Hi internet, Mike Erie here coming at you from Suburban Columbus, Ohio where on

April 9th. It is snowing. I simply I simply I felt the need to complain publicly about the weather simply because

Lament is a very

biblical thing and I realize that people are listening from all around the country

and in other parts of the world too and that it's not as awful in those places

as it is here but my complaining has become tedious to even to myself. I

simply will now suck it up and just accept that I am a Midwesterner and this is what the weather is like.

And then protesting does nothing to change it.

Even the weather forecast can't predict it, but it is stowing on April 9th and this is the last

comment I will make on the weather until maybe next week. So you can breathe a

sigh of relief that that is over.

Welcome to the podcast.

If you are a new podcast listener,

we've been going on a couple of years now

and just have this wonderfully glorious and diverse community that's growing up around our little endeavor.

And one of the things that I love about it is we get tons of feedback, tons of support, tons of critique, and all of that is good and wonderful.

What I want to do, what I want to do the next, I don't know, maybe a couple of

podcasts unless something major kind of interrupts the flow. I want to talk a

little bit about narcissism and its current place in American evangelicalism.

And I speak as one who I'm learning is maybe a bit familiar with the topic.

And it is ironic just out of the gate.

It's like complaining about social media on social media.

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