Found in Translation: Recent Episodes
Brandon Johnson & Brandon Rhodes
A weekly-ish exploration of language, liberation, literature, and longing through one fellow’s translation of the Christian scriptures, one chapter at a time.
Episode Highlights
- Anti-Caesar coding throughout the story;
- how much better the gospel is apart from Christian supremacism;
- how to understand the great commission through a liberation & inclusion hermeneutic;
- identifying the inclusive center in the literary structure of Matthew;
- empathy and compassion are central to the gospel.
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Our returning guest co-host today is Kalie Hargrove (she/her). Kalie is a writer, theologian, and activist who lives in the greater-Atlanta area with her partner and two kids. She is currently writing a commentary on the Gospel According to Matthew using the LIT Bible. Kalie has been part of LGBTQ+ activism bringing awareness of the legalized discrimination queer and trans students face at religious universities. She received her Master of Divinity from United Theological Seminary of Twin Cities.
Kalie is Director of Digital Outreach at the Center for Prophetic Imagination, which seeks to connect the intersection of socio-spiritual discernment and radical justice in our world.
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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-28
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
Episode Highlights for Matthew 27
- Pilate and the banality of evil;
- The enduring temptation of revering the violent;
- Disability injustice in the church and the Bible;
- Solidarity is central to salvation;
- Manipulating crowds into bloodlust is as old as time;
- Scapegoating vibes on Good Friday;
- Jesus' crucifixion was (like) a lynching;
- The varying reasons for Jesus' crucifixion;
- The meaning Jesus seemed to ascribe to his state murder;
- Resisting antisemitism as a core hermeneutical commitment.
Our returning guest co-host today is Mae Forrest Barnes! She is completing her PhD on disability justice in the church, cohosts The Anarchodox Podcast, and can be found on Bluesky @dr-maeforrest.bsky.social . Her Substack is at https://maeforrestbarnes.substack.com/.
Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-27
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
Episode Highlights for Matthew 26
- The Eucharist is about an ever-widening belonging in God, and Matthew structured his entire gospel around it.
- The challenge of soothing nerves when confronting state violence.
- The cyclical nature of domination and liberation in the Bible and history.
- Resisting the antisemitic lure of seeing the Pharisees as the baddies, not just one set of antagonists.
- Jesus behavior amid a sham trial and a frothed-up lynch mob.
- The synergy between various kinds of domination power.
Our guest co-host today is Brian G. Murphy (he/him). Brian is the co-host of the Queer Theology Podcast and is the co-creator of Legalize Trans, an artistic and educational movement to advance gender justice. He has been doing LGBTQ activism and education for over a decade with organizations. Brian is also a certified relationship coach, working with folks to open up their relationship and navigate the issues that come with open relationships and polyamory. His upcoming book is Love Beyond Monogamy.
He's on all the socials with the handle @thisisbgm.
Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-25
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Episode Highlights for Matthew 24 and 25
- "I understand that reference" – How Jesus used loads of metacultural nods to embellish his alarm toward his neighbors' self-destructive nationalism;
- the intersection of the Black church and Anabaptism;
- the Bible is holy because it is a library of testimonies of the losers;
- Jesus' advice for getting through apocalyptic times;
- immigrant-love as a defining mark of Christian witness;
- exasperation with revolutionary violence; and
- where to see Jesus every day.
Our guest co-host today is Pastor Trey Ferguson (he/him). Trey is a minister and public theologian who serves as the pastor of The Intention Church, an intentionally online church community built on the historic Black Church and the Anabaptist/Mennonite traditions. Trey also serves as the Executive Pastor at the Refuge Church in Homestead, Florida where he lives.
You can check out Trey's wordplay on his Substack (The Son Do Move) and his podcasts, the New Living Treyslation and Three Black Men.
He's on all the socials with the handle @pastortrey05.
Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-24 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-25
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Episode Highlights
- What Jesus knew would get him killed;
- Why he was fiercest to those – the Pharisees – with whom he was most theologically aligned;
- The similar anger we find in ourselves toward evangelicalism going after Christian nationalism;
- The importance of rebuking the temptation to read these passages antisemitically;
- Why religious fakers pissed Jesus off so much;
- How truthfulness and no-bullshit vibes became central to Jesus' social vision;
- Why Jesus would be so irate at Christians antagonizing LGBTQ folk in his name;
- and more!
Our guest co-host today is Jenna DeWitt (she/her pronouns). Jenna is a writer, editor, and resource curator, working primarily in queer Christian spaces and centering aromanticism and asexuality. You can find her work at InvisibleCakeSociety.com or on Substack, Threads, or BlueSky.
- Substack: https://invisiblecakesociety.substack.com/
- Threads: https://www.threads.com/@jennadewitt
- BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tkb2vbmnqo5wqtmnwnrsz6rm
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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-23
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Episode Highlights
- The queer theology anthem that happened to be Jesus' favorite song lyric
- Jesus' street pageantry entering Jerusalem parodying the imperial occupation;
- Merch tables in the part of the temple dedicated to hosting outsiders;
- Jesus' mounting sense of his looming lynching;
- Jesus' GTFO clapbacks;
- and much more
Our guest co-host is Naphtali Renshaw (she/they). Naphtali is the director of the BeLonging Space, a United Methodist ministry which resources faith communities to support LGBTQ+ and BIPOC-led liberation groups as acts of solidarity and reparations, including as de-escalators at Pride events. They are also the on-site support for the Maxwell Community Hub, a UMC building reimagined for neighborliness and queer liberation.
- https://www.facebook.com/naphtali.renshaw
- https://thebelongingspace.org/
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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-21 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-22
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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- Why did Jesus' thoughts on divorce and marriage cause his disciples to question whether anyone can get married?
