Hi, everyone. This is Curtis, and I am excited to tell you about a new feature of the GoodFaith podcast and it's called Campfire Stories.

Now, in a great campfire, everyone has the opportunity to share their stories. And so in Campfire Stories, we want to hear from you.

We want to hear a story about what you are doing along the themes of the GoodFaith podcast.

Perhaps it's something about how you're living out your relationships with political polarization, how you are trying to reflect the image of God in your institution and organization, or what you're doing with your money, or your vocation, anything that has been sparked by the themes that we've covered here in the GoodFaith podcast is fear game.

It doesn't matter if it's a big story, a small story, or something in between, as long as it's a story about what you are doing in your life.

We're not so much interested in hearing just thoughts. We want to hear stories of doing.

So we'll put a link in the show notes where you can just click on it and then supply us the basic outlines of your story of doing of living out the themes of GoodFaith podcast.

And we'll look at it and we may invite you to share that story on a GoodFaith blog, a social media, or perhaps even invite you to come on the GoodFaith show yourself and talk to me and share your story.

Like how cool would that be? I'd love to hear from you. I'd love to talk with you.

So please consider joining the campfire by actually joining actively and sharing your story with others gathered around the campfire.

Thanks.

Welcome to the GoodFaith podcast on your host Curtis Chang, the GoodFaith podcast. It's a production of redeeming Babel.

And it's weird friends who follow Jesus help each other make sense of the world.

And Christians in making sense of the world are given a valuable tool by Jesus, which is the scriptures, the Bible.

However, there is one book in the New Testament that I think is the most avoided book by Christians and that is the book of Revelation.

I know many smart, otherwise biblically literate Christians who just avoid that book or try to start reading a few chapters and then give up in confusion.

And because they can't make sense of Revelation, they are thereby all of us, I think, are vulnerable then.

Perhaps even in ways we're not aware, we're vulnerable to other Christians who don't hesitate to wield Revelation to promote their preferred way of making sense of the world.

So in order to make better sense of the world, we need to make better sense of Revelation, even if perhaps especially if we have tended to avoid this book as too confusing.

So to help us today is my friend, Trumper Longman, the third.

Trumper is the distinguished scholar of biblical studies at Westmont College where he taught for many years as the Robert Gundry professor of biblical studies.

He's the author of numerous, numerous well received books and commentaries on scripture.

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