Can Christians Get Tattoos?

In this episode Pastor Jon digs into Leviticus 19:28 and it's admonition not to "tattoo one's skin". Do Christians still need to follow this commandment? What is the historical backdrop and contextual information necessary to understand WHY this was even a thing in Ancient Israel? Will Hope fire its current tattooed worship leader/leadership team member? Listen to find out...

The Hope Messages Podcast is a podcast dedicated to delivering accessible encouraging messages to Christians trying to make sense of the Bible and it’s bearing (or lack there of) on their lives. The messages are developed by synthesizing the best available critical scholarship with the engaging stories and illustrations to contextualize the Bible into something relevant and applicable to modern/post-modern thinkers… whether they are firmly established in their Christian theology or are in the process of deconstruction. 

Hosted primarily by Pastor Jon Fogel (@pastorjonfogel on most social media platforms) each episode digs into a different biblical text or question and brings to bear the best academic research and critical historical hermeneutics on the pressing social issues of modern life. Is it always clean and simple? Do we always come up with definitive “the Bible says XYZ” answers? Nope. But if it was, it wouldn’t be worth engaging.