Welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. I'm producer Caleb, and I'm here with our host, Dr. Rod Rosblot, Dr. Scott Keith, and Dr. Adam Francisco.

Today we're recording an anniversary episode. The Thinking Fellows has been at it an amazing one year. It's hard to believe how far we've come from when we started. I think our first show started with like 500

downloads in a month. And last month, we ended with like 24,000 downloads. So that's growth. That's

growth. It's been a big change. It's, it's thanks to a lot of listeners at home. And these guys

are on the table who have showed up to record so that we've had an episode every week. It's thanks to a lot of listeners at home, and these guys are on the table who have showed up to

record so that we've had an episode every week.

It's been a stretch sometimes.

It's been a couple close calls, sometimes my fault for sure.

But we've made it through, and it's exciting to be here.

So I had the idea a couple weeks ago that we would open these episodes up to listener questions.

So we get a lot of questions week to week that I usually forward to the fellows

for you guys to answer as you can with your time in email or something like that.

A lot of it's usually people looking for books or another resource to help them where

the podcast sparked an idea or made them ask maybe a deeper question than we addressed on the show.

But today we're going to try to address some of those directly.

And I thought that would be kind of a fun way to kick off our next year of podcasting.

We're in between series right now. So if you're listening right now, we just came off of our

apologetic series. We might have a couple more episodes wrapping up some stuff outside of

apologetic method and more about addressing particular denominations or groups outside of Christianity,

religions and things like that. So hold on. We're still going to have some apologetic material.

And if things come up during the rest of the year, we'll dive back into it. But for now,

that series is coming to a bookend. And we're going to head into a sort of a Heroes of the Christian Faith,

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