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163. Why We Can't Cherry-Pick the Bible — A Conversation with Dan McClellan

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🗓️ 22 April 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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We’re super excited to share this week’s episode with you. Our interview was with Dan McClellan, a Bible scholar who began sharing his insights and scholarship on TikTok in 2021, and immediately began racking up millions of views and hundreds of thousands of followers. One of the reasons people seem to resonate with Dan’s content is that he makes traditionally difficult and obscure topics extremely accessible — if you watch any of his videos, you’ll see what we mean, but even those who are pr...

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, I just want to take a second to invite you to join me this year at Restore

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a Faith Matters Gathering happening October 13th and 14th.

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It's going to be at the Amount and America Expo Center in Sandy and it promises to be

0:16.5

an exceptional conference.

0:18.4

I attended last fall and found it to be a remarkably inspiring, hopeful two days of listening

0:27.2

to really well-prepared, thoughtful talks as well as inspiring music and really feeling

0:36.7

a deep connection with my other Latter-day Saint brothers and sisters around me in our

0:41.8

shared desire to speak to the best in our faith and to speak to one another and find a sense

0:48.6

of connection.

0:49.6

I'm also going to be one of the people speaking.

0:52.3

I'll be speaking a bit about eros energy and its connection to spirituality and to the

0:59.6

light of Christ.

1:01.1

And so I hope to see you all there.

1:05.3

Hey everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters.

1:11.0

We're super excited to share today's episode with you.

1:13.6

Our interview was with Dan McClellan, a Bible scholar who began sharing his insights

1:17.3

and scholarship on TikTok in 2021 and immediately began racking up millions of views and

1:22.2

hundreds of thousands of followers.

1:24.4

One of the reasons that people seem to resonate with Dan's content is that he makes traditionally

1:28.0

difficult and obscure topics extremely accessible.

1:31.2

If you watch any of his videos, you'll see what we mean.

1:33.2

But even those who are pretty unfamiliar with the worlds of the older New Testament will

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