Welcome to the podcast,

the podcast, Thanks, Biblic Week, conversations on faith and culture.

I'm your host Scott Ray,

being a faculty and professor of Christian ethics here at

Talbot School of Theology at viola University. And I'm your co-host

Sean McDow, professor of Apology at Taubet School Theology by Iola University.

We're here today with our colleague Professor J.P. Morland,

and of the numerous books we could talk about, Jay,

we want to talk today about your newest one

that's just come out called Scientificism and Secularism, subtitle Learning to

Respond to a dangerous ideology.

This is, you've done a great job with this book.

It's not for the faint of heart intellectually.

It's for people who really want to think hard about some of the prevailing ideologies that shape our culture and may inadvertently shape the way people think today.

So Jay, thank you for doing the book. What motivated you to

write this particular book at this time?

Well, it's great to be with you guys and to have this opportunity to talk about this most important question.

This November, I turn, it turns my 50th year of being a Jesus follower.

And, uh, I have just seen the culture go crazier and crazier,

especially the last 15 to 20 years.

And Barna did a recent study to try to determine why there were so many millennials,

let's just say people from 35 down, are abandoning the

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