Brent Billings and Reed Dent team up with Elle Grover Fricks to excavate some ancient ideas about enemies.

BEMA 96: But I Say Unto You

Jesus and Nonviolence by Walter Wink

The Peaceable Kingdom by Stanley Hauerwas

Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman

1QS 1 (Community Rule) with Matthew 5:43 — Intertextual Bible

BEMA 358: Sabbath Practice — Prayer

Greek Priest Recreates Excitement of Resurrection Announcement — Instagram

Greek Priest Recreates Excitement of Resurrection Announcement — TikTok

“‘Flying Priest’ Marks Holy Saturday’s Liturgy in Greece” by Nick Kampouris — Greek Reporter

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Karen Stiller, author of Holiness Here and the author and editor of many other books, magazines, essays, and more.

Holiness Here by Karen Stiller

Review of Holiness Here — Marty Solomon, Goodreads

Review of Holiness Here — Brent Billings, Goodreads

Meadow Lake Progress — Wikipedia

Books by Frederick Buechner

Books by Anne Lamott

The Minister’s Wife by Karen Stiller

Craft, Cost & Call by Patricia Paddey & Karen Stiller

Karen Stiller’s coaching

Faith Today Podcast

Karen Stiller’s website

Karen Stiller on Instagram

Karen Stiller on Substack

Additional audio production by Gus Simpson

Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks investigate Jesus’s teaching on oaths.

“Greek Oath-Rituals” by Irene Berti — OpenEdition Books

“The Greek Oath in the Roman World” by Serena Connolly — Oxford Academic

“Loosing Vows and Oaths in the Roman Empire and Beyond: Authority and Interpretation” by Moshe Blidstein — De Gruyter

“The Kinyradai of Paphos” by John Curtis Franklin — The Center for Hellenic Studies

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings join Elle Grover Fricks to contextualize Jesus’s teaching on divorce in its Jewish and Roman landscape.

Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Josh Bossé take a closer look at Jesus’s teachings on desire.

BEMA 273: John — Pericope of an Honor Contest

Brent Billings joins Elle Grover Fricks to reconsider the topic of reconciliation through a Talmudic lens, featuring Reed Dent.

BEMA 36: The Redemption Cycle

“Dining in Heaven” by Robin M. Jensen — Biblical Archaeology Society Library

Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Elle Grover Fricks consider Jesus’s teaching on anger through a Talmudic lens.

Matthew 5:22 (Interlinear) — Bible Hub

A Rabbi Talks with Jesus by Jacob Neusner

Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks search out what life can be found in two short verses from the Sermon on the Mount.

Halakha — Wikipedia

BEMA 95: Abolish or Fulfill

Book of Tobit — Wikipedia