It was a unique and, according to the cultural norms of the day, a very scandalous meeting. Jesus holds a private meeting with a Samaritan, an outcast coming alone to a task normally done together in groups and a woman. Jewish men in First Century Palestine did not hold private meetings with other women who were not their spouse or were not a part of their family. But Jesus does things differently. He will bend and even break social norms if they interfer with claiming God's good and gracious blessings upon those who most need it. The interchange we notice in Jesus dialogue with the "Woman at the Well" in John 4, is full of the themes of shame and guilt, of defensiveness and posturing, of worship and the proper way we can appreciate the role of God's divine presence in the lives of individuals and communities. Join us as we revisit this exchange in our thematic emphasis to unlearn shame.