Dr. Taylor Marshall

And in beginning of John's gospel, he is the light in the darkness.

So I would just share with everyone watching, return to Christ, to find Christ, to go to church on Sunday.

Yes, I know there's hypocrites, there's problems in the church, but

Reconnect with Christ.

And I think this weekend, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Resurrection Sunday, the Paschal Mystery is the right time to reach out and embrace Christ and find that healing and that redemption.

So I think this is really the lesson for us.

And he stands before us and he says, knock and it shall be open to you.

So knock.

You know, Holy Week's a great time to reflect on this because in a way, Judas Iscariot and many of the people of his time were demanding for Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, to initiate a political movement that would overthrow the Romans.

And of course, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ wanted something much more significant than that.

And so I think we've got to be careful that we don't throw in our lot with that understanding of Jesus Christ.

that being said when he rose again from the dead and all 12 apostles taught that he is the messiah and that christ is king he is the lord of lords and the king of kings and so there is a social dimension and there's a political dimension to christianity there always has been and there always will be when we say jesus is the king of kings over and over in the bible that entails that there are other kings

worldly kings.

There are temporal princes, you could say premiers, presidents, prime ministers, and that his lordship extends over that as well.

The Christian nationalist movement, I'm always a little careful about it because there's people in all different parts of that spectrum of what it means to be a Christian nationalist.

I think it's safe to say that in the Christian tradition, in the Catholic tradition, at least, there's been a

integration between the church and the state.

And that hasn't always been negative.

And there's great positive elements to that.

And I don't think we should be afraid of that.