Welcome to Conversations, I've had our podcast.

I'm your host, John Harris.

We have with us today for the first time, Pastor Joel St.

He has become a friend. I've known him actually for a few

years, I suppose, because he started coming to the men's retreats that we do. And he runs the

Future of Christendom conference. Futureofchristendom.org is the website. If you want to check that out,

if you live in Pennsylvania, especially, you should definitely check it out. He is the pastor of the Independent Reform Baptist Church in Morgantown, Pennsylvania,

and we're going to talk about polygamy a little bit today. Welcome, Pastor Joel St.

Thank you for being willing to talk about this. Hey, thanks for having me.

So this is kind of an interesting topic I have never delved into in depth, but I'm looking

forward to it because I think I explained before we started recording, and I want

everyone else to know this.

When I was in my early teenage years, I stumbled across this

fringe website that argued that Christians should have more than one wife if you're a man. And

now I have to qualify that because all the advances since my early teens, they're not really

advances. They're regressions. But now, you know, who knows? Maybe maybe there's a website arguing that there should

be multiple lesbian relationships and all kinds of arrangements that we can't even begin to

imagine. But at the time, I stumbled on this website that said, men should have more than one life.

And they made some compelling arguments, I thought, that I hadn't heard before, some of them from

scripture. And I've since rejected the logic that I came across, but you showed me some

websites where guys who are advocating this sort of thing are trying to make their way into

evangelical circles. And this is something I think most of the audience would assume is in Muslim and Mormon

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