{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Ep. 1119--The Liberating Birth of Jesus: A Story Able to Reverse Our Planet\u2019s Perils","description":"In this episode, Jerry interviews Lee about his new, 130+ pages book on how the perils of our planet can be reversed by the story of the birth of Jesus as told in the Gospels. The Gospels give us a story of new creation. Matthew and Luke give us riffs on Genesis, a collection written to protest the Babylonian Empire. Genesis and the Gospels give us stories that radically counter the stories of superpowers. Their stories are about the creation of the Earth and new life, and they do so in defiance of the superpower domination and death they were experiencing from Babylon and Rome respectively. Those stories give us what we need in 2020 to live by a different story from the superpowers of today\u2019s world that are destroying life for so much of our planet. The interview flows through a series of topics: why Lee wrote the book how the birth story in the Gospels and the Christmas story exist in two different paradigms the significance of the selective, mixed-gender genealogy Matthew gives us at the start of his gospel the significance of dreams in the birth story and in our new creation story today why cosmology keeps the creation story much larger than historical versions do actions we can take to live in the new creation The new book is The Liberating Birth of Jesus: A Birth Story Able to Reverse Our Planet\u2019s Perils. It\u2019s available both on Amazon and Powell\u2019s Books. It grows out of blogs Lee wrote in Christmas seasons during past years. This is Lee\u2019s fourth book. See http:\/\/theoneearthproject.com\/books\/ for descriptions of his earlier books. ","author_name":"The Common Good Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/oneearthjubilee.com\/podcasts","html":"