We Belong to God, with Lisa Sharon Harper
The Evolving Faith Podcast
Sarah Bessey
4.9 • 939 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Lisa opens by sharing about her own realization that the gospel she was taught wouldn’t actually be good news for her own enslaved grandmother. This crisis of faith took her to the Book of Genesis, and she reminds us that the text was written by Brown, colonized people. Lisa tells listeners that we have to have eyes to read from this perspective to understand God’s actual good news laid out in Scripture. She explains that when God said “This is very good” on the sixth day, the Hebrews understood goodness to exist between things, the relationships between all of creation. Lisa concludes by encouraging listeners that we bear the image of God, so we are called to steward creation and relationships toward radical wellness. This radical wellness is very good news indeed. Following Lisa’s talk, Jeff and Sarah discuss learning the stories of our ancestors and the intentionality of pilgrimage as we seek the “holy equalizing” good news for ourselves and our neighbors.
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| 0:00.0 | A call to ministry can feel strange and awe-inspiring at the very same time. |
| 0:05.0 | Union Presbyterian Seminary hopes to support you in your discernment. |
| 0:09.0 | They equip leaders to live into their calling, with campuses in Richmond and Charlotte as well as a variety of online and hybrid options, |
| 0:17.0 | theological education is more accessible than you may realize. Contact their admissions team at admissions at upsem that's UPSem. |
| 0:27.0 | edu to hear more about their community. Only God can be perfect. God does not want us to strive to be God. God wants us to be human and to love. |
| 0:50.3 | That's it. That is all of it. That is all of it. Hi friends I'm Sarah Bessie. |
| 1:05.0 | And I'm Jeff Chu. |
| 1:10.0 | Welcome back to the Evolving Faith Podcast. |
| 1:12.0 | You can find us on Twitter and Instagram as at Evolve Faith, |
| 1:16.3 | that's EVOLV, FAITH, |
| 1:19.1 | and on Facebook as Evolving Faith. |
| 1:21.3 | Thank you for joining us today. We're so glad you're here. |
| 1:24.7 | Jeff, we did promise our friends a recurring segment a few episodes ago called |
| 1:28.9 | Welcome to the Party Jeff, wherein you get to talk about past pop culture that you have recently discovered for the first time |
| 1:35.8 | so I am wondering which party we are welcoming you to this week. |
| 1:41.5 | Do people actually have parties all the time? Is that a thing people do? Because I feel like I discovered one new thing in the past couple of months and shouldn't that be enough? So what I'm hearing from you is no. No you have |
| 1:56.9 | nothing new that you have discovered. I think I told you a while ago that we are working our |
| 2:02.1 | way through NCIS. This is a new project that we started during |
| 2:07.1 | the pandemic and it turns out that this show is very, very, very long. MCIS, it feels almost too aggressively on brand for your grandma brand. |
| 2:18.0 | So basically what I'm hearing is that now this is an annual segment that once a year we will have a |
| 2:24.0 | welcome Jeff we will welcome Jeff to the party it will be a once a year segment and so |
| 2:29.8 | stay tuned folks you will not want to miss it. |
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