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Carson Holloway is known to first things readers.

He's a regular contributor.

He's a professor of political science at University of Nebraska in Omaha.

He has co-edited a volume of essays entitled to Film and Faith, Modern Cinema and the Struggle

to Believe. That's our topic today.

Welcome, Carson. First, we're on a first name basis. We've known us for a few years now.

Tell us who your co-editor is. My co-editor on the book is Michael Watson, who's a professor

of political science at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Okay. We want to just give him credit for the work he did on the volume.

Definitely, yeah. He's a co-editor and he wrote one of the chapters as well.

Right. And you co-edited the, you co-wrote the introduction?

We did co-write the introduction.

Right, right.

Let's get to the introduction.

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