So, Hey, Mike here, welcome to the Vox Podcast.

Hey, Mike here.

Welcome to the Vox Podcast.

Thank you so much for tuning in. We're thrilled to have you and we are thrilled via Skype to have our friend Tim Mackie back with us. Tim is one of the founders, storytellers, the theologians of the Bible project

and Tim were thrilled to have you. Thank you so much for your time today. Welcome. Yeah, thanks, Mike. Good to talk with you.

Tim is located in Portland and you have been, I just want to make sure you know I get it all right you've been a

professor at what is it was it Western where was it Western sem right. And you were you've been a pastor a teaching pastor right? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And a church for what it was it ten years? Well at a church in Wisconsin for about three years and then a church in Portland for about five.

Okay, perfect.

Yeah.

And then you've now, you helped to launch this thing called the Bible Project, which, what would you say,

I mean, and I know you probably get asked this all the time, but what would you say,

what would you say the mission is of the Bible project?

Oh, well, what it is, is a non-profit

crowd-funded animation studio here in Portland.

I love that.

And we make videos and other resources but mainly short animated

videos about the Bible and biblical theology and how to read the Bible in its

historical context.

And we're a YouTube channel.

Yeah. That recently hit a million followers, which is mine-blowing to me.

Holy cow.

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