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Skye Sermon - Jesus the Friend of the Canceled (Patreon)

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2025-09-08 10:41:33
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Here is Skye's latest sermon at Newsong Church. Enjoy!

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Kim Kargbo

First of all, thank you Skye. An articulate and compassionate message for our time. Any chance this could be moved out from behind the paywall? I’ve got about 40 people in my life is like to send it to that would never listen to the HP, let alone subscribe to HP+. Second, a point of contention. I’ve heard you (Skye) talk about the Samaritan woman a couple different times lately, always referring to her as an “immoral” woman. That is the common interpretation on her life, but I think it is a very male and Western-centric interpretation. Women in that time and culture were little more than property. They had no agency over their marriages or livelihoods. In the West, we view this woman as living an immoral life, or making choices about her marriages, as if she is just glibly marrying and divorcing men willy-nilly, and then shacking up with another guy of her choosing. Maybe - if she was a 21st century American woman. From an eastern culture perspective, however, I think she is more accurately viewed as a victim of the patriarchy. It is likely that she was discarded by those previous 5 husbands, probably for not being able to bear children. And the man she was with wouldn’t marry her for the same reason, but wanted the benefits. Yes, she was ostracized, but probably not because she was immoral. She was probably viewed as cursed for whatever the reason was that she had been abandoned by 5 men. Another alternative is that 5 previous husbands died, in which case, she would still be viewed as cursed and bad luck, and again, the man she was with was likely just using her. I think we need to remember that women had little agency in those days and in that place, and this woman was not out there alone by the well because she was immoral, but because she was an outcast due to whatever bad luck had befallen her to cause 5 husbands to not want her. Jesus’ interactions with her not only correct her theology (and who knows what kind of wrestles she had had with God about her life to date), but also caused an outcast to become the center of positive attention in her town, likely changing her story and her relationships for the rest of her life.

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Kim, Thanks for your thoughtful comment. On many points, you are correct. Women had little control over their lives in the ancient world, and the Samaritan woman may have been a victim of immoral men who divorced her for unlawful reasons or tragically widowed. However, in my research of this passage, one crucial detail can't be dismissed. In v.18, when Jesus says, "and the man you now have is not your husband," the structure of this sentence in Greek emphasizes that she is not married to him, AND he is married to someone else. In other words, she's in an adulterous relationship. While this detail does not negate your very valid points, and the woman may still have been the victim of an unjust and patriarchal system, her relationship with a married man would have marked her as immoral by her culture. How much choice she had in this relationship remains unknown. While a modern audience might factor that into determining her moral status, that would not have mattered in her cultural context. -Skye