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It Means What It Means — 150 episodes

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Archaeology, Jesus, and the Gospel of John with Paul N Anderson

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Soldiers, Psalms, Bibles and Bombs with Brandon Hurlbert

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The Afterlives of Saint Dymphna with Jessica Coblentz

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The Concept of the Cosmic Sanctuary with Jerome Creach

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Always Two There Are? with James Wykes

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Legal Thinking and Notions of the Self with Phillip Lasater

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Healing Affluenza & Plutocracy with Ched Myers

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Time to be Saved? with Aaron Brian Davis

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Rerelease of Lilith: A Novel with Nikki Marmery

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The Greatest Story Ever Retold with John Anthony Dunne & Jeannine K Brown

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Lilith: A Novel with Nikki Marmery

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An African Introduction to the New Testament with Elizabeth Mburu and Ferdinand Okorie

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Eschatology and the Use of Psalms in Hebrews with Seth Whitaker

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God Draws Near with Collin Cornell

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1 Peter in Polycarp and Irenaeus with Stephen Carlson

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Beautiful Bodies with Maja Whitaker

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Abigail and Her Honor Culture Wisdom with Joshua Berman

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For the Beauty of Glory with Derek Estes

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Noah's Sacrifice with Hillel Mali

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RH Charles and Modern Biblical Studies with James VanderKam

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Responsibility for Murder with Joseph Scales

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Esther Keeps the Score with Alexiana Fry

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Beyond Deconstruction with James McGrath

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Episode 123: The Satan with Ryan Stokes

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Episode 122: Between Interpretation & Imagination with Leslie Baynes

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Episode 121: Trinitarian Missiology in Revelation with Michael Naylor

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Episode 120: The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition with Taylor Petrey

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Episode 119: Jesus and Other Sons of God with Daniel Glover

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Episode 118: Disability Theology and Eschatology with Aaron Davis

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Episode 117: Hospitality as the End and Means of Mission with Edward Smither

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Episode 116: Reading Matthew, Trusting Jesus with Jonathan Sedlak

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Episode 115: The Ten Commandments through the Ages with Sara Koenig

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Episode 114: The Myth of Good Christian Parenting with Marissa Franks Burt & Kelsey Kramer McGinnis

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Episode 113: Reading Creation Myths Economically with Eric J Harvey

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Episode 112: On Having a Body with Jennie Grillo

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Episode 111: Colossians Remixed with Brian Walsh & Sylvia Keesmaat

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Episode 110: Saul and the Not-So-Holy Ghost with David Basher

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Episode 109: The Pro-Choice Biblical Ethic with Kirk MacGregor

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Episode 108: Don't Feel It, Don't Heal It with Alexiana Fry

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2026 Preview

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Episode 107: Rereading Romans 1-3 with Douglas Campbell

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Episode 106: In the Wilderness with Peter Altmann & Caio Peres

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Episode 105: The Fourth Synoptic Gospel with Mark Goodacre

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Episode 104: Celebrating Hanukkah with Stacia Deutsch

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Episode 103: Touring the Torah with Evan Vossman

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Episode 102: Under Her Wings with Jennifer Houston McNeel

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Episode 101: Rereading Revelation with Greg Carey

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Episode 100: Literary Constructions and Stereotypes of Slavery with William Owens

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Episode 99: Passion, Politics, and Power with Samuel Wells

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Episode 98: Zorastrian Echoes in Yahwistic Sources with Gad Barnea

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Episode 97: A Human God? with Ellen De Doncker

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Episode 96: The Story of Codex H with Garrick Allen & Kimberley Fowler

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Episode 95: Philo's Embassy to Gaius with Tommy Woodward

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Episode 94: Metaphors of Enslavement with Marianne Bjelland Kartzow

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Episode 93: Is Hosea Also among the Traumatized? with Brad Kelle

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Episode 92: The Jurisprudential Significance of אשר with Ryan Chester

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Episode 91: The Time It Takes with Troy Troftgruben

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Episode 90: Trauma Theory, Trauma Story with Sarah Emanuel

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Episode 89: The Anti-Eschatological Elijah with David DeJong

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Episode 88: Enslavement in the Roman World with Javal Coleman

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Episode 87: The Tyrant Philosophers with Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Episode 86: Scripting the Son with Kyle Hughes

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Episode 85: Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts II: Manumission with Chance E Bonar

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Episode 84: Jude's Use of a Kaige Edition of Enochic Scripture with Timothy A Lee

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Episode 83: Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts I with Christy Cobb and Katherine Shaner

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Episode 82: The Seven Mountains Mandate with Matthew Boedy

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Episode 81: Persian-Style Historiography in Ezra-Nehemiah with Sam Blankenship

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Episode 80: Lamb of the Free with Andrew Rillera

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Episode 79: Traditions III: Baptist with Elizabeth Arnold

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Episode 78: Spirit Possession and Intimate Partner Violence with Reed Carlson

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Episode 77: Judaism: A Guide for Christians with Tzvi Novick

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Episode 76: Women and the Gender of God with Amy Peeler

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Episode 75: Turning Points in American Church History with Elesha Coffman

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Episode 74: Courtroom Theatrics in the Letter of James with Alicia Batten

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Episode 73: The Bible: A Global History with Bruce Gordon

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Episode 72: A Syriac Gospel Fragmentary Manuscript with Catalin-Stefan Popa

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Epsiode 71.2: Male Friendship, Homosociality, and Women in the Hebrew Bible with Barbara Thiede

