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Hey everyone before we get started today

We wanted to let you know about our September class. It's called the S word

Tied by Dr. Matthew Crosman. It's a one-night class and Matthew will explore Paul's use of sin

That's the S word. I guess that's the S word right? It could have been anything. I figured out a thing

But he's gonna explore Paul's uses of sin language in Romans 5 through 8 and how we might see the effects of sin at play in our world today

And when you sign up for the class you get the live class a live Q&A session downloadable class slides and a link to the class

Recording in case you can't make it live and or you know, you want to watch it at another time and it's taking place on

September 27th from 8 to 9 30 p.m. Eastern time right now

It's pay what you can right until the class ends is always a case folks and then it costs $25 to download

But you can get all of our classes if you want to do this in a highly recommended for just $12 a month by becoming a member of the

Society of normal people and for more info and to sign up go to the Bible for normal people dot com front slash sin

Today on faith for normal people. I'm joined by our nerd in residence Jennifer Garcia Bishaw

Welcome back to the podcast Jen. Thank you Pete. We'll be talking about

Christian mysticism is actually a thing with our guest Edward Howells who goes by Eddie

Eddie is honorary research fellow at the University of Roe Hampton as well as associate tutor in Christian spirituality at Ripon College

Hudson both of those in England

His work focuses on Christian spirituality and mystical theology with particular attention to the medieval and early modern periods

So this is a real academic study of christian mysticism and he's a co-author of the Oxford handbook of mystical theology

Which as you may have guessed is pretty relevant for our topic today and as always don't forget to stay tuned at the end of the episode for quiet time

I think this is something that mysticism does for theology is it reminds us and metaphysics it reminds us that

This is about a way of life not just about a theory

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