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4.92: How is Suicide Treated in the Bible?

Cohosts speak with guest, intentional interim pastor in the Southwestern Minnesota Synod and adjunct professor at Luther Seminary, Hollie Holt-Woehl.

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In this episode, Prof. Kathryn Schifferdecker and Katie Langston speak with guest, intentional interim pastor in the Southwestern Minnesota Synod and adjunct professor at Luther Seminary, Hollie Holt-Woehl.

They gather to answer the listener submitted question, “How is suicide treated in the Bible?”

Show notes

Biblical books and passages mentioned

  • Judges 16
  • Matthew 27
  • Mark 15
  • Acts 1

Topics, themes and figures mentioned

  • Suicide
  • Mental Illness
  • Mental Health
  • Judas
  • Satan
  • Suicide of Judas
  • Field of Blood
  • Greek Audience
  • Samson
  • Philistines
  • Abimelech
  • Zimri
  • Saul
  • Human Experience

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Kathryn Schifferdecker

Kathryn Schifferdecker

Katie Langston

Katie Langston

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Hollie Holt-Woehl

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Hollie Holt-Woehl

Hollie M. Holt-Woehl is a Lutheran pastor and professor with a PhD in pastoral care. She regularly teaches at Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota and St John’s School of Theology and Seminary in Collegeville, Minnesota. She also serves as an intentional interim pastor in the Southwestern Minnesota Synod (ELCA).

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Kathryn M. Schifferdecker

Kathryn M Schifferdecker came to Luther Seminary as an assistant professor of Old Testament in 2006. Ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2001, Schifferdecker was associate pastor for five years at Trinity Lutheran Church, Arkdale, Wisc., before coming to Luther. Schifferdecker is a frequent contributor to workingpreacher.org, Word & World and the author of Out of the Whirlwind: Creation Theology in the Book of Job (Harvard University Press, 2008). She is currently writing a commentary on the book of Esther.

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Katie Langston

Katie Langston is a doubter by nature and a believer by grace. She grew up Mormon in a small Utah town and still isn't sure she fits in anywhere sophisticated enough to have a Target. She's the author of Sealed: An Unexpected Journey into the Heart of Grace, an acclaimed spiritual memoir about her conversion to orthodox Christianity. Katie works as the director of digital strategy for Luther Seminary's innovation team, where she oversees digital projects aimed at cultivating vibrant Christian spirituality in a post-modern, post-Christian cultural context.

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