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Connecting Scripture and Life
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If you would like to donate to our ministry please follow this link, http://store.la-archdiocese.org/catholic-bible-instituteand thank you for your generosity and being part of our mission to share the Word of God.Connecting Scripture and Life podcast explores the way God speaks in different times and places with the same wisdom that lead to a happy life. Scripture teaches us how to live. Through conversations with people who love, teach, and live it we will explore our own lives in the pages of the sacred.Connecting Scripture and Life is a ministry of the Catholic Bible Institute, Office of Religious Education, Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Episodes
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Episode 126: Workers in the Vineyard - Matthew 20:1-16
This parable has always been a challenge to our practical and perhaps commercially oriented minds. On first hearing we say 'excuse me!' But as all parables are, this story goes way deep to challenge those spaces that hold back our generosity. Not only with money but with our time and talents and...
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Episode 125: Under the Grapevine and Fig Tree - Micah 4-5
Chapter four of Micah is a dark warning and admonition to those who abuse their power and leave the lesser in dire circumstances. We struggle with the meaning of a prophecy that seems to leave us with hopelessness but in the midst of the chastisement is hope. The time of suffering has an end and...
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Episode 124: Walk in Rectitude - Micah 2
This second chapter from the prophet is difficult to hear and necessary for all people of God to take in. Micah calls out those who plan iniquity and have the power to carry it out. The prophet is speaking to those in authority but we all have authority over something or someone. The voices in…
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Episode 123: Let the Mountains Melt - Micah 1
The prophet Micah opens his prophecy with God coming down from his dwelling place to "stride upon the heights of the earth." The people have gone far enough in their sinfulness and God comes as a witness against them. Things are going to get tough for rulers and citizens but as with all the...
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Episode 122: God Prevails - Judges 16
In our final episode of the Samson saga we meet Deliah. She plays a small but pivotal role in bringing Samson through weakness into the truth of his strength. He falls in love with her and becomes vulnerable, giving away his heritage that was gifted to him in his mother's womb. He is brought low...
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Episode 2: Sermon on the Mount - Matthew 5-7
Rabbi Jason Fruithandler and Barbara Murphy talk about the Sermon on the Mount.
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Episode 4: Hannah's Prayer - 1 Samuel 2:1-10
Rabbi Jason Fruithandler and Barbara Murphy have a conversation about the mode of Hannah's prayer as the foundation for all Jewish prayer, and wonder about what Hannah prayed for, and what we pray for and why.
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Episode 5: The Golden Calf - Exodus 32
Rabbi Fruithandler and Barbara Murphy talk about the challenges today that are not so very different from the time when the people, anxious about Moses's delayed return, looked for another god and found only suffering. We talk about how we remain faithful in times of great decision. Join us!
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Episode 6: Exile From the Garden - Genesis 3
abbi Fruithandler and Barbara Murphy talk about that fateful day when humanity fell from grace and were sent of to figure it out on their own. We are still trying to work out what it means to know good from evil. Join us in our conversation about why we were so easily lead down a garden path.
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Episode 7: Road to Chanukah - 1 Maccabees 1-2
Rabbi Jason Fruithandler and Barbara Murphy struggle with the events that lead to the Maccabean Revolt and the rededication of the Temple, what we know today as Chanukah. Please join us for a conversation that compels us to ask questions we never thought we would have to ask.
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Episode 8: A Still Silent Sound - 1 Kings 19
Elijah runs away in fear after dispatching all the prophets of Baal, or better, prophets of Queen Jezebel. She vows by whatever god will listen to kill Elijah for what he has done (see 1 Kings 18). Rabbi Fruithandler and Barbara Murphy wrestle with his journey and what it means for our own lives....
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Episode 10: Tamar and Judah - Genesis 38
Tamar is one of the women whose name is commemorated in the Genealogy of Jesus (Matthew 1:1-17). Often mistaken, as it was with her father-in-law Judah, for a prostitute, Tamar used the power she had in the world she lived in to fulfill the law of God given to Israel through Moses. The punishment...
