Excavate

It's the week between Christmas and the New Year. This is the perfect time to reflect on the past year so we wanted to consider what it looks like to step into a new season as people of hope. We’ll look at two women in the Old Testament that may not be the first ones you’d consider at the new year, but who have much to teach us about courage and hope. Whatever time of year you’re listening, the Widow’s encounter with Elisha and a bold enslaved girl will encourage you to widen your prophetic imagination. Let’s dig in!

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2 Kings 4:1-7

2 Kings 5:1-3, 8-16

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It’s striking how little the men of the Christmas story speak and how much space is given to the women of this story. So this week we’re going to look at the women in and around the Advent story and the way that God elevates the voices of women surrounding Jesus’s birth. We’ll talk about the strength we can draw from their stories and the way these women may represent biblical types. This is a great episode as we move into Christmas week to prepare your heart in wonder at the wisdom and power of God.

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Discussion of women shepherds: Gen. 29:6,9, Exod. 2:16

Matt 2:1

Matt. 2:16-18, Jer. 31:22

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We are so excited and honored to be welcoming Whitney Trotter to the podcast this week! In our previous episode we talked about a biblical theology of food and the body, and this week we’ll be digging deeper into how disordered eating can impact us and the ways that generational trauma connect to dynamics around food. We’ll discuss the story of the Israelites coming out of captivity in Egypt and how that shaped their relationship with food, and how God helped them rewire those patterns during their time in the wilderness.

Read along with us:

Exodus 16:1-5

Deuteronomy 8:7-10

Isa. 55:1-3

Resources mentioned by Whitney:

“Eating in the Light of the Moon” by Anita A. Johnston

“Reading the Bible with Rabbi Jesus” by Lois Tverberg

“Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome” by Joy a Degruy

“The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin” (docu-series available on HBOMax)

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In today’s episode we are beginning a conversation about our relationship with food. We’re starting with a discussion on the biblical and theological aspects of food, then in our next episode we’re welcoming Registered Dietician Whitney Trotter to lead us in a conversation about the ways eating and our relationship with food can become disordered and how to address that in healthy ways. This is a very delicate topic but because this is something that impacts literally everyone because we need to eat to live, we’d rather take the risk to begin the conversation rather than avoiding it out of fear and keeping all of us in silence and isolation. Please dig in with us.

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Ps. 145:15-16, Ps. 36:7-9, Luke 1:53

Prov. 23:1-3, 19-21

Matt. 11:18-19

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Welcome to Season 2, we’re so happy to be back! As we’re all navigating the holidays we know that can be very emotionally complex and bring up loss, trauma and grief. Today we’re going to talk about grief and gratitude and the way they pair together. It’s also something that we think women in particular navigate often and can be leaders in for our communities. We’ll look at models in Scripture and how we can learn from them in our own lives.

In Season 1 we really wanted to stick to the timeline of Scripture and what helped us understand the full story and the roles that women have always played in God’s story. In Season 2 we’ll continue to point back to those overarching themes while looking at some topical studies and some additional women that we didn’t have space to discuss in season 1. We’ll have more guests joining us this season and we’re excited to see what we uncover together!

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2 Sam 21:1-14

Esther 4:1-5

1 Samuel 2:1-11

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In recent years there has been a rise in the popularity of witchcraft and feminist spirituality. This often goes hand in hand with other trends like astrology and manifesting. Things like Spooky Season and Halloween are also more popular than ever, especially among women. Today we want to dig into a few stories in the Bible about a witch and a ghost, and a fortune teller, and see how the Bible offers us guidance to navigate our culture.

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Deuteronomy 18:9-12

1 Sam. 28:3-20

Acts 16:16-24

This week we wanted to spend time talking about themes that jumped out at us as we walked through this first season of the podcast. You know we love the Bible but one of the reasons we love it is because there’s always something new to glean and things to uncover. In season 1 we very intentionally stuck to what helped us understand the metanarrative of Scripture and the role of women in it. In season 2 we’ll be digging into some stories of women that didn’t make it into season 1, a few more topical episodes, some special guests, and your Q+A. So before we take a break and move into new content, we want to take a look back on where we’ve been and how God has moved and helped us uncover our places in God’s story.

We’ll be taking a little break for 6-8 weeks but we want to stay connected. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @excavatepodcast for new weekly content during the break

Please use the hiatus to share the show on your social media and with your friends so new people can dig in and have a good window to catch up on all of season 1 before new episodes come out.

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We’re concluding our conversation about the book of Revelation and the very good ending of God’s story. The resurrection of the body is not something that is often discussed yet it has tremendous implications for how we navigate our current relationships with our bodies. Especially for women who are often socialized and conditioned to have very ambivalent perceptions of our bodies, so this is such an important perspective shift. Plus we’ll talk about the culmination of the biblical wedding metaphor and our global hope for resurrection and honor.

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1 Cor. 15:12-28

Rev 6:9-10

If you want to keep digging into restoration theology, check out Heather’s keynote at the Jubilee Conference where she digs deeper into this topic https://youtu.be/zbZF0iQqT8U

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We’ve been tracing the metanarrative of Scripture as we look at the consistent role of women and God’s heart for women. Like all of the best stories, the ending of God’s Story is very good. Jesus teaches us to pray “on earth as it is in heaven” so we should be consistently aligning our prayers and subsequently our lives with this reality! God’s endgame is to bring healing and wholeness to our experience of culture, work, emotions, and to ultimately expose the evil of patriarchy for what it truly is and to defeat it forever. Let’s dig into how our future hope can shape our current realities

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Rev. 7:9-17

Rev. 21:1-7

Luke 12:2-3

Rev. 22:10-13

1 Cor. 13:12

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Today we are in part two of our episodes about women in the early Church. we’ll spend a little more time in Acts before shifting to Paul’s greetings at the end of his letter to the Romans. We’ll see a very clear picture of Paul regularly collaborating with and co-laboring with women in his ministry. These passages are such an important addition to his teachings on the role of women in the church and paint a much bigger picture of how his ministry played out and who was partnering with him. These are some iconic women in the faith and we can’t wait to uncover their stories together.

Read along with us:

Acts 18:1-3, 18-19, 24-28

Romans 16:1-7, 12-13

(1Cor. 16:19, 2 Tim. 4:19)

Col. 4:15

The article mentioned is “Junia, a Female Apostle: An Examination of the Historical Record” from the journal Priscilla Papers, Spring 2019

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