Best Shelley Neese Podcasts (2024)

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Bible Fiber: Interview with Derek Gilbert 42:27

9d ago42:27

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Send us a Text Message. This week we are pausing our study of Ezekiel to talk to my friend Derek Gilbert who was recently on a solidarity mission to Israel. Derek has been in the world of broadcasting for decades. He is producer and host of the web radio programs A View from the Bunker and P.I.D. Radio. He also co-hosts Unraveling Revelation with h…

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Bible Fiber: Ezekiel 17 17:36

12d ago17:36

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Send us a Text Message. As an innovative prophet, Ezekiel never ran out of teaching methods, whether it was a mime, public shaving, small scale enactment of a siege, judgement speech, or a twisted fairytale. In Chapter 17, God commanded Ezekiel to compose a riddle (17:1). The riddle was supposed to expose the treachery of King Zedekiah, a favorite …

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Bible Fiber: Interview with Documentarian Brian Sanders 33:54

24d ago33:54

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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to Bible Fiber and thank you to Dan and Charlene Selvage for sponsoring this special episode! We are taking a break today from our Ezekiel deep dive to catch up with my friend Brian Sanders who returned from Israel two weeks ago. Brian is the president and CEO of All for Zion ministry based in Dallas, TX. He is also …

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Mark Segal: Stonewall Lasted 365 Days 28:15

26d ago28:15

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Mark Segal moved to New York City in May of 1969 and a month later found himself at The Stonewall Inn as the now-infamous police raid began. "The police came in, pretended that they were doing their duty, got their pay off," he says. "The difference here was they barged in, they threw people up against the wall, they extorted money from some of the…

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Ezekiel 16: 44-63 17:26

1M ago17:26

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Send us a Text Message. This week we are studying Ezekiel 16:44-63, the last third of the longest oracle in the book. Ezekiel replaced the story of the generous king and his adulterous queen with new characters and a different plotline. In the marriage metaphor, Yahweh adopted Jerusalem as an infant and betrothed her when she matured. Ezekiel’s fol…

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Laverne Cox: The Transgender Tipping Point Turns 10 24:50

1M ago24:50

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Laverne Cox talks about being on the cover of Time magazine ten years ago, the pressure she's faced as one of the most visible members of the trans community, and how the Bostock v. Clayton County Supreme Court case with Aimee Stephens impacts all LGBTQ+ people. LGBTQ&A is an independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider joining our ⁠Sub…

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Ezekiel 16:1-43 19:07

1M ago19:07

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Send us a Text Message. This week we are studying Ezekiel 16, the longest chapter in the book by far. Ezekiel’s extended allegory is 63 verses, which makes this one chapter longer than the books of Obadiah, Jonah, Nahum, Malachi, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, and Haggai. Because of this, we will divide Ezekiel 16 into two parts. This week, we focus on the i…

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Ezekiel 15 10:50

2M ago10:50

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Send us a Text Message. This week we are studying Ezekiel 15. For the first fourteen chapters, Ezekiel’s divine dispatches included overpowering visions and bizarre sign-acts. In Chapter 15, he switched his method of communicating, choosing instead to reinforce the message through a series of six parables and metaphors (Ezek. 15-19). The other worl…

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Interview with archaeologist Dr. Chris McKinney 50:59

2M ago50:59

50:59

Send us a Text Message. Welcome to Bible Fiber! We are taking a break today from our Ezekiel deep dive to catch another archaeologist before he sets off for a summer expedition in Israel. Today’s guest is Chris McKinny. Chris has his PhD from Bar Ilan University in Israel. His dissertation focused on the historical geography and archaeology of the …

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Interview with archaeologist Dr. Scott Stripling 29:34

2M ago29:34

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Send us a Text Message. Hello Bible Fiber listeners. Today we are doing something new that will become a monthly feature. Bible Fiber is starting up interviews with Bible scholars, archaeologists, and historians as part of a series we are calling Bible Fiber BFFs. Our first guest is someone who I have pretty regular interaction with as he is the pr…

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Ezekiel 14 19:56

3M ago19:56

19:56

Send us a Text Message. Our sponsor of today’s episode is Jim Werner who has kindly dedicated his sponsorship to my family. As many of you know we are a military family and like lots of other military families this month, we found out we have orders to move again which means there has been some tears mixed with silver linings. So thank you Jim! You…

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Barney Frank: The Gay Agenda, Then and Now 32:08

3M ago32:08

32:08

Rep. Barney Frank served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 2013. He talks about being one of the first members of Congress to come out, how the AIDS crisis forced Congress to act, and the current state of the LGBTQ+ Rights Movement. Plus, his "Trophy Husband", Jim Ready, drops by to say hello. LGBTQ&A is an independent, listener-sup…

