Considered the implications of the rapid fall of Afghanistan back into the control of the Taliban at the start of the program, then gave a report from my time in Moscow at the Grace Agenda Conference, NSA Commencement, and preaching at Christ Church. Then looked a bit at the release of Mark in the ECM and the release of the CBGM modules, along with the reading at Mark 1:1, and then finished up with starting to look at Surah 4 and its misunderstanding of the doctrine of the Trinity.
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