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Hello and welcome to the thinking fellows podcast. My name is Caleb Keith. And today I am joined by

out of Francisco, Bruce Hillman, and Scott Keith to talk about our little series that we created out of thin air about a Lutheran identity crisis.

And we've been going through various descriptors that can be ascribed to Lutherans that have either been historically part of the name or the description

or are maybe added now.

And we've been covering what does that mean for Lutherans and their identity as Christians

today and how that we describe ourselves to other Christians,

and I think particularly to non-Lutherans and how we're perceived. And today's going to be the last one, which is our Lutherans

Catholic. There's a couple ways to think about this. So I think I'll just let you guys do your own,

head your own bets on this or

descriptions as we go around and i think i've skipped you every every week so i'll let my dad go first

on this one i think i've let him go second or third every time but i think on the one he probably

likes the least i'm going to let him go first and then we'll uh

well thank you we'll let the corrections and come after that um so just for the listener's sake

most of them probably know this but when we used the word the term catholic this can have kind

of two meanings and people usually identify it by seeing like a small C Catholic or a large C Catholic.

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