- Why did Jesus respond with this thing about three kinds of eunuchs?
- Does being a not-dickish partner render someone a kind of eunuch in the eyes of patriarchy?
- Does Jesus reinforce patriarchal ideas of marriage or deconstruct them?
- How sexually engaged were eunuchs in Jesus' day?
- How do our inherited gender binaries get in the way of interpreting these stories?
- Who is the more prominent antagonist in the Bible: the devil or the rich?
Our guest co-host is Kalie Hargrove (she/her). Kalie is a writer, theologian, and activist who lives in the greater-Atlanta area with her partner and two kids. She has been part of LGBTQ+ activism bringing awareness of the legalized discrimination queer and trans students face at religious universities. She received her Master of Divinity from United Theological Seminary of Twin Cities.
Kalie is Director of Digital Outreach at the Center for Prophetic Imagination, which seeks to connect the intersection of socio-spiritual discernment and radical justice in our world.
- https://www.kaliehargrove.com/
- https://bsky.app/profile/kaliehargrove.com
- Podcast & Substac - https://propheticimagination.substack.com/s/the-lies-that-bind-us
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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-19 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-20
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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- Why is Jesus so reactive to his students' difficulty with understanding his vocation? He seems grumpy at times.
- How does Jesus plan to escalate his confrontation with the Roman Empire and their local enablers?
- How is Jesus' strong words against harming children a fierce rebuke to queerphobic parents?
- and more!
Our guest cohost is Avery Arden (they/zir). Avery is a genderqueer autistic minister in Atlanta whose work proclaims the holiness and agency of trans and disabled people. Drawing from both Catholic and Reform traditions, their theology is incarnational, Trinitarian, and rooted in breaking binaries. And of course, you've heard Avery many times on The Word in Black and Red.
- Avery's Linktree - https://linktr.ee/queerlychristian
- Avery's Website – https://queerlychristian.wixsite.com/website
- Blessed are the Binary Breakers Podcast – Apple
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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-14 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-15
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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- Jesus' cousin gets impulsively murdered in jail by a tyrant for calling out his BS – just what you'd expect from an authoritarian.
- Later, Jesus surfaces an abundance of food, feeding thousands – what if this miracle had something to do with mutual aide?
- Finally, Jesus calls an indigenous woman a "household pet," and her response jolts him to remember God's abundance. Was Jesus being racist? Did he change his mind because of her? What about her is a clue to her brave wisdom?
Our guest cohost is Elle Dowd (she/they). Elle is a bi-furious pastor who preaches, writes and teaches about God’s desire to liberate us from the things we use to oppress each other: cis-heterosexism, racism, ableism, queerphobia, colonialism, misogyny, childism, capitalism and white supremacy. She believes we must deconstruct the harmful systems infecting the Christian Church and other American institutions, that a queer/femme interpretation of scripture is at the center of grace, and all bodies – including yours – are beautifully and wonderfully made.
- Elle's Website – https://elledowd.com/
- Elle's Book – Baptized in Tear Gas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist
- Elle on Facebook
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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-14 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-15
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Jesus continues spreading compassion, care, and joy among his most vulnerable neighbors – but the religious professionals won't have any of it! They're using the Bible as a weapon rather than a sacred gift meant to help us pursue shalom. This week in Matthew 12-13 we explore a few of these stories, and the cryptic parables Jesus tells in response.
Episode highlights
- Compassion should take precedence over strict adherence to rules.
- Sabbath is a revolutionary practice that promotes rest and justice.
- Curiosity is essential for understanding and growth.
- Why the story of Jonah slaps.
- Oppression harms everyone, including the oppressor.
- How what we believe & practice about knowledge & learning can be fundamentally anti-authoritarian
- Community and mutual aid are part of how this whole God-thing works
Our guest co-host today is Ell, a cohost over at the fantastic podcast The Word in Black and Red. She is a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, is a board member at her church, and enjoys gardening spending time in nature. Ell’s pronouns are she/they.
- The Word in Black and Red
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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-12 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-13
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Keywords: Bible, Matthew, parables, compassion, justice, authority, spirituality, faith, community, interpretation
Need to know the best Bible translation if you care about LBTQ inclusion, liberation vibes, basic Greek fidelity, and low-cringe? We present our Bible Translation Tier List!
We're vibe-ranking them based variously on:
- Do they translate faithfully about LGBTQ kin being included in God?
- Was any of it actively translated to justify domination, authoritarianism, or sexism?
- Is it lovely?
- What's the cringe level?
- How faithful is it to the Greek?
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Read LIT online:https://www.litbible.net/
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Jesus is bringing together his crew and sending them to get in good trouble. Familiar tales, sure. But is there something about how Jesus organizes, how Jesus relates, and how Jesus teaches that is instinctively anarchist? Teaching after teaching and tale after tale, he's challenging all the fixations that oppressors leverage into fear to secure power. And oppression, I heard a fella say, is the mask of fear.
Episode highlights:
- Christian anarchism as a practice and a hermeneutic,
- the subversive aspects of Jesus' commissioning the twelve,
- the hidden edge of some of Jesus' spiciest sayings,
- Amish wisdom fist-bumping anarchism
Our guest cohost is Rev. Terry Stokes (he/they). Rev. Stokes is an anarchist theologian who seeks to foster political and spiritual radicalization through his writing and speaking.
He holds degrees from Yale University and Princeton Theological Seminary, and was ordained as a minister of word and sacrament by Park Avenue Baptist Church, an abolitionist congregation on Mvskoke Land (Atlanta, GA).
He lives on Munsee Lenape land (central NJ), where he works with children and youth as a nonprofit director.
Their new book, Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People, is available now.
