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Ask, Seek, Knock journeys through the prayers of the Bible and the history of the church and shows how you can use these prayers as your own.

I ran my book, The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier though Wordle. It's 87.790 words, and this is what I got:

Earlier this week, I interviewed Bart Ehrman, New Testament scholar at UNC. We talked about his latest book, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know about Them). Among the other topics: philosophical hermeneutics, seminary education, preaching, conspiracy theories, and his Holy Week appearance on The Colbert Report.

I think we had a really enjoyable conversation, and he pretty much stayed off his usual talking points from this book tour. What I'm saying is, he's done a lot of media in the last couple months, but I don't think he's gotten too many questions about philosophical hermeneutics.

While I am sorry that Bart lost his faith, I think he's an honest guy. His the contradictions in scripture are not "hidden" from me, so he didn't reveal them. And they don't tempt me to abandon faith -- not at all. So my real interest was in Bart's motivation for writing these popular books that debunk the literalist, inerrantist, objectivist readings of the Bible. I think, by the end of the half hour, we got there.

I'm really looking forward to your comments on the interview.

Link to the audio after the jump.

If you're a PC user and have Real Player, you should be able to see it here.

In any case, I really like Baylor.  It's continued to be a moderate place, and the people I know there are genuine and hospitable.  Doug Pagitt and I will be co-leading a public conversation there tomorrow night, from 7 to 9.  Come and say hi!

Then, on Wednesday, I'll be on THINK with Krys Boyd, from 1-2pm CDT.  You can listen live here.

Why all this?  Because The New Christians is now out in paperback!

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