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The concept of chesed in Jewish faith tradition, a reciprocal kindness like God shows us, is one way to experience the "grace" of deeper relationships says Jewish studies scholar Amy-Jill Levine, author of Jesus for Everyone: Not Just Christians. Filmed at the 2024 Wildgoose Festival.

ABOUT THE GUEST
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:
Grace as surprise
Comparison of life orientations in Judiasm and Christianity
Rabbinic saying: Repent one day before you die
Reclaiming Jesus as an ethical teacher & inspiration without resorting to anti-Semitism

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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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