My name is Dan Koch. Like many of you, I've been on a complicated faith journey for a number of years now.

And while I tend to find myself on the progressive side of Christianity, my goal is not to make liberal converts.

I want this show to be a resource for Christians to my right and to my left, as well as

former Christians and non-religious folks, anyone who finds themselves asking difficult questions

about God, science, prayer, fate, suffering, evangelism, and more. So many of us have been given bad answers to those good questions, often by people with

pure intentions.

I want to say that you have permission to take both Christianity and the modern world very

seriously.

And I hope to facilitate that by introducing you to people seeking God across

the Christian spectrum, engaging hard questions in a multitude of ways. Thanks for listening.

Welcome, everybody, to you have permission. I am here with two of my close personal friends,

Tyson-Motsenbacher and John Van Dusen. This is the inaugural episode of something I would like to do

a bunch more of. It's kind of, you could think of it as the flip side to the I don't believe in that

God episodes.

And they are called still Christian, or as I might refer to them colloquially, still crish.

And the idea is to talk with people who are remain Christian.

They identify as Christian, despite the fact that these are people, especially if they

are in broadly speaking, my circles, many, many of their friends no longer identify as such.

And I'm curious why. I want to set the whole thing up here by telling a little story,

which was the idea for this whole min-series. So it's really

great to have the two of you here. We were at Tyson's wedding. It was not your wedding, right?

It was your reception a couple years later because you got married during COVID, Tyson.

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