More about Terry:
- www.terryjstokes.com
- IG: @anarchyterry
- Book: Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People
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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-10 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-11
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Bounary-transgressing love and overcoming ableism are at the heart of the very first stories Matthew tells about Jesus after his big Sermon on the Mount. There's oodles of anti-authoritarian mischief and delightful queer energy brimming in these tales.
Episode highlights:
- ableism and leprosy,
- Jesus' massive shoutout to a queer Centurion,
- the only person in the Bible outside the holy family to submit to their spouses,
- whether Brandon Johnson is willing to add a winking emoji to the LIT bible,
- antisemitic vibes of some texts,
- problems with the economic convenience of pigs and people tormented by demons.
Our guest cohost is Micah Belong (xe/xey). Micah is the founding cohost of the outstanding podcast The Word in Black and Red, where a rotating cast of wise souls are exploring the Hebrew Bible one chapter or so at a time through a liberationist and leftist lens. If you like Found in Translation, you're going to positively adore TWIBAR.
- "The Word in Black and Red" podcast (Apple Podcasts, Spotify)
- Support TWIBAR on Patreon.
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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-8 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-9
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Can you read the Sermon on the Mount apart from Mammon? Maybe, but we don't recommend it. Jesus' teachings on everything from fasting to how to pray to not judging pops into 3D when read through the lens of how Mammon works.
Episode highlights:
- trusting how the poor hear Jesus,
- it takes a community to resist Mammon,
- embracing Christ class consciousness, and
- the most boring question you can ask about biblical money ethics.
Our guest cohost is Matt Tebbe (he/him). Matt is an Episcopal priest in Indianapolis where he co-pastors The Table. He co-founded Gravity Commons where he helps lead a community dedicated to learning how to follow Jesus and take love seriously in the post-Christian culture of the 21st Century. He also talks shit about the false god of Mammon on social media.
- Matt's Substack
- Gravity Commons
- Matt on X, Facebook, Threads
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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-6 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-7
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The short answer to the title's question is, Yes, totally. But it wasn't just about lusty glares. Jesus dared us to pluck out anything within us that objectifies or commodifies another. It's part of his most famous spiel, "the sermon on the mount," which is most clearly presented vision for how his followers should live. Not a set of rules to obey, but a trajectory of faithfulness to enter the flow of: one marked together by gentleness, fidelity, justice, and love. The kinds of things our economy and ruling powers abhor. For a show about antifascist readings of the Bible, there's a lot to dig into!
Our guest cohost is Frances Cutshaw, D.Min. (she/they). Frances is the Founder and "Wilderness Abbess" of the Order of Hildegard, an unaffiliated community of practice which exists to center, celebrate and develop the interfaith cross-vocational spiritual leadership of those marginalized by traditional religious structures such as LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, people with disabilities and neurodiversities and those otherwise disillusioned with harmful, puritanical patriarchal religious structures. She recently completed her thesis "Shame as the Great Obstacle and Unexpected Invitation to Shalom." They were raised on the tribal lands of the Cherokee Nation in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and lives somewhat south of there these days.
- Order of St Hildegard
- Frances' Substack
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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-5
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The anti-authoritarian, justice-y vibes dance off the page as Jesus goes through a communal preparation ceremony in the wilderness with his cousin and then is tempted by the Accuser to embrace domination. It's a spicy set of stories, brimming with loads of wit and wisdom for times like ours.
Our guest cohost this week is the delightful and delightful Mae Forrest Barnes (she/her). Mae writes at https://maeforrestbarnes.substack.com/ and you can listen to her at The Anarchodox Podcast. (Apple Podcasts, Spotify)
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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-3 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-4
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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What if the birth of Jesus wasn’t just sweet and sacred—but strategically subversive? In this episode Aaron J. Smith (www.aaronjsmith.net) joins as guest co-host to take a hard look at Matthew chapters 1 and 2 through the lens of power, empire, and authoritarian fear.
We trace the political tension that pulses beneath every angelic message, Herodian sh*tfit, and nativity set piece. This isn’t just theology—it’s resistance, survival, and the God who sides with the vulnerable.
Listen in and see what empire always fears most: a different kind of king.
www.aaronjsmith.net
Aaron on BlueSky, Instagram, and Threads
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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-1 and https://www.litbible.net/matthew-2
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The Brandons are back! This season we are going through Matthew's Gospel again – this time, reading it under American authoritarianism, as literature written under authoritarianism, and written against authoritarianism. Get reintroduced to a Jesus whose social imagination was relentlessly critical of the attachments, avarice, and agendas of authoritarianism.
This season we're going to do it a little different: each episode will have a guest co-host to join us in exploring the text.
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Read LIT online: https://www.litbible.net/matthew-intro
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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We're back! Brandon and Brandon pop out of their winter hibernation to share how their plans for Season 7 changed after the US election. But will they see their shadows?
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Read LIT online: www.litbible.net/matthew
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Paul wasn't only making a passionate theological argument this whole time. It shows up in the nitty-gritty of actual cultural difference: power dynamics, deeply-held customs around food and idols and sex and strangers. And that's how he concludes his letter to the Jesus huddle in Rome.
We take this week as an opportunity to reflect on the entire flow of Romans that leads us to his final arguments, ponder about implications for today, and give this season's parting drop-kick to the ESV to the Apostle Junia.
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Read LIT online: www.litbible.net/romans-14
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Romans has been a forceful ethical argument from the outset: arguing for a life beyond supremacism, exclusion, and domination that is made possible by God in Jesus Christ. A life together of peace.
And yet Paul still desires to complete his letter with explicit ethical guidance: how to be a people of this kind of peace.
Looming over it all is Rome. What of those who hope in the Pax Romana? Who control their known world? Here we encounter some of Paul's most widely abused language, Romans 13, concerning the power of the state and those who claim to wield violence for public good. Is he endorsing their exclusive claim to violence? Doesn't this give free reign to authoritarians?
