Shannon Bream says her job at has never been about serving a political side. In a recent appearance on CBN's Faith in Culture podcast, the Sunday anchor said believers have a different assignment.
“We’re not called to carry out anyone’s political or news agenda,” Bream said. “As believers, we’re called to carry out Christ’s agenda, which is to reach people.”
That message lands at a time when political distrust is still deep. Last summer, Pew Research Center reported that eight-in-10 U.S. adults believed Republicans and Democrats disagree on basic facts as well as politics and policies. In 2024, Johns Hopkins University said nearly half of Americans viewed their political opponents as downright evil. Bream said that kind of hostility makes real conversation harder, not easier. “If you demonize [those you disagree with] one way or the other, you’re not having conversations that would bring them to God’s grace and love,” she said. She added that bringing people to that grace and love has to matter more than winning political fights during the day.
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Bream, the first woman to anchor Sunday in the show’s 26-year history, also talked about how she begins her mornings and how that shapes the rest of her day. She said she has to start in the Word and in prayer, and that quiet time helps her hear the Lord’s voice. The Bible, she said, is full of truth, guidance and wisdom, and gives perspective to the day. “I just have to put my armor on, because we don’t know what the day is going to bring, personally or professionally,” she said. “Everybody needs a palate cleanse, a little bit of a break sometimes.”
The conversation turned personal when Bream discussed the medical trauma she has lived with. She said she was diagnosed with Map-Dot-Fingerprint Dystrophy, an incurable genetic disorder that causes recurrent corneal erosions. She said the pain from that trauma once left her wanting not to wake up again. In that moment, she said God told her in her spirit, “I’ll be with you. I will be with you.”
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That experience is part of the message behind her book, Nothing Is Impossible With God, and it is the thread running through her public work and private life. Bream said she believes God has walked her through her suffering, and that has been enough. “He knows what He’s doing. We have to trust that He’s a good God. And He’s walked me through this. And that has been enough,” she said.
