Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Ra.

We have our two-day Exiles in Babylon Conference on October 4th, the 5th in Denver, Colorado.

All the information is at Theology in the Ra.com.

You can attend live in person, or you can stream it virtually again theology in the

rod.com okay so this is going to be a different sort of podcast usually I have

conversations with various people thinkers humans scholars and so on and so forth.

This is going to be a solo podcast where I give a review, a book review of a really important book that

is about to come out called The widening of God's mercy sexuality within the

biblical story by doctors Christopher B Hayes and Richard B Hayes. When this book

was first announced last I want to say winter in 2024 it made a huge

splash on social media and you'll see why as I keep talking here if you're not familiar with the book.

So I was eager to read the book and so I contacted the publisher to see if I can get a pre-release copy and they graciously sent me a pre-released

copy of the book and so I've spent the last three weeks or so reading through the book,

re-reading the book, digesting it, taking notes, interacting with it, and ultimately writing a pretty lengthy review of the book.

This podcast review is basically a sort of audio conversational version of my written review which is posted at center for faith.com. It's about a 9,000 word review.

Well, it's about 3,000 words in the main review.

And then I have a whole subsection in addendum

where I list several other things that I wanted to interact with with this book.

So again if you're more of a reader not a listener then Center for Faith.com go to the

blog there and you can get access to the written review and there I have extensive

citations footnotes and other things with the review. Okay, so a few introductory points before we dive in.

First of all, I'm a huge advocate for reading books for yourself. If you want to have an informed

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