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Sean Gladding presents The Naked Man
Hosted by Sean Gladding · EN
'The Naked Man' is a creative re-telling of the Gospel of Mark in the Bible, imagining what it might have been like to hear the stories of Jesus for the first time, and exploring the questions that those stories raise.
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Episode 58 - Dog
Jul 25, 202300:13:03Tap to summarizeThat awkward moment when Jesus used an ethnic slur. (Texts referenced: Isaiah 56.3, 7; Genesis 12.3; Mark 7.24-27; Matthew 4.24; Mark 7.28-31)
Transcribe →Episode 57 - Widow
Jun 9, 202300:12:04Tap to summarizeMore than likely, you've heard at least one sermon on "the widow's mite", probably when your church was asking for additional funding for something. But is that an appropriate story for such a purpose? (Texts referenced: Mark 12.41-44; 13.1-2)
Transcribe →Episode 56 - Scribe
May 11, 202300:11:10Tap to summarizeAll too often, unscrupulous people hide their exploitative behavior behind a thin veneer of respectability. But this is nothing new... (Text referenced: Mark 12.38-40)
Transcribe →Episode 55 - Korban
Apr 24, 202300:11:13Tap to summarizeJesus condemns religious people who pass laws that knowingly harm others. (Text referenced: Mark 7.6-13)
Transcribe →Episode 54 - Purity
Apr 10, 202300:10:25Tap to summarizePurity culture always leads to judgment and exclusion. Jesus says we're missing the point. (Texts referenced: Mark 7.1-5, 14-15, 17-23)
Transcribe →Episode 53 - Healing
Mar 27, 202300:08:32Tap to summarizeThe gathering wrestles with the question of whether God still heals people today. (Texts referenced: Mark 6.53-56; 5.25-34)
Transcribe →Episode 52 - Paul
Mar 20, 202300:09:37Tap to summarizeMark tells Yiftach about the painful memory of abandoning Paul and Barnabas. (Texts referenced: Acts 12.25; 13.4-5, 13; 15.1-6, 22, 35-40; Philemon 24; 2 Timothy 4.11)
Transcribe →Episode 51 - Ghost
Mar 13, 202300:08:42Tap to summarizeThe disciples are caught in a storm, their boat being swamped, when a ghostly figure appears... (Texts referenced: Exodus 33.14-23; 1 Kings 19.9-12; Mark 6.49-52)
Transcribe →Episode 50 - Rift
Feb 27, 202300:08:44Tap to summarizeYiftach parts ways with an old friend, then has a difficult night with his new ones. (Texts referenced: Mark 6.45-48; John 6.15)
Transcribe →Episode 49 - Giora
Feb 20, 202300:09:54Tap to summarizeWhat do you do when you feel disappointed by or angry at a friend? Perhaps even betrayed? Yiftach is about to find out.
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