#103 - Victoria Jackson

Victoria Jackson, the legendary Saturday Night Live alum and poet, joins Eric Metaxas to discuss her new memoir, *Not Dead Yet*, a deeply personal and poetic chronicle of her life, faith, and relentless pursuit of handstands—both literal and metaphorical. Diagnosed with stage IV metastatic breast cancer, Jackson turned her pain into art, weaving poetry and handstand photography into a testament of resilience and divine purpose. Her book, rich with humor, vulnerability, and spiritual depth, reveals how she found meaning in the absurd, from childhood handstands with her family to her defiant embrace of life after cancer. Metaxas, moved by her courage, praises her work as a 'moving' and 'profound' act of evangelism. The episode then shifts to Pastor Josh McPherson, who recounts the divine-sounding coincidence behind his upcoming 15,000-man men’s conference, Freedom Con 2026, set to take place in George, Washington—the same town where George Washington signed his commission as commander of the Continental Army on June 19, 1775. McPherson frames the event not as a political rally but as a spiritual awakening, a 'Congress of Christian Men' to preserve America’s founding principles. He argues that the church’s silence in elections—especially in states like Washington, where 1.2 million Christians sat out—has enabled progressive extremism, and calls for a revival of statesmanship rooted in faith, family, and sacrifice.