• Perseverance amidst systemic injustice and economic exploitation;
• Importance of communal care and addressing chronic illness with dignity;
• Wealth as a chronic illness in spiritual and social realms;
• Church discipline and communal accountability for the wealthy;
• False security of hoarding wealth and exploitative systems.
• Allegiance to people and justice over economic stability.
• Reimagining economic security rooted in community care.
• Jesus' ethic—breaking powers that exploit and marginalize.
• Loving kindness, womb love, and compassionate care.

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Read LIT online: litbible.net/james-5

Liberating Scripture Collective: www.liberatingscripture.org

More about the LIT Bible: litbible.net/translation-commitments

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• The "desire for pleasures" James condemns isn't about sex — it's about golden toilets, rent-gouging, and union-busting.
• Your 401(k) might be morally complicated.
• "The world" James warns against isn't a vague spiritual fog — it's redlining, ICE raids, and every system where one human decides they matter more than another.
• Public prayer was never meant to be a private hotline to God — it's how a community surfaces each other's needs and volunteers to meet them.
• There's a reason the jet-ski buyer doesn't ask permission from the congregation first.
• "If you support ICE, you are an enemy of God. That's according to James."
• Judging someone's worth as a human is forbidden. Judging whether their actions cause harm is not only allowed — it's required.
• "If God wills it" is not a verbal get-out-of-jail-free card you can staple to a business plan.
• James asks you to let other people's suffering actually land on you — and the hosts connect that to people laughing about Alligator Alcatraz.

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Read LIT online: litbible.net/james-4

More about the LIT Bible: litbible.net/translation-commitments

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Read LIT online: https://litbible.net/hebrews-6

More about the LIT Bible: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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• Dehumanizing words vs taboo words;
• What kind of speech disqualifies someone from church leadership;
• "you piece of 💩" vs "look at that 💩"
• Competitive self-promotion in tension with maturity;
• Open-mindedness, not certainty, as a mark of Christian maturity;
• The role of power and hierarchy in how we speak.

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Read LIT online: https://litbible.net/james-3

More about the LIT Bible: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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• The importance of avoiding the word faith in translation;
• What James probably meant by faith;
• Comparing what James and Paul each meant by works;
• Classism and power's role in James' exhortations about modesty;
• The importance of solidarity with the poor in shaping our faithfulness.

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Read LIT online: https://litbible.net/james-2

More about the LIT Bible: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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• The Letter of James is best understood through the lens of 1:27.
• Doubt in James is not about uncertainty in belief.
• Caring for orphans and widows is a central call of the faith.
• Avoiding the oppressor's mindset is the flipside to helping widows and orphans.

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Read LIT online: https://litbible.net/james-1

More about the LIT Bible: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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• Is there a unifying theme behind James' meandering letter?
• Why did this letter piss off so many church leaders over the millennia?
• What can we learn about early Christianity from James?
• Why was James so fixated on power relationships?

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Welcome to Season 8 of Found in Translation! We're thrilled to spend the next several weeks exploring the memorable, passionate, no-BS, seemingly-meandering, hotly contested letter attributed to Jesus' little brother.

One of our favorite aspects of the Christian scriptures is how much better it is when heard in stereo: all of its authors are working out the meaning and beauty and scandal of Jesus. Each of the four evangelists have their own insights, Paul's pile of letters tease out what he learned about Jesus as a nationalist-turned-racial-justice advocate, Priscilla riffs on Paul's stuff in her own way, and so many more. Here we have the long-time leader of the Way in Jerusalem working out what he understood was the legacy and meaning of his older brother.

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Read LIT online: https://litbible.net/james-intro

More about the LIT Bible: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1

Most exciting: we're recording our first LIVE episode at the Queer Christian Fellowship Conference in Portland, happening January 22-25. www.qcfconf.org for more! We hope to see you there.

Read more of the Liberation & Inclusion Translation at www.litbible.net.

• Anti-Caesar coding throughout the story;
• how much better the gospel is apart from Christian supremacism;
• how to understand the great commission through a liberation & inclusion hermeneutic;
• identifying the inclusive center in the literary structure of Matthew;
• empathy and compassion are central to the gospel.

