Stitt thanked his father for ‘pouring into me.’ What did he mean?

The Rev. John Stitt, Gov. Stitt’s father, gives his son the thumbs-up after he was acknowledged Monday during the start of the Legislature and the governor’s State of the State speech to the joint session. Doug Hoke/ Oklahoman

The phrase has a theological basis but isn’t always used in a spiritual sense, scholars said.

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