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In Session Two of Jesus in Galilee, Dom makes a move that stops most people cold: he argues that Jesus underwent a conversion. Not to faith — Jesus was already there. A conversion of vision. And he pins it to a specific historical moment: the execution of John the Baptist.
John fasted. Jesus feasted. John announced that God was coming. Jesus announced that God was already here. Something changed between the Jordan and Galilee — and Dom's case is that what changed was John's death, and a question Jesus couldn't shake: if God was about to intervene, why didn't God show up before Antipas's cavalry did?
The Q&A digs into everything that follows from that argument:
→ What made John's baptism so distinctive that both Josephus and Mark gave him a nickname for it?
→ Why does it matter where you put the colon in Isaiah 40 — "a voice crying out: in the wilderness" versus "a voice crying out in the wilderness:"?
→ Did Mark invent Jesus's baptism by John — and if not, what does it mean that Jesus stood in line with everyone else?
→ What's a Roman prostitute at a banquet in Gaul got to do with the beheading of John the Baptist?
→ If the apocalyptic imagination is, as Dom puts it bluntly, a loss of nerve — possibly even a loss of faith — what does that mean for 2,000 years of Christian eschatology?
→ And what does it look like when God is not waiting for us, but we are waiting for God — and both are at different restaurants?
This is the session where the historical stakes get personal. The Jordan River isn't just geography. John isn't just a forerunner. And the parables of Jesus aren't just clever stories — they may be the medium of an entirely different way of imagining how God works in the world.
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In Session Two of Jesus in Galilee, Dom makes a move that stops most people cold: he argues that Jesus underwent a conversion. Not to faith — Jesus was already there. A conversion of vision. And he pins it to a specific historical moment: the execution of John the Baptist.
John fasted. Jesus feasted. John announced that God was coming. Jesus announced that God was already here. Something changed between the Jordan and Galilee — and Dom's case is that what changed was John's death, and a question Jesus couldn't shake: if God was about to intervene, why didn't God show up before Antipas's cavalry did?
The Q&A digs into everything that follows from that argument:
→ What made John's baptism so distinctive that both Josephus and Mark gave him a nickname for it?
→ Why does it matter where you put the colon in Isaiah 40 — "a voice crying out: in the wilderness" versus "a voice crying out in the wilderness:"?
→ Did Mark invent Jesus's baptism by John — and if not, what does it mean that Jesus stood in line with everyone else?
→ What's a Roman prostitute at a banquet in Gaul got to do with the beheading of John the Baptist?
→ If the apocalyptic imagination is, as Dom puts it bluntly, a loss of nerve — possibly even a loss of faith — what does that mean for 2,000 years of Christian eschatology?
→ And what does it look like when God is not waiting for us, but we are waiting for God — and both are at different restaurants?
This is the session where the historical stakes get personal. The Jordan River isn't just geography. John isn't just a forerunner. And the parables of Jesus aren't just clever stories — they may be the medium of an entirely different way of imagining how God works in the world.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🎓 WANT ALL FOUR LECTURES + LIVE Q&A ACCESS?
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You'll get the complete Jesus in Galilee series — all four visual lectures, invitations to the live Q&A streams, and the full class archive. Perfect for individuals, small groups, and congregations looking for Lent study that actually generates conversation.
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