John, I also want to thank you for this series of podcasts because I recognized my life in it. It was like watching Forest Gump the first time. I grew up in a Conservative Baptist church that was fundamentalist for the most part. However, my folks attended a Sunday morning adult class at Montebello First Baptist Church in Southern California which was taught by none other than Edward John Carnell. His popularity supposedly grated on the senior pastor because there were more people in the adult Sunday school than the church service. My parents raved about his teaching. What I deduced from their experience was that he was intellectually stimulating. I found that very interesting. He was the president of Fuller Seminary so that drew my imagination also. For a brief period we had a young man who graduated from Fuller as our substitute preacher. I really liked him and the way he presented his sermons. One of the things that Dr. Carnell got in trouble for was his support for the Revised Standard Version of the Bible. So I bought one. The first book I read in it was Hebrews because I really didn’t understand the KJV of it. I found it a wonder. This was probably my first rejection of Fundamentalism because so many of the fundamentalism’s voices condemned the RSV to hell. 

I attended Biola College from the fall of 1961 to the spring of 1963. I believe that Biola wanted to cement its students in fundamentalism and dispensationalism along with antipathy towards evolution. It failed me there. I got more questions about these issues than they would wish.

Excuse me. I just finished listening to the last episode, and I can't tell you how how delighted I I've been to learn so much from the three of you and your two recent guests. Uh further comments, the Bebington quadrilateral. You know, it's almost obnoxious that term. And if not obnoxious, it sounds like the title of a Star Trek episode. I would suggest Bebington's four-point definition, but whatever. The other thing is, uh, on the side, but I think uh an important comment is that uh AI has done a poor job with your uh transcripts, and there's a million examples of that. The worst, however, is that uh uh it was Corey is quoted as is is is is is to have said, we need to kill Christian celebrities. In fact, he said celebritism or whatever, but we need to kill Christian celebrities. Oops.

I just wanted to say that I have thoroughly enjoyed all 12 episodes of your podcast. I’m a Canadian but so much of what you say, particularly about the confused state of evangelical politics, also applies north of the border among those who fail to distinguish between the church and the state, whether it be Canada, the US, or anywhere else on planet earth! Looking forward to season two! Thanks again and God bless.