but that is a difference. There are many important differences between Protestant theology and Catholic

00:10:23.100 theology, but that is one of them. There is no path to becoming a saint beyond by grace through

00:10:31.140 faith, as Ephesians tells us, being saved by Christ. Then you become a saint. Isn't that incredible that

00:10:38.500 God makes us holy and consecrated in that way by his blood, not by any effort by the way that we

00:10:44.080 put in, but completely by his grace through faith. That's really incredible.

00:10:53.100 So let's see. How did I first get into politics? This is a question that I've answered quite a few

00:11:06.840 times. So if you're new here, great. It'll be the first time that you hear it. If you have been here

00:11:12.380 for a while, you've probably heard the story. I'll try to give the quick version. So I've always kind of

00:11:17.700 been interested in the culture and theology and politics to an extent. I would not call myself

00:11:23.220 super, super political in high school or even really in college, although I was more aware of it because

00:11:28.780 I voted for the first time in college. But I really started getting interested in politics, like in

00:11:37.560 elections. And I guess you would call it the culture wars, probably 2014, 2015. I studied communication

00:11:44.200 studies in college. I delivered the commencement speech. And when I delivered the commencement

00:11:48.820 speech, I just remembered this almost out of body experience where I thought to myself,

00:11:53.160 I want to do this, this, whatever this feeling is. I want that for the rest of my life. This is what I

00:11:59.580 feel called to do. And that is basically give speeches or speak in front of people. My parents

00:12:04.500 can tell you I have always been that way. I've loved communicating. I've loved talking, got me in

00:12:09.760 trouble a lot growing up in class because I couldn't stop talking. And so I decided, well, I might as well

00:12:14.840 try to make a living doing that. I went into PR and social media after college. And I didn't know how

00:12:20.780 I was going to try to satisfy that, like scratch that itch that I had to speak in front of people.

00:12:27.820 But in the 2015-2016 election, I kind of just found an opening. I was driving from Atlanta to Athens,

00:12:37.040 Georgia. And I just had a light bulb go off. And I called my mom and I said, I think that I should

00:12:43.660 try to tell young people why they need to vote in the election. Young Christians, why they need to 1.00

00:12:47.800 vote in the election. I lived in Athens, Georgia at the time with my husband. And I was like, well,

00:12:52.540 I've got this audience right here. I lived right off of sorority row on Millage Avenue. And I was like,

00:12:58.580 well, maybe I can just go to these sororities and ask them if they would let me come into their

00:13:03.000 chapter meetings and talk to them about why they need to vote in the presidential primary at the

00:13:08.560 time because it was 2015. And I just wanted to do it for free. Like I really saw them as them giving

00:13:14.160 me a gift of an audience and giving me a gift of their time. So I gave a presentation. I made it on

00:13:19.440 Prezi in my spare time because I was still working full time. And I would go to these chapter meetings

00:13:25.820 and just deliver a nonpartisan presentation. It was pretty nonpartisan anyway, about why they should

00:13:31.880 vote and like what issues are at stake. And I just loved it. I felt so energized again, had that

00:13:36.760 feeling that this is what I'm supposed to be doing. And then that kind of just evolved over time.

00:13:42.780 I started speaking to other organizations again for free in my spare time. In addition to my full-time

00:13:49.680 job, I started a blog called the conservative millennial. And then we moved in 2017 and threw a

00:14:00.060 bunch of different connections that have to do with like my friend, Mary Ashley, who was doing traffic

00:14:04.720 for a local radio station, getting connected to him, who connected me to someone else, who connected me

00:14:10.020 to someone else, who connected me to someone else at what was called the blaze at the time. And I

00:14:17.700 started doing videos for them. I actually like ran their social media for a little bit. And I started

00:14:24.960 trying to do that full time. And then I started getting calls from Fox News to be on their shows.

