Hello there and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast.

My name is Caleb, and today I am joined by John Hoyam and Philip Bartelt.

We are continuing on in the Book of Concord series that the Thinking Fellows has been doing since late December.

Go figure it took us two months to do the small catechism, so I can only

wonder how long it's going to take to do the large catechism, which is what we're going to begin

today. My father and Rod are not here. My dad is out of town for a couple days, and I needed to get

some recording done, but the next episodes, my dad and I will be traveling down the mountain and visiting with Rod, and we will get some episodes out of the way with him.

And then we'll have a couple more recording opportunities this month as well.

And so there should be some consistency with that.

Phil and John are both junior fellows in the 1517 thinking fellowship.

If you go to 1517.org, you can go and see the contributors tab there on the website.

And from there, you can see that there's a couple different lists there.

We have senior fellows, fellows, junior fellows, and in those lists, there's

sort of a distinction.

And I think it's fun to go click

through there. You can see the list

for yourself, but the senior fellows are people who

have inspired the

contributors at 1517 over

the years who many of the contributors

staff and other fellows have studied with over the years who many of the contributors, staff, and other fellows have studied with

over the years, been students of. And so we sort of bow our hat or tip our hat to them as people

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