In our first ever Q&R episode, Jodie and Matthew answer a handful of listener questions (after getting distracted by a heated discussion on spiderman…)

1. What have y’all found to be the most difficult topic/concept to discuss or address on the podcast (think either hard to explain/define or emotionally-charged, like SA or violence)?

2. What’s a term or phrase that every major translation gets slightly wrong, in your view, and what does the mistranslation change?

3. Who are your most and least favorite Popes (if you have one) and why?

4. How does religious studies as a field distinguish itself from theology? Where’s the line between studying a tradition and practicing it?

5. If you had infinite money to buy any given religious artifact to have in your possession, what would you want to have? Are we going for a specific text? Piece of art? Relic?

6. Do you find that the footnotes and cross-references in study Bibles function as a second type of translation by shaping interpretation without *technically* changing the text?

7. How do you think religious literacy could change the world (think politics, culture, etc.)?

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