Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host, Felicia Mason-Himer, and I am here to

teach you how to know what you believe, to live it boldly, and to communicate it

graciously to the world around you. I believe that women are ready to go deeper in

their faith than ever before, and they don't have to go to seminary to do it. I am

so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey because every

woman is a theologian. Hi friends, welcome back to this week's episode of Verity Podcast.

It's a big week here at the Mason-Himer House because every woman of theologian's team is

all here in Potosky, almost all of us anyway, working to get ready for Verity conference,

which is this coming weekend, November 4th and 5th. So we are working overtime this week to get

everything ready for the almost 300 women who are coming to Potosky for the conference.

We are so excited to see you and meet you. And next week's episode, if everything goes according

to plan, will actually be the audio from one of the sessions at this week's conference. So

as we look forward to that, I was thinking what episode can I launch this week that is not going

to take a ton of preparation work from me, but is still going to be helpful to our listeners.

And it dawned on me. I have not done a book list episode on church history. And I cannot believe

that I have not done this, but here we go. I'm going to give you my massive list of church history

books. And I would say church history adjacent books because when I went through my library,

compiling all the books I wanted to share with you, I had a really hard time choosing.

And I started going, well, this would kind of count as church history. I mean, it talks about

history when it talks about this issue. I had to kind of stop myself from getting a little too

crazy on this. And even so, with myself control, I have probably 12 or 15 books here. So

in order to make this episode actually 30 minutes instead of 40 minutes like last week's episode,

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