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Episode 3: Balaam and the Talking Donkey - Numbers 22
Rabbi Jason Fruithandler and Barbara Murphy talk about the strange story of the prophet Balaam and the Moabite King Balak and the donkey that saw the angel.
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Episode 9: The Good Samaritan - Luke 10 25-37
In the Good Samaritan story two leaders of the people walk by a beaten man on the street, but a traveler stops from his duties to take care of the wounded man. He brings him to an inn, sees to his comfort and promises to check in on him on his return journey. What is being asked of us in this...
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Episode 11: Book of Ruth
Episode Eleven: Book of Ruth
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Episode 1: The Binding of Isaac - Genesis 22
In Connecting Scripture and Life first six-podcast series Rabbi Jason Fruithandler and Barbara Murphy share insights and struggles with faith today that the Scriptures both illuminate and confound. It is hoped that these conversations will encourage everyone to see beyond what they know and...
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Episode 121: A Fantastic Tale- Judges 15
This chapter in the Samson saga employs some fantastic and macabre humor that draws the reader in and tends to leave us with the questions, huh? Three hundred foxes and the jawbone of an ass? It seems far-fetched, and yet when we lift our jaws up off the floor and look around at our world today...
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Episode 120: Sitting with Discomfort - Judges 14
The question we keep asking about this text is, 'Why is this here? What are we supposed to learn from this? Where is God?' This is a strange story of a young Samson going down into Philistine territory and finding a wife among Israel's overseers, and we're told this was God's doing! Huh?! Then we...
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Episode 119: The Annunciation of Samson - Judges 13
In this first chapter of the saga of Samson we hear the announcement of his birth to an unnamed barren woman. The angel of the Lord appears and tells her she will bear a son who will be blessed by God from the womb. Her husband, Manoah, does not believe her and prays to God to send the messenger…
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Episode 118: The Spirit of the Lord is Upon Me - Luke 4:19-18; Isaiah 61:1-2
In this episode we talked about what it means to have the spirit of the Lord upon us. Jesus anointed by God to bring good tidings to the poor captured our thoughts and we began to understand that all of us have the spirit to bring good news to people who are vulnerable or thought of as less than...
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Episode 117: Sarah Not Put to the Test - Genesis 22
This is the difficult story of the Akedah, the Binding of Isaac, when Abraham is put to the test and told to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac. It is a story in which Isaac's mother, Sarah does not appear, her name is not even mentioned, but we are feel her presence. God put Abraham, and in...
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Episode 116 - Making the Tough Choices - Genesis 21
When we began our conversation about the birth of Isaac and the banishment of Hagar and Ishmael we found it hard to have sympathy for Sarah. We did not see the reason for her words and actions. Rather we over sympathized with the ones sent away and with Abraham's distress Our ears heard the...
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Episode 115: The Story of Sarah - throughout Genesis 12-20
The story of Sarah is a complicated one as is the woman herself. She endured captivity, barrenness, humiliation, and ultimately the greatest gift from God, to be the mother of a people and nation that extends to our day and beyond. She is the arrow of time of the Hebrew people, bringing us from…
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Episode 114- Be a Blessing - Genesis 12
Lekh Lekha opens chapter 12 and the beginning of Abram's journey from his father's house to the land that God will show him.It means go for yourself or to yourself to be a blessing. In the journey to becoming who we are created to be we become a blessing for everyone we encounter. To follow the...
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Episode 113: Confounded Blessing - Genesis 10-11
In the final act of the creation of the world we tackle the story of the Tower of Babel. It is preceded by the genealogy of the descendents of Noah and for each one it says about the people, "according to their clans and languages, by their lands and nations." The introductory verse to the tower...
