Nika Spaulding

Pharisees make good neighbors. What? We've all heard about the Pharisees! We know them as legalistic, hypocritical and anti-Jesus. You might be surprised to learn, as I did, that we would love them as our neighbors. Nika Spaulding discusses what other writings of that era tell us about them, and how they lead us to understand that Pharisees make good neighbors indeed.

This episode is also available in a video version.

Time stamps

2:05 - Why do we need to talk about the Pharisees?

3:36 - Who should be listening to this conversation?

7:25 - What do we need to know about the Pharisees that we haven't heard before?

16:55 - What do we do with the passages where Jesus and the Pharisees seem to be fighting?

25:05 - How can we be more careful with the text?

27:46 - What two or three things should we remember?

34:00 - How can our churches be more welcoming?