Historic translations have bent Paul's words to suggest as much. We call bullshit. With the help of historians and political scientists, let's listen deeply for why this isn't a moment of Paul losing the plot. It's deeply subversive, and even a wee bit anarchistic.
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Read LIT online: www.litbible.net/romans-12
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Translations and interpretations that make entire stretches of Romans incongruous seem to fundamentally be missing something. If your theory can't hold all the data, change the theory, not the data, right?
Can the Liberation & Inclusion Translation help us make better sense of Romans 9 through 11? Will it be part of a seamless letter? We believe it must. It must be heard within Paul's wider insistence that in Christ Jew and Gentile are woven together in one non-hierarchal holy belonging.
Along the way we'll address passages that historically are used to support predestination, God sending people to hell, and other wacky toxic shit.
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Read LIT online: www.litbible.net/romans-9
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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We can't handle how excited this conversation got us. So many profound shifts come to bear as Paul brings the bulk of his arguments to a crescendo!
- more time exploring the oppressive legacy of sarx/flesh through a therapeutic lens;
- the full-hearted rebuke of accusation and judgement in those animated by Life-Breath;
- "everything collaborates for the benefit of those who love God" is leagues and miles better than "God works in all things for the good of those who love him;" and
- how this all ties together the letter's deeper community-related pleas.
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Read LIT online: www.litbible.net/romans-8
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Reflections on how deviation/sin lives within our bodies, if at all, have been sources of tremendous shame, self-distrust, and sex-negativity for centuries. Are we unable to trust our bodily desires? How do we learn to live with them? Shouldn't cues from our body be helpful, not harmful? And might there be a word-play afoot here that speaks to how our group identities ("my flesh and blood") may also be places of antagonism and deviation?
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Read LIT online: www.litbible.net/romans-7
More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments
Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1
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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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You won't find "The Law" in the LIT Bible because a timeless, pristine moral law floating above and condemning all humanity has nothing to do with the early Christian mindset. What they were much more concerned with was what to do with Torah, the sacred writings of Jesus' own people.
Jewish folk outside of their homeland equated reading Torah together to being in the Temple itself! Its practice, memory, and presence were fundamental to their community identity. No wonder the early Christians had to spend so much time sorting out Torah's relationship to Jesus' death and their life together. Paul spent a lot of time trying to mine meaning from the mess, and along the way help the tiny communities across the empire grow in love and faithfulness.
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Paul uses courtroom imagery throughout Romans. We're on trial, and the Life-Breath is our defense attorney. But who is the prosecutor? Is it God, upholding God's perfect law? Is it Torah? Is it... Jesus?
Christ have mercy: too many theologies are built around God being the prosecutor. But... Satan's name is literally The Accuser. And in the wider argument of Romans, who is accusing us but the person fixated on obedience and cultural conformity as the conditions of belonging. It's one another who is the accuser, the prosecutor. It is us in our anger playing the role of the satan.
What a world of difference this makes! It is our own puny fearfulness that is satanic, not the Creator! No wonder in 5:9 we are liberated from our own anger, not saved from God's wrath.
Skeptical? Listen on, and let us know what you think!
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If our argument is that Romans is an anti-supremacism pastoral letter, not a manual for how to go to heaven, then what is all this business in other translations about "faith vs works?" Protestantism is built on a mountain of sermons about salvation by faith alone – sermons that point to passages like Romans 4 with glee and anti-Catholic smugness. Their whole thing is about Romans being about "how to go to heaven," right?
As with the whole of Romans, we think this "faith vs works" stuff is actually way more about this life, way more about what determines one's belonging in a local Jesus huddle today than who'll be playing football with Jesus in a big big house in the clouds by and by.
There's so much here – and we haven't even scratched all the warped ways faith is contrasted to doubt, or how its battle with works is used to sidestep justice.
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Another week in Romans, another set of clobber passages to detangle from authoritarian and shame-based theologies. This time, we explore the wider context of that old "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God" business. And wouldn't you know it – it's all about celebrating that we're all on a level playing field of God's love, and therefore particularity of divine encounter must never be grounds for judgement or supremacism.
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"What determines our belonging" is the central question of Romans. We will always miss the mark if we think Paul's answer is about a cosmic 'LAW.' In truth he's discussing the place of Torah among the Jewish people, and the way that belonging-carrier now lives in the Jew-plus-Gentile community. He's arguing that cultural conformity and deep tradition ultimately excludes everyone, not issuing some grandiose decree about cosmic rule-breakers or cosmic rule-keepers.
This foundational distinction may seem arcane, but it will reap dividends chapter after chapter as we go through Romans. And it'll haunt us as we reflect on the terms of community belonging in our own times and places.
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We are thrilled to be joined by the wise and winsome Micah Belong (they/them) to discuss the LGBTQ+ clobber passage of Romans 1:24-32. It's a spicy conversation that shows how Paul's words are about rape culture and power-reinforcing sexuality as emblematic of humanity's waywardness – NOT a blanket condemnation of same-sex intimacy.
Micah hosts The Word in Black and Red, an outstanding podcast exploring the Hebrew Bible through leftist and queer lenses, one chapter or tale at a time. Each episode gets a slightly different blend of cohosts and guests, which makes for dependably invigorating reflections on some of the strangest stories in the Bible.
You can find out more about Micah and TWIBAR at https://linktr.ee/twibar.
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Welcome to Season 6: Romans! It's time to journey through Paul's legendary letter, where we'll discover that this is a pastoral argument for overcoming ethnic supremacism in the local church. It's got nothing – NOTHING – to do with being saved from a violent authoritarian god's torture through ritual sacrifice.
