Speaker 1: Hi, folks. I hope you'll had a wonderful Christmas and
Speaker 1: New Year. I'm excited for the new season of Coming
Speaker 1: Friendly Christianity to start next week. But in advance of that,
Speaker 1: instead of dropping a trailer, I'm dropping a little mini
Speaker 1: episode here to apologize for a mistake that I made
Speaker 1: in the Q and A episode. At the end of
Speaker 1: the last season, I was asked a question about the
Speaker 1: Morning after PILM, and I answered it on the basis
Speaker 1: of knowledge that I had from when I last looked
Speaker 1: into the subject several years ago. At that point, it
Speaker 1: was thought that the morning after pill prevented implantation of
Speaker 1: an embryo if conception had taken place, but more recent
Speaker 1: research seems to have indicated that it doesn't. Now a
Speaker 1: few of you reached out to me after that episode
Speaker 1: to point out my mistake, and I really appreciate the correction.
Speaker 1: I want to apologize to all of you for the misinformation,
Speaker 1: especially on a topic of such sensitivity. I hope it's
Speaker 1: evident from my podcast that I care deeply about factual accuracy,
Speaker 1: and as someone who writes and speaks about a whole
Speaker 1: range of topics on which I'm no expert, my fear
Speaker 1: is always that I will unintentionally mislead people. So my
Speaker 1: goal has been for the Confunding Christianity podcast to be
Speaker 1: a reliable source of information, and with that in mind,
Speaker 1: please reach out through my website if you hear something
Speaker 1: on an episode that you believe is factually incorrect. And
Speaker 1: when I write books, I always pay an expert to
Speaker 1: read through the manuscript for me and point out any
Speaker 1: places where I'm wrong or might be misrepresenting something, but
Speaker 1: with the more spontaneous format of a podcast, there's more
Speaker 1: scope for error. Thankfully, I'm often talking with an actual
Speaker 1: expert who will pick me up on my mistakes real time.
Speaker 1: But I'm guessing this won't be the last time I
Speaker 1: mess up, and I want to take it seriously when
Speaker 1: I do. Thank you for listening to the podcast and
Speaker 1: to this apology. One of the great reliefs of being
Speaker 1: a Christian is knowing that my many sins and failures
Speaker 1: are forgiven thanks to Jesus's death in my place, and
Speaker 1: this applies to sins of negligence as well as my
Speaker 1: deliberate sins. But that doesn't remove the need to ask
Speaker 1: for forgiveness from those I've sinned against and in this
Speaker 1: instance that's you guys. Thanks again for listening, and look
Speaker 1: for the new season starting on January the twenty first,