Episode 84 :: Elizabeth Wyndham:: Stories of Faith Finding, Cultural Paradigms and Seeing Jesus of the Middle East Simply Stories Podcast

Today I am chatting with one of my good friends Elizabeth Wyndham, but to pretty much everyone else, she’s ELiz. So, as we are rounding out our 4 part Seeker series as we intentionally look at the questions and doubts people have about following God, I really wanted to spend time chatting with ELiz for a few different reasons. She has spent a lot of time as a student of the Middle East, and she lived there as a student in 2011. Eliz also is a woman of deep faith, and her love for the Lord and His Word is so beautiful to me, but she went through an experience of needing to make her faith her own and she spent a lot of time asking questions, listening and learning until as she says she found that :“Christianity was the only religion I couldn’t disprove” And she shares that process with us, and also how searching for Christ and how He intersected with the world when He was on Earth continues to inform her faith and how she interacts with others still today.
So through her knowledge of cultures and  their paradigms, her immersive experiences, her heart for the Word of God, and the Gospel, I asked Eliz to come on the podcast and take me to school and ohhh boy did she. This one is a little longer than our average episode, but I know for a fact that there is a word for someone in this episode today. Whether it's about learning things you didn’t know before in regards to the world Jesus walked around in, how things are for Christians in other countries, bringing the Word of God even more fully alive, or an encouragement to you to dive deeper into your own faith journey, there’s something for everyone in this conversation. I hope it meets you where you are. 
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References:
MP Seminars
Ride a camel to Petra 
Jordan
Egypt
The Arab Spring 
Syrian Civil War
Egypt’s military dictator was kicked out
Tahrir Square
Geography of Northern Africa, the Middle East and South Africa
“The Prince of Egypt”
Sinai peninsula 
Turkey is the bridge between the Middle East and Europe
Chinatown in Egypt
“My Shot”- Hamilton
Garbage City 
“Dhimmi/Dhimmis” 2nd class citizenship in Egypt //definition
City of the Dead
Caste system
Train cars for women
Islamic view of women
“Shame is only shame if its known” (why women don’t share about sexual assault in the Middle East)
Early Christianity in ancient Rome, it was a known as the religion for women 
Infanticide was common in ancient Rome, especially for girls
Hand of Fatima
Folk Islam
Muslim people who dream about Jesus
Our episode with Patrick Prill
Latasha Morrison and de-centering
The 3D Gospel by Jason Georges (contains the culture test) 
Roland Mueller, Honor & Shame // The Messenger, The Message and the Community
Kenneth Bailey Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes
Michael Heiser - his books and his episode with me, also listen to his podcast
Mark Clark’s The Problem of Jesus: Answering a Skeptic's Challenges to the Scandal of Jesus, and also my conversation with him 
Bridges small group study- how to connect and ask good questions with Musilm people
J.D. Greear
Carl Medearis
Nonie Darwish- Wholly Different: Why I Chose Biblical Values Over Islamic Values 
Scripture References:
Exodus 14- The Exodus story from Egypt
Matthew 2- Jesus went there for a time when He was a baby
John 4- Samaritan Women
Luke 8- Unclean woman (issue of blood)
Leviticus 15:19- A menstruating woman would defile who she touched
Ephesians 3:14-20, Romans 8:15, Romans 9:25-26, Galatians 3:26-27, 1 John 3:1-  Adopted into the Family of God (sons and daughters of God)
Luke 24- “His resurrection was announced to the people whose testimony only counted for half” (the women)
Luke 8:26-39- living among the tombs, Legion, filled with demons and Jesus
Mark 5:1-20- Legion couldn’t be bound 
2 Timothy 2:11-13- more info and multiple