Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics here

at Talbot School of Theology on the campus of Biola University.

Sean is normally my co-host, but he was called to emergency jury duty this afternoon,

so he will not be with us, which is too bad because he was especially looking forward to

our guest Dr Albert Moller who is president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

the place where Sean got his PhD from Dr. Moller we're really delighted to have you with us. Let me say a little bit more

just to introduce him. He has been called by The Economist magazine, one of America's most

influential evangelicals, and by Time magazine the reigning intellectual

of the evangelical movement.

He's got a couple of his own podcast that you might be interested in, the briefing and thinking in public.

He's got more books out than we can then we have time to introduce but he's appeared on

lots of mainstream media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Today Show, Good Morning

America.

That we could go on and on with that for some time.

He's the author of a brand new book that we want to highly recommend to our listeners called The Gathering Storm,

subtitle Secularism, Culture, and the Church.

And we look forward to taking the next few minutes to unpack some of this really terrific book.

Dr. Mola, you've done a great job with this,

both at the 35,000 foot level, the big ideas,

but also at the level of the details

in terms of what's current out there in the news and in the courts and in

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