Episode 512 · out Tuesday
One passage a week, read slowly, for as long as it takes.
Solveig and Chiamaka read a few verses aloud, sit with them for fifty minutes and answer your questions. No ads, no hurry. This term we are in Jeremiah.
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Ten years, thirty-one books, one passage at a time
The Long Obedience started in 2016 as a Tuesday morning class in a church basement on East Lake Street. Someone put a phone on the table to record it for a friend in hospice. Now about 40,000 people listen each week, in cars, barns, kitchens and break rooms.
We go slowly on purpose. Genesis took us fourteen months. Philemon took three weeks for twenty-five verses. We would rather you understood one paragraph than skimmed a chapter.
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Where the name comes from
The essential thing “in heaven and in earth” is … that there should be long obedience in the same direction.
From the mailbag
Who listens, and where
I milk at 4:30. You come out at five. We've done all of Genesis together in the parlor.
I listen on my break at the hospital, then again on the drive home because I fell asleep the first time.
My husband died during Lamentations. I'm not sure I would have opened my Bible that year without you two reading it to me.
You said 'I don't know' on air. That's why I trust you.
Four kids, one car, fifty minutes of quiet. Tuesday is the good day.
We've had a listening group at our kitchen table since episode 90. Two of us have since been baptized.
Jeremiah 29:1–14. Fourteen verses, five minutes to read, a week to think about.