Hey everybody, before we get started, I just wanted to let you know that the first book

from Faith Matters Publishing is now available. It's called All Things New and was written

by Fiona and Terrell Gibbons. When I finished the book, I just thought this has so much potential

to actually change lives. They go through and trace the roots of our religious vocabulary

and show how so many of these words have become totally unmoored from their original foundation

and how a lot of those traditions have been carried forward for hundreds and even thousands

of years and are in a lot of ways still damaging us today. And then they dive into how we

can reformulate our language in healthy and inspiring ways. This book is so healing, it's

hopeful, it's a totally paradigm-shifting book that you will not be able to put down.

You can pick up a copy for yourself or for friends and family, it's available at Desert

Book, on Amazon, Audible, and Apple Books. We're so grateful for Terrell and Fiona and

all of the amazing work that they've done here. All right, that's all for the book for

now, but we have a lot more to come. Thanks as always and here's the episode.

Hey everybody, this is Tim Chavez from Faith Matters. In this episode, Terrell

given speaks with Dr. Laura Bridgewater, a molecular biologist at Brigham Young University. In their

conversation, they explored the cutting edge of genetic science and how it can both challenge

and transform our beliefs. One of the most interesting parts of their conversation centered

on how an understanding of evolutionary biology might challenge our beliefs around agency. We'll

let Laura explain in the episode, but rather than being threatened by the scientific reality,

she sees it as an invitation to judge others less harshly. Laura and Terrell also discuss

CRISPR, the Nobel Prize-winning gene-editing technology, and talk about the ethical issues

that arise from it. For instance, CRISPR could insulate us against her editary diseases,

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