Bite Size Bible

Faith Kemmler joins Laura Bentley to talk about how children explore who God is, and what adults can learn from kids about imagination, curiosity, and play. How might our understanding of God change if we did a little less studying and a little more playing?

Is Halloween really the devil’s holiday? To spoil the episode, no, not at all.

Listen as J, Bentley, and Faith talk about Halloween as not only a holiday with Christian origins, but as a time that can draw us deeper into community and closer to what Christ is up to in the world.

We're back! Join Pastors J and Bentley for a conversation about vocation and calling. How is God calling us in the big decisions of our lives and in the mundane day-to-day, too?

Freshly back from Scotland, Jason Freyer sits down with Laura Bentley to talk about reformed theology. What is it? Why does it matter? And how might we be "reformed and always reforming" in our own faith?

Today's bonus episode is an extended edition of "What's Faith Learning in Seminary?" This episode doubles as her capstone project for the class Religious Literature of the Enslaved.

Faith shares about the significance of the Exodus story in the quest for black freedom through today's ongoing quest for racial justice.

Bentley and Faith continue the conversation about LGBTQIA+ inclusion by unpacking "clobber verses" used to condemn homosexuality and same-sex relationships. They dive into how these verses are misused and taken out of context and what a more faithful reading looks like.

Bentley and Faith begin a new series exploring how Scripture can lead us to greater inclusion. This episode pulls together threads from many previous episodes about context, the overarching trajectory of Scripture, and the Spirit still speaks today. And it serves as an intro to why we welcome, affirm, and celebrate LGBTQ folks within our church community. BSB will dive deeper in coming weeks about specific texts and about how we understand Scripture's call to break down the barriers that divide us.

Faith Kemmler is joined by guest, Harrison Burgess, to talk about the story of the Ethiopian Eunuch. Harrison shares highlights from a recent Veritas discussion on the story and what it has to say about welcome, hospitality, inclusion, and community.

Bentley and Faith dive more deeply into context, what it means to read Scripture in its historical and literary concert, and how the heck to do it. Faith shares helpful resources. And Bentley almost undermines the whole thing by asking when the Spirit might move us beyond the original meaning of the text.

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Join Laura Bentley for a conversation with Senior Pastor, Jason Freyer, about his first sermon series as he starts his call at Westminster. What does it mean that God’s Word was made flesh? And what does it matter?