The Chick Report with Dr. Sandra Glahn
Jul 7, 2026 · 40 min · 9 segments
What happens when we reduce Rahab to "the harlot" and miss her significant role in Israel's siege of Jericho? In this episode of The Chick Report, Dr. Sandra Glahn talks with Dr. Eva Bleeker about…
Eva BleekerGuest
Sandra GlahnHost
I, I would say that was the most, that was the deepest and most disorienting identity work that I've ever done, was being deeply equipped by the best Bible teachers in the world and feeling like I couldn't do what I was good at doing.
That's a strange experience that I don't think I need to explain to people who are tuned into this podcast.
I was sorting out what do, what do I keep? What do I decide to let go? Who am I going to please? Who am I going to offend, uh, as I make decisions about the work I think I'm being invited to do, uh, by someone important? [laughs] So, um, it, it was super hard.
And again, I would be remiss here if I didn't say, Sandy, that you were my companion in that space in a way that made it possible to ask questions without being afraid that I was leaving my faith structure.
So your, your inter- see, lots of people get to read what you have written or watch a video of you.
Um, but I got to have you to myself, [laughs] and I don't know if I would've made it through that time because essentially, let's put it on the table, what I was deciding is, am I going to diverge in my praxis from the people who taught me to follow Jesus in the first place?
And then even at a deeper level, I was asking, does God love me the same way that he loves my brothers? And does he see my personhood in an equitable way as he sees that of my brothers? So to state the obvious, there was a lot riding on those questions for me.
And so your classroom gave me a place to sort of fall apart and then put myself back together with the help of, uh, ancient texts and-
The reason I got interested in Rahab was I was looking at the Matthean genealogy, that list of Jesus' physical forebearers, and it is weird.
It's organized weird, it's structured weird, and it's weird that it has the names of five women in this very, very intentional and stylized list before we get to him, to the one.
... curious about the names of those women appearing in the beginning of Matthew, and I had been taught and had not examined-
I, I would say that was the most, that was the deepest and most disorienting identity work that I've ever done, was being deeply equipped by the best Bible teachers in the world and feeling like I couldn't do what I was good at doing.
That's a strange experience that I don't think I need to explain to people who are tuned into this podcast.
I was sorting out what do, what do I keep? What do I decide to let go? Who am I going to please? Who am I going to offend, uh, as I make decisions about the work I think I'm being invited to do, uh, by someone important? [laughs] So, um, it, it was super hard.
And again, I would be remiss here if I didn't say, Sandy, that you were my companion in that space in a way that made it possible to ask questions without being afraid that I was leaving my faith structure.
So your, your inter- see, lots of people get to read what you have written or watch a video of you.
Um, but I got to have you to myself, [laughs] and I don't know if I would've made it through that time because essentially, let's put it on the table, what I was deciding is, am I going to diverge in my praxis from the people who taught me to follow Jesus in the first place?
And then even at a deeper level, I was asking, does God love me the same way that he loves my brothers? And does he see my personhood in an equitable way as he sees that of my brothers? So to state the obvious, there was a lot riding on those questions for me.
And so your classroom gave me a place to sort of fall apart and then put myself back together with the help of, uh, ancient texts and-
The reason I got interested in Rahab was I was looking at the Matthean genealogy, that list of Jesus' physical forebearers, and it is weird.
It's organized weird, it's structured weird, and it's weird that it has the names of five women in this very, very intentional and stylized list before we get to him, to the one.
... curious about the names of those women appearing in the beginning of Matthew, and I had been taught and had not examined-
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