Join Micah, Blue, Spencer, and Aaron as they discuss the proper worship and the Sabbath in Exodus 29-31. Why is this so much harder than just worshiping a cow? What is the purpose of this census, and why does God later hate censuses? How does this passage help us resist the endless and relentless urge to accumulate under capitalism? Find out some answers to these questions and more on this episode of The Word in Black and Red!Blue wants to be your friend in the great Down Under. If you ever find yourself in Australia, look to the skies, and that's where you'll find him.Spencer is the appendix to a people's history of Utah.Aaron J Smith is the host of Micah's favorite interview podcast, All Things Made New.https://linktr.ee/twibar Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Micah, Aaron, and Jules as we discuss the building of the tabernacle and vestments for the priests in Exodus 25-28. Why do these ancient descriptions matter for our own perception of our faith? How is God's presence mediated through these objects in the tabernacle and in our own religious practices? And how is the early church reimagining the ark of the covenant as Mother Mary--and how can that reenvisioning of the story help us reimagine our role in our own times? Find out some perspectives on these questions and more on this episode of The Word in Black and Red!Jules' awesome content can be found on xiantifa.itch.io.Aaron's amazing show All Things Made New can be found wherever good podcasts are served.https://linktr.ee/twibar Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Micah, Ell, Pastor Don, and new guest Father Micah Lazarus, priest-in-charge of St. Photini Universalist Orthodox Church as we discuss the Mosaic Covenant in Exodus 24. Why is God maintaining distance between Godself and the people? What does God's struggle with intimacy with many people illustrate about the perspective of a chosen people that some come to see as the means by which God saves the whole world? What is the significance of the Mosaic Covenant for Christian's relationship to our Jewish comrades? Find out some answers to these questions and more on this episode of The Word in Black and Red!Ell wants you to join the IWW.Don's church can be found at unfinished.loveFr. Micah's can be found on Insta and Tumblr as @apptowonder and St Photini can be found on Facebook.https://linktr.ee/twibar Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Micah, Mat, Waffles, and Josiah as we explore the genocidal prediction of the book of Joshua in Exodus 23:20-33. Why is the Bible so comfortable with this promise of genocide? How can we read this book that has such a fascist text buried inside it as liberatory? What is the relationship between being an oppressed people and becoming the oppressor? And how can reading and resisting the implications of this text using the Bible help us in our fights against fascism today? Find out some perspectives on this episode of The Word in Black and Red!Mat's great website Church of the Affirmation is a wonderful resource for affirming liturgies in the Presbyterian tradition.Waffles is one of our fantastic editors--give them a shoutout in the Discord!Josiah's Pulp! fiction anthology podcast is one of my favorites and @church_of_christ_the_anarchist on Instagram is a great meme page. Go listen wherever good podcasts can be found and follow on Insta!https://linktr.ee/twibar Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Micah, Mystic Mike (formerly Mike the Anarchist), Aaron J Smith from All Things Made New, and Dave Bindewald from the Center for Play and Exploration as we discuss letting the fields give fruit for the poor, Sabbath rest, and the festivals outlined in Exodus 23:10-19. What does the Bible teach that the poor deserve? What does rest mean for our modern self-care rituals? How does God's command for festivals influence our understanding of fun and play? And what in the world does the author of Exodus mean when they tell us, "Do not boil a kid in its mothers' milk"? Find out some perspectives on these questions and more on this episode of The Word in Black and Red!Dave Bindewald's Center for Play and Exploration is a great resource on a Christian conception of play and creativity. Go check it out for more amazing insights into the joy God intends for all of us to share in.Aaron J Smith's amazing podcast All Things Made New is legitimately one of my favorite podcasts. Please suggest new folks for Aaron to interview when you review his show wherever good podcasts can be found!Mike recently rebranded to Mystic Mike. You can catch up with him most often on Facebook for more of his hilarious memes and wonderful insights.https://linktr.ee/twibar Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Content Warning: Explicit discussion about sexual assault and the way sexual assault victims have been and are being mistreated.Join Micah, Ell, and Blue as we dive into the strange set of laws in Exodus 22:16-23:9. How have the victims of sexual assault been treated in the Bible and what ethic does this point us to? Is God demanding child sacrifice and did it really happen? What is the role of magic and foreignness in these laws? And why do we bother reading these troubling passages when we have so much trouble to deal with in our own time? Find out some perspectives on these questions and more on this episode of The Word in Black and Red!Ell wants you to join a union.Blue wants you to do some magic.https://linktr.ee/twibar Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Micah, Ell, Mat, and Aaron as we discuss the laws around slavery, violence, and property in Exodus 21-22:15. Why is learning about these antiquated and horrific