Welcome to the podcast Think Bivocally, Conversations on Faith and Culture.

I'm your host Sean McDowell, Professor of Apologetics at Talbot School of Theology

Biola University.

And I'm your co-host, Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics,

also at Talbot School Theology at Biola University.

Today we have a guest who has been on our program more than any other guest and frankly if it was up to us

We'd have you every other week Os Guinness because you're so thoughtful and just so gracious with your time.

So thanks for coming back on the show.

Well, it's a great privilege.

You too are great fun as well as stimulating.

Well, we've had you on to talk about your book, Fool's Talk,

and Last Call for Liberty.

But today we want to talk about your latest book,

Carpe diem Redeemed.

And I'm curious for a place to start,

since it's a book about time why write this book now is it a

factor of where you are personally professionally where we are culturally or

both well a couple of things in the bank of my mind when I started to write it the

immediate trigger was I was home in Oxford and read a book by a popular

Australian philosopher on Carpe diem and he was an atheist and I

thought my goodness it was fun reading but terribly limited and never discussed

either the Eastern view of time which has been so powerful in history or

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