00:14:28.600 I kept on writing. I kept on speaking places. I put a lot of time and effort into this craft

00:14:35.440 without getting paid for a while. And I kept working a full-time job while I was doing that

00:14:42.100 so I could really pursue this. So it was a lot of hearing no. It was a lot of not. My family believed

00:14:49.080 in me, absolutely. But other than that, I don't think many people thought that it was anything other

00:14:53.120 than a hobby. And then just continuing to put myself out there in a way that most people simply

00:15:00.960 aren't willing to. Putting myself out there for free in a way that a lot of people aren't willing

00:15:06.860 to for a long time. And now I guess it's been seven years. I started this podcast in 2018. And it's just

00:15:13.440 grown. Thank the Lord for that. And there's been a lot of people that have helped me, that have supported

00:15:17.660 me along the way, that have helped me get here. And I'm just thankful for the grace of God and the

00:15:23.480 generosity, the help of other people who have allowed me to have this platform. So it's been

00:15:31.000 really fun. I don't know what I would be doing if I weren't doing this. I sometimes think, okay,

00:15:38.800 when the apocalypse comes or when America, when things totally completely hit the fan,

00:15:43.980 like, what's going to be my role in that? Okay, so I can't sew. I can cook okay. I don't have any,

00:15:51.980 like, I can't farm. I keep telling myself that I'm going to learn how to can and jar and preserve.

00:16:00.120 Can't do any of that. I just watch the videos and I convince myself that I'm going to be a prepper and

00:16:05.920 I never take any steps to do that. So I guess I'm just going to have to continue doing this. I'm

00:16:13.580 going to be down in my bunker and I won't be speaking to anyone, but I will still be hosting

00:16:19.260 a podcast because that's all the skills that I have. That's all that I'm good for. Maybe I can

00:16:23.600 be a midwife or something like that. Yeah, but I've thought about that a lot. I don't have anything

00:16:28.520 else to offer. There's nothing else I can do. I just talk a lot and some of you guys enjoy it.

00:16:34.480 Do I read a lot? What books have you read, listened to this year? So I don't read as much

00:16:50.160 as I used to and I don't read as much as I wish that I did. I do love reading. When people ask me

00:16:55.260 this question, I do love reading. So one book that I read recently, I mean, I do read a lot of

00:17:01.260 different kinds of books. One book that I read recently was that book that everyone's talking

00:17:05.820 about. She did a big press tour, Jeanette McCurdy. I'm glad my mom died. And it's not a Christian book. 0.96

00:17:13.020 For sure, not a Christian book. You don't draw like Christian lessons from it. It's a really

00:17:18.160 interesting book though. I read it in like two days because it was just, it was really well written

00:17:23.600 and it was really easy to read. And so I'm not recommending it to you as like a book that you're

00:17:28.600 going to base your theology off of, but I thought it was a really interesting description of like

00:17:34.020 what child stardom could look like and her very complex relationship with her mother, whom she

00:17:39.780 loved and was unhealthily attached to, but who was also very abusive and manipulative and really like

00:17:46.420 drove her into like eating disorders. But that's a book that I read recently that maybe you wouldn't

00:17:51.920 think that I would typically read. Maybe you just think that I read like theology books and C.S.

00:17:56.180 Lewis, which I do love or history books, which I also do love, but I love an easy read sometimes.

00:18:03.500 And I do think it's interesting to see how, you know, the non-Christian world deals with problems 0.76

00:18:09.380 of loss and purpose seeking. And so that was something that I read recently. Okay. Next question.

00:18:18.040 Where are you or how crunchy are you? Where are you at your, where are you at on your crunchy journey?

00:18:25.600 Love you. Love you too. Let's see. I am crunchier in my mind than I am in real life. Does that make

00:18:34.060 sense? I aspire to be crunchier than I am. Um, I, I don't know. Like, what do I even say? Because if I

00:18:43.300 say anything, I will get, there's controversy. That's what I don't like about some, some in the

00:18:50.480 community. I mean, I follow plenty of crunchy people because they're typically skeptical of

00:18:55.400 major corporations and the government like I am. So there's like a big part of conservatism that is

00:19:00.100 like this, but I also find ironically that they can be like extremely legalistic and judgmental

00:19:06.220 themselves. If you are not as crunchy as them, or if you don't do the same things that they do,

00:19:11.320 or if you're not on the same path to crunchiness as them. Plus I feel like the rules are always

00:19:16.760 changing in the crunchy world. Or like you get someone that you follow that you really trust.

