This week we鈥檙e featuring the third episode of text.soul.culture, a podcast hosted and curated by , Academic Dean at 天美视频. Derek is joined by , Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies, to talk about what has formed her as a Biblical scholar and about her unique role here at 天美视频.
Dr. Parker shares about her background before coming to 天美视频, including an experience鈥攈aving the Bible twisted and used against her鈥攖hat allows her to relate with students who come into her classroom with resistance or fear about engaging Biblical texts, inviting them to 鈥渞eimagine what interpretation of this text looks like without us hurting one another?鈥�
鈥淭he Spirit allows transformation to occur in the reading and the doing and the engaging of the text.鈥�
This conversation touches on Dr. Parker鈥檚 framework for reading and teaching the Bible (鈥渃ontext, text, context鈥�); the work of integration; embodied reading, teaching, and storytelling; the movement of the Spirit; and the pastoral aspects of Dr. Parker鈥檚 role at 天美视频, as she sits with students who are struggling, disagreeing, and asking hard questions about what they are learning in class.
鈥淚 don鈥檛 have all the answers,鈥� says Dr. Parker, 鈥渂ut I can sit with folks in all of our wonderings about what鈥檚 going on in our world, what鈥檚 going on in the text, what鈥檚 going on in our school.鈥�
Dr. Parker was also recently featured on the聽笔补耻濒肠补蝉迟听from Kurt Willems at Theology Curator, sharing more about her background and her engagement of biblical texts, particularly the writing of Paul.