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Noted scholar Amy-Jill Levine provides a text about parables for meditation practice. She discusses with host Jean Kelly what Christ teaches about contemporary social justice issues, equivalents of grace in Jewish tradition and why Christians must refrain from anti-Semitic interpretations of Jesus's life. Filmed at the 2024 Wildgoose Festival.

ABOUT THE SPIRITUAL READING TEXT AND GUEST
By Amy-Jill Levine, Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi (2014)

Dr. Levine is the Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. She has authored more than 10 books and given close to 1000 lectures on the Bible, Christian-Jewish relations, and religion, gender, and sexuality across the globe.

TOPICS DISCUSSED:
Why parables should disturb us: lessons about contemporary issues in Christ's teachings
Going beyond "what would Jesus do" to understand his historic context
Grace as surprise
Living in the moment, imitating God's reciprocal kindness, and study as prayer are lessons from Jewish tradition for those of all faiths.
Reclaiming Jesus as an ethical teacher & inspiration without resorting to anti-Semitism
Wild Goose Festival 2024

OTHER RESOURCES MENTIONED:
The Torah
By Amy-Jill Levine, Jesus for Everyone: Not Just Christians
By Amy-Jill Levine, Gospel of John

ABOUT READ PRAY WRITE
Meditations, conversations and wisdom you need to slow down, make space and become open to grace. Creatives of all faith, contemporary and ancient, offer their work as the starting point along an intentional path. The sure destination of lectio divina, spiritual reading, is deeper understanding, meaning, and peace.

ABOUT JEAN P KELLY
Jean P. Kelly, Ph. D., is a storyteller, seeker, and spiritual guide, the host of the award- winning podcast Read. Pray. Write. at www.readpraywrite.com, and author of Less Helping Them, More Healing You: The Transcendent Gifts of an Ancient Spiritual Practice (ACTA 2024). She is Associate Professor of Journalism at Otterbein University in Central Ohio. She is a lay Benedictine of St. Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana.

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