The Moth Radio Hour: Bearing Witness

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In this hour, stories about seeing and witnessing. This episode is hosted by Meg Bowles. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Hosted by: Meg Bowles Storytellers: Alice Schaffer, a preacher's daughter, grows up in fear of the lessons learned in Sunday school. Dawn Ross tries to adjust to life in rural Arkansas. D. Parvaz, a journalist covering the uprising in Syria, is arrested and imprisoned. Leland Melvin suffers a devastating injury that cuts short his dream of flying in space. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour.
0:15.0	I'm Meg Bowles, and in this hour, we'll hear four stories that bring to life the old
0:19.2	adage, you live and you learn.
0:21.6	Of course, that saying is true of most experiences.
0:24.6	Our present is the culmination of our past.
0:26.6	And our past is generally full of mistakes and epiphanies,
0:30.6	the basic ingredients for any good story.
0:33.6	Our first storyteller, Alice Schaefer, was raised in Mississippi, the daughter of a fundamentalist
0:40.0	Presbyterian preacher.
0:41.7	She shared her story at one of our open mic story slams in New Orleans, which is sponsored by
0:46.3	local public radio station WWNO.
0:49.7	The theme of the night was Love Hurts.
0:52.0	Here's Alice Schaefer, live at the mall.
0:58.7	I am the third daughter of a violent fundamentalist Presbyterian preacher and I'm telling you
1:05.6	this because I want you to understand that growing up I knew that God is love. But if you cross him, he will set you on fire,
1:18.6	send you to hell, and you will burn forever. But he does other things before that like give you terrible diseases.
1:31.3	One is leprosy.
1:33.3	The Bible is full of stories about lepros.
1:37.3	They were all in rags.
1:40.3	They couldn't go inside the cities.
1:42.3	And they had to cry, unclean, unclean.
1:46.7	But Jesus could lay his hands on him and cure them if he was in the mood.
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