Rabbi Jess and Reverend Amanda Barker discuss the relationship of Redemption in Judaism and Christianity.

• What is Redemption?
• What is Redemption in Christianity? In Judaism?
• How do they overlap?
• How do they differ?
• Is redemption an active process?
• What does re​demption call us to? What actions?
• What obligations?
• How does one become redeemed?
• How is redemption a transformation?
• What does red​emption feel like​?
• ​Why at times do we not feel ​like redemption​ is real (in the face of the world's suffer​ing)?
• ​Is redemption figur​ative or literal​?
• What is the relationship of Jesus to redemption for christianity? What is the Eucharist?

Our work is not within the walls of a church or temple, but being in this broken world, because the world has not yet been transformed or redeemed, we become the actors to reset our intention and act on behalf of God to tend to the marginalized and those suffering.

​Redemption does not erase pain or death​.

Jesus' ministry was the primary healing to the marginalized, the example set that we become actors in redemption, our world becomes God work to redeem the world.

The world is upside down, our work becomes to right the inversion of the world through love and care.

Biography

Reverend Amanda Barker is the Curate at St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church in Boulder.

A Curate is a fancy term used in The Episcopal Church, meaning she's an assistant priest and in her first call and congregation.

She grew up in the church and became a priest in 2024 after receiving her Master of Divinity from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific.

Amanda’s background is in the nonprofit sector, where she worked for two decades with various groups on land conservation and historic preservation action in Colorado.

At the start of her career, she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Madagascar.

She now lives in Boulder with her husband and two stepchildren.

When she’s not at church, she's cooking, reading, and traveling to new places and to her favorite people, and she has become an avid backyard birdwatcher.