#55 Was Jesus Racist? Sarah Bessey's Story of Becoming Affirming— With Amy Hall (Part 1)

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Alisa Childers

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 29 August 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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On today's podcast, Amy Hall and I discuss a recent article penned by progressive author Sarah Bessey in which she tells her story of becoming affirming of same-sex marriage. We take a critical look at Bessey's methodology and focus in particular on her interpretation of Matthew 15, in which she claims Jesus demonstrated a racist attitude toward a Syrophoenician woman.

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0:00.0	Hey friends, Elisa Childers here.
0:12.0	Got a great discussion for you today on a recent article that made the rounds by Sarah
0:16.1	Bessie, her journey on becoming LGBTQ affirming.
0:19.7	We're going to talk about it with a special guest on today's podcast.
0:30.0	Well, I am thrilled to welcome Amy Hall to the podcast today.
0:42.6	Something I didn't even know about Amy is that she worked in the film industry for 10 years
0:47.0	before coming on staff with Stand to Reason, which is an amazing apologetics ministry.
0:52.4	If you aren't familiar with STR, definitely check out STR.org where Amy is a writer and
0:59.7	editor.
1:00.7	She also co-hosts the STR Ask Podcasts with Greg Coco.
1:06.1	That's hashtag STR Ask if you want to check that out.
1:10.0	She has her master's in apologetics from Biola and her work has been published in the
1:15.8	Apologetics Study Bible for Students, which is just a fantastic resource.
1:20.4	If you have kids in your life that are going to college or are in high school and heading
1:25.0	in that direction, this is a great resource for them.
1:27.6	The Apologetics Study Bible for Students.
1:30.1	Amy, thanks so much for coming on the podcast today.
1:33.7	Tell me a little bit about your time in the film industry.
1:35.7	I'm curious what you did in that industry.
1:39.1	I worked in a visual effects company.
1:44.0	What we did was we mostly did was build miniatures.
1:48.6	We build miniature spaceships and landscapes and all sorts of buildings and then blow them
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