00:19:22.560 That's like, and I'm just totally making this up. Like, you know, you really shouldn't brush your

00:19:28.320 teeth. Our ancestors didn't brush their teeth and you know, they didn't struggle with obesity.

00:19:35.160 And so you really shouldn't brush your teeth either because it's harmful. And then you'll have

00:19:40.060 another crunchy influencer that you follow that it's like, well, did you know that we're actually

00:19:43.880 supposed to brush our teeth 15 times a day in goat's milk and witch hazel? And so it's just

00:19:49.480 really hard to know who to trust. Everyone seems to have their, you know, have their research and

00:19:57.640 their reasons for why they do what they do or don't do. So I really try not to stress about it. I don't

00:20:04.340 need another like source of anxiety or stress in my life. I, some of it I think is common sense and

00:20:10.680 pretty intuitive that, all right, maybe it's not great that children's medicines have artificial

00:20:17.000 flavors and dyes and sugar in them since we know that that's not good for the immune system. So if

00:20:22.980 your child is sick, like maybe we should be doing other things to try to boost their immune system

00:20:28.220 rather than giving them medication that actually suppresses their immune response to say a cold.

00:20:34.100 Okay. I could see how vegetables and how local farming and things like that are all good rather

00:20:42.880 than just eating artificial food all the time. I could see how looking at the ingredients in your

00:20:48.220 makeup and in your hair products is good thinking about the origin of the things that you buy.

00:20:54.100 I could see how that's good, but I also will not pretend that I live a completely like non-toxic

00:21:00.400 lifestyle. Um, now I have cleaning products that are natural, naturally it's clean. Um,

00:21:08.240 and so again, I try Adele natural cosmetics, they've got natural ingredients and that's great,

00:21:14.260 but I've got some hair products that I know aren't natural. You think my purple shampoo,

00:21:19.460 you think that just comes from, I don't know, the breath of blueberries? No, I know that it's got

00:21:24.040 some kind of dye in there. That is probably not good for me. Um, I do use natural deodorant.

00:21:31.060 I think it works. Maybe my friends would tell you otherwise, and I just don't know.

00:21:35.200 And so I feel like, you know, there are some things that I try on. There are some things that I don't

00:21:40.860 try on. I care more about it when it comes to my kids. Of course, I don't think about it as much

00:21:47.180 for myself, but you love your kids more than you love yourself. And so you do kind of, you're more,

00:21:53.600 aware of that kind of stuff, uh, with them. I have recently tried to stop consuming seed oils.

00:22:03.620 And like, when I say try, I really mean like, I try to try. Does that make sense? Like when I'm at

00:22:13.940 the grocery store, I will look at the ingredients and I'll try not to get something with seed oils in

00:22:20.700 it. But am I trying when I go to Chick-fil-A and I order a chicken cool wrap that I'm sure

00:22:29.140 has soybean oil in it? No, I'm not really trying. And so when I say try, you know, take that with a

00:22:35.840 grain of salt. Um, does that make sense to you? Does that make sense where I am on my crunchy journey?

00:22:42.360 I wish I were crunchier. There are times when I'm like one day I'm going to be crunchy,

00:22:48.660 but, um, I'm just not there. And at the end of the day, I just don't want to stress myself out with

00:22:56.700 it anyway. Um, but kudos to all of y'all who are like very crunchy and you do take the time to do that.

