Welcome to the Conversations That Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. We do have

somewhat of a deal still running just to remind everyone at worldview

conversation.com if you don't have your copy of Christianity

and social justice, religions and conflict, you can get that. You can get social justice

goes to church. You can get 80 Robles' book. Social Justice Pharisees still, all of them still on sale at

Worldview Conversation.com I'll put the link in the info section for those who

want to check that out. That's all I have for announcements. I want to get into this, it's not a piece, it's actually a portion of a book called

The Prodigal God, which was published in 2008 by Tim Keller. And the reason I'm doing this is because I saw a tweet and the

tweet I guess was from 2018 so ten years later but it was reposted by someone

very recently on I think I I don't really go on

Twitter but I think that's where I saw it I think I was I don't know why I was there

but I happened to be there and I happened to see this tweet and it was and I thought it was

recent but it was it was from 2018 but it was a quote from a book like I said from

2008 and the quote just it seemed in my mind to encapsulate Tim Keller and just what

like everything that Tim Keller has said I mean there's been there's been a whole book

written basically against his theology by Presbyterian scholars and

pastors and there's so many different issues in that book and and of course I've written

a chapter or an appendix in social justice goes to church,

the new left in modern American evangelicalism.

At the end there's an appendix on Tim Keller and I didn't even touch any of those issues.

I talked about separate issues. There's so many. And there was this

quote though and I just thought, you know what, this seems to be in my mind probably the motivation

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