Hello and welcome to the scriptures a real podcast.

This is the podcast where we talk about things in the scriptures that have become real to us

because we believe that helps us draw more power out of them and we need all the power we can get.

I'm your host, Kerry Mealstein, and I'm so excited to have with me a returning guest, my friend Lori Denning. Welcome, Lori. Hi. Hi, Carrie. I feel welcome. Thank you. It's good to be back. Good to have you. Lori was with us. I think it was like Luke 2 or Mark. Yeah, exactly. on a camera anyway at the beginning. And Lori is working on a degree at Claremont in, well, all sorts of things, but in particular, some New Testament scripture studies. And I'll let her explain that and other things about you. What else should we know about you? Okay. Well, thanks, Carrie. Everybody. Yeah, I'm back. I am finishing my PhD. I'm in my second year of coursework. I'm at Claremont,

which has a great program in religion. I focus on ancient scripture, which they have a fancy

name, critical comparative scripture. So I do ancient scripture. So we, that's, you know,

New Testament and Old Testament. And yeah, so I get to study right now. I'm doing a bunch in the Old Testament right now today and a little bit in second and fourth century Christianity. So, so yeah, like nerd. It's like a nerd haven for people to talk about that stuff all day.

We'll tell Claremont, that's what they should change the name of their program to, nerd haven for people to talk about that stuff all day. We'll tell Claire that's what they should

change the name of their program to. Nerd Haven is what they should call it. That's exactly right.

They'll be happy to hear it. Yeah. Yeah. It's a blessing to sit and be able to really delve into the

scriptures with a group of scholars and read them together and just ask questions about them and kind of tear them

apart and see what you can learn. And so there's some pretty smart people down there. So I was just

not a lot. That sounds great. But yeah, I have loved it. Actually, I've loved it. So it's a blessing.

I'm glad. Fantastic stuff. Just good fun. Yeah, who doesn't love reading in the original text or whatever. But yeah, we read some obscure texts as well, some of the Gnostic texts and stuff. Yeah. So it's been, it's been great. I think what's really a benefit is kind of, I think, the idea of taking something from a

different perspective and looking at it from a fresh perspective again. I mean, we've all grown up

with the scriptures for a long time, typically, so we've heard some of the same things. So just to look at it

from a new new perspective, new vision, new idea, certainly application is fun. So so it's a it's a blessing that you

get to spend your time doing that so yeah i'm i'm no kerry mulestein though carry i i

told you last time you're one of my world does not need any more carry mulessteins that's

that's that's that's trouble no no no we need no, no. We need some Lori Dennings and some

We do. We need we need a lot of me. Yeah, that's right. I'm a lot of me now. So thanks. No, it was great. So we did. It was a few months ago and we talked about the beginning of the gospel. So we're back in kind of Luke today. I guess I'm the

Luke person somehow. I've become the Lucan scholar. There you go. And I think you're going to take us

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