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Hello and welcome to it's in the code a series on the podcast straight

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

thought of landmark college. I am your host. I want to begin as always by

thinking those of you who listen, those of you who support us in so many

different ways. We are an indie program can't do it without you. We have no

external funding, no institutional support. So thank you all all the patrons,

people who support us just by listening to the ads, people who reach out and

talk to us and on that regard with specific reference to this series, always

want to hear from people, Daniel Miller, swadge at gmail.com, Daniel Miller,

swadge, swadge at waj at gmail.com, love to hear the ideas, the feedback, the

comments, anything you want to share with me, love to hear it, spent a good chunk

of my day yesterday trying to get caught up on some emails, didn't get caught up

on all of them, but got caught up on a lot of them, which means that I spent a

lot of the day just reading, reading things from all of you and it meant so much.

Some great topic ideas, reminders of things, some really encouraging words,

some points of criticism and disagreement, which I also welcome. So Daniel Miller,

swadge, Daniel Miller, SW, AJ at gmail.com, keep the ideas coming. We'll keep

the series going as long as the ideas are there. Jumping in from that, a topic

today that was sort of, I've had it on my list, I've heard about it, but as I say,

yesterday, I not only got caught up on some emails, but went back through some emails

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