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Hello friends, welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw.

My guest, Steve, Dr. Steve Purdue received his PhD from Wheaton College in a direct.

He currently directs the THM and PhD programs in theological studies in church history at Asia graduate school of theology in Manila in the Philippines.

He's an author and or editor of several books, including the recently released why evangelical theology needs the global church,

which becomes the foundation for our very interesting conversation in this podcast.

So please welcome to the show for the first time the one and only Dr. Steve and Purdue.

Steve, thanks for tuning in late at night from Manila.

Thanks for joining me, man.

I'm really excited to talk to you and about your new book why evangelical theology needs the global church.

Before we jump in though, just give us some background of who you are and how you end up in, I guess, academia,

but also in the Philippines.

Sure. Yeah, I'd love to do that.

Thanks so much for having me on the show.

It's a delight to be part of what you're doing here in your ministry.

So I guess the place to start is to say that I've lived most of my life in the Philippines,

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