Welcome, everyone. This is a joint scriptures are real podcast and society for the preservation of ancient religious cultures or Spark, one of our monthly broadcast.

I know many of you were expecting Dr. Andrew Skinner. He's very sorry he couldn't

make it. It just turns out he has a calling working with missionaries in a branch at the MTC.

And sometimes he can kind of get out of that on Thursday nights, but they had like their largest

group coming in ever, and he just

ended up needing to be there tonight. And hopefully you'll enjoy that. And if you're just listening

to this on the podcast and you want to be part of that, you're certainly welcome to join Spark. You can

go to Spark Project. That's Spark with a C. It stands for cultures at last C there.

So sparkproject.org.

So S-P-A-R-C-project.org.

And you can join there so that you could listen to Andy's lecture,

which is going to be on the Dead Sea Scrolls

and its connection with Latter-day Saints

and how it helps us understand the New Testament.

So I'm also supposed to make a few announcements. We are planning on having a live event on

Education Week that will be on Wednesday the 23rd, probably about 5 p.m. Something like that,

we'll let you know for sure on that. But Wednesday, August 23rd,

we'll do that on campus where we can get together in person and probably we'll try and eat together

afterwards as well. And we'll show things, the latest things from the excavation and all sorts of

fun stuff. We also want to let you know that we're working on the renewals. The website has been updated.

It can handle renewals and payments. And all that should be happening really soon. I've

been busy signing books to send out to those who are gold members and so on. So you should be

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