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Our returning guest co-host today is Kalie Hargrove (she/her). Kalie is a writer, theologian, and activist who lives in the greater-Atlanta area with her partner and two kids. She is currently writing a commentary on the Gospel According to Matthew using the LIT Bible. Kalie has been part of LGBTQ+ activism bringing awareness of the legalized discrimination queer and trans students face at religious universities. She received her Master of Divinity from United Theological Seminary of Twin Cities. 

Kalie is Director of Digital Outreach at the Center for Prophetic Imagination, which seeks to connect the intersection of socio-spiritual discernment and radical justice in our world.

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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-28

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1

• Pilate and the banality of evil;
• The enduring temptation of revering the violent;
• Disability injustice in the church and the Bible;
• Solidarity is central to salvation;
• Manipulating crowds into bloodlust is as old as time;
• Scapegoating vibes on Good Friday;
• Jesus' crucifixion was (like) a lynching;
• The varying reasons for Jesus' crucifixion;
• The meaning Jesus seemed to ascribe to his state murder;
• Resisting antisemitism as a core hermeneutical commitment.

Our returning guest co-host today is Mae Forrest Barnes! She is completing her PhD on disability justice in the church, cohosts The Anarchodox Podcast, and can be found on Bluesky @dr-maeforrest.bsky.social . Her Substack is at https://maeforrestbarnes.substack.com/.

Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-27

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1

• The Eucharist is about an ever-widening belonging in God, and Matthew structured his entire gospel around it.
• The challenge of soothing nerves when confronting state violence.
• The cyclical nature of domination and liberation in the Bible and history.
• Resisting the antisemitic lure of seeing the Pharisees as the baddies, not just one set of antagonists.
• Jesus behavior amid a sham trial and a frothed-up lynch mob.
• The synergy between various kinds of domination power.

Our guest co-host today is Brian G. Murphy (he/him). Brian is the co-host of the Queer Theology Podcast and is the co-creator of Legalize Trans, an artistic and educational movement to advance gender justice. He has been doing LGBTQ activism and education for over a decade with organizations. Brian is also a certified relationship coach, working with folks to open up their relationship and navigate the issues that come with open relationships and polyamory. His upcoming book is Love Beyond Monogamy.

He's on all the socials with the handle @thisisbgm.

Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-25

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1

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• "I understand that reference" – How Jesus used loads of metacultural nods to embellish his alarm toward his neighbors' self-destructive nationalism;
• the intersection of the Black church and Anabaptism;
• the Bible is holy because it is a library of testimonies of the losers;
• Jesus' advice for getting through apocalyptic times;
• immigrant-love as a defining mark of Christian witness;
• exasperation with revolutionary violence; and
• where to see Jesus every day.

Our guest co-host today is Pastor Trey Ferguson (he/him). Trey is a minister and public theologian who serves as the pastor of The Intention Church, an intentionally online church community built on the historic Black Church and the Anabaptist/Mennonite traditions. Trey also serves as the Executive Pastor at the Refuge Church in Homestead, Florida where he lives. 

You can check out Trey's wordplay on his Substack (The Son Do Move) and his podcasts, the New Living Treyslation and Three Black Men.

He's on all the socials with the handle @pastortrey05.

Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-24 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-25

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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• What Jesus knew would get him killed;
• Why he was fiercest to those – the Pharisees – with whom he was most theologically aligned;
• The similar anger we find in ourselves toward evangelicalism going after Christian nationalism;
• The importance of rebuking the temptation to read these passages antisemitically;
• Why religious fakers pissed Jesus off so much;
• How truthfulness and no-bullshit vibes became central to Jesus' social vision;
• Why Jesus would be so irate at Christians antagonizing LGBTQ folk in his name;
• and more!

Our guest co-host today is Jenna DeWitt (she/her pronouns). Jenna is a writer, editor, and resource curator, working primarily in queer Christian spaces and centering aromanticism and asexuality. You can find her work at InvisibleCakeSociety.com or on Substack, Threads, or BlueSky.

