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Each week, Dr. Richard Benton, Fr. Marc Boulos and guests discuss the content of the Bible as literature. On Tuesdays, Fr. Paul Tarazi presents an in-depth analysis of the biblical text in the original languages.
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You are listening to Mary Reads Scripture, a production of the Ephesus School Network. I’m Mary, and I’ll be reading and you’ll be hearing from Scripture. Let Scripture teach you through what is written in the Greek and Hebrew texts. New episodes air every Wednesday morning!
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A Light to the Nations is a bi-weekly podcast examining all parts of the biblical story from a functional perspective. Instead of asking what words means, we consider instead their function, i. e., how they are used in other parts of the Bible. In each episode will discuss the functionality of words and how that allows us hear the teaching.
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Welcome to our podcast where we take a deep dive into the holy scriptures with the sole purpose of illuminating the story being told; the responsibility of all teachers of the bible.
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Paul wrote his first letter to Timothy so he would know, "...how one ought to behave in the household of God, the church of the living God..." (3:14,15). In doing so he laid down the apostolic foundation for doctrine and practice for the church at Ephesus and the Scriptural model for the true church for all time. The contemporary church, therefore, has no excuse for not doing God's work God's way. This series of messages is a verse-by-verse exposition of the book of Haggai by Jeff Miller. Th ...
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In his gospel, Mark presents an alternative to armed revolt: submission to the one God of both Jews and Gentiles. Thus for him, Jesus is both Christ and the Son of God in a very specific way: according to the Gospel preached by the Apostle Paul, which is itself the fulfillment of what was written in the prophets, the second part of Scripture. Here …
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Romans 4:19-25 This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.org Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read…
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Romans 4:13-18 This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.org Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read…
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It gets so old—your universal declarations, your philosophies, your ideologies, your heightened sensibilities, your values, your propaganda, your Kool-Aid. Your gods. Hearing Fr. Paul teach, it hit me like a ton of your rubble. When people hear the words of the biblical Prophet, they can’t help but respond by preaching their civilization. It’s an o…
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The story of Rahab the harlot takes up the bulk of chapter 2 of the Book of Joshua. In Scripture, “playing the harlot” is typically a stand-in for following after foreign gods. Her prevalence here can be understood as an invitation to biblical Israel not to commit “Scriptural harlotry.” She is the example for them to follow if they wish to ensure t…
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Romans 4:9-12 This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.org Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read …
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This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.org Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read along with me …
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Every immigrant, every minority, and every colonized person living under a human boot faces the same dilemma: how to live without imitating or accepting the ways of the human gods that impose their glory. “We have,” a wise poet once said, “on this earth what makes life worth living.” Scripture, Fr. Paul has explained many times, forged a path for l…
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In the announcement of Jesus’ birth in the Gospel of Luke, what stands out is that God singles out Mary for favor as a sheer expression of his will. In biblical terms we can say it’s a “textbook example” of grace. In that she possesses no special prerequisite or qualifications for being chosen, Mary’s election is throughly scriptural: it parallels …
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Romans 4:1-8 This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.org Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read a…
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There is nothing like a cup of Turkish Coffee. That’s not an opinion. It’s an observation of fact. The local Starbucks does not serve Turkish Coffee. That’s why I never buy Starbucks for Fr. Paul before his lectures. Why would I? Why would anyone who cares about anything important, meaning Scripture, do something so foolish? I am pretty sure there …
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Romans 3:27-31 This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.org Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read…
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The Bible, Fr. Paul explains, is a holy joke. That’s a big relief. Even hopeful. Looking around, I see that the current state of affairs is an unholy joke. Truly, if the Scriptural God is not laughing at us, mocking us, and ultimately—as Fr. Paul explains—entrapping us, he is not God. He can’t be. What kind of god, what monster, would be happy with…
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Romans 3:21-26 This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.org Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read…
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Code Pink! Code Pink! People are running around with blinders on! It appears they’ve been reading English translations of the Septuagint! Half keep referring to something called the Books of the Kingdoms, which do not appear in the Bible; the other half are enamored with some goofy Greek nonsense called “philosophical questioning.” One of them keep…
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Romans 3:20-23 This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.org Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read…
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Scripture unmasks your illusions. Religion, family, friends, ideas, institutions, nations, individuals, “isms” of every school—all your human ideals and beliefs are a lie. Unfortunately, you can’t sleep around with your lies and remain faithful to the Master. You do, in fact, have to make a choice. Note my use of the word “fact.” So, please, step i…
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Romans 3:19-23 This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.org Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read…
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This week, a few listeners reached out to wish me well on my sabbatical or to ask what I plan to do with my free time. First, please be assured that I will not be eating ice cream. Second, as my oldest Palestinian cousin Tina said while doing manual labor at St. Elizabeth, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” In her honor, let’s make good use of the time be…
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Breaking Bad, the TV series which aired from 2008 to 2013, is a work of creative genius; a tapestry of interweaving characters and storylines. It is modern storytelling at its finest. I recently re-watched the series and I wondered how it could be that I was enjoying my 3rd re-watch even more than when I’d first seen it. Why am I still enjoying a s…
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Romans 3:9-18 This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.org Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read …
