Hello there and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast, part of the 1517 podcast network.

You can go to 1517.org forward slash podcasts to see all of our shows.

My name is Caleb Keith, and today I am joined by Dr. Adam Francisco and Rod Rosenblot.

Our usual other co-host, Dr. Scott Keith, is in Canada, teaching an apologetics course

for two weeks, and we'll be back shortly.

This is the first episode of 2019, and before we start with our topic today, which will be

a new series on the history of the Reformation. I want to thank everybody

who supported us in 2018 and continued to financially partner with us in 2019. We were absolutely

blown away by the amount of support at the end of the year. Between October and January 1st,

we managed to raise $150,000 at 1517 from listeners and readers and supporters.

And it gave us the right footing to start off this next year, which is primarily focused on reaching more people.

So we're going to be expanding less.

We're not going to be adding as many new podcasts or projects,

but we're going to focus on improving the quality and accessibility of everything that we have going on and reaching a larger audience.

So we are doing more conferences this year. We have our annual large

conference in San Diego that will be happening here. We still stand 2019. We have more city events.

We are planning some international events for 2020 in Germany and things like that. So this is

going to be, it's going to be exciting.

And again, it's really about getting the content that we've managed to develop over the last four or five years and reaching sort of that non-Lutheran,

that larger audience.

And we really do thank you for your support in that.

So today's episode, we're going to be talking about the history of the Reformation.

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