• Substack: https://invisiblecakesociety.substack.com/
• Threads: https://www.threads.com/@jennadewitt
• BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tkb2vbmnqo5wqtmnwnrsz6rm

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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-23

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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• The queer theology anthem that happened to be Jesus' favorite song lyric
• Jesus' street pageantry entering Jerusalem parodying the imperial occupation;
• Merch tables in the part of the temple dedicated to hosting outsiders;
• Jesus' mounting sense of his looming lynching;
• Jesus' GTFO clapbacks;
• and much more

Our guest co-host is Naphtali Renshaw (she/they). Naphtali is the director of the BeLonging Space, a United Methodist ministry which resources faith communities to support LGBTQ+ and BIPOC-led liberation groups as acts of solidarity and reparations, including as de-escalators at Pride events. They are also the on-site support for the Maxwell Community Hub, a UMC building reimagined for neighborliness and queer liberation.

• https://www.facebook.com/naphtali.renshaw
• https://thebelongingspace.org/

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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-21 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-22

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Our guest co-host is Kalie Hargrove (she/her). Kalie is a writer, theologian, and activist who lives in the greater-Atlanta area with her partner and two kids. She has been part of LGBTQ+ activism bringing awareness of the legalized discrimination queer and trans students face at religious universities. She received her Master of Divinity from United Theological Seminary of Twin Cities. 

Kalie is Director of Digital Outreach at the Center for Prophetic Imagination, which seeks to connect the intersection of socio-spiritual discernment and radical justice in our world.

• https://www.kaliehargrove.com/
• https://bsky.app/profile/kaliehargrove.com
• Podcast & Substac - https://propheticimagination.substack.com/s/the-lies-that-bind-us

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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-19 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-20

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Our guest cohost is Avery Arden (they/zir). Avery is a genderqueer autistic minister in Atlanta whose work proclaims the holiness and agency of trans and disabled people. Drawing from both Catholic and Reform traditions, their theology is incarnational, Trinitarian, and rooted in breaking binaries. And of course, you've heard Avery many times on The Word in Black and Red.

• Avery's Linktree - https://linktr.ee/queerlychristian
• Avery's Website – https://queerlychristian.wixsite.com/website
• Blessed are the Binary Breakers Podcast – Apple

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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-14 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-15

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Our guest cohost is Elle Dowd (she/they). Elle is a bi-furious pastor who preaches, writes and teaches about God’s desire to liberate us from the things we use to oppress each other: cis-heterosexism, racism, ableism, queerphobia, colonialism, misogyny, childism, capitalism and white supremacy.  She believes we must deconstruct the harmful systems infecting the Christian Church and other American institutions, that a queer/femme interpretation of scripture is at the center of grace, and all bodies – including yours – are beautifully and wonderfully made.

• Elle's Website – https://elledowd.com/
• Elle's Book – Baptized in Tear Gas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist
• Elle on Facebook

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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-14 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-15

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Episode highlights

• Compassion should take precedence over strict adherence to rules.
• Sabbath is a revolutionary practice that promotes rest and justice.
• Curiosity is essential for understanding and growth.
• Why the story of Jonah slaps.
• Oppression harms everyone, including the oppressor.
• How what we believe & practice about knowledge & learning can be fundamentally anti-authoritarian
• Community and mutual aid are part of how this whole God-thing works

Our guest co-host today is Ell, a cohost over at the fantastic podcast The Word in Black and Red. She is a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, is a board member at her church, and enjoys gardening spending time in nature. Ell’s pronouns are she/they.

• The Word in Black and Red

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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-12 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-13

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Keywords: Bible, Matthew, parables, compassion, justice, authority, spirituality, faith, community, interpretation

We're vibe-ranking them based variously on:

• Do they translate faithfully about LGBTQ kin being included in God?
• Was any of it actively translated to justify domination, authoritarianism, or sexism?
• Is it lovely?
• What's the cringe level?
• How faithful is it to the Greek?

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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Episode highlights:

• Christian anarchism as a practice and a hermeneutic,
• the subversive aspects of Jesus' commissioning the twelve,
• the hidden edge of some of Jesus' spiciest sayings,
• Amish wisdom fist-bumping anarchism

Our guest cohost is Rev. Terry Stokes (he/they). Rev. Stokes is an anarchist theologian who seeks to foster political and spiritual radicalization through his writing and speaking.

He holds degrees from Yale University and Princeton Theological Seminary, and was ordained as a minister of word and sacrament by Park Avenue Baptist Church, an abolitionist congregation on Mvskoke Land (Atlanta, GA).

He lives on Munsee Lenape land (central NJ), where he works with children and youth as a nonprofit director.

