As fireworks fill the sky and the pledge echoes across parades and backyards, we pause to reflect on the final words: “for all.” What does that promise really mean? Who has been left out? And what would it look like to live into the best ideas this country claims to stand for – not just for ourselves, but for each other?

On this special Independence Day episode, Pastor Joanne Engquist joins us to talk about freedom, belonging, and the kind of hope that refuses to settle.

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