Episode 113: James Martin - The Gift of Imagination in Reading Scripture

The Bible For Normal People

The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Christianity is diverse and so are all the ways Christians have read the Bible through the centuries. James Martin helps us understand a Jesuit practice of reading Scripture that engages both the head and heart. Also, he’s met with the Pope. So of course he has good things to say. Show Notes → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Bible for Normal People, the only God-ordained podcast on the internet.
0:05.3	Serious talk about the sacred book. I'm Pete Ends.
0:08.2	And I'm Jared Bias.
0:11.0	Welcome everyone to this first episode of the fourth season of the Bible for Normal People.
0:16.0	Won't do.
0:16.8	Did you miss us?
0:17.6	I hope so.
0:18.6	Are you talking to me?
0:19.6	We missed it.
0:20.6	I didn't miss me at all.
0:22.0	I'm tired of me actually. I need a break.
0:24.2	Well, today we are going to talk about the gift of imagination in reading scripture
0:29.4	and we're talking with Father Jim Martin.
0:31.6	Yeah, Jim Martin.
0:32.6	He's a James Martin.
0:35.1	You may know him as James Martin.
0:36.8	But he's pretty cool.
0:38.3	So anyway, but Jim has, you know, a lot of you probably know really a lot about him.
0:44.4	He's been a lot of the place, but he's written a bunch of books.
0:46.9	And some of them I've read, he's written quite a few, but the Jesuit guide for almost everything,
0:52.2	which was a really cool book.
0:53.6	And then between heaven and earth, and it's about joy and humor and laughter as sort of
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