Their new book, Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People, is available now.

More about Terry:

• www.terryjstokes.com
• IG: @anarchyterry
• Book: Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People

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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-10 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-11

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Episode highlights:

• ableism and leprosy,
• Jesus' massive shoutout to a queer Centurion,
• the only person in the Bible outside the holy family to submit to their spouses,
• whether Brandon Johnson is willing to add a winking emoji to the LIT bible,
• antisemitic vibes of some texts,
• problems with the economic convenience of pigs and people tormented by demons.

Our guest cohost is Micah Belong (xe/xey). Micah is the founding cohost of the outstanding podcast The Word in Black and Red, where a rotating cast of wise souls are exploring the Hebrew Bible one chapter or so at a time through a liberationist and leftist lens. If you like Found in Translation, you're going to positively adore TWIBAR.

• "The Word in Black and Red" podcast (Apple Podcasts, Spotify)
• Support TWIBAR on Patreon.

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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-8 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-9

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Episode highlights:

• trusting how the poor hear Jesus,
• it takes a community to resist Mammon,
• embracing Christ class consciousness, and
• the most boring question you can ask about biblical money ethics.

Our guest cohost is Matt Tebbe (he/him). Matt is an Episcopal priest in Indianapolis where he co-pastors The Table. He co-founded Gravity Commons where he helps lead a community dedicated to learning how to follow Jesus and take love seriously in the post-Christian culture of the 21st Century. He also talks shit about the false god of Mammon on social media.

• Matt's Substack
• Gravity Commons
• Matt on X, Facebook, Threads

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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-6 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-7

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Our guest cohost is Frances Cutshaw, D.Min. (she/they). Frances is the Founder and "Wilderness Abbess" of the Order of Hildegard, an unaffiliated community of practice which exists to center, celebrate and develop the interfaith cross-vocational spiritual leadership of those marginalized by traditional religious structures such as LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, people with disabilities and neurodiversities and those otherwise disillusioned with harmful, puritanical patriarchal religious structures. She recently completed her thesis "Shame as the Great Obstacle and Unexpected Invitation to Shalom." They were raised on the tribal lands of the Cherokee Nation in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and lives somewhat south of there these days.

• Order of St Hildegard
• Frances' Substack

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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-5

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Our guest cohost this week is the delightful and delightful Mae Forrest Barnes (she/her). Mae writes at https://maeforrestbarnes.substack.com/ and you can listen to her at The Anarchodox Podcast. (Apple Podcasts, Spotify)

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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-3 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-4

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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We trace the political tension that pulses beneath every angelic message, Herodian sh*tfit, and nativity set piece. This isn’t just theology—it’s resistance, survival, and the God who sides with the vulnerable.

Listen in and see what empire always fears most: a different kind of king.

www.aaronjsmith.net

Aaron on BlueSky, Instagram, and Threads

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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-1 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-2

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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This season we're going to do it a little different: each episode will have a guest co-host to join us in exploring the text.

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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-intro

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Read LIT online: www.litbible.net/matthew

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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We take this week as an opportunity to reflect on the entire flow of Romans that leads us to his final arguments, ponder about implications for today, and give this season's parting drop-kick to the ESV to the Apostle Junia.

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Read LIT online: www.litbible.net/romans-14

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And yet Paul still desires to complete his letter with explicit ethical guidance: how to be a people of this kind of peace.

Looming over it all is Rome. What of those who hope in the Pax Romana? Who control their known world? Here we encounter some of Paul's most widely abused language, Romans 13, concerning the power of the state and those who claim to wield violence for public good. Is he endorsing their exclusive claim to violence? Doesn't this give free reign to authoritarians?

Historic translations have bent Paul's words to suggest as much. We call bullshit. With the help of historians and political scientists, let's listen deeply for why this isn't a moment of Paul losing the plot. It's deeply subversive, and even a wee bit anarchistic.

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Read LIT online: www.litbible.net/romans-12

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Can the Liberation & Inclusion Translation help us make better sense of Romans 9 through 11? Will it be part of a seamless letter? We believe it must. It must be heard within Paul's wider insistence that in Christ Jew and Gentile are woven together in one non-hierarchal holy belonging.

Along the way we'll address passages that historically are used to support predestination, God sending people to hell, and other wacky toxic shit.

