Hey, everyone. Welcome to a live episode of the Elisa Children's Podcast in just a moment.

We are going to have a Q&A session with Dr. Vody Bacchum.

I know so many of you are excited about this. You've been waiting for it.

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I also want to thank David Walcott for moderating today's discussion.

But without any further ado, I'll bring my guest on Dr. Vody Bacchum.

He's an author and a speaker, a former pastor.

He's currently the Dean of Theology at African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia.

Dr. Bacchum, welcome to the show. We're so glad to have you on today.

Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be with you.

Well, we're excited to talk with you. We have a Facebook group with over 3,000 people in it.

And we just finished reading your book called Fault Lines, The Social Justice Movement,

Evangelicalisms, Looming Catastrophe. And by the way, for the viewers out there,

if you want to learn how you can join us in our private Facebook book club group,

stay tuned because after the interview, I'm going to give you some important information on that.

But Dr. Bacchum, your book is called Fault Lines and that provides the analogy for the whole book.

And I wonder if you can quickly set that up for us.

Why did you choose that title and why do you think that that is such a relevant

analogy for discussions surrounding racism and social justice and critical theory?

Well, I grew up in Los Angeles, California on a fault line and experienced a couple of earthquakes

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