00:23:03.060 I totally, totally respect that. Do I have a non-conservative political opinion? Like

00:23:20.840 one thing you agree with libs on? Hmm. Good question. So I don't know that I have a liberal

00:23:28.080 opinion. I have changed in some ways within my conservatism over the past few years. Like in

00:23:36.720 some ways, I think that I've become more, I've moved on, I've moved to the right, um, on some

00:23:43.580 issues, especially social issues for sure. But like, I agree with what liberals used to think about

00:23:51.920 things that apparently a lot of them don't think anymore. I am a lot more anti-interventionist

00:23:57.900 anti-war or at least unnecessary, what I think are unjust wars than I was before. I used to kind of

00:24:07.540 have this mentality that, well, you know, America does need to be involved in all of these conflicts

00:24:13.160 because we've got to be the one to maintain the peace. And I do think that that is true probably

00:24:17.140 in some ways, but I also, I feel like the whole Ukraine thing and how we have continued to dole out

00:24:23.520 billions of dollars to protect the border of Ukraine as we are doing nothing almost to protect

00:24:29.340 our own borders, even as we are suffering with inflation here and the spending is making that

00:24:34.580 worse. I have started to be skeptical of many of the choices, the foreign policy choices that America

00:24:41.580 has made over its history. Whereas I have just kind of assumed that America must have always been in the

00:24:47.660 right when they have intervened. And I think sometimes they are. I have started to ask myself,

00:24:53.400 why do I assume that America has always been in the right when it comes to foreign conflicts? 0.86

00:24:58.260 And so I am more skeptical about that. I'm a lot more, not completely isolationist, but more

00:25:05.100 isolationist. Maybe it's preservationist or maybe it's nationalist than I was previously.

00:25:13.900 Obviously. And I do think that I have started to question this like unconditional allegiance to

00:25:23.140 to the idea. This is going to sound controversial, but please let me explain that America is the

00:25:30.380 greatest country in the world. I do think that America is founded on the greatest principles and

00:25:37.280 the greatest ideas and ideals in all of human history that created for a period of time,

00:25:44.640 the greatest country that ever lived. But it is very difficult for me to look at how our country

00:25:52.180 handles COVID, how our government lied to us, ruined people's lives, how we have now just completely

00:26:01.160 fallen into the depths of corruption and depravity and still believe that at our core, we are a supreme

00:26:13.460 nation. Now, I still might say that we're the best country in the world because I look at the

00:26:18.140 other countries and I'm like, are they any better? I mean, some countries did better with COVID than we

00:26:23.320 did. They actually followed the science better than we did. Some countries aren't giving in to all of

00:26:28.620 the woke stuff the way that we are. Maybe some countries don't have quite as much corruption

00:26:33.660 as we do. But when you look at all of these things together, are there countries that you would

00:26:40.320 rather live in? Not really. So maybe we are the best country in the world still, but it's just a low

00:26:46.040 bar. I don't feel the same just like unconditional defense of America's choices here and abroad as I

00:26:53.880 used to maybe a few years ago. And I've started looking more skeptically at a lot of the people

00:27:01.600 who have an R by their name, a lot of the people who call themselves conservatives. I find myself

00:27:06.260 more frustrated with weak, wimpy, limp conservatives than I do with the Democrats. At least they fight for

00:27:15.060 what they want. Democrats claim to be fighters and really, or Republicans claim to be fighters and

00:27:21.900 really are just like weak on a lot of things and are war hawks who care more, I guess, about what

00:27:29.460 we're doing abroad than helping American citizens. So I don't know if that's agreeing with liberals,

00:27:34.760 but it is kind of how my politics have changed over the past few years. No question, but we're due in

00:27:43.740 December with baby number four and her name is going to be Allie Beth. That is the sweetest thing

00:27:49.280 ever. Congratulations on baby number four. And that means so much to me. I hope that one day you're

00:27:55.700 able to come to one of my speaking events and I can meet her. That is so sweet. I love that kind of

00:28:01.520 message. I also love the messages that I get all the time. Praise God that you say that you didn't

00:28:07.600 want to have kids or you were skeptical about having kids or you have what you now realize were selfish

00:28:12.640 reasons for having kids and us talking about the blessing of children and the call, I believe,

