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The Scriptures Are Real

Lori Denning on Luke and Matthew 1 and real families (week of Jan. 2, only one to listen to)

The Scriptures Are Real

Kerry Muhlestein

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Courses

4.8540 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Lori and Kerry discuss what we can learn from the reality of life for Elizabeth and Mary. They talk about the power that can come from looking at their stories.

We are grateful for our sponsor, Lisa Spice, and for Alexia Muhlestein, who edited the episode, and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Scriptures and Real Podcast.

0:11.0

This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have helped them become more real to us because we think that helps us draw more power out of the scriptures and we need that power.

0:19.8

I'm your host, Kerry Mealstein, and I'm so excited for our guest today. We have with us Lori Denny, who is a twin sister to

0:26.9

Lisa, our sponsor. And Lori is, I've just learned as a VP of operations for a company, but also

0:34.6

is working on a PhD at Claremont.

0:38.9

Claremont Graduate School in California, a place I've been a number of times.

0:42.4

It's a great school.

0:43.8

And she has been working quite a bit on some elements of the New Testament.

0:48.2

And that PhD, I think you told me you were just finishing a final on the Gospel of Philip,

0:52.5

which is not a gospel that our audience would

0:55.0

be familiar with, but a New Testament study piece nonetheless. So welcome, Lori, and please tell us

1:01.6

about yourself. Yeah, hey, thanks, Carrie. I'm super excited to be here. I, you guys, I'm a super big fan,

1:07.2

so this is like, I'm kind of geeking out because Carrie is one of my all-time heroes of ancient

1:12.6

scripture. So I'm like, oh, this is so exciting. So yeah. But yeah, so I am a twin. I'm an identical

1:19.9

twin, but I grew up in San Diego. I live in the Salt Lake area now. And I do work in operations day

1:25.8

to day doing some adjuncting at the BYU. And then also,

1:31.3

I am doing graduates going back to school. I did a master's in theology at Gonzaga. And then I'm

1:37.6

about halfway through my coursework at Claremont doing basically what we call Hebrew Bible, so Old

1:41.9

Testament. And you get a lot of Christian

1:45.5

scripture or New Testament in there too, as those are the non-LDS terms for those. And then,

1:51.4

yeah, and so that's what I do because I love it. And it's my exciting. And I just did a book.

1:56.9

I did a book on the Old Testament for just very, you know, fun kind of way to look at the books. And then the New Testament's coming out in January, 2023. So just right around now on the New Testament. So we just went through this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you have a book coming out just within weeks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's like two weeks from now. I don't have the final date.

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