My guest this week was Caris Adel, and we talked everything from purity to empire to how we are attempting to teach our kids about privilege and power. She is a homeschooling mom of 5 who just went back to college this week, pursuing a degree in American Studies and Public History. She loves reading, traveling, and is continually looking for ways to disrupt her status quo. The lectionary passages for this episode were Mark 7:
Listen to me, all of you, and understand: there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.’ When he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable. He said to them, ‘Then do you also fail to understand? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile, since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?’ (Thus he declared all foods clean.) And he said, ‘It is what comes out of a person that defiles. For it is from wi
