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Hey, everyone. Welcome to the OnScript podcast.

This is Matt Lynch coming to you from Regent College in Vancouver.

I'm really excited about this episode.

It's a little bit different than our normal episodes since it's focused on criminal justice

system in the United States.

So, but before you tune out, I have a listen to this.

I think you'll find it fascinating.

Matt Martins is just a real thoughtful writer and thinker and has a lot of experience on the ground in that world

and brings biblical categories and concepts to bear on questions related to criminal justice today. So

hope you enjoy it. And thanks so much for listening. And for those of you support the podcasts or

giving or sharing the word or just, you know, being who you are. We appreciate that. So enjoy.

So Matt, thanks so much for taking the time to speak with OnScript.

Well, thanks for having me on. So this is a slightly unusual episode for us, since we normally feature works that focus

exclusively on biblical studies and theology, but since this book engages so deeply with scripture and theology

in a topic that's of great concern to a lot of our listeners, I thought it would be a really good

fit. So I'd love to hear a bit more about you and your legal background. What is it that you do

as a lawyer and how does your study of scripture and theology shape your law practice?

Well, I do a number of different things as a lawyer. The bulk of my career, as I think you mentioned, is bad in criminal law in one way or the other, either as a prosecutor for nine years, a criminal defense lawyer

for a little longer than that. But it's not criminal law isn't the only thing I do. I worked at

the Securities and Exchange Commission for a few years. And so a lot of my private practice work

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