Bible is clear that followers of Jesus are exiles in this world but what exactly

does that mean and what does that mean for the way we review our political views

and affiliations how was going to church in the first century a politically

subversive act? How was the cross the political image in the Roman world?

We answer these questions more with our guest and friend Dr. Preston Sprinkle

around his new book, Exiles, The Church in the Shadow of Empire.

I'm your host Scott Ray.

And I'm your co-host, Sean Macau.

This is Think Biblically from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.

Preston, welcome, great to have you back with us,

and congratulations on this new book coming out.

Thanks, guys.

Yeah, it's good to be back with you.

Now, this is a departure from what you've written on in the past. I mean you I think you are best

known for the writing you've done on sexuality and gender things like that. This is a

change of direction. Why so? Yeah that's a great question. I was I know I'm going to be getting that question a lot and I guess I would say

You know prior well, I yeah, I would say for the last eight years. I've been writing and thinking and speaking primarily on questions around sexuality and gender but you know before that I was you know I was interested in many different other topics too

especially during my days of you a PhD and then teaching in a couple different Christian colleges and just covering lots of different topics

and wrestling through lots of issues. So I do have a rather broad palette.

It just got very limited the last several years,

you know, because of the needs of the church, I think.

But so yeah, this book represents, I guess, partly my excitement

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