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Episode 112: Where is God? - Genesis 9:18-27
This is a strange and somewhat disturbing vignette that happens after the covenant is secured of our hero Noah becoming drunk, getting naked and passing out. His youngest son, Ham, sees him, then tells his brothers about it. Shem and Japheth hide their eyes and cover their father's nakedness.…
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Episode 111: The Arrow of the Heart - Genesis 9:9-17
In this episode, we talk about the Covenant between God, Noah, and all life on earth. We always understand the sign as a rainbow, but the Hebrew word for bow usually denotes the archer's bow. Mystically, the Arrow of Time pulls back the bow and shoots from the heart. It encompasses the soul of…
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Episode 110: The Sweet Aroma of Gratitude - Genesis 8
In this chapter the story of the raven and dove opens the cover of a message that leads to a profound expression of love and gratitude. The ark landed on Ararat but the earth is still covered with water. Noah releases first the raven then after the waters dry up he releases the dove that comes…
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Episode 109: Not a Formless Void - Genesis 7-9
We continue our exploration of the Noah story with Noah, his family, and the creatures of the earth drifting on the flood waters. We talked about it as a new creation but is creation the right word to describe what comes after? In this story there are people, animals, birds, creepy crawly things,...
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Episode 108: The Ark of God - Genesis 6
In our first conversation about the Flood story and Noah we talk about the sadness and tragedy of lawlessness, sin, and consequence. We also share about God's sadness of heart and his sparing of the family of Noah and the beasts of the earth. There is a profound sense in this story of consequence...
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Episode 107: Choose Life, Choose Love - Numbers 13-14
In this episode we talk about the story of the men, one from each tribe, who are sent by Moses to scout the promised land. After forty days they return laden with clusters of grapes too bountiful to carry and yet they reject it because the inhabitants were, in their eyes, threatening. Only Caleb…
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Episode 106: Jethro - Transformation and Wisdom
In this continuation of our conversation about Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, we explore the interior experience of the Midian priest who hears what God has done for Israel and seeks out Moses in the wilderness. He brings Moses's family and listens to Moses tell the story of how God freed…
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Episode 105: Jethro: A Guide to the Divine - Exodus 2:10-3:2
Jethro, Moses father-in-law, seems on the surface to be somewhat incidental but in deeper exploration of the pagan priest he is revealed as a non-Hebrew who brings a new perspective to our understanding of Moses's journey to the burning bush. Through Scripture and Midrashim we build a picture of...
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Episode 104: Redemption is at Our Feet- John 13
This is the beautiful and tense passage when Jesus washes the feet of his disciples, argues with Peter about it, and releases Judas to his chosen fate. All through it is a message of redemption, humility, and love. We see the dichotomy of the betrayer and the denier, one leaves himself beyond...
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Episode 103: The Seder Plate
The Passover Seder is a beautiful celebration of freedom. It places the people in the midst of slavery in Egypt and in the place of liberation and hope for the future. This podcast focuses on the Seder plate and each item in its symbolism and significance. We hope you will enjoy this conversation...
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Episode 102: Hold One Another Up - Exodus 17:8-16
In this story the archenemy, Amalek, attacks Israel at their weakest point and Joshua and his men go into battle. Moses along with Aaron and Hur climb the mountain and with the rod of God in hand Moses holds up his arms and gives Israel the upper hand. Moses grows tired and as his arms fail so…
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Episode 101- The Timeless in Our Hearts
Ecclesiastes 3 talks about the time for God's purpose under heaven. They seem and perhaps are opposites that come to us over the course of our lives, but they also happen simultaneously. They articulate the mundane experience of human life but within us God has placed the timeless, the eternity…
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Episode 100: Choose Love - From the Gemara
This story from the Gemara tells the story of the reason for the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E. But there is so much more it has to teach us about who we are and how we react to slights and embarrassments. It seems like a negative story on the surface. Underneath it demands we find...
