215: The Samaritan Woman in Light of #ChurchToo | Caryn A. Reeder
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Eric Skwarczynski
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🗓️ 27 February 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Most Christians have heard a familiar description of the Samaritan woman in John 4: she was a sinner, an adulteress, even a prostitute. Throughout church history, the woman at the well has been seen narrowly in terms of her gender and marital history. What are we missing in the story? And what difference does our interpretation of this passage make for women and men in the church?
Caryn A. Reeder calls us to see the Samaritan woman in a different light. Beginning with the reception history of John 4, she pulls back layers of interpretation entangled with readers' assumptions on women and sexuality. She then explores the story's original context, describing life for women and expectations regarding marriage and divorce in the first century. With this clarified lens, Reeder's exegesis of the passage yields refreshing insights on what the Gospel says―and does not say―about the woman at the well.
Throughout the book, Reeder draws connections between interpretations of this text and the life of the church. The sexual objectification of the Samaritan woman and minimization of her positive contribution has ongoing consequences for how women are seen and treated―including in the failure of many Christian communities to respond well to accusations of abuse. In the age of #MeToo and #ChurchToo, The Samaritan Woman's Story offers a bold challenge to teach the Bible in a way that truly honors the value and voices of women.
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| 0:00.0 | Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:09.2 | You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement. |
| 0:20.3 | The testimonies shared on this podcast are told from the personal experience and perspective of the survivors. |
| 0:26.8 | Not all legal outcomes are known or final. |
| 0:29.8 | Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. |
| 0:34.3 | Now, here's your host, Eric Squarsinski. All right, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys |
| 0:41.2 | podcast, Karen, thank you so much for joining me on today's show. Thank you so much for inviting me. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm glad to be here and have this conversation with you. Yeah, I think your book is extremely relevant |
| 0:52.7 | to the conversations we're having on the show. And I put out a little |
| 0:57.2 | thing on Facebook saying, I'm going to have you on. This is the book. This is the topic. |
| 1:01.6 | And which tells you how crazy things can get when we start looking at these conversations, |
| 1:07.2 | how heated they can get quickly, is just the title sparked some conversation. |
| 1:12.5 | So the first question that came in was the Bible is very clear about the story. |
| 1:18.2 | What's being reconsidered? |
| 1:19.9 | But what are we reconsidering here? |
| 1:21.4 | So what is the general thesis of the book? |
| 1:24.5 | Like what are you saying they're going like, we need to re-approach how we look at this story? Well, I agree. I think the Bible is very clear about |
| 1:32.1 | this story, but I think the church has not always interpreted it well in terms of what the story's |
| 1:37.7 | doing in the in the gospel of John. So the way the church has approached the story, |
| 1:43.7 | mostly hypersexualizes the Samaritan woman. |
| 1:47.9 | She is condemned for adultery, for her multiple marriages, for living in sin with her boyfriend, |
| 1:54.7 | as some modern interpreters have put it. I don't think that's what the story itself is |
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