It gets better: even some of the most popular Christian sentiments that cite Romans ("there's nothing you can do to earn your salvation") is an out of focus riff on what Paul's actually doing. In that case, it's Paul's vision of a universal belonging in God through Christ (1:16), that takes concrete historical form as a community in which no ethnic markers that can earn our holy belonging.
Intrigued? Join us as we survey the legacy of Romans and the thesis in chapter 1 as Brandon Johnson sees it.
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Introducing the name and web presence of Brandon's work: The Liberation and Inclusion Translation of the New Testament, at www.litbible.net. We're thrilled to share this unfolding resource, complete with all of his footnotes in one easy to find place.
We'll be back next week with season 6: Romans!
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Hebrews' conclusion weaves together so many of its most potent ideas with an emphasis on the practical and communal. The Brandons take this opportunity to review the total flow of Priscilla's letter, touching on the most consequential translation changes and recapping what she was about.
See you in 2024, for season 6: Romans!
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The slightest change in direction can have massively different outcomes. Change the rudder just a little and you end up far from port.
This chapter is packed with that level of consequential changes. Understanding that holiness is about pursuing peace with everyone, particularly through the lens of economic justice and non-exploitation, is a watershed distinction that Brandon's translation argues for forcefully.
Few episodes have left us as amazed at the liberative power dormant beneath the avalanche of misleading/shitty translations as this.
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One of the more tragic ways we misunderstand the Divine is in projecting our experience of harmful parents onto Them. Creator thus becomes the parent that beats us "out of love", parents us through punishment, and more. It leads to profound attachment insecurity, horrible parenting skills, and tasteless relationships to suffering.
Translators have had a hand in this: translating "discipline" instead of childrearing," "punishes" instead of "corrects," and more. Making better sense of the text then hides in a jungle of mealy-mouthed religious phrases ("shared in his holiness") that at best are confusing, but more alarmingly can reinforce a hierarchal, purity, punishment religion.
Let's try it another way.
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Is the Divine really after belief? Were all the saints of the past most remembered for their inner certainty of an invisible realm? That can't be what Priscilla or the other NT authors mean by faith, given the pervasive emphasis on communal solidarity, economic security, and a courageous belonging. In this episode we set our sights on faith vs *faithfulness*, and the transforming power that shift brings to the rest of the Bible.
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Does God need violence to forgive? Must something die for deviations to be dismissed? Seems like a shitty god that would need violence to be merciful. But thanks to how a certain verse in Hebrews is typically translated, many argue for just that. YUCK. Let's address that head-on and find out that not only is the Divine not shitty like that, but far more on the side of the sacrificed than the sacrificer.
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All that Brandon Rhodes remembers about Hebrews from seminary was the debates Calvinists and others would have over Hebrews 6 – the whole "once saved, always saved" thing. Boring! This passage is far more revolutionary than that old pissing match. If our sacred story's sense of salvation is Creator inhabiting a community of love and solidarity – not rules and going to heaven – then this reads quite differently.
Notice what comes before: Jesus 101 is love and generosity. Then notice what comes after: waywardness expressed as scapegoating among them (re-crucifying Christ). Priscilla is arguing that if you're practicing the Jesus Way, then subsequent doctrine will come into focus and it'll exorcise any impulse to solve problems with violence and exclusion.
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Is our liberation collective or individual? According to the author of Priscilla, it is only individual insofar as it helps us reweave into the sacred fabric of God's belonging through liberation. But you wouldn't know it from most translations! The Brandons focus on how she uses language of hostility to understand this, and what role the ancestors have in that collective liberation.
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Ever heard folks casually equate violence with justice? Or suffering and punishment as the necessary response to sin? Or Jesus' crucifixion into an altar to holy bloodshed? Hebrews quickly turns into a minefield of phrases that are typically translated to support retributive and redemptive violence. Who shall deliver us from this body of death, but the Brandons and a whole lot of coffee?
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Priscilla begins the letter by arguing Christ is the tuning fork for how to be liberated and liberating creatures, and so goes deeper to the core of the cosmos than Messengers (angels). Leveraging Brandon Johnson's translation, we argue this stretch of the letter means all our systems of meaning and belonging and authority are penultimate, that all these things are bound up with the faithfulness of Jesus.
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Season Five is here! We're thrilled to begin this discussion of Brandon Johnson's translation of Hebrews. It's an esoteric, confusing, and mysterious text – and a bit of a minefield. We'll be cartwheeling through those mines with you, and we're wildly excited to explore its radical nature. For all that atonement language, who would have guessed it has some of the most explicitly anti-scapegoating passages in the entire canon? Yep, that's where this is going. Tune in, join us for some caffeinated musings, and welcome to the fifth season of Found in Translation!
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As we wrap up season four on the fourth gospel, it's time to reflect on how these larger themes come together. And it begs the question: what kind of story is Lazarus/Eleazer telling? Is it one of punishment-avoidance, gnostic escape, antisemitic screed, or embodied cosmic liberation?
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Some translators treat language like objects, as mere hallowed jargon on a leash than a living exchange in the wild. These sacred texts should be a zesty enterprise, but unfortunately there are some who engage in logjamming the Bible with jargon compulsively, seemingly without joy. Their preferred nomenclature make these subversive texts stupefyin', shrouding their liberating power in classist esoterica. The text feels disrupted by these words, like a child who wanders in in the middle of a movie; there's no frame of reference.
And I'm talking about the word meno, here, from koine Gr– aw shush, look at me: I'm ramblin' again. Well, thisahere episode you're about to play is pretty darn innerestin', and in English, too.*
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*yes, that was all a sagging mass of The Big Lebowski references, taped together with the overconfident bluster of Walter Sobchak.
Yeah, there's a lot in that episode title. But then again, there's a lot of weirdness with the divine Spirit in the Fourth Gospel.
