Hey, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Rom. I guess today is Dr.

Beth Felker Jones, who holds a PhD from Duke University and she teaches theology at Northern

Seminary in Chicago land in Northern Chicago. She's the author of several books, including

the marks of his wounds, gender politics, and bodily resurrection, with Oxford University Press.

Really good book, a short book on theology of sex, called Faithful, a theology of sex,

and her most recent book is the second edition of her book, Practicing Christian Doctrine

and Introduction to Thinking and Living A Theologically. Really enjoyed this conversation. Beth

is an expert in all of things related to the theology of the body, and that's where we start off,

and then we kind of wander around in different areas that kind of came up in the middle of the

conversation. So I've really, really enjoyed this conversation and appreciated her perspective

very much. So please welcome to the show, the one or only Dr. Beth Felker Jones.

Beth, thanks so much for being on the show. As I said offline, I've been a fan of your work from

distance for a while now. So this is, I want to say long overdue, but I'm excited we're having

this conversation. Thanks for having me. Glad to be here. So I came across your work,

well, your focus on the theology of the body, which also spilled over into just more of a

broader theology of sexuality. You have a short book on sexuality that's fantastic. Let's go back,

how did you get into biblical scholarship? Was this something you always wanted to get into,

and then what peaked your interest in specifically about the theology of the body?

Yeah, it's definitely something I have found continually interesting for decades now,

and it continues to seem to be such an important set of questions for our culture to think about

the body. I got into it, worked in college as a church camp counselor, experienced some kind of

vague call to some kind of ministry, headed off to seminary, and sure that would be.

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