CC articles on John’s Gospel, church reparations, the sin of sloth, and more.
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** There’s something about podcasts
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I was very much swept up in the podcast craze in 2014-2015 when season 1 of Serial took the world by storm ([link removed]) . I listened to podcasts about murder mysteries, US politics, tech innovations, con artists, and more. But I listened to these only on my driving commute to work; when that commute went away (read: when I was fired from the megachurch), I fell out of my podcast habit.
Working at the Century has brought my podcast love back to life. My colleague Amy Frykholm’s third season of In Search Of ([link removed]) is here, and it is off to an amazing start. This season focuses on the search for lost histories of women in the church, and it kicks off with a follow-up interview of Elizabeth Schrader Polczer ([link removed]) , a Bible scholar doing provocative work on Mary Magdalene’s treatment in John’s Gospel. Amy also interviewed Polczer last season, and a shorter version of that interview was one of the most-read articles ([link removed]) on our website in 2023. In this season 3 chat, the two are joined by Diana Butler Bass, a writer whose sermon on Polczer’s work brought it into the spotlight two years ago.
If you’d rather stick to the written word, good news: we have some excellent new articles this week. Check out Michael Woolf’s practical and challenging description of reparations in a church context ([link removed]) , or Peter Marty’s reflection on the sin of sloth (in a bathrobe) ([link removed]) . Plus more great content below.
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** There’s Something about Mary Magdalene (with Elizabeth Schrader Polczer and Diana Butler Bass) ([link removed])
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“If Mary Magdalene gets the Christological confession, that changes everything. It changes everything about the Gospel of John. It changes everything for women in leadership. It changes everything.”
– Diana Butler Bass
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** Repairing the redlined body of Christ ([link removed])
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“Redlining maps are not only views into the past; they can also become the building blocks for constructing a theology that wrestles profoundly with the present, even if that wrestling means that White churches will have to do some serious soul-searching.”
by Michael Woolf
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** Sloth in a bathrobe ([link removed])
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“Christians who observe Lent consider it a penitential season, which usually connotes calm and deliberate reflectiveness. But what if Lent challenges us to get moving, not to slow or quiet down?”
by Peter W. Marty
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** In the Lectionary for March 3 (Lent 3B) ([link removed])
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Whatever Jesus is attacking, it isn’t the practices of the people coming to the temple to worship.
by E. Carrington Heath
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** Spending Lent with people in recovery ([link removed])
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“Sinners are people who know the truth that something is wrong and that they’re caught up in it. People in recovery have lived close to this reality for a long time, and they aren’t afraid to say that truth aloud.”
by Melissa Florer-Bixler
** An ambitious queer reading of John of the Cross ([link removed])
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“Miguel Díaz’s practice of translation goes beyond the linguistic. His book speaks from within Christian traditions not readily associated with queer theology.”
Adrián Emmanuel Hernández-Acosta reviews Queer God de Amor
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