In this episode, Morgan makes space to consider how God mothers us, and how God's people spiritually mother one another. 

On this episode of Sanctuary Woman, we’re talking about Biblical womanhood, and how this caricature many of us have been handed as the script from which we should live our lives may not actually be a Biblical one, but rather a cultural one. 

I’m so excited about the guest we have on the show today: my colleague at Baylor University, Dr. Beth Allison Barr, who recently released a game changer of a book called The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth. 

You buy The Making of Biblical Womanhood anywhere books are sold. You can also connect with Dr. Barr at www.bethallisonbarr.com.

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Very good. Naked. Not ashamed.

We do not know much about Eve, but we do know this much of the first woman created by God and in the image of God. I have never been able to identify with this very good woman, Eve in Eden, naked and not ashamed. Until recently, I never believed that I was supposed to. I never believed that it was possible.

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Sacred Cliturgy, a monthly bonus episode of Sanctuary Woman where we discover what would happen if we talked honestly about sex with one another.

I asked the question: What if Christian women started talking about sex... like for real? What if we talked about and understood our own bodies, our own sexuality in a more healthy and holistic way... not in spite of our Christian faith, but in light of it? What if that led to better sex, better sexuality, better sex education, better single lives and better marriages?

We need to talk.

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In light of the events of this past week - the murder of two unarmed black and brown boys by law enforcement officers, twenty year old Daunte Wright, and thirteen year old Adam Toledo - and in light of the events of the past year and the forthcoming verdict of the office who murdered George Floyd, I want to lead us into a guided prayer and examen for racial justice, for concilation, and for peace, and for the role we are to play in the making of peace.

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Welcome to Eastertide, the liturgical season where we celebrate the resurrected Christ and the new life we have in a risen Jesus. 

In yesterday’s Easter service, where I attended church in person for the first time in a year, our pastor described the Resurrection story as both a cosmic story, as well as a deeply personal one. 

Resurrection. Each of us have a resurrection story of sorts, and perhaps some of us have many resurrection stories that collectively make up a much larger narrative of our resurrection life. This pandemic year, for example, has led us into a sort of resurrection story. Or, perhaps in greater need of one. 

What is your resurrection story?

In this episode, I share with you some of my own resurrection story.

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It’s time for Sacred Cliturgy, a monthly bonus episode of Sanctuary Woman where we discover what would happen if we talked honestly about sex with one another.

You see sexuality is inherently VERY GOOD. But, let’s face it... it’s complicated. It’s especially complicated when we don’t talk about it. 

So I asked the question: What if Christian women started talking about sex... like for real? What if we talked about and understood our own bodies, our own sexuality in a more healthy and holistic way... not in spite of our Christian faith, but in light of it? What if that led to better sex, better sexuality, better sex education, better single lives and better marriages?

We need to talk.

Guest: Sheila Wray Gregoire, author of The Great Sex Rescue. 

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The Resurrection Women series kicks off with Tiffany Bluhm, where she and Morgan talk about when silence is not spiritual and the importance of us as believers and as a church to be able to welcome the honest and uncomfortable stories of women and our shared experiences with another - and actually be believed.

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In this episode, Morgan examines the concepts of rest and renewal in her own life as a contemplative activist, and in our collective lives as we establish new rhythms heading into post-pandemic life.

Poem: A Standing Ground by Wendell Berry

Lectio Divina from Psalm 23.

Prayer:

O Redeemer, May your light break forth like the dawn May your renewal come quicklyOr may it come the slow wayThat’s for you to decide May your presence be with us while we waitMay you give rest to our restless hearts.Be with us in our becoming Renew our minds Renew our bodiesRenew our spirit So that as we establish our new rhythmsYour light may shine That they may see your Very Good work That we may see your Very Good work In us.Amen.

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“The earth is a forgiveness school,” Anne Lamott says. 

When I began studying forgiveness, it didn’t take long at all for God to show me that I first needed to finally forgive the church. This realization hit me like a thousand bricks when it occurred to me that I had been harboring unforgiveness toward the big C church and the little c church - the church of my childhood - for years and years and years and my own unforgiveness had turned me into someone I no longer recognized. I had become a slave to my unforgiveness. 

That became clear when, as I was studying forgiveness, I read these verses Hebrews 12:14-15 “Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.”

I was a bitter root.

Lectio Divina from Psalm 140.

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