You're listening to the Bible for normal people the only God ordained podcast on the internet.

I'm Pete Ends.

And I'm Jared Bias.

Well, welcome everyone to this episode of the podcast.

Today we're talking about the topic.

My body is not a prayer request with Dr. Amy Kenney, who has written a book of the same name.

Yeah. What a coincidence that is.

The title of our podcast is the same as the title of the book. That's amazing.

So yeah, and Amy teaches at University of California at Riverside and her area is

early modern literature, but she also researches like the history of medicine signs and technology.

She is into disability studies.

And we had a wonderful discussion about the Bible and disabilities and churches and how we can

make that conversation better than it has been.

And I think part of this, and again, I want to emphasize, sometimes people think, well,

this isn't necessarily relevant to me.

But what I want us to see with a lot of our guests is their unique perspective on the Bible and

faith can inform and teach us things that we didn't already understand or know.

And so we actually have a pretty good, I think theological conversation in the middle of this

episode about what is the Bible and what do we do with it?

Which are the two central questions we ask in every episode.

And so even here with something that seems maybe periphery to some of our everyday lives,

we can have Amy teach us how to read the Bible in new and better ways.

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