- How might Spirit language draw us away from our bodies, when it's meant to be about God coming home to them?
- What does Jesus' lines in John 20 about receiving the Life Breath and then forgiving and retaining sins have to do with our capacity to violently blame and shame minority groups?
- Why is it more faithful to the sacred text to ascribe she/her pronouns to the Life-Breath when they're he/him in the Greek?
- If most persons called sinners in the gospels are the exiled and shamed, not the Cosmically Terminally Naughty that Augustine was so snagged up on, what does forgiving sins mean for churches?
Cut to around minute 26 onward for the real fire. :)
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The identity of the Beloved Disciple, and therefore the author of John, has been a topic of low-consequence speculation for centuries. But recent scholarly insights give this mystery a profound gravity: a woman upheld as a pillar in the early church and apostle to the apostles was also the sister of the author of the New Testament's most mystical and intimate stories about Jesus Christ. The Fourth Gospel may be the closest we get to the spirituality and legacy of Mary Magdalene.
And not at all in a DaVinci Code way at all.
Further Reading: "Mary the Tower" by Diana Butler Bass
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Lots of talk about cleansing and impurity in the fourth gospel. Lots of talk about cleansing and impurity in, well, in purity culture. Not a good look. Not a good legacy.
Disgust toward humans, it turns out, disgusts humans. Or it should.
Many of us have found ourselves closer to Jesus through being delivered from disgust and purity paradigms toward one another. Yet there all the purity talk is in the Bible. What if we've been translating and imagining those passages backwards? This week, Brandon and Brandon take a look.
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We need to talk about all the little footholds in the text that popular translations give to antisemitism. Sometimes it's de-judaizing early Christianity ("the law" instead of "Torah," etc.). Other times it's hyper-"othering" Jewish folk. This legacy of most translations enabling antisemitism must be faced, condemned, and repented of.
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We've all seen John 3:16 in weird places – billboards, sporting events, bumper stickers, bracelets – even tattoos! In a tradition like evangelicalism that is so committed to sales and "closing the deal" through religious conversion, it kinda makes sense. Conventional translations of the verse have mixed with evangelical heaven-hell fetishes to leave many of us thinking "going to heaven when you die" is the point of all this. It's right there in that verse, right?
Well, not right. It's way cooler and more interesting than that. Today we bring together many translation commitments across Brandon Johnson's work into this one verse, and see what kind of synthesis emerges. TL;DR – the story is way more interesting than we've been told.
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We've been pretty dogged about the point of the Jesus stories is not to go to heaven, and it sure as hell isn't about not going to hell. Jesus stories point to something far better than that.
But what to do about all that eternal life language? That sure seems to direct us toward a living-forever-one-way-or-another fate. Turns out, the greek there is a window into a much more faithful way of telling the Jesus stories: one that's good news for soil and salmon and supernovae and even us human critters!
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Glory to some people means one very specific thing – and at times one suspects how the use glory paints a picture of an insecure-but-big God needing lots of accolades. It's become a religious technical term with serious downsides.
To others, glory is a blurry religious word that carries little meaning – it's a word that's become a sound. Hmmm.
This week the Brandons try to make sense of this sound without ceding it to interpretive traditions that bow to an insecure authoritarian.
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Metaphors, Wittgenstein said, have a way of dragging us along. And theologian Leonard Sweet speaks of divine authority in the Bible being found in its stories and metaphors, not merely word-for-word. But what happens when the pattern of a particular metaphor is stripped out of sacred literature? What happens when you bring it back?
Pull a camping chair out into the field with us and let the fresh dawn of light, reveal, sleep, and rise up warm your spiritual imagination to new life.
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Is reality a monologue or a conversation? Is the unity of all things singular, or is it generative unity among difference? What lies at the heart of the Divine and of the cosmos: a throne or a table?
OK that may sound grandiose, but this change in John's legendary opening line may lead you to ask similar questions.
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We're back for season four! As we explore the Gospel According to John (sus name btw), we will be offering shorter episodes that explore the literature thematically rather than sequentially.
In this episode we'll be going over some of the distinctives of the fourth gospel, as well as the legacy it has in each of our own faith journey.
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We've been busy! Listen in to know what to look forward to.
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In the final chapter of Paul's letter to the church in Galatia, as rendered by the Translator himself, Brandon Johnson, we explore:
- "y'all" vs "you,"
- "Christ's Torah" vs "Law of Christ,"
- giving to leaders, and
- recap where Galatians has taken us.
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In the back half of chapter five of Paul's letter to the church in Galatia, as rendered by the Translator himself, Brandon Johnson, we explore:
- "impulsive bodily cravings" vs "desires of the flesh,"
- other weird ways of being bigoted against bodies, and
- Paul's latest list of No-No's.
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In the beginning of chapter five of Paul's letter to the church in Galatia, as rendered by the Translator himself, Brandon Johnson, we explore:
- why faithfulness is more saving than faith,
- the authoritarian nature of obedience, and
- the tangle of viticultural, social, and penile puns Paul waggles at his opponents.
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In the fourth chapter of Paul's letter to the church in Galatia, as rendered by the Translator himself, Brandon Johnson, we explore:
- 'fundamental assumptions of the world systems' vs 'elemental spiritual forces of the world'
- how Paul's arguments are a template for decolonizing everywhere, and
- what to do about that weird allegory.
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In the rest of chapter three of Paul's letter to the church in Galatia, as rendered by the Translator himself, Brandon Johnson, we explore:
- what's wrong with faith,
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blessed,
- 'cursed' vs 'declaration of impending hardship,'
- the sacred nanny, and
- how 'and' loops in massive implications for all of this.