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This week, Fr. Paul refers to the Apostle Paul’s letter to Timothy, noting a disciple’s duty to take every single opportunity at every moment to channel the content of Scripture at every turn, in time and out of time, using every chance afforded to share what you received, not from the teacher, but directly from the text. In this vein, Fr. Paul rei…
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In the opening scene of Husbands and Wives, Woody Allen’s character references something Albert Einstein once said, “God doesn’t play dice with the universe,” then adds his own snarky, “no, he just plays hide and seek.” Indeed people often cite God’s invisibility or his absence as grounds for disbelief. While classic Christian Theology has made of …
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“Scripture,” Fr. Paul wrote years ago, “is its own interpreter.” “The sermon,” he continued,“…is at best an invitation to hear and obey the text.” “An invitation card has no value whatsoever when it comes to the dinner itself; the guests are fed by the dinner, not by the invitation or its phrasing (Luke 14:16-24; Matthew 22:1-14).” This study of th…
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This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.org Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read along with me …
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In view of current events, I am convinced that people who continue to insist upon the language of post-modernism are guilty of murder. A bullet is not a narrative. A cylindrical projectile launched from a chamber through the rapid expansion of gas induced by combustion is a fact. Just ask a nursing mother. She will tell you. A bullet is not a narra…
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Romans 3:9 This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.org Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read alo…
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This week, Fr. Paul highlights several key features—not only of the Book of Numbers—but also of the Pentateuch. Most notably, he points out that in all five books, God is never referred to as the “King of Israel.” This fact, he explains, is the main bone of contention in the confrontation between the people and God the Lord in 1 Samuel. (Episode 31…
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With all the silly memes floating around the internet about how to “live” your best life or how to live a “good” life, it was inevitable that people would talk about using Scripture to “live a good” life. It’s an old lie, actually, and it was unavoidable that it would reappear. Oh, come on, Fr. Marc. You know what they mean. Unfortunately, no. I do…
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Romans 3:7-9 This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.org Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read a…
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For years, Fr. Paul has stressed that the only way to teach Scripture is by giving practical examples. Scripture is practical knowledge. From an early age, he explains, children can hear the text only if you relay its content with common sense examples, unlike complex theological theories that confuse children and betray the text, deactivating its …
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In all four Gospels, Judas Iscariot is identified as Jesus’ betrayer. Only Luke and John add the detail that “Satan entered him.” In Luke, Satan also has his eye on Simon Peter. Thus the ultimate opponent of the Gospel attempts to undermine it from the inside - seeking to influence two from Jesus’ inner circle. Luke sets the battle against the back…
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A prophet gathered people to do difficult, painful, and dangerous work, which was to be carried out according to specific instructions. He said, “I am going to do this work, no matter what the cost, no matter how long it takes, according to the instructions given to me.” When his tribe heard the instructions, they said, “That’s your choice; we want…
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Romans 3:5-6 This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.org Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read a…
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This week, Fr. Paul moves from his discussion of Leviticus to the book of Numbers, but not before a brief excursus to unpack the original Hebrew names of the books of the Law, which stress “speaking aloud” and “spoken words,” reflecting the content of the books themselves. (Episode 310) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…
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Speak, be silent, have your discourse, hold your discourse, mansplain, or be ever so polite and attentive. Gossip, hold your tongue, roll it around seven times seventy, or run it. Psychoanalyze your neighbor or choose wisely not to judge others. Who cares? Rehear Ecclesiastes: You are nothing new under the sun. You are not a judge, the judge, or an…
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Romans 3:1-4 This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.org Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read a…
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Ah, the occidental trap. The neurosis. The spiral of death. Dante’s hell. An eternal maze of nonsensical self-preoccupation. “What is my value?” Which boils down to, well, “nothing.” Then you “build” a philosophy department and “create” an entire field of study to “examine,” well, “nothing.” You even give it a fancy Latin name so that none of you l…
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Romans 2: Bonus Episode Scripture is written against you. Scripture is not self-affirming. Its goal is to cancel you, the hearer. If you are affirmed by hearing Scripture then that is your theology and not the voice of the text. This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.org Join me as I explore the book of Romans in …
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This week, by the simple act of reading the text of Leviticus 26 aloud, Fr. Paul demonstrates the extreme poverty of Judeo-Christianism, its frailty, what this means for the widow and the orphan, and, painfully, what the subject of all his verbs has in store for those who do not heed his words, directly. (Episode 308) ★ Support this podcast on Patr…
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Occidental scholarship is a fraud. It comes with its own knowledge, the way a guest comes to a potluck meal with his own communion bread. By definition, if you bring it, it is not the Eucharist—it is a McDonald’s Happy Meal. It feels good—like a cheap date—but after you are done, all that’s left are empty calories, with a portion of your proceeds d…
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Romans 2:25-29 This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.org Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read…
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This week, Fr. Paul highlights the folly of all modern hearers of the Bible, who, through their theologies, divest and disrobe themselves of the “fear” of God under cover of their “approach” to the Bible. There is a word for this: it’s called impiety. This leads to the transgression of God’s commandment: “You shall not rule over him with harshness,…
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In the genealogy in the first chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus is strategically placed following 3 sets of 14 names. With this structure, hearers are meant to recall the Sabbath Year and the Jubilee Year ordinances from Leviticus. Like the produce out of the ground which the sons of Israel were commanded not to sow nor prune, Jesus comes dir…
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Romans 2:17-24 This podcast is a production of the Ephesus School Network: ephesusschool.org Join me as I explore the book of Romans in a simple but insightful manner. While each episode is short and easy to digest, I recommend setting aside time with the biblical text in front of you and no other distractions. The text is available for you to read…
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