Hello, OnScript friends. This is Matt Lynch, a co-host of the OnScript podcast with Matt Bates and Drew Johnson.

I'll be hosting this episode with J. Richard Middleton. And we recorded this in a coffee shop in Cheltenham, where I live in the UK.

It's called Boston Tea Party. So there we were. Two Americans drinking coffee in England in the Boston Tea Party.

Thanks to that fantastic coffee shop for letting us record and apologies to you for some of the background noise.

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So, without further ado, Jay Richard Middleton, here we are.

Hello?

Okay, we're on.

Okay, I'm here at the Boston Tea Party with J. Richard Middleton, who is professor of biblical worldview and exegesis

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