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The Bible For Normal People

Episode 193: Lisa Sharon Harper - The Meaning of the Image of God

The Bible For Normal People

The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.73.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Bible for Normal People Podcast, Lisa Sharon Harper joins Pete and Jared to discuss the impact that colonization and enslavement had on Scripture and how to begin the humble business of decolonizing our faith.  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.

0:04.8

I'm Pete Ends.

0:05.6

And I'm Jared Bias.

0:08.2

Folks, before we get started, just a reminder, we have this amazing course coming up,

0:12.3

reframing God, an introduction to open and relational theology taught by our good buddy Tom Ord.

0:18.5

Yes. And so again, it's Tuesday nights, February 15th and 22nd, and then March 1 and 8.

0:24.4

It's four sessions. It's from 8 to 9.30 p.m. Eastern time.

0:28.0

Today, we're talking about the true meaning of the image of God.

0:32.2

And we're talking to Lisa Sharon Harper.

0:34.4

Right. And she is a founder and president, fascinating story.

0:37.0

But she's a founder and president of Freedom Road, which is about racial reconciliation.

0:41.7

She's written a bunch of books too.

0:43.6

And the most recent one just came out within the last week or so, called fortune,

0:48.8

which is a look back at her own ancestry going back, I think like 10 generations.

0:54.0

And then implications of that. So it's just a fascinating book and we really recommend it to you.

0:59.3

This is one of those things that we'll get we'll pull back the curtain and say,

1:03.6

the questions that we thought we were going to cover, we didn't cover.

1:06.4

And I am so glad that we didn't really get to them because what a fantastic conversation with Lisa.

1:11.6

And very typical, you know, we say this a lot, but we'll say it again.

1:15.2

One of the joys of having the podcast is we have people on who we don't think the same way

1:21.7

exactly that we did before after hearing. And this is just one of those episodes.

1:26.0

So we think you're going to really like this one.

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