My name is Dan Koch. Like many of you, I've been on a complicated faith journey for a number of years now.

And while I tend to find myself on the progressive side of Christianity, my goal is not to make liberal converts.

I want this show to be a resource for Christians to my right and to my left, as well as

former Christians and non-religious folks, anyone who finds themselves asking difficult questions

about God, science, prayer, fate, suffering, evangelism, and more. So many of us have been given bad answers to those good questions, often by people with

pure intentions.

I want to say that you have permission to take both Christianity and the modern world very

seriously.

And I hope to facilitate that by introducing you to people seeking God across

the Christian spectrum, engaging hard questions in a multitude of ways. Thanks for listening.

All right, we are doing a live in-person inaugural You Have Permission Mini Conference, Seattle, Washington, recap episode with Kristen Tideman and Josh Gilbert. Thank you guys for being here. Thanks, Dan. Here we are. You're welcome. You all know Josh as the editor and producer of this podcast.

Kristen has been on as well.

She was on the, what do sort of post-evangelical leaders think, survey responses episode

a few months ago.

But Kristen also has been helping me with various marketing things and will be doing so going

forward and basically ran this event and helped me sort of conceive of it. And it was a huge

success, which means that is less about me and more about Kristen. Like, way to go, Kristen.

You did it. Yay, Kristen. Thanks.

Yeah.

So fun.

It was great.

I want to say just at the top here that this is a good time to become a patron if you have been thinking about it because patrons can actually watch the entire day via the recorded

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