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.

Stephen Bradford Long, thank you so much for joining me here for one of these I don't believe in

that God episodes. It's such a pleasure. Thank you for your hospitality. I'm going to be doing

more of these listeners. I've done a handful of them in the past and kind of trying to get back

into them. But if you haven't heard one, basically

there are episodes I do with people to my right, and I usually call those worries about

progressive Christianity, worries about deconstruction, stuff like that. And then I also like to do

conversations with people like to my, what I would call theological left, essentially

like beyond Christianity or beyond theism, generally atheists, or something like that.

And those I call, I don't believe in that God.

And towards the end, I love to kind of compare notes and see what we both don't believe in or what we might

both believe in.

There are always differences, of course, because I'm not an atheist or in this case,

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