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In the first five verses of chapter three of Paul's letter to the church in Galatia, as rendered by the Translator himself, Brandon Johnson, we explore:
- how easy it is to read antisemitism in Galatians;
- Torah and torah vs Law;
- faithfulness vs belief or faith; and
- what gets Paul extra cranky.
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In the second chapter of Paul's letter to the church in Galatia, as rendered by the Translator himself, Brandon Johnson, we explore
- how to describe a mensch,
- deviators from other ethnicities vs Gentile sinners,
- why cultural conformity mandates and confusing supremacism for particularity are in Paul's sights, and
- considered just vs justification vs holy belonging.
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Welcome to the third season of Found in Translation! In this episode we begin the first chapter in Paul's letter to the church in Galatia, as rendered by the Translator himself, Brandon Johnson. We discuss:
- desire vs will,
- designated for destruction vs accursed,
- presuppositions of the precepts passed down vs traditions,
- how to talk about your relatives,
- and more!
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Welcome to the third season of Found in Translation! We're excited to dive into Paul's letter to the church in Galatia, as rendered by the Translator himself, Brandon Johnson. Today we'll be giving an overview of Galatians, contrasting typical (super-Protestant) interpretations with how each of us make sense of one of Paul's more perplexing letters.
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Brandon & Brandon tip their hand about season 3, which begins Friday, July 29 on Facebook Live and YouTube, and August 1 wherever fine podcasts are served.
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We talk through some of the important translation decisions in Brandon Johnson's at-home translation of Ephesians 6:10-24, the final episode of season 2 and on Ephesians. We put a lot of the parts together from all of Ephesians, particularly as themes are resythesized and re-stated in its final paragraphs. It's a juicy one and we get kinda giddy about it.
- cosmic powers vs conquerors of the world system;
- liberation vs salvation;
- False Accuser vs Devil;
- and more!
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We talk through some of the important translation decisions in Brandon Johnson's at-home translation of Ephesians 6:1-9. It extends last week's squirm-inducing language, this time about kids and enslaved people.
- anger in the family;
- "father, and do not sin;"
- enslaved people vs slaves;
- discrimination vs favoritism;
- and more!
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We talk through some of the important translation decisions in Brandon Johnson's at-home translation of Ephesians 5:18-33. It has some of the most alarming passages in all of the Christian Bible - namely, the whole "wives submit to your husbands" stuff. If you listen carefully, you can actually hear us squirming.
- neglect vs debauchery,
- is salvation about cooperation or submission,
- why wives don't owe respect to their husbands by default,
- and much more!
Here's the comparison image of the ESV and Brandon's translation.
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We talk through some of the important translation decisions in Brandon Johnson's at-home translation of Ephesians 5:1-17. There's quite a list of concerning behaviors, many of which arrived through concerning translation decisions. Here's a few...
- sexual exploitation,
- obscenity 👀
- harassment, and
- the ESV (worth including on a list of vices).
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We talk through some of the important translation decisions in Brandon Johnson's at-home translation of Ephesians 4:17-32.
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compassionate language for inner obstacles,
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God's generosity,
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how to talk about concerning behaviors, and
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assembly instructions for generosity.
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We talk through some of the important translation decisions in Brandon Johnson's at-home translation of Ephesians 4:1-16.
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a decisive shift in metaphor,
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belligerent masculinity,
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the fivefold gifts
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We talk through some of the important translation decisions in Brandon Johnson's at-home translation of Ephesians 3.
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Paul's wildly circuitous writing,
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what Brandon Rhodes got graded down for in seminary,
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mysteries wrapped in enigmas,
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technicolor faithfulness
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We talk through some of the important translation decisions in Brandon Johnson's at-home translation of Ephesians 2:11-22.
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real words for different people,
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the hostility that Jesus overcame,
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metonymy of foreskins,
... and that's just the tip of the, err, iceberg!
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We talk through some of the important translation decisions in Brandon Johnson's at-home translation of Ephesians 2:1-10.
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living beyond the status quo,
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why "the flesh" is different from our bodies,
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more legible ways of saying "saved through faith by grace"
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We talk through some of the important translation decisions in Brandon Johnson's at-home translation of Ephesians 1:15-23.
- the plurality of "you"
- "wise and curious spirit"
- how to translate "heart"
- saving "faith" from those who make it dumb
- what the hell to call a church
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Brandon and Brandon waltz into the second season of "Found in Translation," this time exploring Paul's letter to the Ephesians. In it they explore:
- desire vs will,
- sacred ones vs saints,
- renown vs glory,
- generosity vs grace, and
- 'purchase of liberation from enslavement' vs 'redemption.'
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Brandon feels like he's been making translations, even unto the end of the age. The other Brandon has thoughts. They discuss:
- the implications of so few technical terms around the Passion and lynching,
- helping vs serving vs ministering,
- parallels with Matthew 1,
- woken up vs raised,
- every jot and tittle of the "Great Commission."
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Brandon and Brandon discuss all the little nuances of translating the Eucharist or Last Supper.
- spoke praise and gave thanks,
- keeping covenant,
- poured out with many in mind vs poured out for many,
- liberation from deviations vs forgiveness of sins,
- and shitty shitty Calvinism.
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Brandon and Brandon listen carefully to Jesus final teachings before his crucifixion, including:
- unmarried girls vs virgins,
- shortsighted/foresight vs foolish/wise,
- praised vs blessed.
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Brandon and Brandon listen closely to Jesus' expectations of what would come next for imperialists, the violent, and his followers, including:
- arrived victoriously vs come/coming
- absence of Torah vs lawlessness
- pray that it might not happen vs and never will happen
- brightly shining grandeur vs glory
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Brandon and Brandon are startled by Jesus' fierceness in Jerusalem, finding new layers of meaning through these translations and more:
- those in hardship and those with privilege
- select vs elect
- pretenders vs hypocrites, and
- reawakening vs resurrection.
