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Hello, and welcome to the series. It's in the code part of the podcast,

Stray White American Jesus. My name is Dan Miller, professor of religion and social

thought of landmark college, delighted as always to view with all of you who are

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particular keeps chugging along based on your feedback and great emails from

people in the last couple weeks and really value those trying to respond to

the ones as many as I can. But great insights, great feedback, great comments,

great ideas for upcoming episodes. So thank you all for that.

Picking up on that is another topic today that I wanted to talk about.

The number of people have reached out about the way when they are told by

somebody, maybe it's a pastor, maybe it's somebody else in their life,

maybe it's something they remember hearing. Or occasionally, again, it's the kind of

thing that they've heard from somebody who maybe is from a sort of religious

context and they aren't and it doesn't make any sense. But when somebody tells

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