Healing Jephthah's Daughters
Healing Jephthah's Daughters
TheoLab Media
Jephthah is a biblical character who made a short-sighted promise that resulted in the murder of his daughter. Jephthah’s daughter paid the price for his seeming lack of wisdom and maturity. Today, so many daughters, so many fathers, replay this story like a syndicated episode of a 1990s sitcom. In Healing Jephthah’s Daughters, The Reverend Lisa M. Weaver, Ph.D., deploys family systems theory, biblical criticism, and storytelling to explore the childhood traumas women and girls experience at the hands of their fathers - and, at times, their guardians more broadly. Utilizing Judges 11 as a starting point, Lisa guides listeners on a journey from pain toward living a free, healed, and whole life.
Healing Is Not A Linear Process. The Work Continues.
Wrapping up season one, looking toward season two.
Jul 16, 2021
16 min
Grieving Is Not A Gendered Experience | On Grief & Being A Parent
This week, Lisa welcomes Rev. Darryl Owens and Rev. Leander Hardaway for conversations about grief, gender, parenting, and loss.
Jul 1, 2021
49 min
No More Cheeks to Turn | An HJD and THSP Mashup
Lisa is joined by Brandon T. Maxwell and Katie Ricks from The Holy Shit Pod for a conversation about ending violence against women.
Jun 18, 2021
54 min
What Happened to Him? | Complicating Fatherhood, Understanding Jephthah
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.
Jun 10, 2021
30 min
Telling Our Stories | Four Daughters Talk About Their Dads
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.  
Jun 3, 2021
34 min
What We Learn, How We Live: Learning to Reposition and Reorient
Part two of the conversation on expectations and expandability. Lisa explores the complicated relationship between expectations and exercising one's agency.
May 27, 2021
34 min
Expectations & the Expendability of Women (Girl, Don't Wake Up Dead!)
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.
May 20, 2021
30 min
You Have To Do What? Says Who? | On Obedience, Customs, & Expectations
This week, Lisa explores the role of beliefs and customs in shaping our behavior.
May 5, 2021
15 min
Life in Mizpah | Unsafe in the Safety Zone
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.
Apr 28, 2021
33 min
Reading Judges 11 | What Katie Cannon Taught Me About Telling Women's Stories
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:Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black CommunityWomanist Theological Ethics: A Reader (with Dr. Emilie Townes)Teaching Preaching: Isaac Rufus Clark and Black Sacred Rhetoric
Apr 21, 2021
36 min
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