This week BibleWorm reads the story of the Elisha and Naaman in 2 Kings 5:1-15. The story focuses on the Aramean general Naaman, who is successful in battle but hindered by a case of leprosy that no one can cure. When an Israelite girl tells Naaman to visit the prophet Elisha in Israel, it sets in motion a drama animated by the peculiar expectations of people in power about how the world should work—proper chains of authority, proper expressions of hospitality…and proper rituals of healing. Naaman is offended when Elisha doesn’t come to the door to see him and even more upset that Elisha should tell him to bathe in the river Jordan. We talk about the ways our expectations of how things should be can hinder our ability to experience the miraculous, how people outside of positions of power are often the ones who can see most clearly, and the possibility that God’s healing power is already in the world, not requiring someone to mediated it with a wave of the hand but only someone who can recognize God’s work and point others in the right direction.
Episode 307 The Call of Samuel (1 Samuel 3:1-21)
Episode 306 Manna in the Wilderness (Exodus 16:1-18)
Episode 305 The Call of Moses (Exodus 2:23-25; 3:1-15; 4:1-10)
Episode 304 SPECIAL EPISODE Brent Strawn: Lies My Preacher Told Me
Episode 303 The Blessing of Jacob (Genesis 27:1-23 and 28:10-17)
Episode 302 The Binding of Isaac (Genesis 21:1-3 and 22:1-14)
Episode 301 God's Generous Creativity (Genesis 1:1-2:4a)
Episode 250 (Replay) Resisting Ethnic Nationalism (Esther 3:1-11 and 7:1-10)
Episode 249 (Replay) Resisting the Patriarchy (Esther 1:1-22)
Episode 248 (Replay) Reading Ruth Against the Grain (Ruth 1:14-18 and 3:1-15)
Episode 247 (Replay) Making Ancient Israel Great Again (Ruth 2:1-20 and 4:9-17)
Episode 246 (Replay) Solidarity and Allegory (Song of Songs 5:2-9 and 8:5-10)
Episode 245 (Replay) The Joy of Sex (Song of Songs1:12-2:6 and 7:1-13)
Episode 244 (Replay) Trauma Has Many Voices (Lamentations 3 and 5)
Episode 243 (Replay) Trauma and Protest (Lamentations 1:18-22 and 2:10-22)
Episode 242 (Replay) For Everything There is a Time (Ecclesiastes 1:4-11 and 3:1-11)
Episode 241 (Replay) Everything is Vapor (Ecclesiastes 1:1-3 and 8:16-9:10)
Episode 240 The Fruit of the Spirit (Acts 2:1-4 & Galatians 5:16-26)
Episode 239 Unity in Christ (Galatians 3:1-9, 23-29)
Episode 238 Faith and Torah (Galatians 1:13-17 & 2:11-21)
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