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Tonight I am so grateful for the privilege of interviewing a dear friend, Father Charles Sampson,

who is ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of St.

Louis back in 2013.

And we met by having him out here in 2014 for a conference. In fact we just stepped out of the Applied

biblical studies conference where we heard Dr Ted Sri just present a magnificent

lecture on prayer. So good.

It was so good.

But we broke off and came down to our studio

in order to have a conversation with you.

He serves the faculty at Kenrick Seminary in St. Louis where he teaches New Testament

in biblical archaeology of the Holy Land.

And that's the dinger because we had the privilege of publishing a book that he wrote entitled

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