laws important for our own time? Why did the Hebrew people revert back so quickly to reinstate the systems of oppression that they just escaped? And how can the legal imagination of this ancient people help us reimagine our own legal code and the future we seek to build? Find out on this episode of The Word in Black and Red!Ell says join the IWW!Mat wants you to listen to our leftist preaching collective on Llama Pack Worship, found most places you can listen to podcasts. Aaron's great podcast All Things Made New needs more people to bug him so he'll give me more episodes. https://linktr.ee/twibar Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Micah, Ell, Josiah from Pulp!, and Graham Culbertson from Everyday Anarchism as we explore the arrival at Mt. Sanai and the Ten Commandments in Exodus 19-20. What is the purpose of these rules? Don't they imply an authoritarian reading just by being laws? How does the content and context of the Ten Commandments inspire anarchism? Find out on this episode of The Word in Black and Red!Ell is a whisper on the wind you hear every time workers need to get unionized. Join the Industrial Workers of the World to appease their spirit.Josiah runs an incredible anarchist fiction podcast called Pulp! and a great meme page. Graham Culbertson is the host of Everyday Anarchism, a podcast discussing how anarchist philosophy affects our everyday lives. Go listen to his take on The Lord of the Rings right after this episode!https://linktr.ee/twibar Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Micah, Ell, Josiah, and Jules Webb from xiantifa as they explore the establishment of the 70 elders to lead the people under Moses in Exodus 18. What is Jethro's motivation for the recommendation? How does it go immediately wrong? What does this mean for churches with bishops? How can we avoid these failures as we seek to build our own new systems? And how much time does Micah need to scramble to defend their theological position? Find out on this episode of The Word in Black and Red!Jules Webb's web comics, substack, and games can be found on xiantifa.itch.io--I particularly recommend Why I Am an Anarchist.I need you to subscribe to Josiah's wonderful podcast Pulp! so he makes me more episodes. You can listen to them too, I guess. But consider it a personal favor.And Ell, as always, waves the banner high for joining the Industrial Workers of the World! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Micah, Spencer, Avery, and Pastor Don as we explore the story of Israel defeating Amalek in Exodus 17:8-16. Who are the Amaleks? Why are they especially hated throughout the Scripture? And what do you mean "Moses needs a handy"? Find out on this episode of The Word in Black and Red!Pastor Don leads the Unfinished Community, a church in the Reformed tradition that meets online and in person in Japan. You can connect with them at unfinished.loveAvery is a disability and queer theologian who runs the amazing Blessed are the Binaries podcast. He also helps edit this podcast! Please send some thanks to Avery.Spencer can be found on a hike and in the Discord.https://linktr.ee/twibar Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Micah, Ell, Char from Barefoot to Emmaus, and our new friend Maki Ashe from the Center for Prophetic Imagination as we discuss God providing in the wilderness in Exodus 15:22-17:7. What is the biblically proper way to complain? How are the complainants here living into their calling as the people of God? And how does God's abundant love poured out on these people inform our fight against capitalism? Find out on this episode of The Word in Black and Red!Ell said if you're not already part of the IWW, that's on you at this point. Just kidding! There's always time to join!Char shares a wonderful theological podcast with a friend from seminary called Barefoot to Emmaus. Maki Ashe leads the Center for Prophetic Imagination, where spiritual direction meets social action. Go check out what she's up to there!https://linktr.ee/twibar Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Micah, Scott, Mat, and the audio ghost of Josiah as we discuss the destruction of Pharaoh's army in Exodus 13:17-15:21. Why are there so many contradictory details in this story? Did this event really happen, and if not, what mythical and propagandistic function did it serve? And what does this story have to teach us about God's anger and the struggle for justice? Find out on this episode of The Word in Black and Red!Ever wonder where to listen to Scott's amazing podcast, Retelling the Bible? Mat was captured by a pokeball to be on this episode. If you'd like to capture my favorite pokemon, you might find him in his native habitat at churchoftheaffirmation.wordpress.com or in the Discord. When Josiah exists in corporeal form, he can be heard on the narrative fiction podcast Pulp! or @church_of_christ_the_anarchist on Instagram.https://linktr.ee/twibar Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Micah, Ell, and Don as we explore the death of the firstborn in Exodus 12:29-13:16. Who did the killing? How is this playing into revenge? How does this change our vision of God? Find out on this episode of The Word in Black and Red.Ell is the patron saint of Wobblies. Join the Industrial Workers of the World.Join Don at unfinishedcommunity.loveJoin us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Micah, W Scott McCandless, Ben, & Brandon Johnson from the Found in Translation Podcast and Liberation & Inclusion Translation (LIT) as we explore the first Passover. Why does it seem like there are two separate agendas here? What are the distinct ways God is being perceived, and how does that allow us to approach the text with new eyes? And are we pro or anti angel of death? Find out some answers to these questions and more on this episode of The Word in Black and Red: The Leftist Bible Study Podcast.Go listen to W Scott McCandless' Retelling the Bible podcast. It's brilliant. Don't miss out.Ben is the sound of joy when you roll a Nat 20. You can find him more regularly on the Discord.If Brandon's LIT Bible was already out by the time we had started this podcast, we'd be reading that instead of the CEB. Read it and listen to the podcast.Connect with The Word in Black and Red. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Micah, Ell, Spencer, and new guest Aaron J Smith from All Things Made New as we explore the final set of plagues on the land of Egypt. What is the significance of this great falling of hail from the heavens? What makes the locusts a bittersweet plague? And what darkness has descended onto Egypt that is so thick you can feel it? Find out some answers to these questions and more on the third episode of our second season of The Word in Black and Red: The Leftist Bible Study Podcast.If you haven't joined the IWW, well, Ell will keep telling you to do it.Spencer is not, despite all the rumors, a magical keebler elf. He does,.however, suggest you all go bake some cookies and bring them to your neighbors.Aaron's podcast All Things Made New is legitimately my favorite interview podcast to listen to. Y'all should subscribe.Connect with The Word in Black and Red. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Micah, Ell, W Scott McCandless, and new guest Mason Mennenga as we explore the second set of plagues on the land of Egypt. How is God hardening of Pharaoh's heart using Egypt's own mythology to condemn him? Is lying wrong in the face of oppression? Who are the Hebrews and what does it mean for them (like us) to stand in solidarity? Who are the magicians today amidst our own plagues? Find out some answers to these questions and more on the latest episode of The Word in Black and Red: The Leftist Bible Study Podcast.Ell could singlehandedly save the world if y'all would just join the IWW.If you're not already listening to W Scott McCandless' Retelling the Bible podcast, you owe it to yourself to start today.Most of the amazing things Mason Mennenga is doing can be found here.Connect with The Word in Black and Red. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Micah, Ell, and Fae as we explore the first three plagues on the land of Egypt. How are these plagues related to the story of both the Hebrews and the gods of Egypt? What is the importance of the symbolism of turning the Nile to blood? What are the lice doing? And what do you mean by "Balfrog"? Find out some answers to these questions and more on the latest of The Word in Black and Red: The Leftist Bible Study Podcast.Ell & Fae are trickster fairies seeking to play tricks on our oppressors by unionizing all of us against them. You should also join the International Workers of the World in playing this great trick. https://www.iww.org/Connect with The Word in Black and Red. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Micah, Pastor Don, Josiah, and Mike Shipley the Anarchist as we explore the duel between Moses, Aaron, and the Pharaoh's magicians. Why does God harden Pharaoh's heart? Do the Egyptian magicians really have secret powers? What is the relationship between Egypt's power, the plagues, and the downfall of Egypt? And what does God mean by "momentous events of justice"? Find out some answers to these questions and more on the third episode of our second season of The Word in Black and Red: The Leftist Bible Study Podcast.Pastor Don's congregation can be found at unfinished.loveYou should check out Josiah's wonderful podcast Pulp! and amazing memes @church_of_christ_the_anarchist on Instagram.Mike Shipley can be found at Mike Shipley the Anarchist on Facebook.Connect with The Word in Black and Red. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Micah, Ell, Ben, and Blue as we explore God reassuring Moses that he is called in Exodus 6:1-27. What is the relationship between the God of Being and the God of Love? What does God have to say about our complaints? What cycle of forgetfulness are we stuck in today? Find out some answers to these questions and more on the third episode of our second season of The Word in Black and Red: The Leftist Bible Study Podcast.Ell wants you to join your local chapter of the International Workers of the World.Ben is a member of the Rebel Alliance infiltrating the Death Star to steal their plans when some punk from a sand planet breaks in to rescue a princess. If you ask him nicely, he might play DnD with you in the Llama Pack.Many people claim to have seen Blue in a small Loch in Scotland, but we know he's real because he hangs out with us in the Discord.Connect with The Word in Black and Red. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Micah, Ell, and Josiah as they explore the parallels between Moses' story and our own day in Exodus 5. Why is this three thousand year old book speaking to our exact moment? What can we learn from these negotiations about how to approach power? And what the hell do you mean, "The Balfrog Cometh?" Find out some answers to these questions and more on the third episode of our second season of The Word in Black and Red: The Leftist Bible Study Podcast.Ell wants you to join your local chapter of the International Workers of the World.Josiah can be found on Instagram at @church_of_christ_the_anarchist and Pulp! can be found wherever good podcasts are listed.Connect with The Word in Black and Red. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.