Hello and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. My name is Caleb Keith, and today I am joined by Adam Francisco and Bruce Hillman.

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All right, guys, we're doing these great books, I guess, great books and to their authors sort of theme of the Christian church.

And we're trying to include ones that maybe people haven't read or been exposed to before

or maybe a very slim

portion of our audience has has done before and today is uh adam's week we've done two episodes

leading up to this so adam what are we in for this week well it's not the gospel of thomas

like i early proposed.

Yeah, thank you.

I read it this week.

That was a waste of time.

I know.

Ultimately, I decided to move away from that because I was afraid what Bruce would say.

I didn't want to give you too much editorial work, Jim.

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