My name is Dan Koch. Like many of you, I've been on a complicated faith journey for a number of years now.

And while I tend to find myself on the progressive side of Christianity, my goal is not to make liberal converts.

I want this show to be a resource for Christians to my right and to my left, as well as

former Christians and non-religious folks, anyone who finds themselves asking difficult questions

about God, science, prayer, fate, suffering, evangelism, and more. So many of us have been given bad answers to those good questions, often by people with

pure intentions.

I want to say that you have permission to take both Christianity and the modern world very

seriously.

And I hope to facilitate that by introducing you to people seeking God across

the Christian spectrum, engaging hard questions in a multitude of ways. Thanks for listening.

Dr. Chris Green, man, I don't remember the first time I heard about you, but a number of people

mentioned you to me and on other podcasts. I know I heard you on the Everyday Theology Podcasts

at one point, but you're just one of those like, you get in this world long enough and names pop up

that people go, oh, you should talk to this guy.

You should talk to this guy. You should talk to this guy. Or I had this professor. She was great.

You know, that kind of a thing. And you were just one of those names for a couple years.

Then we finally met in person at the American Academy of Religion Conference.

Yeah. And we scheduled this chat because we basically have 45 things we could talk about.

That's exactly right.

I'm excited about it.

You know, mainly I want to hear your story.

It's a really interesting story.

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