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Welcome back to Nomad podcast. My name's Tim Nash.

I'm Dave Ward.

This is the show where we let current events set the agenda. This is very new, isn't it, Tim? It is new, yeah. So current

events kind of set the agenda and then we ask a guest to give expert insight and analysis.

And then we kind of fumble around with it and reveal our ignorance.

We pretend we're experts by bringing experts in.

It makes us sound really clever, doesn't it?

Yeah, and we've got a real tricky issue this time.

We're looking at how Christians are called to respond to ISIS.

That's very relevant.

It's very relevant, and it's a real tricky one, isn't it?

Yeah. The good news is we've got an expert in Christian Muslim relations who is the president of Peace Catalyst International and serves as an associate director of the World Evangelical Alliance Peace and Reconciliation Initiative.

Just imagine having your haircut and somebody saying, what do you do for a minute?

All of that is to say that he knows what he's talking about.

And he's got a great name for the job as well, Rick Love.

That's great.

For a man who working in the area of peace and reconciliation, that is the perfect name, isn't it?

I just hope that in the future, when he writes his memoir, he calls it something like love and peace.

That'd be perfect.

So, we're going to hand you over to Rick Love, who's going to tell us all about how we should be responding to ISIS. I was at a dinner recently telling the story of Peace Catalyst International.

One of the dinner guests asked the 11 of us sitting around the table, what do you think followers of Jesus should do about

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