"We Could Use Some Resurrection" with Nadia Bolz-Weber
The Evolving Faith Podcast
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God as Jesus
In luke's day, if some one was called lord, they were to be feared and obeyed. Luke tells us of god as jesus, the one who kisses sinners and touches the unclean. The text says he had compassion on her. But compassion is really far too polite a translation because in greek, it's more visceral than what we think of as compassion. It's more like his guts turned his inside lurched at the sight of such loneliness as a widow grieving the death of her only child.
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