Hey, welcome. Happy Rand.

Hey, welcome to the Happy Rand podcast.

I am Ted Cluck, joined as always in studio by our full compliment of hosts, Barnabas Piper and

Ronald J Martin.

Boys, it's been a couple of episodes since we've had the whole group back together and

I gotta tell you, fellas, we have some breaking news.

I may have to throw it over to the breaking news studio desk and shuffle

some papers and cue us up to do this. Do you think we have time for that, boys?

I think it's necessary. I think it is too. So let me throw it over to that desk and here we are with some

breaking news let's play the jingle

d'n-dun-dun-dun-dant-dant-dant-dit-dah.

Okay, here it is, boys, fresh off the wire.

Barnabas Piper, our very own Barnabas Piper

is becoming a man of the cloth.

So this is the lead.

I've got to dig a little bit deeper into the news release here, but Piper is leaving his post at

Lifeway. So after working in Christian publishing for how many years, Pipe?

Basically since 2005, there was one 18 month stretch where I worked a different job for a little

while, but so what 14 years

14 and a half that's a long run that's a really really long run in Christian

publishing I think that constitutes a career which sounds funny I don't feel old

enough to have had a career yet.

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