Welcome to the Conversations That Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris and it looks like my cat wants to join me today.

Hey Josie, do you want to be part of the program?

For those who are watching, this is the little kitten. I've showed on the program a few times we rescued

Just a few years ago a few months ago. It feels like a few years in 2020 doesn't it and

As you can see she's gotten a lot bigger.

I think she was the runt of the litter.

This was totally unplanned though.

This is not how we were gonna start off the show today.

She somehow got in here. All right right by Josie we'll see you later

yeah this is a completely fan driven episode if you want to call it that

not something i was planning on talking about,

I wanted to talk about really, but the more I thought about it I thought you know

what I was on the fence I jumped to one side of the fence and said maybe this will help a few

people because there's some

folks who really want me to speak out about or analyze what John Piper just said about

critical race theory. He did a two-part article, it's a two articles, two part series I guess, on Desireing God.

And I've kind of said my piece about Piper.

I did three videos.

I talk about it's Christian Heedenism and how I think it's an Achilles heel that's led

helped import some of the social justice stuff into his church and into his ministry

and Piper right now is I mean he's kind of has to guard his left flank or at least a few weeks ago he did.

And without getting into details there was some stuff going on at the seminary there and some accusations that the seminary is racist and these kinds of things and so

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