Welcome to the program today.

Mano Gonzalez here in studio with Russ Brielt,

and we have got a great program today.

We're going to be talking about some recent discoveries

and the background to the Shroud of Turin,

and can we look at it as an archaeological object?

Does it point to the resurrection?

Stick around. Welcome back. And before we get over to our esteemed guest, Russ Briel, I want to remind everybody about a couple of things that we have going on this year. A couple of awesome items. One of them is our June 27th through 30th conference in Colorado Springs.

Again, we're going to have 20 speakers going through all of the latest things, as you know.

When we have come together with some of these conferences, people are extremely excited

because all of their favorite Bible teachers are all in one hallway.

So it's a tremendous time of teaching as well

as fellowship. And also it's going to be in Colorado Springs, a beautiful area. Come, come early and enjoy the

scenic opportunities there. Well, Russ, you know, you and I have, I haven't, this is the first time

I'm about to meet you in person. And we did certainly a Skype earlier, so welcome. Well thank you Mono, it's great to be here again.

So we want to get to some of the objections that people have it and

and granted you might think oh the shroud that's that's an object, it's a relic, you know,

we're not supposed to do any of that. Well we want to some of that because you know my background is is archaeology and so

when I look at the shroud I look at it just like the Dead Sea Scrolls you know it's it's an

artifact and you look at it and you begin to analyze it and you see well what's it pointing to

and so with that as a backdrop, you know,

help alleviate maybe somebody's initial response to the shroud as being something that some people,

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