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Read LIT online: www.litbible.net/romans-9

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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• more time exploring the oppressive legacy of sarx/flesh through a therapeutic lens;
• the full-hearted rebuke of accusation and judgement in those animated by Life-Breath;
• "everything collaborates for the benefit of those who love God" is leagues and miles better than "God works in all things for the good of those who love him;" and
• how this all ties together the letter's deeper community-related pleas.

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Read LIT online: www.litbible.net/romans-8

More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Jewish folk outside of their homeland equated reading Torah together to being in the Temple itself! Its practice, memory, and presence were fundamental to their community identity. No wonder the early Christians had to spend so much time sorting out Torah's relationship to Jesus' death and their life together. Paul spent a lot of time trying to mine meaning from the mess, and along the way help the tiny communities across the empire grow in love and faithfulness.

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Christ have mercy: too many theologies are built around God being the prosecutor. But... Satan's name is literally The Accuser. And in the wider argument of Romans, who is accusing us but the person fixated on obedience and cultural conformity as the conditions of belonging. It's one another who is the accuser, the prosecutor. It is us in our anger playing the role of the satan.

What a world of difference this makes! It is our own puny fearfulness that is satanic, not the Creator! No wonder in 5:9 we are liberated from our own anger, not saved from God's wrath.

Skeptical? Listen on, and let us know what you think!

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As with the whole of Romans, we think this "faith vs works" stuff is actually way more about this life, way more about what determines one's belonging in a local Jesus huddle today than who'll be playing football with Jesus in a big big house in the clouds by and by.

There's so much here – and we haven't even scratched all the warped ways faith is contrasted to doubt, or how its battle with works is used to sidestep justice.

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This foundational distinction may seem arcane, but it will reap dividends chapter after chapter as we go through Romans. And it'll haunt us as we reflect on the terms of community belonging in our own times and places.

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Micah hosts The Word in Black and Red, an outstanding podcast exploring the Hebrew Bible through leftist and queer lenses, one chapter or tale at a time. Each episode gets a slightly different blend of cohosts and guests, which makes for dependably invigorating reflections on some of the strangest stories in the Bible.

You can find out more about Micah and TWIBAR at https://linktr.ee/twibar.

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It gets better: even some of the most popular Christian sentiments that cite Romans ("there's nothing you can do to earn your salvation") is an out of focus riff on what Paul's actually doing. In that case, it's Paul's vision of a universal belonging in God through Christ (1:16), that takes concrete historical form as a community in which no ethnic markers that can earn our holy belonging.

Intrigued? Join us as we survey the legacy of Romans and the thesis in chapter 1 as Brandon Johnson sees it.

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We'll be back next week with season 6: Romans!

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See you in 2024, for season 6: Romans!

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This chapter is packed with that level of consequential changes. Understanding that holiness is about pursuing peace with everyone, particularly through the lens of economic justice and non-exploitation, is a watershed distinction that Brandon's translation argues for forcefully.

Few episodes have left us as amazed at the liberative power dormant beneath the avalanche of misleading/shitty translations as this.

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Translators have had a hand in this: translating "discipline" instead of childrearing," "punishes" instead of "corrects," and more. Making better sense of the text then hides in a jungle of mealy-mouthed religious phrases ("shared in his holiness") that at best are confusing, but more alarmingly can reinforce a hierarchal, purity, punishment religion.

Let's try it another way.

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Notice what comes before: Jesus 101 is love and generosity. Then notice what comes after: waywardness expressed as scapegoating among them (re-crucifying Christ). Priscilla is arguing that if you're practicing the Jesus Way, then subsequent doctrine will come into focus and it'll exorcise any impulse to solve problems with violence and exclusion.

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And I'm talking about the word meno, here, from koine Gr– aw shush, look at me: I'm ramblin' again. Well, thisahere episode you're about to play is pretty darn innerestin', and in English, too.*

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*yes, that was all a sagging mass of The Big Lebowski references, taped together with the overconfident bluster of Walter Sobchak.

• How might Spirit language draw us away from our bodies, when it's meant to be about God coming home to them?
• What does Jesus' lines in John 20 about receiving the Life Breath and then forgiving and retaining sins have to do with our capacity to violently blame and shame minority groups?
• Why is it more faithful to the sacred text to ascribe she/her pronouns to the Life-Breath when they're he/him in the Greek?
• If most persons called sinners in the gospels are the exiled and shamed, not the Cosmically Terminally Naughty that Augustine was so snagged up on, what does forgiving sins mean for churches?

