mark's lutheran church, this morning i welcome two guests, the first is an author, gary bubelbous, you've written a wonderful book, the gospel according to seasme street, learning, life, love, and death. welcome. we want to hear more about your book. >> pleasure to be here. >> thank you so much. how did you get interested in connecting seasme street with the gospel? >> i did my doctoral dissertation on seasme street. it was this wonderful woman pioneer joan gance cooney who came up with the show. i did my research on her. and then i started thinking about there are faith themes in the show, even though it never discusses organized religion. but it's kind of the underlying rule as far as the golden rule in the show. and it's taught in very subtle ways but besides teaching numbers and letters and colors and shapes, you know, this is the underlying thing. >> love your neighbor as yourself. >> yes. who are the people in the neighborhood? >> and who are our neighbors. >> yes, yes. >> and as we are in the season of lent we do focus on loving our neighbors, caring for our neighbors, and serving