Under God?

Paul's got something to say to the Corinthians, and Jackie and Isaiah are stressed about it.

"If you're gonna be ugly-acting with or without chips, you can keep them. You might as well eat them." What is the fast God chooses? Jackie questions an interaction at the jail, and Isaiah reflects on getting some help from his pastor. 

Cover Art: Pawlicki, Michal. Words Can't Feed the Hungry, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN.  http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=55838 [retrieved February 8, 2020]. Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/undpeuropeandcis/5269051224/.

In our very first episode, your co-hosts, Jackie Newsome and Isaiah Lewis, get straight to the serious questions. Who wrote the Gospel of Luke? Could Jesus have chosen not to be the Messiah? And what's the deal with turtledoves? 

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Your co-hosts, Jackie and Isaiah, share why we've decided to practice lectio divina together. 

The Bible is a lot of things: beautiful, confusing, funny, strange, terrifying. It's sacred for billions of people around the world. But it's also been used to justify everything from white supremacy to boycotting Teletubbies. Is there anything in the Good Book for outsiders like us? Join public defender Jackie Newsome and writer Isaiah Lewis as we question the text in search of hope and justice in today's America.