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Hello and welcome to the Tudor Dixon Podcast. I'm Tudor Dixon and today we're talking love.

Love stories of the Bible actually, which I know that seems a little steamy for the Bible

so I thought I'd have to bring in an expert for this subject.

Shannon Brem is the anchor of Fox News Sunday

and the author of The Love Stories of the Bible Speak.

Thank you for joining me today, Shannon.

We were just talking about how this can be

intimidating so I needed an expert.

Well I don't know if I am one tutor thank you for having me but I did dig into a lot of

experts and put together what we know from the Bible itself but from their

thoughts too about some of these stories I can tell you something like Song of

Solomon if you grew up in church or know anything about the Bible was the one

like we weren't allowed to read it in Sunday school it's very

steamy there's the line back and forth between this man and this woman that

obviously have an attraction to each other and want to be together but I feel like that's

in the Bible for a reason like you know God invented us he created us he knows what our bodies and our minds

want and this this longing for connection but there are also deep friendships in the Bible

there are also messy friendships and romance stories in the Bible. There are also messy friendships and romance stories in the Bible and I think all of that is very helpful to dig into because I think of myself like we're all flawed and so we're the people in the Bible and I find it comforting that we can learn from them.

So I think one of the things that I always learn when I'm, or always experience when I'm in the word is that you see different things no matter when you're reading if you're reading the same thing

Years later you see different parts of the Bible. It speaks to you in different. So tell me a little bit about the

journey on this because I'm sure you saw a bunch of things that you had never seen

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