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Episode 99: All you need is Faith, Hope, and Love - 1 Corinthians 13
In this beautiful Episode, Live from the 70th Religious Education Congress, Rabbi Fruithandler and Barbara Murphy explore the beauty of love and its ability to help us through the times of difficulty and joy. When there is love, not merely an emotion, but a commitment to each other we will hope…
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Episode 97: Demonstrate your Works through your Faith - James 2:14-26
This portion of the exhortation from James about faith and works calls everyone who knows God is one to live out this profession of faith. James says he shows his faith through his works and commands each one of us to look toward our neighbor with compassion and service. He uses Abraham obeying…
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Episode 96 - Disunity Shattered – Genesis 45-50
Episode 96 In our final installment of the Joseph cycle from Genesis, we begin with Joseph revealing his identity to his brothers after Judah offers his life in exchange for Benjamine. In is in this moment that Joseph tells his brothers that although they sold him into slavery Joseph now sees…
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Episode 98 - Meditating in Color - Isaiah 40
This special podcast invites you to color your spiritual reflections as you listen to a passage from Isaiah 40. This passage reminds us that our lives are short but what we bring to the world is beauty and color to sustain creation. Rabbi Jason Fruithandler and Barbara Murphy invite you to enter...
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Episode 95: A Family Confronts its Brokenness - Genesis 42-44
In this episode we experience the brokenness of Joseph, his brothers, and Jacob as they come face to face after years of separation. In the face of starvation all the sons of Jacob save Benjamin travel to Egypt to procure food and there they come face to face with the brother they betrayed but…
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Episode 94: Pharaoh's Dream - Genesis 41
In this chapter Pharaoh dreams of emaciated cows eating up healthy ones and rotted corn overcoming good corn. These dreams agitate his spirit and none of his magicians can tell him what they mean. Joseph is brought from prison and he tells Pharaoh that "God will see to Pharaoh's welfare." We see…
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Episode 93-: God the Interpreter - Genesis 40
We continue the saga of Joseph with him in prison, serving under the chief steward, put in charge of the care of the imprisoned chief cupbearer and baker. We are not told why the Pharaoh put the latter in jail but they play a significant role in our understanding of Joseph. They each have dreams...
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Episode 92 : Led Not Into Temptation - Genesis 39
In this chapter our hero Joseph is sold into slavery to Potiphar, the chief steward to Pharaoh, and given charge of the entire household. Potiphar trusts him so completely he pays no attention to anything but the food he eats. Joseph is described as fit and handsome and becomes the target of...
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Episode 91: This is the Line of Jacob - Genesis 37
The story of Joseph is a familiar one: brother against brother. The favored son incurs the enmity of his siblings. The father honors Joseph with a colorful coat that he wears proudly. Joseph dreams that his brothers will bow down to him. His brothers respond by plotting against him and selling…
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Episode 90- May we be like Joseph - Matthew 1-18-2-15
In the infancy narrative of Jesus Joseph is a hero. This is a righteous and noble man who, without any prompting, would protect the life of Mary and her unborn child though by law he had the right to turn her over for capital judgement. Before his dream he made a heavenly choice. Then the…
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Episode 89: Chanukah Light Coming into the World
Today we talk about lighting the Chanukah lights from passages in the Talmud. Chanukah is not spoken of in Torah and Maccabees is not part of the Jewish Canon and yet Jews worldwide light the candles over eight days until the whole house is glowing with warmth and the divine light of God. This is…
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Episode 88: Blossom of the New Creation - Isaiah 11-1-10
The wolf is the guest of the lamb, the infant plays by the viper's den, the lion eats hay with the ox, knowledge of the Lord covers the earth like water. All of these things are antithetical to the reality we live in and yet through the prophet, God has promised that this is what will be. This is...
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If you would like to donate to our ministry please follow this link, http://store.la-archdiocese.org/catholic-bible-instituteand thank you for your generosity and being part of our mission to share the Word of God.Connecting Scripture and Life podcast explores the way God speaks in different times and places with the same wisdom that lead to a happy life. Scripture teaches us how to live. Through conversations with people who love, teach, and live it we will explore our own lives in the pages of the sacred.Connecting Scripture and Life is a ministry of the Catholic Bible Institute, Office of Religious Education, Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
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