Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show.

Due to budget issues, Eric's been replaced by a cranky secondhand robot named Dr. Nuts and Boltz.

He assume you won't mind, but if sparks shoot out your radio, you'll know why.

So stand back.

And now here's Eric 2.0.

Hey, folks, it's the Archimaxis show.

Welcome.

There's no charge for you to stay here.

If you're listening on radio, it's free.

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Our goal is to, you know, bring you fascinating people,

and I always succeed. For example, in this hour, I'm talking to Jim Denison. Jim Denison,

how in the world do I describe you? You're the founder of the Denison Forum. Is that a coincidence?

That's a coincidence. Yeah, that's why we used the name because it just kind of seemed to kind of go with mine. Didn't have to change the spellings, didn't have to change the luggage tags. That's why we named this show, the Eric Mataxis show. I thought, what a coincidence. I'm Eric Mattaxas. The name is not being used. So the denizen, tell folks, I mean, I think of you as a pastor, you're the author of many books, but the Denison Forum, what is that?

Well, we wonder that too.

You know, it's an ongoing question, isn't it?

So started 11 years ago, the basic point is to speak biblical truth to cultural issues.

So I do that in a whole variety of ways.

I write a daily article. We send about 220,000 subscribers, do a lot of social stuff. It goes to about

1.7 million people a month and so forth, write a lot of books, do interviews like this. But the

basic point behind what we're trying to do is to help people think biblically about cultural issues

so they can use their influence to

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