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Robert Serico is President Emeritus of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. His

many writings include defending the free market, the moral case

for a free economy. His new book is The Economics of the Parables, our topic today. Welcome,

Father Serico. Good to be with you. Thanks for having me. I love the parables. Everyone loves

the parables. Who doesn't love the parables, right? You find a few people every now and then. You'd be surprised. Oh, come on. Come on. Well, I mean, like, why did this guy not show up in a fancy garment to a wedding feast and they get thrown out and beaten up? I mean, that's the kind of question you very often get asked. I don't use that parable in

this book, but I've been asked that when, and it's not an easy parable to preach on when you're

preaching on it. They are deceptively simple, aren't they? They are. You have put your finger right on it. Very deceptively simple.

First question, not about the parables, but let me ask, why do you take King James as your

translation in this book? You raised the issue at the beginning. I do. Well, I mean, I have loved

the King James. I was a literature major in my undergraduate years, so I've always loved Shakespeare and Elizabethan English.

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