Patchworks of Meaning: Stitching Together Our Stories with Scripture
The Evolving Faith Podcast
Sarah Bessey
4.9 • 939 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Surprise! Another bonus episode featuring Barbara Brown Taylor from our 2022 Evolving Faith conference. Barbara skillfully walks us through how to own our ever evolving relationship with scripture. She reminds us that just as the text has stood the scrutiny of our ancestors, it can also handle ours. Barbara challenges us to see our own relationship with scripture as a quilt, with no two being the same. “Working on your quilt isn't the same as designing your own Bible, though we do that too. It's a matter of taking responsibility for how you read it and why along with the honor of putting your fingerprints on it as generations before you have done.” You don’t want to miss this episode, and you’ll most definitely want to share it with anyone in your quilt making circle.
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| 0:25.0 | I'm going to Welcome back to the Evolving Faith Podcast for someone who was pretty ambivalent about having a season 3 of the podcast. Hello, how are you? I'm Sarah Bessie and I am so glad to be here with you today. |
| 0:31.0 | If you have |
| 0:37.0 | have definitely come to the wilderness of deconstruction and faith shift or an evolving faith |
| 0:38.8 | well you have definitely come to the right place. |
| 0:41.9 | You just pull up a quilt to our little campfire here and we are going to spend some time together. |
| 0:47.0 | We are also on Twitter and Instagram as at Evolve Faith and over on Facebook as evolving Faith. |
| 0:55.0 | And of course we are also a thriving online community. |
| 0:59.0 | More than 10,000, which is just mind-blowing to me, more than 10,000 fellow wanderers are currently |
| 1:05.3 | journeying together over at community dot evolving faith.com we are having |
| 1:10.6 | everything from book clubs and conversations and special gatherings for pride as well as just conversations about everything from C. C. M. to books we're reading to how we're feeling on Sunday mornings |
| 1:24.4 | if we're not going to church anymore. I mean you you name it we're talking about it. |
| 1:27.8 | So today on the podcast we are going to be hearing from our beloved friend Barbara Brown Taylor. |
| 1:36.9 | This message that she is sharing this talk happened at our last evolving faith conference |
| 1:42.4 | which was in 2022. |
| 1:44.0 | Barbara is such a good friend to all of us here at evolving faith. |
| 1:50.0 | I think I made the joke on the podcast. |
| 1:52.0 | I see was last season that she like lives in. I think I made the joke on the podcast. |
| 1:52.6 | I see it was last season that she like lives in my heart close by where Jesus lives. |
| 1:57.6 | That's not wrong, even though it's probably theologically suspect. |
| 2:02.8 | So Barbara, if you don't know her, Barbara Brown Taylor just delights and |
| 2:06.4 | captivates in her work at saying the things that you're not supposed to say. |
| 2:10.4 | She is a spiritual contrarian. |
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