Good morning, Tim. It's so great to be with you. On behalf of Gospel and Life, I'm Susan

Nacorda Stang and I have the opportunity to speak this morning with Dr. Timothy Keller

about his next book, Hope in a Time of Fear. Thanks, Tim.

I'm so glad to be with you. I'm glad you're we're talking Susan.

So Tim, I know that every year you've been publishing different types of books and this

book, Hope in a Time of Fear, just seems so needed and perfect for all that the world is going through.

Can you start off by just telling us some of the journey behind how you thought of this

book, the writing of it? We'd love to hear about that.

Yeah, it's turning out that this book is very much aukaran, very much of the moment, but

it didn't start that way. When I started writing it, I had a contract for it two, three

years ago, as I was supposed to be writing a book on the resurrection of Jesus, that would

be a kind of companion book to my book, Hidden Christmas. So you had a short book of meditations

on the meaning of the birth of Christ and Christmas, then there would be a short book

of meditations on the meaning of Easter and the resurrection, right? So it was almost

more of a book in and a topical thing. And then the pandemic hit. And I started writing

the book as we were just starting to shut down. In fact, the shutdown gave me a lot of

time to write. In the beginning, everything was disrupted if you remember. And everybody

was at home. And I have an empty, unlike you, I have an empty nest. So I actually was

able to get started on the book. And immediately the pandemic and the feelings of hopelessness

people had and the panic immediately affected the way I was writing this book. And it became

a longer book. This is definitely at least twice the size of Hidden Christmas, which was

a pretty short little one, because I had to start to take the resurrection and apply it

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