This is Life and Books and Everything hosted by Kevin DeYoung, Justin Taylor, and Colin Hanson.

Welcome to this new podcast, and it may be the first of many or maybe the first and the last, but we are here.

I am Kevin DeYoung, and I'm with my good friends and actually good friends, not just I met this person on an email one time and now they're good friends but actually good friends laugh a lot talk a

lot Colin Hansen and Justin Taylor and most people wouldn't know that we actually talk all the time.

I almost said like a group of eighth grade girls, but that would be

offensive to any number of people. But every day texting, emailing, usually, did you see this funny,

if there's a crazy video, it's from Justin, if it's, if it's some sort of macro theory of the way the world works, it's from Colin.

If it's a turritin quote, it's from me.

But we talk often and obviously been talking in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

And we just had a thought, probably a bad bad one but since we're talking so often maybe

we get on the computer and we get to enjoy talking to one another and we record it and maybe

there's something that's helpful to other people that remains to be seen but I have been looking

forward to getting

to talk to the two of you. So thanks for joining me. And I thought, you know, we would start,

we're going to talk about coronavirus and we want to be sensitive to the difficult times that we're in.

And I find that many people are walking this, this tight rope,

especially Colin, you know, there's any sort of media output, Justin Wood too. You know,

on the one hand, people can't get enough coronavirus. They want COVID all the time. Give us your

latest thoughts. And yet, then there's the folks that I'm so tired of this, get me thinking about anything else besides another talk or sermon or podcast on COVID-19.

So we're going to do a little bit of both.

But I thought we'd at least introduce who we are just a little bit.

Colin Hanson, you're the editorial director, director of editorial content,

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