Welcome to the Eric Metaxis show with your host, Eric Metaxus.

Hey there, folks.

Welcome to the Eric Metaxis show.

I don't know about you, but I'm very excited about my guest. Margarita Mooney. Welcome back to the Arkmataksa show. I don't know about you, but I'm very excited about my guest.

Margarita Mooney, welcome back to the Eric Metaxis show.

Thank you, Eric.

Great to be here.

Now, you know, our previous conversations were on YouTube, but YouTube has rightly identified

me as trouble, and so they knocked them off.

So you should post them, you know,

wherever you can post them, because I want people whenever they hear a guest or see a guest,

they go, that's really great. I wonder if Eric has ever talked to them before, because I want to

hear everything they did. And we've had some wonderful conversations before. So I know you'll do

that, but we're here to talk about your brand new book.

It is called The Love of Learning Seven Dialogues on the Liberal Arts.

Now, before I give you a chance to talk, Margarita Mooney, I want to tell people why you're qualified to write a book called The love of Learning,

Seven Dialogues on the Liberal Arts.

You're an associate professor of practical theology at Princeton

Theological Seminary. You graduated from Yale University some years after I did. And right now,

you are the founder and you're heading up the Scala Foundation, scalaFoundation.org. Okay, those are enough credentials.

Tell us about this book. What made you want to write a book with the title of Love of Learning?

Eric, I'm so pleased to be here, and I'm excited to share with your listeners this book. That is

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