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Resistance Series: Resistance in the Bible

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Truth's Table

Religion & Spirituality

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Episode 003: Resistance in the Bible Who and what comes to mind when you think about scripture and resistance? The women will lift up some of their favorite scriptural passages and glean both theological and sociological implications for today for the church and society. Hosts: Michelle Higgins (twitter.com/AfroRising) Christina Edmondson (twitter.com/DrCEdmondson) Ekemini Uwan (twitter.com/sista_theology) Producer: Beau York (twitter.com/TheRealBeauYork) Special Thanks To: RAAN - www.RAANetwork.org (twitter.com/RAANetwork) Podastery - www.podastery.com (twitter.com/Podastery) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0

And the Hey y'all,

0:15.0

welcome to Truth's Table, midwives of culture for grace and truth.

0:20.0

I'm a Kimini.

0:21.0

I'm Michelle Michelle and Christina.

0:23.8

Last time we talked about what resistance means to us and today

0:28.5

scriptural resistance is on the table.

0:30.8

So ladies, where do you see scriptural warrant for resistance?

0:36.0

I feel like there's some of it everywhere in scripture.

0:40.0

I mean the whole story of Jesus entering into our reality is resisting the narrative

0:49.2

right of fallenness of brokenness that we ourselves created through Adam and Eve. So I think it's all over the place but particularly there's a lot of it going on in the book of judges.

1:02.0

So, first of all, that's my book.

1:06.0

Like, I really like this book of the Bible.

1:10.0

I mean, you know, everyone doing right in their own eyes a little tea truth everywhere

1:17.8

and then you've got these profits and judges that are raised up who are,

1:23.5

each of them flawed in their own ways,

1:25.4

some narratives more expanded than others.

1:28.1

But in this narrative of Deborah,

1:31.1

there's a really powerful testament to resistance that is bold and that's the

1:38.0

story of Yael and Cicero and I'm really really digging that narrative particularly. I mean not just because the lady gets a tent peg and drives it through the evil general's hand.

1:53.0

But mostly because Yiel is as a woman,

1:57.0

she's like the bottom of the totem pole, right?

2:01.0

And to the people who will be reading this narrative later, she's a Gentile has no

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