This week BibleWorm reads Acts 16:16-40, a story of Paul and Silas being thrown into prison in Phillipi. It’s a rich and complex story about power and faith and imprisonment and freedom, and it raises the ever-present question - how do we overturn harmful systems of power, while also protecting the vulnerable people who are bound up in those systems? We are amazed at the transformation that happens while Paul and Silas are in prison, where they sing and the others listen; where nobody bothers to run away once the shackles that bind their bodies are opened. And we are only more amazed at the care that Paul and Silas have taken to protect the prison guard. But there is someone else in this story whose fate they seem to overlook, whose story seems primarily to set up the main story. So we wonder, what ever happened to the slave girl?
Episode 520 The Parables of Jesus (Mark 4:1-34)
Episode 519 Their Faith Has Made You Well (Mark 2:1-22)
Episode 518 Following the Call (Mark 1:1-20)
Episode 517 The Christmas Story (Luke 2:1-20) SPECIAL EPISODE
Episode 516 The Birth of John the Baptist (Luke 1:5-25 & 57-80)
Episode 515 Rebuilding from the Ruins (Ezra 1:1-4 and 3:1-13)
Episode 514 Comfort, O Comfort My People (Isaiah 40:1-11)
Episode 513 Hope Against Hope (Jeremiah 33:1-18)
Episode 512 Finding the Torah (2 Kings 22:1-20 and 23:1-3)
Episode 511 The Song of the Vineyard and the Stump of Jesse (Isaiah 5:1-7 and 11:1-9)
Episode 510 God as Parent (Hosea 11:1-9)
Episode 509 Elijah and the Prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18:17-39)
Episode 508 The Division of the Kingdom (1 Kings 12:1-17, 25-29)
Episode 507 Praising the Lord (2 Samuel 5:1-5, 6:1-15, and Psalm 150)
Episode 506 Where You Go I Will Go (Ruth 1:1-17 and 4:13-16)
Episode 505 Listen, O Israel! (Deuteronomy 5:1-21& 6:4-9)
Episode 504 Responding to the Call (Exodus 1:8-2:10 and 3:1-15)
Episode 503 Jacob Wrestles with God (Genesis 32:9-13 & 22-30)
Episode 502 Laughing at the Promise (Genesis 18:1-15 and 21:1-7)
Episode 501 Created for Relationship (Genesis 2:4b-25)
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