Cut to around minute 26 onward for the real fire. :)

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And not at all in a DaVinci Code way at all.

Further Reading: "Mary the Tower" by Diana Butler Bass

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Disgust toward humans, it turns out, disgusts humans. Or it should.

Many of us have found ourselves closer to Jesus through being delivered from disgust and purity paradigms toward one another. Yet there all the purity talk is in the Bible. What if we've been translating and imagining those passages backwards? This week, Brandon and Brandon take a look.

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Well, not right. It's way cooler and more interesting than that. Today we bring together many translation commitments across Brandon Johnson's work into this one verse, and see what kind of synthesis emerges. TL;DR – the story is way more interesting than we've been told.

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But what to do about all that eternal life language? That sure seems to direct us toward a living-forever-one-way-or-another fate. Turns out, the greek there is a window into a much more faithful way of telling the Jesus stories: one that's good news for soil and salmon and supernovae and even us human critters!

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To others, glory is a blurry religious word that carries little meaning – it's a word that's become a sound. Hmmm.

This week the Brandons try to make sense of this sound without ceding it to interpretive traditions that bow to an insecure authoritarian.

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Pull a camping chair out into the field with us and let the fresh dawn of light, reveal, sleep, and rise up warm your spiritual imagination to new life.

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OK that may sound grandiose, but this change in John's legendary opening line may lead you to ask similar questions.

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In this episode we'll be going over some of the distinctives of the fourth gospel, as well as the legacy it has in each of our own faith journey.

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• "y'all" vs "you,"
• "Christ's Torah" vs "Law of Christ,"
• giving to leaders, and
• recap where Galatians has taken us.

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• "impulsive bodily cravings" vs "desires of the flesh,"
• other weird ways of being bigoted against bodies, and
• Paul's latest list of No-No's.

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• why faithfulness is more saving than faith,
• the authoritarian nature of obedience, and
• the tangle of viticultural, social, and penile puns Paul waggles at his opponents.

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• 'fundamental assumptions of the world systems' vs 'elemental spiritual forces of the world'
• how Paul's arguments are a template for decolonizing everywhere, and
• what to do about that weird allegory.

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• what's wrong with faith,
• #blessed,
• 'cursed' vs 'declaration of impending hardship,'
• the sacred nanny, and
• how 'and' loops in massive implications for all of this.

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• how easy it is to read antisemitism in Galatians;
• Torah and torah vs Law;
• faithfulness vs belief or faith; and
• what gets Paul extra cranky.

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• how to describe a mensch,
• deviators from other ethnicities vs Gentile sinners,
• why cultural conformity mandates and confusing supremacism for particularity are in Paul's sights, and
• considered just vs justification vs holy belonging.

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• desire vs will,
• designated for destruction vs accursed,
• presuppositions of the precepts passed down vs traditions,
• how to talk about your relatives,
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• cosmic powers vs conquerors of the world system;
• liberation vs salvation;
• False Accuser vs Devil;
• and more!

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• anger in the family;
• "father, and do not sin;"
• enslaved people vs slaves;
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• neglect vs debauchery,
• is salvation about cooperation or submission,
• why wives don't owe respect to their husbands by default,
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• sexual exploitation,
• obscenity 👀
• harassment, and
• the ESV (worth including on a list of vices).

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+ compassionate language for inner obstacles,

+ God's generosity,

+ how to talk about concerning behaviors, and

+ assembly instructions for generosity.

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+ a decisive shift in metaphor,

+ belligerent masculinity,

+ the fivefold gifts

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+ Paul's wildly circuitous writing,

+ what Brandon Rhodes got graded down for in seminary,

+ mysteries wrapped in enigmas,

+ technicolor faithfulness

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+ real words for different people,

+ the hostility that Jesus overcame,

+ metonymy of foreskins,

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+ living beyond the status quo,

+ why "the flesh" is different from our bodies,

+ more legible ways of saying "saved through faith by grace"

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• the plurality of "you"
• "wise and curious spirit"
• how to translate "heart"
• saving "faith" from those who make it dumb
• what the hell to call a church

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• desire vs will,
• sacred ones vs saints,
• renown vs glory,
• generosity vs grace, and
• 'purchase of liberation from enslavement' vs 'redemption.'

