Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network.

I'm David Kern and I'm joined by Sarah Jane Bentley.

Sarah Jane, welcome back. Thanks for being here.

Hi David. How are you doing?

I'm doing well. I want to say at the outset of this episode that if you listened to our first episode on the Rector of Justin,

which is the book that of course we are going to discuss today, you will remember that Matt Bianca was joining us, and he is normally going to be here.

But unfortunately, someone in his church community passed away this week, and so he is attending to that and being with his church community. So I just wanted to

say, you know, keep, keep that his community and those families in your prayers, remember them,

and just wanted to let you know that Matt will be back next week, but that's something to,

something to remember in your prayers this next week or so.

So he's off doing that, and we're going to hold down the fort here on the podcast, I suppose.

As I said, we're here to talk about the rector of Justin, and we're going to talk about

chapter six through nine in just a moment. But first, I want to remind you about the ways that

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With that, let's dive in.

Sarah Jane, you mentioned in an email to me that this book in some ways reminds you of Brideshead Revisited.

I think that's what you said, right?

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