Hello there. This is Mark Bauerline with another conversation. Before we get to it, a word about one of our sponsors.

You may have seen a recent article in Inside Higher Ed.com that began, Wyoming Catholic College

has a lot of unusual things about it, each enough to merit a story in itself.

Wyoming Catholic is a conservative Catholic college that educates students in the great

books and Catholic tradition. It also teaches horsemanship and banned cell phones on campus.

I love that. And it turned down federal funding.

President Glenn Arbery describes the mission this way.

This college is engaged in deep ways with the agony of a culture that has lost its spiritual center.

We're adventurous and poetic and deeply Catholic.

He likes to cite Dostoevsky in crime and punishment.

Low ceilings are bad for the soul.

The ceilings rise at Wyoming Catholic,

which is located in the foothills of the Wind River Mountains,

the curriculum centers in the Western tradition.

Its Catholic identity builds upon Thomas Aquinas

in the Magisterium of the Catholic Church

and engaging with God

in the wilderness. Find out more at Wyomingcatholic.edu. We have with us today, Andreas J. Kostonberger.

He is professor and director of the Center for Biblical Studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological

Seminary. His books include, his many books include, the theology of John's Gospel and the Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown, an introduction to the New Testament. He has a recent book out entitled Signs of the Messiah, an introduction to John's Gospel. That is our topic for today. Welcome, Professor Kostonberger.

Hey, great to be with you, Mark. Thank you.

Now you say you love L-O-V-E, the Gospel of John.

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