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Wyoming Catholic.edu. Bruce Becker is with us today.

He is vice president of Time of Grace,

where he hosts the podcast Bible Threads with Dr. Bruce Becker.

He has a new book entitled True Crimes of the Bible,

Scandal, murder, adultery, forgiveness, faith, hope, which is our topic today. Welcome, Dr. Becker.

Well, thank you for having me. It's great to be here.

Question. Why, why call these crime? Why not talk about sin or failure or fallenness? Why the word

crime? Because crime relates to a broader audience in terms of, you know,

you have all these true crime series on television and podcast series. And so I thought I would

call it true crimes because it relates the more people. Very good. Very good.

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