Hey everybody. Before we get started I just wanted to tell you about a new book from

Faith Matters Publishing. It's called Restoration by Patrick Mason. When we started the

Faith Matters Publishing project one of our goals was to explore what

restoration really means as the church moves into its third century

and that's exactly what Patrick does. If you're like me and you've ever wondered how restoring Israel

can be relevant to you, you've got to read this book. Patrick shows how as members of the

church it's our mission to truly lead out in bringing wholeness and healing to the

marginalized and the vulnerable. This book absolutely lit a fire for me and it has

totally changed the way I view my own engagement with the church and with the world.

I really can't recommend this book strongly enough.

It's the kind of book you want everyone you know to be reading to so that you can talk about it. So you can pick up a copy for

yourself or for your friends and family at Desert Book, Amazon, Audible, and Apple

Books. Okay that's it on the book for now but we'll be sharing a lot more in the

near future. Thanks as always and here's the episode. Well, my name is Rosalind Welch. I'm here with Linda and Richard Ier.

We're here at the invitation of the Faith Matters Foundation and in particular

their big questions project. The big question that we are here to discuss tonight is, isn't patriarchy a big problem for the

modern church?

I was invited to write a short article that sort of takes up this question, the title of that

piece is Repurposing Patriarchi.

So tonight we'll talk a little bit about that article that I wrote.

I think the intention of this conversation

was to kind of have an intergenerational take

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