This is Father Bonamenture and this is not another father because I'm here by myself but not entirely which I'll get to. Welcome to God's Blaining. Thanks for all those who support us.

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podcasts. As I said, I'm the only Dominican on this show at least the only first-order

Dominican perhaps, but there is another man who's on this show with me as well. This is a guest

explaining episode and I'm delighted to have Dr. Mark Regneris who is

joining us from the University of Texas at Austin.

Professor Regneris, welcome.

Thank you, Father.

Good to be with you.

Great.

Let's give a little bio for those everyone should know you, but in case there are at least one or two listeners who do not know you.

Professor Regneris is Professor Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research is in areas of

sexual behavior, family, marriage, and religion. These are exciting topics to him and

listening to this show.

Professor Regneris is the author of over 40 published articles and book chapters and four books.

The last two and the ones we'll be talking about today, getting into a little bit.

Most recently is the future of Christian Marriage in Oxford University Press,

20. There it is. Probably it's backwards, but you get the picture.

And then the before that, cheap sex transformation of men marriage and monogamy again backwards I think but we'll say

But beautiful books on on the issues of marriage, sexuality, the family.

He's also published to research widely, including outlets as New Yorker,

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