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Ezekiel 13 17:23

3M ago17:23

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Send us a Text Message. This week we are studying Ezekiel 13. At the end of Chapter 12, last week, we discovered Ezekiel had resisters among his peers in Tel Abib. They rejected him as a doomsayer and doubted if his prophecies would materialize (12:28). In the next two chapters, we discover Ezekiel was not only up against cynics dismissive of his p…

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Gigi Raven Wilbur: Talking BDSM With the Bisexual Intersex Elder 29:31

3M ago29:31

29:31

(This interview contains explicit sexual content.) Gigi Raven Wilbur talks about learning that they were intersex in college, the transformational power of BDSM in their life, and how they're feeling living in Texas right now among the current onslaught of anti-trans legislation. LGBTQ&A is an independent, listener-supported podcast. Please conside…

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Ezekiel 12 16:45

3M ago16:45

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Send us a Text Message. In last week’s episode, Ezekiel offered encouragement and comfort to the exiles, who worried that they were excluded from God’s plans for the nation of Israel. Surprisingly, Ezekiel identified them as the prophesied remnant. To help them chart a fresh course, God promised to gift them a new heart made of flesh (11:19). Inste…

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Lesbian Nation: Martha Shelley and Audre Lorde (Bonus Episode!) 11:08

3M ago11:08

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Martha Shelley talks to poet Audre Lorde in an episode of her radio show, Lesbian Nation. This was originally recorded in 1972 and is a part of Martha's archive at the Lesbian Herstory Archive. Martha is a pre-Stonewall activist who got her start in the 1960s with the Daughters of Bilitis. Click here to listen to our new sit-down interview with Mar…

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Ezekiel 11 19:43

3M ago19:43

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Send us a Text Message. This week we are studying Ezekiel 11, the concluding sequence in Ezekiel’s multi-part vision, and his last message before the glory of the Lord departed Jerusalem. So far, the prophet has taken a tour of the temple’s abominations, observed a squad of executioners on a killing spree, and watched the man in linen drop fiery co…

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Martha Shelley: Gay Activism Before Stonewall 31:50

3M ago31:50

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Martha Shelley began her life as a gay activist before the Stonewall uprising. She talks about joining the Daughters of Bilitis, co-founding the Gay Liberation Front, the first pride march, and her memoir, "We Set The Night On Fire". LGBTQ&A is an independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider joining our Substack as a paid Subscriber to …

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Ezekiel 10 16:48

3M ago16:48

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Send us a Text Message. In Ezekiel’s vision of the departing presence, the glory of the Lord was represented by a cloud. God’s glory coming in the form of a cloud would have been familiar to Ezekiel and his audience. In the early days of Israel’s wilderness wandering, the Israelites were comforted by the divine cloud as it settled atop the tabernac…

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Mia Yamamoto: The Trans Lawyer 'Liberating' The Judicial System 37:28

3M ago37:28

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Mia Yamamoto talks about her work as a criminal defense attorney, the racism she faced growing up as a Japanese-American after World War II, and coming out as trans later in life. LGBTQ&A is an independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider subscribing to our Substack in order to help support our work. This is a part of our special series…

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Special Episode for Resurrection Sunday 15:31

4M ago15:31

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Send us a Text Message. This week we were going to go over Ezekiel 10, the next chapter in our Ezekiel study. Ezekiel 10 is one of the lowest lows in the entire book because it records when God’s glory exited the Jerusalem temple. But that did not seem like the right message two days before Resurrection Sunday. I still regret doing a podcast on the…

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Bob 'Rose' Levine: Has Been Doing Drag in Fire Island Since 1955 31:19

4M ago31:19

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Bob "Rose" Levine talks about his first trip to Cherry Grove in 1955, being a part of the original drag "Invasion of the Pines" in 1976, and how the AIDS crisis changed Fire Island in the 1980s. LGBTQ&A is an independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider joining our Substack to help support our work. This is a part of our special series,…

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Ezekiel 9 13:59

4M ago13:59

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Send us a Text Message. Ezekiel watched as God summoned six executioners forward to take their places in the temple courtyard. The executioners each wielded a weapon for slaughter (9:2). Initially, Ezekiel referred to them as “guards,” but their task was not to protect the temple city. Although he also referred to them as “men,” they behaved more l…

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Ma-Nee Chacaby: 'I'm Old, But So What?' Says The Two-Spirit Elder 22:02

4M ago22:02

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Ma-Nee Chacaby talks about learning that she was Two-Spirit as a kid, her rural upbringing, and the challenges of being an out indigenous lesbian in Thunder Bay, Canada in the 1980s. Ma-Nee is the author of A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder. (Note: This episode discusses domestic violence.) "Put love in front of…

