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.

Sarah Billups, thanks for being here. It's really good to be here.

We actually get to do this live in person because you literally walked down the hill to my house from your house.

I walked my kid to school and then I huffed up the hill. I may be like mildly huffy right now.

I'm still like a little wheezy.

It'll be weird.

If that comes through, that's why.

We've been friends for over 10 years. Yeah, I was thinking about that this morning. But I was thinking

this morning also that we actually met about 17 years ago. We weren't friends yet, but I was visiting

Seattle with our friend Josh Jeter. Oh, Josh. And he brought me to your, like, community living house, which I imagine might come up in the

story today.

And it was like film night.

And we watched Time of the Wolf, a 2003 French language post-apocalyptic art film.

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