You're listening to Knowing Faith, a podcast of Training the Church.

This is Kyle Whirly and I'm joined by my co-host, Gin Wilkins, and JT English.

And today, we're also joined by Dr. Mike Bird.

Mike is the academic dean and a lecturer in theology at Ridley College in Australia.

He describes himself as a biblical theologian who seeks to bring together biblical studies

and systematic theology.

He is the author of 30, yes, count them, 30 books, including, but not limited to the story

of Guide Commentary on Romans and anomalous Jew, Paul Among Jews, Greeks, and Romans,

introducing Paul, the man, his mission, and his message, and the New Testament in its

world, an introduction to the history, literature, and theology of the first Christians, which

he co-authored with this kind of no-name New Testament scholar in T. Wright.

You can also find him on Twitter, where he is an absolutely wild follow at M. Bird 12.

Dr. Bird, it is a joy to have you on.

Thanks for joining us.

Well, Kyle on JT and Gin, thank you very much for having me.

I give you warm summer greetings from Melbourne.

Sounds lovely.

Kyle, when you say that he's at Ridley College in Australia, that's the equivalent of

him saying that you're at Mosaic Church in the United States.

Is that for us?

I mean, I know, but for me, when I think of this is going to show my absolute ignorance,

recently somebody told me, Australia is as big as it is, and it has multiple time zones

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