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• the implications of so few technical terms around the Passion and lynching,
• helping vs serving vs ministering,
• parallels with Matthew 1,
• woken up vs raised,
• every jot and tittle of the "Great Commission."

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• spoke praise and gave thanks,
• keeping covenant,
• poured out with many in mind vs poured out for many,
• liberation from deviations vs forgiveness of sins,
• and shitty shitty Calvinism.

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• unmarried girls vs virgins,
• shortsighted/foresight vs foolish/wise,
• praised vs blessed.

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• arrived victoriously vs come/coming
• absence of Torah vs lawlessness
• pray that it might not happen vs and never will happen
• brightly shining grandeur vs glory

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• those in hardship and those with privilege
• select vs elect
• pretenders vs hypocrites, and
• reawakening vs resurrection.

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• generosity vs grace,
• drink vs cup,
• as the price of freeing many enslaved people vs as a ransom for many,
• faithfulness to the Path vs faith, and more.

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• What Jesus was getting at concerning divorce;
• Whether Jesus' aside about eunuchs might be his deepest cut against patriarchy;
• eternal life vs age-long life;
• the renewal vs the reset

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• Transformed vs Transfigured,
• the relative non-jewishness of booths,
• how Jesus talks about his friends,
• what happens when you stubbornly surface one of Matthew's broadest and most layered word-pictures.

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Buy the First Nations Version online.

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• oppressive and unfaithful vs wicked and adulterous,
• how Son of God who is alive was actually politically provocative,
• the risk of translating ekklesia as church,
• what to call what happens after death, and
• translating Jesus as a human, not a mannequin.

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• unlawful vs against Torah,
• parallels between feeding stories and the Eucharist,
• what to do when Jesus talks weird,
• mistrustful vs little faith, and
• a list of toxic behaviors, rendered less toxically.

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• how translation decisions muck our ideas of how the Hebrew Bible relates to parables,
• what's so evil about evil,
• this age vs the world, and
• tripped up vs took offense.

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• why Torah really shouldn't just be called Law,
• more elastic words for Gentiles,
• sympathy for those bedeviled by all this Beelzebul and unpardonable-sin stuff,
• and more!

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• Off with its headings!
• Fleshing out soul language,
• Attachment and love,
• Who can be an angel, and
• Less misleading words for miracles.

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• why Jesus was more into having "trust" than "faith,"
• whether typical translations give demons a foothold,
• Jesus' favorite Bible cosplay,
• where all the "sinners" went,
• what's better than "salvation,"
• and more!

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• The good, the bad, and the ugly of moral binary language
• Holiness
• "Nothing to do with Torah" vs "lawless"
• and more!

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• the endless ways to say Father,
• the limits of only saying Father,
• the Lord's prayer,
• souls,
• "mistrustful" vs "little faith"

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• hell and child sacrifice,
• "engage in sexual affairs" vs. "commit adultery",
• divorce and sex work,
• linguistic binaries, and more.

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• What bigger patterns become evident in some of these translation decisions? Does it change what we understand Matthew 5-7 to be about?
• Hints of Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 25 in the beatitudes,
• What about "the poor in spirit"?
• #Blessed vs gratified,
• reject force vs meek, and
• hell!

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• What's the intended title or descriptor for the presence he meets there?
• What are the political implications of the False Accuser pressing for Jesus to submit to him, not worship him?
• What's the relationship between the Hebrew Testament and Jesus' life?
• What the hell is demon possession and can we do better?

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• What's a baptist anyway?
• What happens when you just capitalize a word instead of change it?
• repent vs transform your minds,
• What's wrong with sin,
• Everything that's problematic with translating one greek word as justification and righteousness,
• the sky vs heaven

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• Wise men as astrologers,
• worship him as submit to him,
• angels as messengers,
• and whether prophecy as fortune-telling might be an insult to how the Bible actually works.

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Brandon and Brandon explore translating:

• Holy Spirit as Sacred Life-Breath,
• righteousness as committed to justice,
• save as many different words, and
• sins as deviations.

They also touch on the introduction of one of Matthew's big themes – Jubilee.

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