Welcome to the Conversations That Matter podcast.

I'm your host, John Harris.

This will be a short podcast.

I know you don't believe me.

I promise you it will be.

I am in and out and doing all kinds of things today, but I wanted to sneak a podcast in.

And so, yeah, I even got my hat on and my t-shirt because I'm outside doing work and it's like 40-something

degrees. That's T-shirt weather now if you could believe it. I know some of you don't believe that,

but in New York, in the Northeast, when it hits 40 degrees and you're used to 15, 20 degrees,

you celebrate. So it is a day of celebration here. I have just a few things I

want to talk about. And I think I would be a little negligent if I didn't talk about some of the

obvious things in the news cycle. So I'll give you a little bit of a perspective. I think there

are Christians acting in good faith who come down on different sides of some of these issues,

and I'll explain that.

And then I want to share some church-related news that is really important, and especially the end of this podcast.

I'm going to share with you a video, and it's a video of a Southern Baptist church, and I am going to start regularly showing you more

and more of this.

We are going to look under the hood of the Southern Baptist Convention to see if they

actually apply their standards when it comes to female pastors.

And I realize this has been an issue in the past.

I don't think it was ever solved.

I don't think people ever, at least enough people took it seriously.

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