Hi everybody, we wanted to let you know that in partnership with the Fetzer Institute,

we have been able to offer some scholarships for two of our upcoming pilgrimages.

Our Duke by Default pilgrimage, we can offer a $1,500 scholarship and our Harry Potter

and the Prisoner of Azkaban pilgrimage, we can offer $1,000 scholarships.

To find out more, go to readingandwalkingwith.com, we can only do this while supplies last.

We have five spots available on each trip.

I hope to see you there.

Go to readingandwalkingwith.com.

Hi everybody, we have something special for you today.

You may know Matt Pots from one of our other podcasts, Harry Potter and the Sacred Text.

Matt, in addition to being one of my best friends, is one of the most thoughtful and brilliant

minds on the theme of forgiveness.

He's a professor at both Harvard University and Harvard Divinity School and focuses on theology

in his work, and he's just written a book called Forgiveness, An Alternative Account.

And today, we have an excerpt from his book.

He is reading to you from the introduction of his book.

I do want to give a trigger warning.

He does talk about gun violence in the section that he's going to read aloud for you, so

if that is not something that you would like to listen to, we totally understand.

And if it is, I hope that you enjoy this truly brilliant excerpt from Matt's book.

Matt, if you're listening, congratulations on forgiveness, an alternative account, and

everybody else, we hope that you enjoy it.

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