Welcome to Think Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture,

podcast from Talbot School Theology at Biola University.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics.

We're here with a special guest,

Dr Tim Yoder, who is an associate professor

of theological studies at Dallas Theological Seminary,

my own seminary alma mater,

so it's nice to be back among kindred spirits, although we consider Talbot to be as close to kindred spirit to Dallas as they're in.

But he, Tim, Tim has taught in various places.

It's been most of his academic life at Cairn University

on the East Coast.

In Philadelphia.

Was that on the mission field in Russia and in the Ukraine and in France has taught at Marquette University

where he earned his PhD in philosophy and for the last four years has been on the

faculty at Dallas Seminary.

He's got a fascinating topic that I think our listeners are going to be very

interested in called Action Apologetics.

So let's dive in here.

There's a lot to unpack here. So you are trained as a philosopher.

I am. You're teaching in theological studies, but you've taught, I mean you're as close to a Renaissance man in terms of what you're teaching. How did you get

interested in apologetics and particularly this type of apologetics that

you are proposing here? Great question. Yeah, to me apologetics was always kind of a natural

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