{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 140: You Are the God Who Sees Me (Amy Easton)","description":" What if one of the most powerful testimonies of God\u2019s love in the scriptures comes from a woman whose story we often skip over? In this episode, BYU professor of ancient scripture Amy Easton discusses a compelling study of Hagar\u2013the enslaved Egyptian woman who becomes the only person in the Old Testament to name God\u2013by discussing her article \u201c\u2018You Are the God Who Sees Me\u2019: God\u2019s Loving-Kindness to Hagar.\u201d Professor Easton guides listeners into the heart of Hagar\u2019s story, showing how her experiences of trauma, exploitation, and exile reveal a God who is intimately aware of those on the margins. She highlights Hagar\u2019s transformative encounters in the wilderness, where God sees her, hears her, makes promises directly to her, and ultimately liberates her and her son. Through these moments, we come to understand a God who works both within hardship and beyond it. Further, Professor Easton explains how Hagar\u2019s story affirms a universal truth that God sees all His children and invites us to see and care for one another with that same loving\u2011kindness.    Publications:  \u201c\u2018You Are the God Who Sees Me\u2019: God\u2019s Loving-Kindness to Hagar,\u201d in Tender Mercies and Loving-Kindness: The Goodness of God in the Old Testament, Religious Studies Center (2026)  \u201cA Multiplicity of Witnesses: Women and the Translation Process,\u201d with Rachel Cope, in A Hundredth Part: Exploring the History and Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Religious Studies Center (2023)  \u201cRecognizing Responsibility and Standing with Victims: Studying Women of the Old Testament,\u201d in Covenant of Compassion: Caring for the Marginalized and Disadvantaged in the Old Testament, Religious Studies Center (2021)  \u201cLehi\u2019s Dream as a Template for Understanding Each Act of Nephi\u2019s Vision,\u201d in The Things Which My Father Saw: Approaches to Lehi\u2019s Dream and Nephi\u2019s Vision, Religious Studies Center (2011)    Click here to learn more about Amy Easton  ","author_name":"Y Religion","author_url":"https:\/\/religion.byu.edu\/y-religion","html":"