Episode 67: Rev. Dr Lina Toth for Sunday 30th October

This week on Politics in the Pulpit, Lee is chatting to Rev. Dr Lina Toth.

Rev. Dr Lina Toth is Assistant Principal and Lecturer in Practical Theology at the Scottish Baptist College, UK, and Senior Research Fellow at the IBTS Centre, The Netherlands. A musician and artist as well as a theologian, she is particularly interested in ethics, spirituality, and theology of culture. She is the author of Singleness and Marriage after Christendom and Transforming the Struggles of Tamars: Single Women and Baptistic Communities. She is Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy, Editor of Theology in Scotland journal, and Chair of the Worship and Spirituality Commission of the Baptist World Alliance.

They discuss the lectionary readings for Sunday 23rd October:
Habakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4

2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12

Luke 19: 1-10

Psalm 119:137-144

Lina also suggested the use of Carolyn Winfrey Gillette's song about Zacchaeus in worship services responding to the lectionary, which you can find here: http://www.carolynshymns.com/zacchaeus_was_a_tax_man.html  

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