Hello friends welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw I have on the show today my friend from a distance

Brandon Smith me and Brandon have known each other for a few years. Most of our relationship has been through social media,

but we've gotten a chance to hang out a few times in person.

And Brandon is just a brother from another mother.

He is doing a PhD under Michael Bird at Ridley College in Australia and

he's just a really good thinker he swims in southern Baptist circles

Well I almost said but I'm gonna say and he is a is a very he's a free thinker and he likes to think outside the box and we have

dialogue on a number of issues and and just really resonant I resonate so much with

his tone his thoughtfulness, his posture, and I've really been looking forward

to this conversation for a while now.

Now what me and Brandon decided to do, he's launching his own podcast.

It's coming out like right around the time when you're listening to this.

And it's called, I believe, gosh, I keep forgetting the name,

theology grammar, something like that.

And it's a podcast that's going to be very similar to theology

in the raw and the types of people they interview,

the types of conversations they engage in.

So Brandon asked me to be on his podcast, and I said, hey, why don't we do a joint

podcast? So what you're going to listen to is a joint podcast between theology and

Ra, my podcast and his podcast theology, I think it's theology grammar, he's gonna kill me if I didn't actually

get this right because as you'll hear in our actual interview, I kept stumbling upon, I kept

forgetting the name of his podcast. Anyway, brand you're awesome and you're going to enjoy this conversation we talk about

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