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Ezekiel 8 15:44

4M ago15:44

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Send us a Text Message. This week we are studying Ezekiel 8, the prophet’s second visionary experience. Ezekiel had been living in exile for five years without any updates about the situation in Jerusalem. One day, toward the end of his 430-day stint of lying on his side, he envisioned a messenger of God, fiery like gleaming amber, picking him up b…

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Sandy Stone: From Lesbian Separatist to Trans History 39:36

4M ago39:36

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Sandy Stone talks about working with the lesbian separatists of Olivia Records, why the attacks on the trans community today mirror the attacks from the 1970s, and the moment that led her to write "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto"—an essay that became a founding document of trans studies. You can learn more about Girl Island, t…

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Ezekiel 7 14:19

4M ago14:19

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Send us a Text Message. This week we are studying Ezekiel 7. On last week’s episode, our prophet-in-exile addressed the mountains of Israel from the plains of Babylon. In the two episodes before that, Ezekiel spoke to the city of Jerusalem. This week, he expands his message to all “the land of Israel” in a highly evocative sermon (7:1). We are only…

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Joan Jett Blakk: The Drag Queen Who Ran for President 22:22

4M ago22:22

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Joan Jett Blakk (a.k.a. Terence Alan Smith) talks about her historic 1992 presidential campaign, why the AIDS crisis influenced her run, and what it was like to be an out gay teenager in the '70s. "They still ask the same questions that they asked in the '90s. 'Drag queens run for president in America?' I'm like, 'Well, they told us anybody could r…

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Ezekiel 6 14:45

5M ago14:45

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Send us a Text Message. This week we are reading Ezekiel 6. In his previous demonstrations, Ezekiel centered his actions and oracles around his Jerusalem city model. After that drama, God instructed the prophet to turn and address a new audience, the mountains of Israel. God said, “Set your face towards the mountains of Israel and prophesy against …

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Duane Michals: Redefined Photography, But Don't Call Him an Artist 32:16

5M ago32:16

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Duane Michals has never followed the rules. The pioneering photographer, now 92 years old, says, "Because I didn't learn the photo rules it was very easy for me to abandon them. You're either defined by the medium...well, I redefined the medium." Duane talks about discovering his love for photography in the 1950s, not looking down on commercial wor…

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Ezekiel 5 16:33

5M ago16:33

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Send us a Text Message. This week we are reading Ezekiel 5, a continuation of the prophet’s bizarre series of sign-acts. The Lord commanded Ezekiel to get a sharp sword, instead of a barber’s razor, and shave his head and beard (5:1). The laws of Leviticus forbid priests from making bald spots on their head or shaving off the edges of their beards …

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If You Can Read This, You're Gay (We Are So Back) 2:22

5M ago2:22

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Hi! We're coming back! On February 27th! And we're continuing our special series, The LGBTQ+ Elders Project. I can't wait for you to hear it. For more info, come check out our Substack. Do you know an amazing elder and want to hear from them on the show? Come find me on Substack or social media (@jeffmasters1) and let me know. I'd love to hear all …

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Ezekiel 4 15:25

5M ago15:25

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Send us a Text Message. Prophetic sign-acts pop up frequently in the Major and Minor Prophets. They were real-life dramatizations that represented divine messages. I think of them as prophetic versions of immersive theater with object lessons. Knowing humans are visual, auditory, and tactile learners, God used all three communication methods to sha…

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Ezekiel 3:12-27 12:48

6M ago12:48

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Send us a Text Message. Today we are studying the rest of Chapter 3. The section opens with the spirt of God once again lifting Ezekiel up to his feet after he had fallen prostrate at the sight of Yahweh’s glory (3:11). As the Spirit transported him to the colony of exiles in Tel Abib, Ezekiel heard the commotion of the living creatures’ wings and …

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Ezekiel 2:1-3:11 12:59

6M ago12:59

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Send us a Text Message. Last week, we studied Ezekiel 1, the prophet’s first inaugural vision, which provided an intense peak at God’s heavenly throne chariot. The experience overwhelmed Ezekiel so much that he collapsed prostrate on the ground, which is where we find him in today’s episode when God verbally commissioned Ezekiel (2:1–3:11). Althoug…

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Ezekiel 1 20:59

6M ago20:59

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Send us a Text Message. If you have ever dipped your toe in Ezekiel’s waters, you know why the book can feel unapproachable: the quirky symbolic gestures, the bizarre visions, complex allegories, and harsh oracles. However, Ezekiel has also carved out a permanent place in the imagination of every Bible reader with his vision of God’s throne-chariot…

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Peoples of the Bible: The Edomites 14:50

