Healing Jephthah's Daughters

In this episode, Lisa concludes the first season of Healing Jephthah's Daughters with a brief reflection on the healing journey so far accented by a few of our favorite moments from the first ten episodes. Lisa also offers a few invitations to help you continue your healing journey in the days and weeks to come. Season 2 will premiere in Fall 2021 on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and most other podcast platforms. Until then, our prayer for you is freedom, healing, and wholeness.

OVERVIEW This episode engages the following questions: What is grief? Is grieving a gendered experience? What is the difference between instrumental and intuitive grief? What is the relationship between grief and blame? What does Jephthah teach us about grief? GUESTS The Reverend Darryl Owens is the Chaplain and Grief Counselor for Women at the University of North Carolina Hospitals. Darryl shares his work with parents and patients who experience grief and loss during their hospital stay. He also discusses the necessity of learning that grief is not a gendered process. The Reverend Leander Hardaway is an attorney and mitigation expert for the National Death Penalty Project who shares his experience of being a father, encountering the story of Jephthah's Daughter, and working with those who grieve the loss of loved ones. HEALING RESOURCES https://amzn.to/3h91RRW (Grieving Beyond Gender | Kenneth Doka & Terry Martin) https://amzn.to/2UfT9bI (The Lost Art of Listening | Martha Straus & Michael Nichols)

This week, Lisa welcomes Brandon T. Maxwell and Katie Ricks from TheoLab Media's flagship podcast, The Holy Shit Pod, for a conversation about the Tina Turner and Aretha Franklin documentaries, Joe Biden's long-term commitment to ending violence against women, and how churches can help end cycles of violence Subscribe to The Holy Shit Pod: https://holyshit.captivate.fm/listen ARTICLES & RESOURCES https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/us/politics/biden-domestic-violence-policies.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share (Biden's Policies on Domestic Violence) | NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/us/politics/biden-domestic-violence-policies.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share (Tina Turner's Life Explored in New Documentary) | NPR https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/what-to-watch/ct-ent-tina-turner-documentary-review-20210328-cyxthjtsxrautfcqtthyawph5a-story.html (‘Tina' Review) | Chicago Tribune https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/arts/television/genius-aretha-review.html (‘Genius: Aretha' Review )| NY Times DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCES https://www.womenshealth.gov/relationships-and-safety/get-help/state-resources (Domestic Violence Resources by State) https://www.thehotline.org/ (National Domestic Violence Hotline) https://ncadv.org/get-help (Get Help | National Coalition Against Domestic Violence) https://www.domesticshelters.org/ (Find a Domestic Violence Shelter Near You | Domestic Shelters Website) https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/vawa_factsheet.pdf (Fact Sheet | The Violence Against Women Act) https://compass.freefrom.org/ (FreeFrom | Compensation Compass for Cash Assistance Program) (Understand Your Options and How to Pursue Them)

This week, Lisa invites listeners to consider the value of knowing our parents' stories and how adulthood (read, parenthood) can give wounded children clarity and perspective to understand the challenging components of their parents' actions and expectations. The discussion includes four conversation partners: Rev. Adriene Thorne, Rev. Dionne Boissiere, Rev. Dr. P. Kimberleigh Jordan, and Rev. Leander W. Hardaway.

This week, Lisa is joined by Rev. Dionne Boissiere, Rev. Adriene Thorne, and Rev. Dr. P. Kimberleigh Jordan for a conversation about childhood memories, their fathers' stories, the impact of parenting, the imprint of parenting, and how these things have shaped them.  

This week, Lisa continues last week's conversation with the Reverends Dionne Boissiere and Adriene Thorne. Part two of the dialogue explores the complicated relationship between expectations and exercising one's agency.  Check out the healing resources referenced in this episode: https://amzn.to/2QUy1pW (Bad Girls of the Bible: Exploring Women of Questionable Virtue )| Barbara J. Essex https://amzn.to/3vtVb5s (What Matters Most: Ten Lessons in Living Passionately from the Song of Solomon) | Renita Weems https://amzn.to/2QUGPfs (Listening for God: A Minister's Journey Through Silence and Doubt )| Renita Weems https://amzn.to/34nrzes (Stories from Inner Space: Confessions of a Preacher Woman and Other Tales) | Claudette Anderson Copeland https://amzn.to/3oVaBxb (The Relational Self: Ethics & Therapy from a Black Church Perspective) | Archie Smith

It the friend episode! This week, Lisa Weaver is joined by two of her closest friends - Rev. Adriene Thorne and Rev. Dionne Patrice Boissière - for a conversation about the expectations that are placed on women and how they can be death-dealing.

This week, Lisa explores the role of beliefs and customs in shaping our behavior.

This week, Lisa Weaver is joined by Professor Yolanda Norton, Hebrew Bible scholar, and creator of the Beyoncé Mass, a womanist worship experience. Lisa and Yolanda explain why Mizpah, a fortified military city in the Ancient Near East, should have been a safe space for Jephthah's Daughter. They also delve into the social customs of the day and why some may choose not to fool with Jephthah and his promise to God.

This week's episode features a comprehensive reading of Judges 11 by a few HJD listeners, a creative retelling of the the story of Jephthah's daughter, a lesson from Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon (1950-2018), and a brief moment of gratitude for George Floyd and Darnella Frazier. Books by Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon: https://amzn.to/3v5mR07 (Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community) https://amzn.to/3auFhzs (Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader )(with Dr. Emilie Townes) https://amzn.to/3gtamHJ (Teaching Preaching: Isaac Rufus Clark and Black Sacred Rhetoric)

In today's episode, Lisa introduces the HJD podcast by sharing a narrative glimpse into her own story and reading a portion of Judges 11 (the story of Jephthah's daughter). The episode also includes a conversation with Katie Ricks from the https://holyshit.captivate.fm/listen (THSP pod by TheoLab Media) that offers helpful context on the origins of the HJD podcast.