Welcome to a special edition of Clarically speaking. I'm Father Harrison on my own, as you may have heard last week, Father Anthony, went behind my back and got the guys from the Crunch

podcast to come on without bringing me on.

So in order to pay him back, I brought on some people who I wanted to bring on, who I was

like, I was very excited when this opportunity jumped towards me from St. Bert's School of

Theology.

So we have today with us, Matthew Cuner, Lisa Lekona, and Daniel Drain from the school to talk

about their conference on community.

And we're going to talk about community stuff in general.

Theology and holiness, technology, a little bit of everything.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

So I have to pay Father Anthony back for this.

So welcome all three of you to clerically speaking.

Thank you. Thank you so much, Father. Great to be here.

So why don't we just start off maybe with just a brief intro from each of you, like who you are,

what you do, what your interests are in theology, et cetera. Yeah, we'll start with you, Matthew.

Sure, sure.

So Dr. Matthew Cooner here,

Vice President and Academic Dean at St. Bernards,

and then also Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology.

I studied philosophy and theology at DeSales University for my undergrad.

Then, I graduated from the MTS program at the John Baltu Institute for

Studies in Marriage and the Family in 2013, and then went on to study systematic theology

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