Shifting Culture
Shifting Culture
Joshua Johnson
Ep. 425 Elizabeth Berget - How Motherhood Reveals the Maternal Heart of God
54 minutes Posted May 18, 2026 at 11:00 am.
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Elizabeth Berget joins the podcast to explore the maternal heart of God — tracing how the Hebrew word rakum, often translated simply as "compassionate," is linguistically rooted in the word for womb, and what it means that God reaches for that word first when describing himself to Israel. The conversation moves through pregnancy, labor, and the crucifixion, the theology of secure attachment, what scripture's birth language reveals about salvation, and why expanding our image of God isn't a de...