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BONUS: The Barbie Movie with Jon of Cinema Faith

2023-09-0550:59

**CONTENT NOTE**In this episode Jon and I talk about the gender politics in the Barbie movie, and our conversation touches briefly on eating disorders, body image, sexual violence, harassment, and purity culture. Please be aware of these themes and care for yourself accordingly. Make sure you're in a space where that flow of conversation is something you can navigate at the time, and that you drink water and snuggle your pets afterward. You can find Jon's work, podcast and written, at cinema ...

Lent 5: Invitation to Lay it to Rest

2023-03-2133:33

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Lent 3: Invitation to Drink

2023-03-0733:33

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Lent 2: Invitation to Move

2023-02-2838:48

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Lent 1: Invitation to Imagine

2023-02-2137:19

Quotes today from the books The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin and This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley. Support the show

Epiphany 4: I Love You, I Want You to Be

2023-01-2430:45

Quotes in this episode taken from I Want You to Be: On the God of Love by Tomáš Halík and A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church by Dr. Wilda C. Gafney. You can listen to "The Kingdom is Yours" by Common Hymnal here, and maybe have tissues nearby if you cry during songs. (The last time I tried to lead this in a congregational setting I literally couldn't finish the song because I was weeping. It's fine.) Support the show

Epiphany 3: Fumbling Toward Faithfulness

2023-01-1742:06

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Epiphany 2 - Wonder and Loss

2023-01-1039:49

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Advent 3: The Wisdom of Tomato Farmers

2022-12-1035:22

Quotes this week taken from the documentary Crip Camp, which you can stream on Netflix. Blessed are you who wait for tomatoes. Who water and weed and pray for rain and sun.Blessed are you building a highway in the wilderness, Or at least you were, Until you were stopped by the zoning board. Since when does the wilderness have a process for proposals and approvals anyway? Blessed are you who are unexpectedly, wonderfully filled.And you who are becoming acquainted ...

Advent 2: Signs of Life

2022-11-2937:52

Quotes and information this week drawn from Anna Case-Winters' commentary on Matthew, part of the Belief Series. A Blessing for Advent week 2: Blessed are you who escaped from the vipers nest. Who found yourself growing up in a world that had so thoroughly forgotten the very-goodness baked into its bones and bark that all it offered were tenuous pathways of escaping calamity with the smell of fire on your heels. And only if you kept on the straight and narrow. Blesse...

Advent 1: The World is Ending...and Beginning

2022-11-2232:40

It's Advent y'all! Each week during Advent I'm ending the episode with a blessing I wrote, text is included below for reference: When the World is Ending...or Beginning Blessed are you who sit in stunned silence in the driveway or parking lot, on the curb for just a moment too long because the illusion has broken yet againAnd you remember that twinkling lights strung on gutters and trees are illuminated by power plants belching smog and making life on this planet as tenuous and flickering as ...

Proper 29: Christ the King

2022-11-1628:20

Quotes this week from the Luke commentary of the Belief series, by Justo González and Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. Support the show

Proper 27: Preparing for the End

2022-11-0142:07

Quote taken from Justo González's commentary on Luke from the Belief Commentary Series. Also, a few impact words toward the end of this episode, so be mindful if you're listening at work or with young children around.Support the show

Proper 25: Roads Less Traveled

2022-10-1835:38

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Proper 22: Remember Your Tears

2022-09-2732:17

Sources cited in this episode:You Can Talk to God Like That by Abby Norman. Luke commentary by Justo González as part of the Belief Commentary series. Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder's chapter on Luke in True to Our Native Land.Support the show

Proper 20: You Cannot Serve God and Wealth

2022-09-1338:53

This week I gleaned a lot from the notes in my New Oxford Annotated Bible, which is my favorite study Bible. Highly recommend if you're not quite ready to buy a bunch of commentaries, but you'd still like more background info on the text as you read. Support the show

Proper 19: What we lose in triumph

2022-09-0643:47

Sources engaged in this episode are The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann, Short Stories by Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine and Clarice J. Martin's chapter on 1-2 Timothy in True to Our Native Land. Support the show

Proper 18: What needs to collapse?

2022-08-3043:04

Sources mentioned in this podcast include, Dr. Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder's commentary on Luke contained in True to Our Native Land and concepts from Dr. Scot McKnight's commentary on Philemon in the New International Commentary series. I can't remember which episode it was in, but adrienne maree brown talks about the wisdom of mushrooms on her podcast How to Survive The End of The World, which I highly recommend as well. Support the show

Proper 17: Lament, Humility, Solidarity

2022-08-2337:15

In this episode I reference quotes from Dr. Soong-Chan Rah's book Prophetic Lament and Dr. Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder's commentary on Luke 14 in True to Our Native Land.If you want to learn more about the formation of the Biblical canon and the deuterocanonical books, I love this quick intro from The Bible Project. Support the show

Proper 16: What is religion for?

2022-08-1642:13

Referenced in this podcast are (again) Justo González's commentary on Luke, and the scholarship of Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg who graciously does an extraordinary amount of public theology--much of it on Twitter--you can (and should) follow her at @TheRaDR. Support the show

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