Hi, I'm Dr. Scott Hahn, and I want to welcome you to the Road to Amas, a podcast here

from the St. Paul Center, and I am so blessed to be with Father Gregory Pine for our conversation

about his brand new book, Training the Tongue and Growing Beyond Sins of Speech.

Welcome, Father Gregory.

Thanks.

Thanks for having me.

Can I give you a brief introduction so people who don't know you

can find out a little background? With pleasure. Okay, so Father Gregory Pine is a Dominican

friar of the province of St. Joseph, professor of dogmatic theology at the Dominican House of

Studies in Washington, D.C. You received your doctorate in dogmatic theology at the University of

Freiburg in Switzerland, and you have served previously as the assistant director for campus

outreach at the Tomistic Institute. You are the author of a number of books. Your Eucharistic

identity, recently, co-author of Marian Consecration with Aquinas and Credo, an RCIA program, the author of Prudence,

Choose Confidently, Live Boldly, OSV, and you are also a regular contributor to the podcast,

Godsplaining, the Toomistic Institute, Pints with Aquinas and Catholic Classics, and today

Rodeoamace. That's right, yeah. So I want to thank you for Institute, Pines with Aquinas and Catholic Classics, and today, Road to Amas.

That's right.

Yep.

So I want to thank you for writing a book for us here at the Emmaus Road publication,

but I also want to thank you for writing a book for me as a teacher.

You begin the book with a quotation from James chapter 3.

And tell us why it was you selected that particular passage from James 3 versus 1 to 13 before I read it.

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