00:28:18.340 of married couples who can have kids to have kids that you are pregnant or that you just gave birth

00:28:25.380 to your first child because of how God used conversations on here to change your heart. I

00:28:31.580 mean, what an incredible blessing. I am often the first person that some of you tell that you are

00:28:37.460 pregnant or also when you miscarry. And that's what makes relatable a family is that we go through that

00:28:42.520 kind of stuff together. So anyway, thanks for letting me know that. Will you ever run for

00:28:48.980 political office? Probably not. Probably not. I mean, I guess maybe one day, but I don't see that

00:28:58.140 happening. Like while my kids are at home, I just don't know how I would do that. And to be perfectly

00:29:04.220 honest, I mean, this is going to I'm going to say this and this is going to play in my like campaign

00:29:09.880 one day when I'm running for president. But being in being an elected official seems really boring.

00:29:16.460 It just seems so boring. And you just have to do so much boring stuff all the time. I like have an

00:29:23.220 awesome life and I love doing what I do and I can say whatever I want. And I have a ton of flexibility

00:29:28.880 and I'm not like beholden to anyone. That's great. I don't know why I would want to change that. The

00:29:37.340 only thing that I could the only elected position that I would want to do as president. So that's it.

00:29:44.280 If I can be president one day, maybe I'll run for president one day. Maybe in 20 years, I'll run for

00:29:48.740 president. But until then, I don't I just don't see it. But I won't say no, because you never know.

00:29:55.760 I guess what God could call me to. And my heart could change on that.

00:30:10.740 Wisdom of what brands to buy from when it seems that everyone is on the woke train. I know that's

00:30:15.920 really tough. We have to do the best that we can. One of our sponsors is Public SQ. It stands for

00:30:21.680 Public Square. It's an app where you can look at like the companies and services that share your

00:30:27.040 values in your area. You can list your business too. And so that's a great way to try to find

00:30:32.300 businesses that align with your values. Look, I don't know that we can boycott everything. Some of

00:30:36.660 you, again, more crunchy folk, maybe you do. You boycott all of the companies that do not align with

00:30:43.180 you and your principles. And that's awesome. I don't. There are a few that I will not go to

00:30:49.780 anymore. I still have stuff. So if you ever see me wearing something from Target or wearing

00:30:54.180 something from Lululemon, I do still have stuff from both of those places. But I try not to shop

00:30:59.600 there. And I say try because I'm like, has there ever been a time with Target? No, I haven't since I

00:31:05.260 think April, even if I have to like if I'm somewhere and I forgot something and I have to door dash it to

00:31:12.100 my hotel, I won't do Target. I have not shopped at Target, stepped foot in Target, ordered anything

00:31:17.940 from Target in several months since I found out that they were selling these like packing underwear

00:31:25.240 for people who say that they are the opposite gender, like a woman who says that she is a man

00:31:31.480 or a girl who says that she's a boy so they can put fake stuff in their underwear to look like the

00:31:35.600 opposite gender. They're also selling chest compressing, boob compressing tops, which are harmful, 1.00

00:31:43.440 by the way, for girls who want to look like boys. And I was just like, that's disgusting. I'm just 0.99

00:31:49.780 not going to do it. And I was spending too much money there anyway. But I don't boycott every single

00:31:54.860 company I choose. And I think every little bit counts. I don't think that Target is like suffering

00:32:02.200 because of my choice, although I did see that their profits are down by an insane amount. I'm pretty

00:32:08.640 sure this year that they've had to cut a lot of things because of that. So it's not just me,

00:32:13.460 it's others as well. And so maybe it is making a difference and praise God for that. So I think

00:32:20.360 you just have to use discernment and you have to make your own choices. And this is another one where

00:32:24.460 I know it can seem like there's a lot of judgment, like, oh, you boycott more than I do. And so you're

00:32:29.220 holier than me or whatever. But it's tough. So just make your choices. But we also can't live in total

00:32:35.440 ignorance and apathy either. So I do think that there is some discernment to be had there.

