You're listening to Faith for Normal People, the only other God-ordained podcast on the internet.

I'm Pete Ens. And I'm Jared Bias.

Before we get started with our episode today, we need to take a minute to celebrate

because our newest Bible for normal people commentary, Revelation for normal people, is out now.

And again, in this book, New Testament scholar Robin Whitaker

uncovers the real world context behind this ancient apocalyptic and usually

confusing text helping us find meaning for our own time.

As many of you know I mentioned this before I grew up being taught that the Left Behind series was accurate biblical interpretation things like microchips and bar codes were signs of the

Antichrist and I was taught conspiracy theories that to this day have real

political and social implications and a lot of that came from a certain reading of the book of revelation.

So reading revelation well continues to be so important.

So check out this book by Robin Whitaker.

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Welcome to this episode of the podcast and our topic today is a poetic look at the Bible with

Poddrig O Tuma. And Poddrig is an Irish poet and theologian whose work centers around

themes of language, power, conflict, and religion. He's the author of several books of

poetry and prose and he's also the host of the popular podcast Poetry Unbound.

And folks don't forget to stay tuned at the end of the

Poetry Unbound. And folks, don't forget to stay tuned at the end of the episode for Quiet Time

where we will reflect on the conversation and how we've been thinking about our own faith lately.

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