Welcome to Variety Podcast. I'm your host, Felicia Mason-Himer, and I am here to

teach you how to know what you believe, to live it boldly, and to communicate it

graciously to the world around you. I believe that women are ready to go deeper in

their faith than ever before, and they don't have to go to seminary to do it. I am

so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey because every

woman is a theologian. Welcome back to Variety Podcast friends. I am so thrilled to

be joining you in your earbuds today, and today we're going to take a little dive

into Leviticus. So over the last eight weeks, we've done this broad sweeping

treatment of theology and how it applies to our lives. The last eight weeks have

concentrated on the chapters of my recent book, Every Woman of theologian,

which takes you deeper into the truth of who God is based on biblical, historical,

theology, and now we're going to get a little bit more specific. Just this week on Ask

Anything Monday, which I do every week on Facebook and Instagram, I got a question

about tattoos, and whether tattoos were a sin based on Leviticus 1928. And so we're going

to be looking at Leviticus 19 today to get an answer to that question. But I love this question

because I think it actually gives us a great example of how to exegy or draw out the biblical

meaning of a text when it was written in a time in culture very different from ours. I get this

form of a question quite often. Why is there a log against boiling a young goat in its mother's

milk? Why is there a log against mixed fibers? And how do we understand these laws today?

If we aren't observing the ceremonial and civil laws of Israel because we aren't a

theocracy, how do we then understand laws in Leviticus and how do we translate the principle

in them to our modern culture? And that is a fantastic question. It has a lot to do with the

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