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Doc. Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinski.

Hey, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Bridge Boys podcast.

I wanted to do something a little bit different for this solo episode and talk a bit about

my faith.

And I know that it's come up kind of, you know, just tangentially to conversations.

It's been kind of a background to some things.

It's been context for other statements.

But for whatever reason, I just feel like it's been something of the elephant in the room of, you know, well, aren't you a Christian?

Why are you speaking about the church?

I have people that message me asking that. I've got people who reach out and say, you know, how are you speaking about the church? I have people that message me asking that. I've got people

who reach out and say, you know, how are you a Christian and also doing this? I have pastors who have

accused me of attacking the church itself. And so I wanted to talk about my faith, the role it plays in

the Preacher Boy's podcast and kind of what that means for me.

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