Hey guys, welcome to the Scripture Study Project, a special bonus midweek episode.

We're here with Ashley Lanery, who has been a friend of ours for a long time,

she teaches seminary and is just finishing

her master's in religious study at NYU.

Ashley, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much.

I'm happy to be here.

I think we wanted to have you on the podcast since we were recording Book of Mormon episodes.

We thought we need to find a way to get Ashley on.

I've been in your class multiple times. You're an awesome teacher and you've been doing this study,

this religious history study that is just fascinating to me and I think really timely and

important for the kind of cultural discussion we're having today in the church.

And so we've been really excited to have you for a while and are glad that it finally worked out.

So thanks for recording with us late at night.

Those that are listening don't know, but we've been through a couple of iterations at the beginning of this episode,

just trying to get technical difficulties working.

So you're being very patient with us. So thank you very much.

No problem.

If we can, Ashley, if you just give us kind of an overview of your research background,

where you're at and what you're looking into and why you're looking into it,

what your kind of story is. And then we'll dive more into it as we get into the episode. But

tell us kind of your story and your research. Sure. So it kind of started for me about four years ago. I, it was kind of in the time of the

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