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Hello friends, I'm Catholic speaker and author Deacon Harold Burke Syvers

and I'm invited you to check out breaking the bread a biblical devotional for Catholics at St. Paul's Center. I'm Scott Hahn. I'm the host of The Road to Amaeus, a

podcast where we take a look at Sacred Scripture. Today I am delighted to have as my special guest Ryan Bud, the author of Salvation

Stories, Family Failure, and God-S saving work in scripture.

Welcome, Ryan.

Thank you very much.

You've been a part of the St. Paul Center now

for the last couple of years, helping out

in a wide variety of ways.

I think this will prove to be your single greatest

contribution not only to the center here and to a Mayas Road. We are privileged

and grateful to have been a publisher, but for many, many people, I want to just keep this introduction

relatively brief.

I mean, you've gone to law school.

You also have gone to seminary.

You have your master of divinity. You also have gone to seminary, you have your master of divinity, you also explored the possibility of a priestly vocation.

At this point that's sort of disengaged, but you're continuing to do research and writing and editing for us and I suspect other people.

But I want to just state from the outset that this book is unlike any other and in the best possible way because you know first of all let's frame

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