This week on the Intersectionality thread, Angela sits down with Old Testament scholar Rev. Dr. Renita Weems to talk about how Christians can widen the metaphorical table of Bible interpretation to examine biases, face difficult passages, and be formed by different perspectives. Dr. Weems discusses how race and gender and class represent multiple systems that interrogate our context and should challenge us as we read the Bible in community with one another. As Dr. Weems warns us, "Always remember interpretation is about power and those with power determine which interpretation becomes the dominate one.”
Resources mentioned in the conversation:
Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope by Joan D. Chittister and Franciscan Media
Check out these Mutuality magazine issues from CBE:
Learning Lament, Building Empathy, and Joining our Sisters at the Intersection of Race and Gender
Womanist Theology: Unraveling the Double Bind of Racism and Sexism
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S2 E9: Decolonizing Our Gender Theology
S2 E8: Significance of Singleness
S2 E7: Gender Can't Capture God
S2 E6: Jesus Came to Disrupt
S2 E5: Gender Roles + the Sexual Cartel
S2 E4: Can We Man It Up?
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S2 E2: ”Why didn‘t God make me a boy so I could be a preacher?”
S2 E1: Tackling the Classics
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Ep 9: Local Heroes - Rev. Dr. Jonathan Huggins
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EP 7: Dating Series Part 3
Ep 6: Dating Series Part 2
Ep 5: Dating Series Part 1
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