289 - I’m a Woman Who Re-Translated The Bible

One of the few women to translate the Bible, Bonnie Lewis discusses her journey that led to this wonderful masterpiece. The journey was wrought with outside criticism revolving around a female’s audaciousness to do such a thing as translate the Bible.  Bonnie's  “inner Fundamentalist" wasn’t so quick to let her off the hook in pursuing this endeavor;  but over time, her Maker made paths straight and vision cleared to proceed.  

Part of Pastor With No Answers extended family, Bonnie, shares her journey that led to her writing the enlightening idiomatic translation of the Bible.  It’s called Timshel, a collection of the most commonly heard stories in the Old and New Testament. 

So, what do we make out of the chauvinistic nature of the Bible?  When everyone is getting a different meaning out of the Bible, how do we know what to trust?  And what finite being gets to be an authority of  God’s work?  We discuss this and more.

We also discuss a survival story from the big Texas snow that occurred this past winter.   Joey comes  clean with how Bonnie (and her husband, Cy) were recipients of some “anxiety texts” of his, around the time he was in crisis with his mental health. 

Bonnie Lewis and Timshel:
https://www.instagram.com/bonniegaillewis/
https://www.timsheltranslation.com/

Special Music Feature from “Terraform: The People” by Propaganda & DJ Mal Ski
"We All In” (beginning of episode)
"We Are All We Got” (end of episode)
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Host and producer, Joey Svendsen also hosts and produces other podcasts. Here's one, coming more from the church world:
Seacoast Church's Things You Won't Hear on Sunday Podcast

Other podcasts affiliated with co-hosts of PWNA:
Jed's Church & Other Drugs
Matt's The Great Deconstruction