Welcome to Think Bivocally, Conversations on Faith and Culture, a podcast from

Taub School Theology, Biola University.

I'm your host Sean McDow, Professor of Apologetics.

I'm your co-host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty,

and Professor of Christian Ethics.

Today we have a special guest who we welcome back to the program.

We've had him three or four times,

one of our favorite guests, maybe I shouldn't say that

Scott but when he comes out with a but it's definitely true but it's true when he

comes out with a book every six months or one year we are right to the phones to see if we can get Christian

thinker, Christian writer, Christian speaker, Oskin is back on and he has a new

book out called The Great Quest that we're going to explore today.

Os, thanks for coming on.

Well, my pleasure to be with both of you, thank you.

So I pulled up the title of your book on Amazon,

and right below it it said Guinness the 250 year quest for the perfect pint.

Is that the quest we're talking about here?

No, not exactly, no. A far deeper one that goes much longer back and much wider and

anything to do with pints. I couldn't resist. You're taking it like a champ. Well let's jump into your book.

Both Scott and I thoroughly enjoyed it. And what's interesting is you've written both timely books and certain

timeless books. And I think this book is both and it's on living and examined life.

So before we get into the premise of it, I'm curious if you think the search for meaning is different

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