Axis Mundi You're going to. Hello and as always I want to say welcome to everyone listening to it's in the code a series that is part of the podcast Straightwide American Jesus.

I am your host Dan Miller, a professor of religion and social Thought at Landmark College,

delighted as always to be with you,

and especially sort of excited or fired up

or something about today's topic.

And really, it's gonna be the first of a few episodes on this special

shout out excuse me to a listener and you know who you are if you're listening here

who sent me an image this week,

and I'm gonna see if we can include this image

with the episode, but it was an image

that apparently came from like an insert in a church bulletin.

And the listener said, you know, in the email that you could do a whole episode

decoding this. He was wrong. I'm going to need a few episodes to decode this. When I first looked at it,

like, oh yeah, I can do an episode on that.

And I started thinking about it, kind of drawing up my notes. I was like, oh, well, yeah, a couple episodes and then

I kept drawing up my notes and you sit down to start recording and you're like, you know what what this is going to be way too long.

So I don't know exactly how long it's it's going to be. It's going to take a few episodes

but that's what we're going to look at. So it's an image in case folks don't get to see it

of what appears to be a card that would be given out by a church.

For those of a certain age who know what baseball cards are,

it's about the size of a baseball card.

Looks to be a little bit bigger than like a business card. And it's the kind of

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