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I'm Pete Ends and I'm Jared Byeth. Hey folks before we get started I am so excited because I have

an announcement. Here's the announcement. I'm going to be offering a one evening only class coming

up soon. Details to follow called the error of an errancy. And you know what folks? Just for the

title alone I think you should sign up. That's so clever. Wouldn't you say that's clever? I think

it's really clever. Anyway here's what the class is about. It's divided into three parts. The first

part is okay well what is an errancy and where does it come from and you know why does it have

such appeal? The second part is okay yeah but it doesn't really work. What are the problems with

an errancy? Why does it actually cause more problems than it solves? And the third part is okay

listen. With that in mind what is life like after an errancy for people who want to take the

Bible seriously as of spiritual value. So that's the class. It is on July 21st. 8 to 9 30 pm

Eastern time and folks the best part is actually the best parts of course itself but the second

best part is that it is pay what you can. Full information the Bible for normal people.com

forward slash summer school. Hey everybody welcome to this episode our topic today is Christian

Ethics and the memory of Jesus and our guest is David Gushy. David is the distinguished

university professor of Christian ethics at Merchard University and chair of Christian

social ethics at free university in Amsterdam that is a mouthful. That's a lot to me.

And he has a new book called Introducing Christian Ethics and yeah I thought it was really good

because one of the things that all of this conversation we've been having about the Bible over

the last five years I think a lot of questions I get are around well then how do we ground our

ethical ideas. How do we know what's right and wrong? How do we behave now in the world if the

Bible is not this rule book that gives us infallible rules to follow. Right and I've heard that

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