6M ago14:50

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Send us a Text Message. The Edomites are unique in our miniseries because much of what we know about them is from the Bible. Although archaeologists have excavated ancient Edom, they have found few inscriptions or epigraphic evidence shedding light on the religion, language, or government of the Edomites. Yet, the Bible pays more attention to the E…

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Peoples of the Bible: The Hittites 13:20

6M ago13:20

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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to Bible Fiber. I am Shelley Neese, president of The Jerusalem Connection, a Christian organization devoted to sharing the story of the people of Israel, both ancient and modern. One thing that makes reading the Hebrew scriptures difficult is that while the Bible is telling the story of one people, the Israelites, ot…

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Peoples of the Bible: The Philistines 11:53

7M ago11:53

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Send us a Text Message. The Philistines were an ancient people of uncertain origins. They settled in the southern coastal region of ancient Canaan around the 12th century BCE. They formed a confederation of five coastal cities: Gath, Ashkelon, Ekron, Gaza, and Ashdod. The modern-day equivalent of their former territory covers most of the Gaza Strip…

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Peoples of the Bible: The Canaanites 7:50

7M ago7:50

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Send us a Text Message. The Bible’s reference to Canaanites creates the impression to the modern reader that the Canaanites were a unified people group. Really, the term Canaanite is an umbrella term that applied to all the people groups living in the land of Canaan during the Middle and Late Bronze Age. We should not take Canaanite as an ethnic te…

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Peoples of the Bible: The Babylonians 12:17

7M ago12:17

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Send us a Text Message. In over seventy episodes over the course of two years, we have done a deep dive into the 12 Minor Prophets, a monthlong minicourse on why prophecy ended, and then tackled the postexilic books of Ezra and Nehemiah. The next book on the horizon for Bible Fiber is Ezekiel. But before we start a new book, I am giving a minicours…

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Peoples of the Bible: The Assyrians 14:03

8M ago14:03

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Send us a Text Message. When the biblical authors recorded Israel’s history, they presumed their audience was familiar with the Assyrians, Babylonians, Philistines, Amorites, Edomites, and the list goes on. I am sure that was a safe assumption at the time they wrote their story. However, most modern readers see the names of foreign people groups in…

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Nehemiah 13, Part 2 14:34

9M ago14:34

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Send us a Text Message. This week we are studying Nehemiah 13. I divided the chapter into two parts to avoid rushing through the last nine verses of Nehemiah, which are thought-provoking to say the least. I have had part two of Nehemiah 13 written for weeks, but the events of October 7th took center stage in my mind and life and I assume they did f…

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Am Israel Chai 8:00

9M ago8:00

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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to Bible Fiber. I am Shelley Neese, president of The Jerusalem Connection, a Christian organization devoted to sharing the story of the people of Israel, both ancient and modern. I have had the Bible Fiber episode on Nehemiah 13 written for weeks, but I have not had the power or will to release it as our regular sche…

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Nehemiah 13, Part 1 14:06

10M ago14:06

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Send us a Text Message. After 12 years of governing in Judah, Nehemiah journeyed to Susa to check-in with King Artaxerxes. Recall that the king had readily given Nehemiah permission to go to Jerusalem, but the king’s only stipulation was that Nehemiah would eventually return (2:6). Nehemiah kept his word by reappearing in the Persian court to give …

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Nehemiah 12 14:31

10M ago14:31

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Nehemiah 11 16:07

10M ago16:07

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Send us a Text Message. This week we are studying Nehemiah 11. The last three chapters of the book make up Ezra-Nehemiah’s final literary unit. Ever since the edict of Cyrus, the returnees had their sights set on Jerusalem. The first wave of arrivals rebuilt the temple under the leadership of Jeshua and Zerubbabel. Seventy years later, Nehemiah’s a…

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Amy Ray: How The Indigo Girls Became The Greatest Band of All Time 29:56

10M ago29:56

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When Amy Ray first started playing music with her Indigo Girls bandmate, Emily Saliers, her "head felt like it was going to explode". She remembers thinking, "This is amazing. Not, we sound amazing. But this feels amazing. It was always about, This feels amazing." They've been playing together for over 35 years now and it's their music that the que…

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Nehemiah 10 15:20

10M ago15:20

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Send us a Text Message. This week we are reading Nehemiah 10. After the community got reacquainted with the teachings of the Torah and repented of their sins and the sins of their ancestors, they held a covenant renewal ceremony to affirm their commitment. Nehemiah’s three-step plan was reading, repentance, and renewal, in that order. For the Jewis…

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Nehemiah 9 16:04

11M ago16:04

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Send us a Text Message. This week we are studying Chapter 9 when the people stopped feasting and began fasting. Although Chapter 9 is a continuation of the previous chapter’s theme of Torah revival, the national mood shifted from joy to sadness. When the High Holiday period ended on the 22nd of the month, the people gathered two days later for anot…

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