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or by phone at 1-800 to Reason. Reason. Well, the show is Dan to Reason, and I'm sitting here with you,

standing in for Greg Kockel.

He's usually here with you every week at this time.

I'm Jay Warner Wallace, and Greg is actually probably fishing right now

in the great state of Wisconsin and I am just

delighted to be able to sit in his seat and try to guide you through the most important

critical issues that Greg talks about all the time.

We'll try ethics, values, religion.

Again, we're going to try to do some basic training for your mind and I like that expression I always have and we'll

talk a little bit more about that in a minute. But before we get to some questions,

hopefully we're going to get to some questions today

from you.

I'd like to take a second to jump into,

there's a new book out that has really started me thinking a little bit.

Rod Dreier, who is the senior editor at the American Conservative, he wrote a book called

The Benedict Option. And it's really... the this book is called A Strategy for Christians in a Post Christian Nation.

And I think that all of us kind of wrestle

with some of the issues that he talks about in this book.

Look, this book has been incredibly successful already.

It only came out in March.

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