Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

We thought we would start this first episode of Exploring My Strange Bible with a self-introduction.

So you can know a little bit more about me, Tim McEy and why I'm doing a podcast like this.

And a bit of my story that explains my obsessions.

So real time right now in April 2017, as we're getting things ready for this podcast, I have

too many jobs.

I'm a professor of biblical studies at Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon.

Over the last seven years I served as a pastor in two different local churches.

First, I had a church in Madison, Wisconsin called Blackhawk Church.

And then for five years I had a church here in Portland called Dorv Hope.

And then the other thing was a few years ago I started with a good friend of mine, John Collins.

This thing called the Bible Project.

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