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Brandon and Brandon follow Jesus on his approach to Jerusalem, prying open his more cryptic foreshadowings to the crucifixion:
- generosity vs grace,
- drink vs cup,
- as the price of freeing many enslaved people vs as a ransom for many,
- faithfulness to the Path vs faith, and more.
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Brandon and Brandon are startled by some deep shifts of meaning and scandal in Jesus' teaching:
- What Jesus was getting at concerning divorce;
- Whether Jesus' aside about eunuchs might be his deepest cut against patriarchy;
- eternal life vs age-long life;
- the renewal vs the reset
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Brandon and Brandon get closer and closer to Jerusalem with Jesus, and ponder about one of the weirdest moments in Matthew's story:
- Transformed vs Transfigured,
- the relative non-jewishness of booths,
- how Jesus talks about his friends,
- what happens when you stubbornly surface one of Matthew's broadest and most layered word-pictures.
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Brandon and Brandon are joined by Terry Wildman, the lead editor of the First Nations Version of the New Testament and co-founder of Rain Ministries. The First Nations Version is a dynamic equivalence translation that captures the simplicity, clarity, and beauty of Native storytellers in English, while remaining faithful to the original language of the New Testament. They discuss the damaging legacy of settler translation decisions among First Nations persons, what it is like to translate a text for cultures of oral storytelling, and what Bible words were the most gratifying to fine-tune in their work.
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Brandon and Brandon continue through Matthew's midway point, exploring:
- oppressive and unfaithful vs wicked and adulterous,
- how Son of God who is alive was actually politically provocative,
- the risk of translating ekklesia as church,
- what to call what happens after death, and
- translating Jesus as a human, not a mannequin.
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Brandon and Brandon straddle the center of Matthew's story:
- unlawful vs against Torah,
- parallels between feeding stories and the Eucharist,
- what to do when Jesus talks weird,
- mistrustful vs little faith, and
- a list of toxic behaviors, rendered less toxically.
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Brandon and Brandon get parabolic:
- how translation decisions muck our ideas of how the Hebrew Bible relates to parables,
- what's so evil about evil,
- this age vs the world, and
- tripped up vs took offense.
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Brandon and Brandon evade many unpardonable sins of Bible translation as they listen in on Jesus' escalating tensions with religious authorities, where they learn:
- why Torah really shouldn't just be called Law,
- more elastic words for Gentiles,
- sympathy for those bedeviled by all this Beelzebul and unpardonable-sin stuff,
- and more!
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Brandon and Brandon wade further into the social and political world of Jesus, finding more faithful ways of sharing it along the way:
- Off with its headings!
- Fleshing out soul language,
- Attachment and love,
- Who can be an angel, and
- Less misleading words for miracles.
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Brandon and Brandon follow Jesus down the mount, to watch him flesh out big themes of his freshly-wrapped sermon:
- why Jesus was more into having "trust" than "faith,"
- whether typical translations give demons a foothold,
- Jesus' favorite Bible cosplay,
- where all the "sinners" went,
- what's better than "salvation,"
- and more!
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Brandon and Brandon journey through Matthew 7, the conclusion of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. Along the way the explore:
- The good, the bad, and the ugly of moral binary language
- Holiness
- "Nothing to do with Torah" vs "lawless"
- and more!
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Brandon and Brandon reposition and stretch a little as we get into the middle bit of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, including:
- the endless ways to say Father,
- the limits of only saying Father,
- the Lord's prayer,
- souls,
- "mistrustful" vs "little faith"
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According to Matthew (Brandon's Translation)
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Brandon and Brandon continue the early stretch of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, including:
- hell and child sacrifice,
- "engage in sexual affairs" vs. "commit adultery",
- divorce and sex work,
- linguistic binaries, and more.
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According to Matthew (Brandon's Translation)
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Brandon and Brandon have only their breath to share with you, exploring the beginning of Jesus' big "Sermon on the Mount." They touch on:
- What bigger patterns become evident in some of these translation decisions? Does it change what we understand Matthew 5-7 to be about?
- Hints of Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 25 in the beatitudes,
- What about "the poor in spirit"?
- #Blessed vs gratified,
- reject force vs meek, and
- hell!
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According to Matthew (Brandon's Translation)
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Brandon and Brandon are tempted by many questions and creative ways of more faithfully and legibly telling the stories of Jesus' 40 day hike, including:
- What's the intended title or descriptor for the presence he meets there?
- What are the political implications of the False Accuser pressing for Jesus to submit to him, not worship him?
- What's the relationship between the Hebrew Testament and Jesus' life?
- What the hell is demon possession and can we do better?
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According to Matthew (Brandon's Translation)
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Brandon and Brandon cannon-ball into the deep end of the River Jordan, exploring:
- What's a baptist anyway?
- What happens when you just capitalize a word instead of change it?
- repent vs transform your minds,
- What's wrong with sin,
- Everything that's problematic with translating one greek word as justification and righteousness,
- the sky vs heaven
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Brandon and Brandon discuss the odds and ends of the Christmas story and more:
- Wise men as astrologers,
- worship him as submit to him,
- angels as messengers,
- and whether prophecy as fortune-telling might be an insult to how the Bible actually works.
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Matthew 1
Brandon and Brandon explore translating:
- Holy Spirit as Sacred Life-Breath,
- righteousness as committed to justice,
- save as many different words, and
- sins as deviations.
They also touch on the introduction of one of Matthew's big themes – Jubilee.
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Brandon and Brandon share the story of how the show came to be, what Brandon Johnson's Bible translation project is all about, and a survey of the kinds of ideas we'll be exploring.
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According to Matthew (Brandon's Translation)
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