In this episode, Lisa concludes the first season of Healing Jephthah's Daughters with a brief reflection on the healing journey so far accented by a few of our favorite moments from the first ten episodes. Lisa also offers a few invitations to help you continue your healing journey in the days and weeks to come.Season 2 will premiere in Fall 2021 on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and most other podcast platforms. Until then, our prayer for you is freedom, healing, and wholeness.

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.