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.

Amy Frickholm, thank you so much for joining me today. Thanks for having me. I'm excited about this conversation. Amy, let's start, though, with your basic religious upbringing and path. Like, give us some context for all this work. Well, I think I'm just one of those people that is tuned into religion. I can't not think about it. Everything I do ends up, I think about religion in one way or another. And my dad's a

Presbyterian minister. So I started my life as a Presbyterian. I was baptized by my dad. When I was a

baby, my dad was a biblical scholar, is a biblical scholar. And he kind of took this journey. And when I was

growing up, we lived in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and he was a

seminary professor at a North American Baptist Seminary. And so when I was 12, we moved over from the

Presbyterian Church to the North American Baptist Seminary Church because his family was required

to participate in a North American Baptist

Church. So I didn't know anything about the Baptists. I didn't know anything about what my

participation would mean, but I kind of fell in love with it. And I was just a gung-ho youth group

kid. I was there for everything Sunday night and Wednesday night and I was the

president of this and the vice president of that. And I just, I was all in, 100% all in. And then

things started to kind of fall apart for me in that world in my late high school years and certainly

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