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Episode 71.1: Male Friendship, Homosociality, and Women in the Hebrew Bible

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Episode 70: Fan Fiction and Early Christian Writings with Tom de Bruin

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Episode 69: What Is African American Religion with Anthony Pinn

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Episode 68: Paul's Divine Christology with Chris Tilling

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Episode 67: Jesus v Evangelicals with Constantine Campbell

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Episode 66: The Judas Project with John Dunne

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Episode 65: Finding Phoebe with Susan Hylen

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Episode 64: Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic with Nadya Williams

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Episode 63: Our Cloud of Witnesses with Yii-Jan Lin

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Episode 62: The Archetypal Witness with Amber Dillon

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Episode 61: The Mount Ebal Altar Episode with Kyle Rouse

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Episode 60: Phoebe, A Host of Christian Travelers with Jason Borges

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Episode 59: Land Possession and the Meaning of Isaiah 60:21 with Shalom Holtz

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Episode 58: When All We Know is the Title with Matthew Monger

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Episode 57: Submitted for Your Approval: Judges As Anthology with Brandon Hurlbert

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Episode 56: Embracing the Jewess with Caryn Tamber-Rosenau

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Episode 55: Rethinking Atonement with David Moffitt

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Episode 54: Death and Salvation in Paul with Clair Mesick

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Episode 53: Reading Josephus in Luke with Michael Kochenash

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2025 Preview

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Episode 52: Traditions II: Orthodox Judaism with Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein

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Episode 51: Seconding Sinai with Hindy Najman

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Episode 50: Ancient Polemic in the New Testament with Luke Timothy Johnson

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Episode 49: Paul within Judaism with Mark D Nanos

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Episode 48: Who's Present in Psalm 82 with Shane M Thompson

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Episode 47: Traditions I: Greek Orthodoxy with Father John Haby

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Episode 46: Dialogue in LXX Isaiah and Romans with Daniel Rodriguez

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Episode 45: Suddenly Then Gradually with Edmon Gallagher

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Episode 44: The Song of Songs: A Narrative in Lyric Poetry with Gavin Fernandes

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Episode 43: Islam and the Bible V with Mark Durie

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Episode 42: Islam and the Bible IV with Kyle from Bible Translation Fellowship

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Episode 41: Islam and the Bible III with Georges Houssney

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Episode 40: Islam and the Bible II with Fred Farrokh

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Episode 39: Islam and the Bible I with Ant B Greenham

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Episode 38: The Souring of the Ways with John Dunne

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Episode 37: The Illustrated Cairo Genizah with Nick Posegay

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Episode 36: Who You Callin' Short with Isaac T Soon

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Episode 35: Centurions in the Jesus Movement? with Rebecca Runesson

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Episode 34: John and "the Synagogue" with Wally V Cirafesi

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Episode 33: Improvisation and the Drama of Ethics with Samuel Wells

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Episode 32: Remarriage in Early Christianity with A Andrew Das

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Episode 31: Asian American Hermeneutics with Gale A Yee

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Episode 30: Sargon of Akkad and Nimrod with Christopher W Jones

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Episode 29: Criminalization in Acts of the Apostles with Jeremy L Williams

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Episode 28: Envy and Jealousy in the Hebrew Bible with Anthony Ellis

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Episode 27: Trauma Remembrance and Healing with Rebecca W Poe Hays

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Episode 26: Travel Anxiety in Early Judaism with Elisa Uusimäki

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Episode 25: Christmaker: A life of John the Baptist with James F McGrath

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Episode 24: Building the Tabernacle and Priestly Hegemony with Nathan MacDonald

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Episode 23: Disentangling Disability in the Hebrew Bible with Eric J Harvey

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Episode 22: Mourning for Tammuz in Ezekiel 8 with William S Morrow

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Episode 21: The Faithful Son in Hebrews 1:3b with Jonathan Rowlands

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Episode 20: Unitarian Evangelicals and the Faith of Jesus with Curtis Freeman

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Episode 19: Liberating Paul's Gospel with Jon DePue

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Episode 18: Re-remembering Hagar with Haley Gabrielle

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Episode 17: America's Book with Mark A Noll

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Episode 16: Making Sense of the Incense Altar with Hananel Shapira

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Episode 15: The Where and When of Joshua 10 and 11 with Ya'akov Dolgopolsky-Geva

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Episode 14: Gospel Media with Nicholas A Elder

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Episode 13: The Hebrew Bible as Literature with Tod Linafelt

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Episode 12: Ben Witherington III - Apocalyptic Literature Explained

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Episode 11: Brent A Strawn - Divine Doppelgängers III

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Episode 10: Jon D Levenson - Divine Doppelgängers II

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Episode 9: Collin Cornell - Divine Doppelgängers I

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Episode 8: Daniel Rodriguez - Hospitality in Biblical Translation

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AARSBL 2023

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Episode 7: Alexiana Fry - Trauma as Biblical Hermeneutic

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Episode 6: Chris Tilling - Perspectives on the Apostle Paul

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Episode 5: Heather Macumber - Monsters in Revelation

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Episode 4: Jodi Magness - Toilets and Toilet Humor in Antiquity

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Episode 3: Stanley Hauerwas - Story-Formed Communities for Humans and Rabbits

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Episode 2: Rabbi Michael E Harvey - Creation in Genesis 1

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Episode 1: Sophia RC Johnson - Kingship and Covenant