Hello, my friends. Welcome to another episode of Follow Him. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with the Incredible John, by the way. Hello, John.

Hello, Hank.

Welcome back to another episode, John.

We are going to look today at first Corinthians. Paul spent about 18 months in Corinth, then was away for a few years,

but got word that the Corinthians had kind of created divisions among themselves, been separated and had some contention among themselves.

I feel like, John, we could get a lot out of this letter. What are you thinking?

I always think of that doctrine of covenant first. If you're not one, you're not mine, and I always think if we're not his, the alternatives are not very good.

Absolutely. We have an awesome guest and an expert joining us today, John. Her name is Dr. Teresa Bell. When it comes to this letter,

is there a lot for us to take out of this?

You know, I really think there is. I can't help but think of the recent conference talks and how there's been a lot about unity lately.

And I think that's probably the main message we need to get from it.

Yeah, absolutely. I'm being able to see our differences as strengths and yet be united in purpose. Fantastic.

John, this is Teresa's first time on our podcast, Dr. Bell. Can you tell us a little bit more about her?

Oh, I'm so excited to share with our audience about Teresa, Reverend Bell. She joined the faculty in the Department of German and Russian at BYU in August of 2013.

She teaches principles and practices of language teaching, exploring foreign language teaching, a graduate seminar on language and culture and German language courses.

She is the Associate Chair and President-Elect of the Utah Foreign Language Association and she is the current president of the BYU Faculty Women's Association.

Before coming to BYU, she was faculty member of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma from 2002 to 2013.

And from August 2000 to April 2002, she taught German at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on native speaker perception of non-native speaker production of written and spoken German.

Wow. So how do native speakers perceive those who are not native speakers and what they write and produce in German?

She has been to other projects. She's writing a book on the hymn Silent Night and its perception and influence in the lives of members of the church.

Or, does they say in German? I remember this.

Yeah, perfect.

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