The issues it said are a book of the month for December

uses detailed illustrations and rhyming text to tell the story of Jesus' birth.

It's titled N is for Nativity.

This new hardcover children's book is published by Concordia Publishing House, their phone number 1-800-325 3040,

or learn more about N-is-forativity at issues ETC.org.

Use the ABCs from Advent to Zion to teach your children and grandchildren the Christmas story

with N is for Nativity. Many of us grew up in elementary school, junior high school, high school, even college, kind of

dreading math class.

Not all that interested in it, somewhat intimidated by it and we walked away saying

well I don't really like math but we all use it every single day even in its

simplest forms and the fact is it is a necessary part of our task of carrying out God's command

to subdue the earth and have dominion over creation.

Welcome back to issues etc.

I'm Todd Wilkin.

It's time to talk Lutheranism and mathematics.

Joining us, Dr. James Gill.

He's associate professor of mathematics at St. Louis University

and author of a recent column for

Advantis titled Lutheranism in Mathematics. Dr. Gill welcome. Thank you Todd.

What is mathematics? That obviously can get pretty deep.

I think the way most people think about mathematics is what we learn about counting, adding,

multiplication, things like geometry that we learn in high school.

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