Wrestling with Jewish Conversion

In this episode, Megan and Gabriel chat with guest, Keven Lewis. Megan and Keven met in anthropology and history classes during their undergraduate years at Middle Tennessee State Univeristy and they kept in touch over social media (mostly with Megan admiring his reading lists!). Keven studies religious history and anthropology and is currently working on his Masters thesis, which is an ethnography of a local religious community in Middle Tennessee, in which he focuses on American Evangelicalism through the lens of worship, eschatology, and testimony as important aspects of Evangelical culture. He is also in the process of converting to Judaism, which has given him a rich perspective on Christianity and Jesus, including the problematic ways that Christians misunderstand Judaism, Jesus, and Biblical Law.

Megan is reading Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free, by Linda Kay Klein.

Gabriel and Keven are both reading Short Stories by Jesus, by Amy-Jill Levine

Keven is also reading The Origins of American Religious Nationalism, by Sam Haselby.