Ep. 1: "Nasty Woman" (Audio)

Welcome! This is the audio version of an episode also shared in written, blog form HERE.(If you missed it, the intro to this guide to Esther can be found HERE as podcast, HERE as blog.)HERE's the Raw Reading Cheat Sheet so you can read Esther 1 on your own before listening to the Episode Notes.And very soon, I'll share via podcast a dramatic read-aloud of the text for this episode: Esther chapter 1.Other potentially helpful references:Lauren Winner, “Into Esther,” Catapult MagazineKay Higuera Smith, a scholar & friend informally citedPete Enns, “Walter Brueggemann and Scripture as Counter-Imagination to the Empires of Man”My "Laughter Is Resistance" postAdele Berlin, cited in Carol Bechtel’s Esther commentaryRachel Held Evans, "Vashti: The Other Queen"Claire K. McKeever-Burgett, on the sacred no - "Queen Vashti | Dissenter," from In the Beginning Were the WomenErna Kim Hackett, "Why I Stopped Talking About Racial Reconciliation and Started Talking About White Supremacy"If you’d like to support this work...I’m so encouraged by every subscribe, share, comment or like…You can also buy me a coffee :) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bigflipspirituality.substack.com