Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith,

ask questions, seek answers, and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to settle for water down Christian teaching, and if you're ready to go deeper,

God is just as ready to take you there. This is Verity, where every woman is a theologian.

Well, hi friends, and welcome back to Verity podcast, or maybe you are welcoming me back because

we are returning from a break after completing the Honest Marriage series on this podcast.

And we are now starting our next series, or restarting a series of Ask Anything Theology.

I'm so excited to be back in the throes of Theology with all of you.

And that is the theme for 2022. We're going to stick with our Ask Anything Theology series

with breaks, short breaks, every quarter. And we're starting this series with a theological analysis

of redeeming love. This movie is actually coming out January 21st, and so normally I would actually

leave a specific episode like this for later in this series, but because the movie is coming out,

I wanted to put this episode out sooner rather than later, so that people can listen to it before

the movie is available to watch. Now, you probably know that the movie is based on the famous

book, Redeeming Love, written by Francine Rivers, and it's actually an older book. It's been around

for almost 20 years, or maybe more than 20 years. And we're going to talk about a lot of the themes

in that book and how they play out in the movie and the theological analysis I want to share with you

about this. But before we get into that, I want to give you a little background, because I know

not everyone who's listening to this episode has listened through the 60 plus episodes of Variety

so far, and maybe doesn't even know who I am or what I do. And I want to give you a little bit of

background on who I am and why I am particularly qualified to speak to this issue, and some of the

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