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Are you there, God? It's me. I left this performance fleece outside for you

Are you there, God? It's me. I left this performance fleece outside for you

FromHoly Ghosting


Are you there, God? It's me. I left this performance fleece outside for you

FromHoly Ghosting

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Length:
60 minutes
Released:
Mar 5, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

When we were kids, we were told to listen to “the voice of God” which was usually something someone else told us, and rarely, if ever, something we actually “heard” with our ears. Even our own intuition couldn’t possibly be right, so we spent our childhoods and young adulthoods under the impression that we couldn’t make a decision lest we be out of God’s will. In the Bible, there are SO MANY stories about people using divination to understand what they perceived the will of God to be - and some of those stories (Gideon, for instance) are held up as triumphs…whereas others are condemned (King Saul consulting a medium or fortune teller - Jehova was like, NOPE, you’re not King anymore). What is divination, anyway? Will you be smoted from the earth if you use it? (spoiler: no)  Divination is the practice of getting insight into a question or situation, it's not scary at all, we promise.Things you can read about divination (if you dare!)Divination is terrible and a sin: https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-divination.htmlReferences in the Old Testament to Divination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft_and_divination_in_the_Hebrew_BibleA Very Fun Article About Christians and Magic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_magic
Released:
Mar 5, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (56)

Lindsay, Meg, Sarai & friends - a bunch of former church kids who came of age in 80s and 90s American Evangelicalism - are Holy Ghosting. In each episode, we share our youthful experiences and stories of the harm we endured and perpetrated as American Evangelicals and we laugh, we're sarcastic ladies.All three of our hosts grew up in different cities and didn’t meet until recently - and yet…the culture of Evangelicalism is strong and chock full of harm and quizzical quirks everywhere. But now, in our own ways, we're working to reconstruct a community that gives a shit about our neighbors. Join us as we work to tear down the American foundation of patriarchy and white supremacy and rebuild a better world with equity and equality as Exvangelicals.