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All right. Welcome everybody to Sense Patriarchy Season 2.

This is our safe church slash what is the church supposed to be, what are healthy practices for the church, and then wider discussions on emotions, on racism,

on everything else that happens in the church, and it's told either you can't be or you have to be,

whatever it may be.

So last season was all about the negatives of the church.

Doug Wilson's influence on the church, and this season is all about now that we've charted what the church has been, we're hoping to chart what the church could be.

So it's my pleasure introduce our guest for this episode.

If you could introduce yourself and the book that you're coming on for and then some of the work that you may be known for as well as the center that you started

as well. Yeah. So my name is Dr. Andrew James Balman and my wife and I run the Christian

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