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.&nbsp;Check out the healing resources referenced in this episode:<ul><li><a href="https://amzn.to/2QUy1pW" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bad Girls of the Bible: Exploring Women of Questionable Virtue </a>| Barbara J. Essex</li><li><a href="https://amzn.to/3vtVb5s" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What Matters Most: Ten Lessons in Living Passionately from the Song of Solomon</a> | Renita Weems</li><li><a href="https://amzn.to/2QUGPfs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Listening for God: A Minister's Journey Through Silence and Doubt </a>| Renita Weems</li><li><a href="https://amzn.to/34nrzes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stories from Inner Space: Confessions of a Preacher Woman and Other Tales</a> | Claudette Anderson Copeland</li><li><a href="https://amzn.to/3oVaBxb" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Relational Self: Ethics &amp; Therapy from a Black Church Perspective</a> | Archie Smith</li></ul>

Telling Our Stories | Four Daughters Talk About Their Dads

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.