Oct 5, 2026 · 55 min · 12 segments
**Have you ever felt like theology was for other people?** In this episode of *Showing Up Scared*, Jess sits down with Bible teacher, author, and theologian Lisa Harper to talk about why theology…
Lisa HarperGuestJess ConnollyHostWell, that is what you have gracefully, not even told us, but shown us in this book.
If you guys don't already have theology for the rest of us, let me tell you about this book.
It is literally the book that I think anyone who has gone through seminary or their doctorate and has become obsessed with the study of the things of God, it's the book they've wanted to write for the people they really love.
But every time I learned about a biblical or a kingdom or a God-sized idea and had a name for it and then could understand, you know, where I could trace that from the Old Testament to the New Testament, where I could see it in the history of the people of God, where I could see it in my own life, I wanted to talk to everybody about it.
So I'm going to give you an example because I am literally obsessed with the book.
I finished Seminary in May and I have to say there are still sections on the book that I open and I'm like, okay, I'm going to be so for real.
Yeah, which is normal because our brains are finite and we can only hold so much.
I would say for any woman who's listening who says like, listen, I would love to go to seminary.
Well, that is what you have gracefully, not even told us, but shown us in this book.
If you guys don't already have theology for the rest of us, let me tell you about this book.
It is literally the book that I think anyone who has gone through seminary or their doctorate and has become obsessed with the study of the things of God, it's the book they've wanted to write for the people they really love.
But every time I learned about a biblical or a kingdom or a God-sized idea and had a name for it and then could understand, you know, where I could trace that from the Old Testament to the New Testament, where I could see it in the history of the people of God, where I could see it in my own life, I wanted to talk to everybody about it.
So I'm going to give you an example because I am literally obsessed with the book.
I finished Seminary in May and I have to say there are still sections on the book that I open and I'm like, okay, I'm going to be so for real.
Yeah, which is normal because our brains are finite and we can only hold so much.
I would say for any woman who's listening who says like, listen, I would love to go to seminary.
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