Episode #15
015: Elisabeth R. Jones, Midrashic Imagination: Texts and Textures for Pulpit and Pew
<p>What is midrash, and why should Christian preachers care? In this episode of the Working Preacher Books Podcast, hosts Karoline Lewis and Rolf Jacobson sit down with Elisabeth R. Jones, author of Midrashic Imagination: Texts and Textures for Pulpit and Pew. </p><p>Jones unpacks midrash as a participatory, communal practice of biblical interpretation. She explains how naming discomfort with a text opens the door to curiosity and transformation. The conversation covers the Jewish roots of midrash, how Christians can engage it respectfully, and the practice of "following the rabbit" to find what a text is really saying. Jones...

