This is thinking in public a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about

frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them.

I'm Albert Moller, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in

Louisville, Kentucky.

Andrew Peterson is well known as a recording artist, a songwriter, producer, filmmaker, publisher, and author.

He's also the founder and the leader of The Rabbit Room,

which has published 30 books and seeks

to foster Christian community through the arts and a community of those who are

Christians committed to the arts.

He's released over 10 albums including Resurrection Letters Volume 1, The Burning Edge of Dawn,

and Counting Stars.

He's known for songs like, Is He Worthy, Dancing in the Minefields, and The Dark Before the Dawn.

He's also the author of the His annual Christmas tour is celebrating its 20th anniversary this season with an all new recording of his album

Behold the Lamb of God which tells the story of scripture culminating in the coming of Christ.

His newest book is Adorning the Dark,

Thoughts on Community, Calling, and The Mystery of Making.

It won the Gospel Coalition's 2019 Book Award

for Arts and Culture.

Andrew and his wife Jamie live in Nashville, Tennessee. They have three children.

Andrew Peterson, welcome to Thinking in Public.

Andrew, most people know you by your music, but behind that music is an entire worldview, a heart, a mind, and it's not all that

often that we get to see the heart, the mind, and the thinking of the artist.

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