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The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler.

And I'm Woe. Today we're recording episode 27 of Stone Quire. We realized last week that we had hit the 26th week mark, which if you're a math PhD, we realize that means we've been doing this for half a year at this point.

We didn't miss a couple weeks when my fancy new microphone died on me early on.

So it's slightly past the six months mark.

But since we're right at about a half a year into this, we thought that we'd take a pause for one week

and do kind of an illicit appreciation episode.

So we're going to spend some time today on the reader, listener mailbag, going through

some emails and some messages we've received, talk about some of the feedback that we've

gotten, and towards the end, we'll talk a little bit about some of the listener stats and

just kind of give you an idea about what's going on behind the scenes and how you can

help spread the word. So again, we're just going to start right in with some of the questions.

These, you know, he's been pying up for six months, so some of these are a little older.

To everyone who sent feedback, you know, DMs, emails, whatever, we do really appreciate it,

all the kind notes we've gotten. We're not going to read those,

obviously, but we get regular messages from people all over the world from probably about half

Lutherans, half non-Lutherans, all very supportive and encouraging. And we truly appreciate that.

Corey and I have been under a lot of stress from having tackled these issues.

Our own church despises the fact that we are speaking publicly about these things,

and we've been punished for it.

We've been censored for it.

And so having people say, you know why, you're doing good work, please keep it up means a lot,

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