Welcome to the conversationsations, That Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. We're going to talk about a book today.

It's a book review day by Lisa Sharon Harper called The Very Good Gospel.

And this is a listener generated episode meaning. Lisa Sharon Harper called The Very Good Gospel.

And this is a listener generated episode,

meaning someone contacted me last year

and said, John, would you please do this book?

And this is not an extremely popular book in more quote-unquote conservative

evangelical circles and I mostly focus on on those circles but this is an

important book I think to do and I'll give you some reasons for it as we proceed.

This is a book that I think exemplifies where things are going and that's one reason. It is a book I think that

clearly and consistently more than a lot of other books articulates

the synchronization between Christianity

and social justice and so even if you don't read this book or aren't familiar with

Lisa Sharon Harper it is a book that is a good example of where social justice thinking leads and and so

at least I'm gonna introduce you to Lisa Sharon Harper because I think actually she is kind of

Outside of that conservative evangelical circle she does have I think more influence and she probably will have more influence as the years

goes by, go by, as conservative evangelicalism is less and less conservative.

She'll probably have some influence there as well. So we'll talk about all that. I wanted to let you know though about a sponsor for this podcast before we keep going and that is Gold River Tea. You can go to gold river co.com gold river co.com and you can get some really really good tea in fact I know there's some summer flavors that are going to be coming out soon as well, but some of you

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