Facts don't interpret themselves. People interpret facts and the people best equipped to most accurately interpret facts, are those who understand the contexts in which those facts were originally embedded.

This is especially important in understanding church history,

because a fact from church history,

especially a potentially shocking or scandalous sounding fact,

isolated from its context,

is a fact certain to be misunderstood.

This reality is too often leveraged by critics against church members

as a weapon of mass deception, which has troubled many a testimony. This is why in today's

episode of Church History Matters, Casey and I discuss the crucial skill of properly

contextualizing facts so we know what kind of meaning to give them and how to feel about them.

And we then demonstrate how this skill works with some real life potentially shocking examples. I'm Scott Woodward and my co-host is Casey Griffiths.

And today we dive into our seventh episode of this series dealing with truth-seeking and good thinking.

Now let's get into it. Casey, what's going on?

Not much how you're doing, Scott.

You're ready for another mental jugitsu round?

Is that what we're doing here?

I think we're doing some mental jugitsu.

I think that's the mental Brazilian jubitsu yeah

our metaphors have gone from pickleball to jubitsu oh I forgot I forgot this is like another round of

mental pickleball with with church history topics I kind of like is like

jugitsu because now we can use the term grapple.

Yeah.

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