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John Mark Reynolds is president at the St. Constantine School and former provost of Houston Christian

University.

He was founder and director of the Tory Honors College at Biola University before that.

His writings include When Athens Met Jerusalem, an introduction to classical and Christian thought,

and an edited volume, The Great Books Reader. He joins us today to discuss great books,

classical education, the current scene locally for him and nationally. Welcome, Dr. Reynolds. You

have a PhD, Dr. Reynolds? Yeah, it's good to be here.

John Mark is fine.

However, if you would like to do that, we have enough titles between the two of us.

We could just keep bandying titles up and forth.

And no one will care.

Okay.

Hair professor, Dr. Reynolds, maybe.

So, okay, okay.

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