City Network Podcast Season 2 Episode 1 Preston Sprinkle, Exiles in Babylon.Take a look at prestonsprinkle.comget a link to Theology in the Raw Conference.Get tickets for the City Network Conference to hear from Preston in person at citynetworkconference.org[00:00:00] :  You're listening to the city network podcast. Our mission is to grow and multiply healthy churches in the Treasure Valley and beyond? Head to the city network dot org for more info on our initiatives to catalyze church transformation and church planting. Here's today's podcast. Hey, welcome everyone to the City Network podcast. My name is josh brand. Um I'm here with co host robert Frazier. It's up. Did you just freeze josh here and today Sprinkle. Did I on your end, your friends like right after you said my name. Yeah, my back now. Yeah, you're back. Well, welcome once again to the city work podcast and we're here with press to Sprinkle and we're super Excite it. Mhm. He's four for, for joining us. I think we're getting like every other word josh is are you getting every other word. Preston from him? Yeah. All right. I'll join, join in on my phone. I'm at the building. You never know with construction stuff like building. Alright. Yeah, well, my name is robert preacher. I'm one of the co host of the podcast and part of the city network. And we are excited to have our guest today press and Sprinkle, who is internationally renowned author and somewhat expert leader on the Center for Faith and sexuality. Right. Is that the name of it? They get right? Center for faith, sexuality and gender. It's sexuality and gender. Got to get all three. All right. And president also here locally in Boise and I'm stoked about your conference coming up in March? The theology and the rock conference? You guys have an amazing lineup. How did you do that? Do you have like dirt on these guys or what was the, I've had, I would say at least actually all of them except for David Platt. I've had them all in my podcast at some point or another and have gotten to know some more than others through the years, you know? Um, yeah, it's a, it's a small world. But yeah, I'm super. Even though I know them though, I mean they're all pretty, most of them are pretty big names. So even just because I might have some kind of relational connection doesn't mean they can, they would say yes. But they, I mean, yeah, that 90% of people I asked said they can, they want to be a part of it. So I'm still in Boise and March. It's an easy sell. Right? Yeah. Right. Okay. Well, uh, suppressed when we asked you beyond today, probably just just want to hang out. We had, we had a great lunch last week. Really enjoyed connecting with you. You know, we're both, It's funny like you're one of those people that I've known about and like we've kind of swirled around each other but haven't hung out. And it was like all of a sudden, it was like, I got to actually meet with this guy. So I was just watching your daughter that we did that christmas art thing a couple years ago and she did such a great job with that? Uh so yeah, let's, let's dive in. Tell us just a little bit about yourself, where you came from and why you started the center. Yeah, so born and raised in California um 45 in a christian since I...