By What Authority? An Interview with Rev. Jake Dell

Hello, welcome to the Theology Pugcast and I am C.R. Wiley and I'm a pastor and I'm also an author.

I've written a few books and And on top of that, a senior editor at Touchstone Magazine.

Today, it's going to be just me when it comes to the pugs because Tom and Glenn are still out of the country.

But we are joined by a friend, Jake Dell, who's been with us before.

And Jake, why don't you introduce yourself and then we can get into what we're going to talk about today.

I'm Jake Dell.

I'm the pastor of the First Congregational Church in Woodbury, Connecticut.

And I'm the author of a new book, a memoir called Exile and Return.

Good stuff.

Good stuff.

So we're going to talk about a piece that you published in First Things.

Our good friends over there, Rusty Reno, Mark Bauerlein, all those guys, I'm sure are happy with what you wrote.

And it's entitled By What Authority? And we're going to have a link in the show notes to it.

Hopefully people can access it without having to go through a paywall, but I've got it printed out here.

So I thought it'd be good to just read some things from it.