Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.

I'm Scott Ray, your host, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics here at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.

And I'm your co-host Sean McDowell, Professor of Apologetics at Talbot School School Theology Biolia University.

We're here today with our good friend and fellow faculty colleague at Denver Seminary,

Doug Grutheise.

Doug is Professor of Ap apologetics and philosophy at Denver Seminary,

but the book we're going to talk about today is his newest book, which has actually very little to do with what he what

what you've typically written about over the years

in apologetics and philosophy.

The book is called Walking Through Twilight,

subtitle A Wife's Illness of Philosophers Lomet.

So Doug, welcome to our podcast.

Thanks so much for coming on with us

and for talking about a book that really is quite different

than a lot of what you've written on traditionally.

Yes, well thank you for having me.

Sure. Why don't we start, if you wouldn't mind, just sharing the, you know, behind every book is a story, and what's, tell us a little bit about what prompted the

writing of this book and what's transpired since it was published about this time last year?

Right. Well the book is about my journey with my wife Rebecca who has since passed

away through dementia. She was diagnosed

about four and a half years ago with a rare form of dementia called primary

progressive aphasia and she had been ill for many years and I believe she had

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