Welcome once again everyone to another episode of Conversations that Matter. I'm your

host John Harris. Is always here to talk to you a little bit about something I'm

excited about today which is Reformation theology, specifically public theology during the time of the Reformation,

the relationship of church state,

the relationship the reformers had to culture.

These are topics that have a lot of questions

attached to them today and there's a lot of controversies today as many of you

know surrounding these topics and so to help me to give me some expertise on this I've invited my former professor at Liberty University Dr Benjamin Swine who is an expert at Reformation history to help me.

Thank you for joining me, Dr. Eswine.

Thanks, John.

I appreciate you having me.

I haven't listened to any of your podcasts,

but I know you have a dedicated group of followers and so I'm happy to kind of reach out

and that's kind of why I like doing this is connecting with with groups I don't normally

connect with. Yeah well as a dialogue going, right?

As a professor, though, I wonder whether you have time to listen to any podcast because of your

schedule, it's probably just too much.

Usually when somebody sends me one to listen, I'll try to, but yeah, it's limited.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, you keep a very tight schedule and even now, the reason we're doing it in the summer, well I guess effectively it's summer, is because you're

off and you don't have as many responsibilities.

So a lot of these questions that, I know I sent you some questions before we did the podcast just do you know what the topics would be but you know these I don't think they're going away these are questions

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