The Hello friends I am I am a Prusa Sprinkle and I'm here with my friend Tim

Mackie a fellow Bible scholar, man of the church, and if I could say not your traditional kind of Bible scholar,

you'll see what I mean as we progress in this conversation

but you're listening theology to raw where we like to talk about tough subjects in the

Christian faith and also like to interview some interesting people doing

interesting work around the Christian world and I am here with Tim Mackie.

Tim, thanks so much for being on theology and around.

Yeah, absolutely.

Preston, it's good to talk.

So you are from my vantage point most widely known for your work in

the Bible Project. I mean this has been a I mean I cannot I cannot I cannot think of a greater gift to the church than the Bible project right now.

I mean this is just such an incredible resource used by such a wide variety of people.

I mean I talked to people who would be more quote unquote

progressive, people who are very conservative,

everybody in between, everybody loves the Bible Project.

Like this is just like, it's such a gift for the church.

So just to get us going, can you give us a little bit of background

who you are as a man of God, a scholar, a pastor, and then also how you got into the Bible project and we'll go from there.

Yeah, totally. Let's see.

All right, I grew up in Portland, not known as a paragon of Christian anything.

In culture, whatever.

But it's American city on the West Coast.

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