Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.

I'm your host Sean McDowell, Professor of Apologetics at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University.

I'm your co-host, Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty, and Professor of Christian Ethics, also at

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. Today we're here with a guest that we have been looking forward to having on for some time.

Probably most of our listeners, if not all of our listeners will recognize the name Nancy

Piercey she's a speaker a prolific writer of a number of books such as

total truth saving Leonardo and her most recent book that we want to discuss today love thy body.

Nancy, thanks so much for coming on.

Thanks for having me, Sean.

For listeners who may be unaware and I suspect there's going to be very few. Tell us a little bit about

your background, how you came to faith and your training and just your passion for

worldview education in the church.

Right, the reason I do have such a passion for worldview education and apologetics is because it was such a huge part of my own conversion.

I was raised in a Christian home but I walked away very intentionally

about halfway through high school and the reason I walked away was not because I wanted

to party more. I often get people thinking that. But because I just

was asking how do we know that Christianity is true. I was going to a public high school, all

my professors were secular school all my professors with secular all my textbooks

with secular

uh... i had all what i've had no christian friends

and i thought how do we know

that christianity is true that's it and unfortunately apologetics

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