00:32:40.640 Are you ever going to have Glenn Beck on your show? I've had Glenn Beck on my show. And I don't

00:32:47.420 know if you are a listener of this podcast. And so I don't mean this to, you know, call you out,

00:32:53.540 because I appreciate you being a listener to this podcast. But whenever I get messages like this,

00:32:58.040 it's like, would you ever or have you ever? It always seems like a little bit like, I don't know,

00:33:04.880 so I would just say, go back and search for something before asking me because it almost

00:33:11.600 sounds like a little bit of like an accusation when people say that. Or when people say like,

00:33:15.840 why haven't you ever had Candace Owens on your show? Like, well, I've had her on three times. 0.98

00:33:20.760 So just like search the past episodes and it'll come up. All you have to do is search in like

00:33:26.060 wherever you listen, just do like relatable England back or like relatable Ali Stucky,

00:33:32.140 Candace Owens or Ben Shapiro or Donald Trump or whatever. And those will, they should pop up or

00:33:38.860 you can do it on YouTube too. And it'll probably pop up there. That's just a little pro tip for later.

00:33:44.300 All right. Last question. How to share Jesus as a high school public, high school, public school

00:33:50.080 teacher? Well, first, I just want to say I'm so thankful for Christian teachers who are in public

00:33:55.200 schools. And I say that a lot and still sometimes I get messages saying like that I have like demonized

00:34:03.160 public school teachers, which is not true at all. I do have my stance on public school versus Christian 0.99

00:34:08.960 school, secular education versus a Christian education. So if you've been listening to this 0.92

00:34:13.440 podcast for any amount of time, you know where I land on that. And I have given very specific

00:34:18.120 reasons about why I feel what I do. That does not mean that I want all Christian teachers to go out of

00:34:24.200 public school because you are light in the darkness. Unfortunately, you are kind of bound

00:34:29.320 to the curriculum that you have to teach. You are kind of bound to the secular anti-God worldview of

00:34:37.640 public education. It is anti-Christian by law. And so that is difficult, but that doesn't mean

00:34:43.500 that you can't make a difference. One, through the kindness that you show to your students, you might be

00:34:49.680 the only source of kindness and stability that some of these kids ever see or experience. You

00:34:55.080 could be a refuge for them and you can be a source of truth. And by the way, if you are ever instructed

00:35:01.640 to lie in your job, you are bound to something that's higher than your curriculum, that's higher

00:35:08.520 than the school board, that's higher than your administration, that's higher than the teacher's

00:35:14.460 and that is to the law of God. And so while you may not be able to buck every policy that your school

00:35:22.780 has, you are obligated to follow God's truth first and foremost. And so that means that if you are told

00:35:32.340 that you have to teach that there is no God, if you have to teach that America has exclusively been a

00:35:40.520 place of oppression and that white kids are oppressors because of their skin color, black and

00:35:45.440 brown kids are oppressed because of their skin color. If you have to teach that girls can be boys 0.96

00:35:50.400 and boys can be girls, you are obligated not to do that. And I understand that there is risk that comes

00:35:55.740 with that. There's a cost that comes with that. It's easier said than done. Absolutely. But that is the

00:36:00.660 cost of being a Christian in an anti-Christian world. It simply is. And maybe you can organize with

00:36:07.000 other teachers to take a stand against having to lie about these things. Maybe you can rally other

00:36:11.420 parents to make a difference. But at the end of the day, the least that we can do and have to do as

00:36:15.860 Christians is not to lie in a culture that is so inundated with and characterized by lies. So you be a

00:36:22.340 beacon of truth in every possible way that you can. And I promise God will use you to glorify him. And

00:36:30.340 that's what we're all trying to do. All right, that's all I got time for today. I hope that was helpful

00:36:35.600 and encouraging. I will see you guys back here soon.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - November 23, 2022

Ep 712 ｜ How My Politics Have Changed Over the Past Two Years ｜ Q&A

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript