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April 21, 2026 · 28 min
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0:00 Special episode alert. Christians engaged. I'm interviewing DJ Tanner. No. I'm d g I'm interviewing Candace Cameron Bure today who is come alongside our ministry and helping us0:12 as a national spokesperson for America Reads the Bible. If you haven't heard yet, we are hosting what I believe will be the largest Bible reading event in United States history, 100 ministry partners,0:25 people coming to DC to experience the 250th birthday of America, people in joining the livestream. We want every church, every business, every person to host the livestream of0:37 the bible being read from Genesis to Revelation by over 420 of our national leaders from all spheres of influence. Candice is an actress, a producer, New York Times bestselling0:48 author, Great American Media chief creative officer. She has been named the national spokesperson for this landmark event at the Capitol, April 18th through1:00 25, and I'm just so thrilled. She's the CEO of Candy Rock Entertainment, where she stars in and produces original family and faith forward entertainment, including great American1:12 Christmas and mystery films. Her Christian faith and commitment to wholesome storytelling has made her a leading voice in family entertainment. I am thrilled to bring you Candace1:23 Cameron Bray. Get ready. Here at Christians Engage, we are on a quest to see every American Christian take stewardship1:35 of their life, their nation, and this generation. Can you imagine a world where every Christian in this country did 3 simple things? Pray, vote, and engage.1:47 And what if we did those ongoing? It would totally shift our nation. That's what we're doing here at Christians engaged. Over the last 5 years, we've built a standing army of Christians that1:59 are saying, I want to pray, vote, and engage ongoing and be leaders in my community. We're just getting started, folks. Here at Conversations with Christians engaged, join us every week2:11 as we take you in-depth in interviews with government officials, ministry leaders, subject leader experts to awaken and empower you to do those 3 things ongoing.2:23 I'm Bunny Pounds. I'm the president and founder of Christians engaged. I spent 16 years in political consulting working for members of congress and other candidates before starting this ministry. And my cohost,2:35 Ben Quine, our biblical worldview expert and our vice president, come on a journey with us every week. We're here to help you pray, vote, and engage.2:51 Hey, guys. I am so thrilled to have actress, producer, Candace Cameron Bure. Candace, I am, like, jumping up and down right now. So happy to talk to you. It's just been an3:03 honor to get to know you the last few months, and I'm just thrilled to have you a part of America Reads the Bible. I know so many people know you, but just say hey3:15 to everybody and and kinda give us a rundown of your life. Girl, you've done everything. What have you not done? Podcast host, author, everything. Yeah. I've done I've done a lot.3:25 I've been in the entertainment industry for over 40 years because I started when I was 5. And I well, thanks, buddy, 1st of all, for having me on, and3:37 I'm I just really am thrilled. But, yeah, I've been making family pro family entertainment for 40 years. Started on Full House when I was 10 years old. That show has3:49 never been off the air in over 30 years, which is just shocking, and yet it just shows you that family values are timeless. And I've done over4:00 50 television movies, Christmas movies, mysteries, rom coms, and they are always family friendly, always safe for kids to watch,4:12 moms and dads, grandparents, and I've had a commitment to that my entire career. I've also written several books, some devotionals. I do have a podcast, the Candace4:24 Cameron Burry podcast, and have a production company that produces family content in all aspects.4:35 Well, I'm absolutely addicted to your movies. I had watched several before, we started talking, but now I have a Pureflex subscription, girl, and you would laugh. I literally have4:47 created a spreadsheet of all the Christmas movies I'm watching, who the actor and actress is. I give it a rating. I put notes beside it. The and I love your movies, and the mystery4:58 movies are just great. And I just really wanna encourage people to get on PurePlix. Watch Great American Family. I mean, what you guys are producing is just stellar for5:10 families, and I've I've appreciated in my downtime.5:14 You're the ultimate fan with that spreadsheet and ratings because we actually ask at the network, at Great American Family Channel and Great American Peer Flicks, to email us, give us5:26 your comments, your constructive criticism, give a rating of the movie, what did you like, what didn't you like, because we want to always improve, and we want we listen. We listen to5:38 our audience as to what you want, and I I really appreciate that, and I appreciate that you actually are doing it.5:45 Well, I've enjoyed it, so it's been great. Now I knew when I 1st heard you speak, public speak, years ago that you have this love for the word of God. You are a strong believer in Jesus.5:57 And but you came to me and you're like, I love the Bible. Yeah. Can you talk to about your love for the word of God and scripture, why you've written these amazing devotional books to get people into6:09 scripture, and why that's important to your life?6:12 Yes. Well, I've been a Christian since I was 12 years old. My faith really became my own when I was about 22 years old. I had6:24 that moment, that moment where God lifted the veil. Even though I'd called myself a Christian for so many years, he it's like he gave me eyeglasses6:36 to see clearly for the 1st time, and I will never forget that moment in my room, and I prayed to God that he would always give me a desire to know him, to6:48 crave his word, and to forever have a desire to share the gospel with people, out of gratitude for6:59 understanding the gospel of Jesus Christ, and from that day forward, I I started really reading my Bible because even though I'd called myself a Christian since I was7:11 12, I can't say that I really knew God, and I certainly did not know the Bible. And so studying the Bible can often, I think as a new7:22 believer, feel intimidating. It can feel a little overwhelming for some people, but I, you know, felt those things, and yet I was diligent, and the more I read, the more things7:34 became clear and understanding it, but I had still never read the Bible either chronologically or from cover to cover. Then lots of Bible studies,7:46 read all the books, but, well, I probably skipped a few of the Old Testament books, you know, and about 4 years ago, I started listening7:58 to a podcast called the bible recap with Tara Lee Kobble, and that podcast honestly changed my life in terms of reading the bible because8:10 I did read it chronologically. She's got this great little podcast where you then read the day's programming and or or, you know, the day's scripture reading, and then she has a little 7 to 9 minute8:22 podcast that breaks it down, gives you context as to what you just read. And as I read it, I looked for God in scripture, not myself, and8:34 the all of the words and God's character jumped off the pages for me, and I think I had been craving that desire for his8:46 word for over 20 years, and even though I was reading it, it was just different. And reading the Bible in chronological order8:57 and seeing who God is, that God is not this scary God in the Old Testament, and then all of a sudden becomes nice in the New Testament because Jesus comes, but that Jesus is there the entire9:09 time, and God is the most loving and patient God, which I fully understood when I when I read through the Old Testament. It just, like, changed changed my9:21 heart, but just gave me an an understanding, and then this love for the word that I, it is my life's mission to get people to read the Bible, because we talk to so9:33 many people that call themselves Christians or that, well, actually are not of the faith and don't want anything to do with it, and then I'll, but I ask, like, have you ever read the Bible? Have you9:45 read it? And most people say, no. I haven't, and so it just I don't know. It feels like I that's my mission. I mean, the Bible tells us to go out into the world9:57 and share the gospel and share the good news, but the most important part, I think, alongside of telling the good news of Jesus Christ, is really understanding who God is, and you don't know10:09 who he is without reading the word of God.10:13 It is such a great thing that you just said because a lot of us are you know, if we've grown up in church, Candice, you know, we get bored with scripture, you know, and and that there's no condemnation in10:25 that. Mhmm. But we we think this is a boring thing, or we we kinda the enemy wants to do everything he can to get us out of scripture, to keep us from the word of God. Because when we read10:37 scripture, we realize who we are in the depth of God's story. And that's what you were just saying is that that can blow your mind when you realize that God is this10:48 creative being that loves humanity and that he puts us in his story, and we get to be a part of that. And it really changes the perspective. So when we met, I was11:00 sharing with you we had this divine appointment with some mutual friends that I had this crazy idea to host what I think is gonna be the largest Bible reading event in the United States history and11:12 get all of our national leaders like you that are, you know, top level influencers but busy. Busy. That's the keyword. Busy people that love God, and they say, you know what? I11:24 prioritize scripture above everything else in my life because I have to have it every day. And we have planned America Reads the Bible, and we're gonna host 711:35 days from Genesis to Revelation from the World Stage Theater of the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC next April. We're gonna have an opening celebration you're gonna be a part of. I'm so thrilled about this,11:45 Candice, and thank you for signing on as 1 of our national spokespeople for this. But you gravitated towards this vision and said, I'm in.11:54 I did. You didn't even you didn't have to talk to me or convince me. You we were in a very intimate room. You gave a very clear presentation, and as you were12:05 talking, my mind was reeling as to how I could be a part of it, how I could be helpful, how I could team up with all of12:17 you to help get the word out and help encourage people to fall in love with scripture and read the Bible with our country in celebration of the12:29 anniversary of our country, and I just thought, oh, buddy, this is brilliant. I want to be a part of it. I didn't even know that you were going to ask me to be a part of it. I thought I was going to have to, you know,12:40 beg to be a part of it. So it all just very much worked out in in that way, and I just loved meeting you and to see what you've done in your life, and you are a woman of12:52 execution, which I love, and you you you think it, you create it, and then you do it, And that's amazing to work with people like you as well. So I13:03 was just on board. I was like, how can I how can I help and how can I help get the word out to people?13:09 Well, I had this idea in my head is if you asked me how can I help you, which you ended up saying the magic words, I was gonna ask you that? So I was holding off. I'm like, Lord, if she asked me that, I'll I'll ask her.13:21 But if you if you didn't, I wasn't gonna, you know, let that go by. So thank you so much. This is a monumental task, as you said. 400 we're gonna probably have 450 readers. We13:33 have 100 national ministries signed on now from all denominations. It's Incredible. The the goal here, as you know, is not just to drive people. We want people to come to DC. Everybody needs to be planning to come to13:45 DC. We've got the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Museum of the Bible while this is going on. We're gonna have our own private art gallery of Mindy Oton's amazing 66 paintings of the Messiah showing up in all13:57 66 books of the Bible. Like you just said, every Bible has a story of Jesus in it, and she details that in print. We're gonna have an interactive experience with her art in the in the the theater14:08 as people experience it on the ceiling, in the wall, and on the stage, and you're gonna be reading Genesis. It's gonna be awesome. So people need to come to DC. They need to be a part of all the festivities that are14:19 gonna happen, but also the livestream. We are have an opportunity, I think, for up to 1000000 people to be on the livestream at any 1 time, Candice. How do you envision14:30 people using the livestream in their own families, in their communities, in their churches, businesses? How do you see that benefiting people?14:40 Well, we're making it really convenient. If you can't make it out to DC, which we really do encourage you because it will be phenomenal and an unbelievable trip that you will never forget.14:52 But if you have the opportunity then to to just be at home or with your church where we are encouraging you to, 1, tell your church about it. Tell your entire congregation.15:04 Ask your church to live stream this during the week. Open up your church doors. Let people come in. Watch it on your big screen there. Have community. Have prayer time. Have15:16 worship while all of this is going on, so that's 1st and foremost, and we can gather really big groups to watch it within the church. It's wonderful. For those of you at home, you can have15:29 ask your community, your Bible study friends to come over and host a few hours during the week, during the day, whatever that looks like for you. Maybe if you have a Bible study15:41 group, each person in your Bible study would host a couple hours throughout the week each day, we're really going to give you things to talk about as we're reading15:53 scripture, and depending on when you're tuning in, because obviously we know that 1 person's probably not going to sit there from 9 to 9 pm the entire week, but you16:04 can you can hear the scriptures that are going to be read live, and then you can have discussions with your group after that. I think it's so important, and16:16 really use it as a time of worship. But this allows us, the live stream allows us to not only stream to 1000000 people, but there can be millions more because if you gather16:28 as a group, this is going to be so impactful, and encourage, again, those of you around to fall in love with Scripture.16:39 Yes. We are encouraging you to make your plans now. How are you using this in your life? Are you going to download it and carry it around with you? Are you taking off work for a week to actually read the Bible all the16:49 way through? How many of y'all have never done that? Right? Are you, opening up your church building? Are you Christian business people? Have you ever shared the gospel with your employees? What if you hosted17:01 our founding document of the country, you know, in your offices all week and just said, hey. We're gonna have Bible being read by our national leaders all week in our offices. I mean, what a powerful thing that would be.17:13 We wanna see every, oil change place, right, have the the livestream on the oil change place when people come in. That would be amazing. So think outside the box, guys. Think creatively. I17:26 I'm so thankful for you, Candice. Yes. We're gonna have17:29 I just thought you know, Bunny, I just thought of another 1 because I once went into an Uber. And as soon as I sat down, we started driving, and he had the17:41 radio on or he had his phone hooked up, and I'm listening to it, and I said, what are we what are we listening to? Is this is this the Bible? And then he said, yes. I always play17:53 it. Our do you know who Jesus is? And it was his witnessing tool in the car, and that is like another way. I know obviously you if you're driving the Uber, you cannot watch the video, but you can certainly have18:05 it on for audio or video for your passenger. So there are so many outside of the box ways to share this experience.18:12 It is gonna be amazing, guys, and we're mixing elected officials with pastors and ministry leaders and influencers and Hollywood folks. And it's been And18:23 professors and teachers and just Americans.18:27 Hospice care chaplain. We're gonna have a veteran. We're gonna have a police officer. You know? It's it's gonna be so cool to see America, all the diversity, all the denominations. I18:39 think that's what's been so so surprising to me, Candice, is the unity. Yeah. 1 of my my biggest prayers is John 17, that we would be 1 and that we would reflect the love and the character of God. And I'm18:51 really seeing an amazing moment that people, they're like, let's just do read the Bible together. That's it. Yeah. I love that. It's exciting. Can you tell us a moment in your life? Because19:02 I think sometimes we forget the power of scripture just showing up in random places and blessing us. You know, we think about our daily quiet time, of course. But how is scripture, like,19:14 a time of tiredness, in a tired time of pain just brought something to your life that has you've thought, wow, God just met me in that moment with that scripture?19:26 It's happened so many times, Bunny. I don't I don't even know that I can count all the times because the word is living and active, and that's what I love about it. No matter how many times I19:38 read scripture, it, it's alive, and it changes life, it changes circumstances, because it can also change our19:50 mindset. And so over the years, there's been so many moments, moments as a mom dealing with just parenting children and having20:01 those breakdown moments of like, can't things aren't looking the way I hoped that they would look, whether that's in marriage or times at work.20:14 You know, I often think about Esther. This is kind of my life verse, and we know that we're familiar with Esther 4 14 that says, For if you remain silent,20:26 relief and deliverance will arise from another place, but you and your father's house shall perish, for who knows that you have not been put in this20:38 place for such a time as this? And we were familiar with that verse, but can I tell you how many times that verse has popped into my head before I've gone in front of20:49 millions of people in my world of entertainment to and and thinking about that Esther, that who knows, Candace, if I have not placed you right here, right now for such21:01 a time as this, be bold? Do not remain silent. Share who I am. And, you know, that that's just a verse that constantly speaks to21:13 me and has met me when I've needed courage in my life, especially in the workplace.21:19 So good. Yeah. It is amazing how God just, like, pumps you full of his presence when you read his word. It's like his love letter to us. Right? And I think we have such an opportunity here.21:31 I want everybody to imagine not only national leaders reading scripture for 7 full days, but think about an audio bible and a video bible that this is gonna be commemorating the21:43 250th birthday of America, and then think about all these social media clips of all these people reading. So when we have cabinet members and members of congress and governors21:54 and Hollywood folks and, you know, all these people, Franklin Graham, you know, and all these people that are gonna be reading, how that could potentially get into the hands of people22:06 that are seeking God. We're seeing a moment right now where people are seeking God. They're like, what's happening right now? And we have an opportunity to get scripture into their hand and go, have you22:18 read Bible? Have you read the Bible? Have you considered the Bible? How do you think this is going to impact the general public that might interact with some of these clips or some of the media we're going to do around22:27 it?22:28 Yeah. I'm really encouraged because I really do feel that revival is happening. We've seen it in universities all across the country. We've22:40 seen I've watched people that I loved, Jonathan McClouda, Jenny Allen, like Madison Pruitt baptizing the kids in the back of trucks, you know, especially in the younger generation,22:52 I've seen such revival. But there right now because there it feels like there's a lot of chaos in the world, and and people are searching. And23:04 so the search is really good because you can present hope. And a lot I, you know, I get messages all the time on my social media from people23:16 I've never met, but messages saying, I used to have a faith, or I grew up with a faith, but I've really lost it over the years,23:28 and I want to find my way back. And it's so encouraging that people are seeking. So America reads the Bible and reading through the whole Bible with23:40 some familiar faces and people that you trust, I really believe that it's going to give others this confidence that the Bible is23:51 accessible, it is loving, it is true, it is pure, and it is the answer. And so I love that we get to do this, and I24:03 think it's going to only add to more revival within the world.24:08 Well, Candace Cameron Bray, thank you so much for being a part of America Reads the Bible. So I need everybody right now. Go to the website, America Reads the Bible dot com, and make a decision.24:20 Are you coming to DC? Get your family together. Come to DC. Be a part of this. Come to the Museum of the Bible, all of it. There's gonna be so many festivities going on. This is the week for the body of Christ. Or make24:32 your plans, how am I using this livestream in my life and in my community just to share the gospel and share the good news of Jesus? If we all do that, guys, this could be a massive thing for24:44 the country, and we believe it will be a massive thing. Be praying for us. If you wanna help us fund this, we do have lots more funding we need to do. It's a massive project. It's a huge strain on our team24:56 to put all these together, all these people together, and plan this whole thing. So we need your help. But go to the website, figure out how you can help us, and everything's on there. Social media graphics,25:07 flyers, everything you want is at the at the website, America Reads the Bible. So thank you so much, Candice. So appreciate you. I look forward to this journey together.25:18 Me too. I'm so happy to be a part of it with you.25:24 Thank you so much for joining us for this incredible program today. We are so happy to be in your life. Have you shared this? 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