Shame and the Bible with Judith Rossall

Recovering God: The Conversations

Judith Rossall is a tutor in preaching and church history at the Queen’s Foundation which trains people for ordained ministry. She is also a Methodist minister and describes herself as being happily single with a keen interest in gardening. Judith has recently had a book published called ‘Forbidden Fruit and Fig Leaves: Reading the Bible with the Shamed’ and shame in the Bible is primarily what the interview is about.

Books mentioned in the interview:
· Linda Radzik, Making Amends : Atonement in Morality, Law, and Politics (Oxford & New York, 2009).
· Tarana Burke and Brené Brown, eds., You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience and the Black Experience: An anthology, 2021.

The Transforming Shame Network
Judith mentioned the Transforming Shame Network, which is a community of faith willing and wanting to share human experience, ministerial praxis, academic research and creativity with the hope of transforming shame within church and culture. They can be found on Facebook and YouTube and a website is being prepared and should be published shortly: www.transformingshame.co.uk. They welcome new members and can be contacted on [e-mail].

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Twitter: @judithrossall

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RGP History
Alison & Grace were having a conversation in the summer of 2019 about podcasts and they weren't aware of any at the time that spoke to their context, so they decided to set one up. You can hear more about their thinking about the podcast on the Introductions episode.

Grace & Alison worked on the podcast together for the first year but Grace had other commitments that meant she had to give the podcast up, so from February - August 2021 Alison carried on without her.

In August 2021, Alex & Amy joined Alison and they became the three AAAs.
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Theme Tune
With thanks to Dan Lawrence who wrote and performed our tune & Lawrence Dinh who produced it.

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The Recovering God Podcast has been in existence since the summer of 2019. The team has changed over those years but we're delighted to still be offering relevant discussions covering the broad topics of feminism and the Christian faith!