Hello and welcome to a very special episode of Faith Adjacent. I'm your host and resident

Bible scholar Aaron Moon. And joining me today, it's Evan Dodson. Today, we're dusting off our iambic

contaminers and holding on to our rhyming couplets because the official poet laureate of the

pod, the venerable David Gate, is joining us to talk about the spiritual resistance of poetry.

David's also going to try and teach Evan and I to write poetry. And we do force him to play maybe a slightly

heretical game of Madlibs with the Psalms. And good news, everyone, this is an accent episode.

So congratulations to all of our pro non-American accent appreciators. David, we're so glad

you're here. Thank you. So excited about this. Okay, but before we get started, so I have a question for you, are you looking to spruce up your wardrobe, or maybe your podcast app has run dry and you're out of things to listen to? Well, let me direct you to the Faith Adjacent shop. We're like the Cracker Barrel store because we have everything you could possibly need in all the things you didn't even

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I think the Bible is pretty awesome, right? There's some fantastic stories in there. There are

plenty of weird ones, too, lots of really cool characters as well as plenty of rough ones.

You know, there's a full spectrum, and that is one of the things that keeps

it exciting. I bet you're sitting there wishing there was a podcast out there that unpacked

these stories in a way that is the perfect cocktail of deep care for the material, boundless humor,

a dash of side eye, and a heap of scholarly wisdom. Well, I'm here to tell you

that we have these episodes. We call them our classics, and they're what got us started here at

Faith Adjacent. Knox and Jamie deep dive the stories, and then Aaron comes in and provides her

trademark, gentle rebukes.

Now, we have archived all these episodes from our free feed,

but they are available on the doctoral tier of the faith adjacent seminary on Patreon, ad-free.

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