Ep100. A Bible Bracket!

I'm joined by a wonderful group of friends to ring in episode 100 with a 64 team single-elimination tournament pitting books of the Bible against each other in one-on-one competition until just one remains and we declare the best book in the canon.

It was a lot of fun to record and generated a lot of fascinating and passionate conversation about a host of different books and their importance, beauty, challenge, and place in our lives and scripture.

If you want to play along you can download the bracket here.

Enjoy, and thanks for joining us for 100 episodes of Love Rinse Repeat!

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Today's guests:

Steff Fenton (they/them) is Co-Pastor of New City Church, a church plant on Gadigal land/Sydney focused on justice, safety and inclusion. Steff is the Chair of Equal Voices Sydney, a network for LGBTIQA+ people and allies across the Church, and Treasurer-Director of a disability services organisation, Charis House. Through the week, you’ll find Steff writing a thesis on male entitlement, gender-expansiveness and eunuchs in the Gospel of Matthew for their Master of Divinity at the University of Divinity. They identify as queer, ENFJ, an imperfect vegan, competitive with board games and an Enneagram 2 wing 3. @steff_fenton

Rosie Clare Shorter is a PhD Candidate in the Religion and Society Research Cluster at Western Sydney University. She is currently studying Anglicanism as a lived religion, focusing on the social consequences of complementarianism in the Sydney Anglican Diocese. She has previously completed a Master of Research and Bachelor of Creative Arts at Macquarie University. Rosie Clare likes to procrastinate by making coffee, doom-scrolling social media and re-reading Sara Ahmed's books and other classic feminist texts. She blogs very occasionally at rosieclareshorter.com and enjoys spending too much money on statement earrings and gin. @Roie

Brian Fiu Kolia is an Australian-born Samoan ordained minister of the Congregational Christian Church Samoa. As an emerging scholar, his interests lie in postcolonial and diasporic theory, as well as utilising native Samoan wisdom and indigenous knowledge to engage with the biblical text. He recently submitted his PhD dissertation where he engages a number of themes in the book of Ecclesiastes from a diasporic Samoan perspective. His recent publications are: "A Tautua Reading of Toil in Ecclesiastes 2:18-23." In Reading Ecclesiastes in Asis-Pacific, SBL Press, 2020. “Eve’s Serpent (Gen 3:1–9) Meets Sina’s Tuna at Fāgogo.” In Vulnerability and Resilience, 2020. “Lifting the Tapu of Sex: A Tulou Reading of the Song of Songs” In Sea of Readings: The Bible in the South Pacific, SBL Press, 2018. @BKolia

Rev Amanda Hay is a Minister of the Uniting Church in Australia. Amanda is the Minister in placement at Berowra Uniting Church where she has served since October 2019. Amanda has extensive experience in youth and young adult ministry positions and is passionate about how the church can support new and emerging expressions of faith, be it in person or online. Amanda is passionate about building church communities that support each other and serve the wider community in creative ways. She enjoys boardgaming and rollerskating in her spare time.

Rohan Salmond is a producer with the Religion and Ethics unit at ABC RN. In his spare time he also writes Modern Relics, a newsletter about religion, pop culture and the internet. He is acting chair of Leichhardt Uniting Church. @RJSalmond

Love Rinse Repeat is supported by the Vital Leadership team within the Uniting Church in Australia Synod of NSW/ACT.