Faith and Feminism

Reclaiming Feminism for Christianity

Rage Prayers 11/07/2024

Rage Prayers I was hopeful we would be celebrating the election of our first woman president, instead, we are grieving the election of a fascist. I am devastated and this podcast with Rev. Elizabeth Riley on rage prayers seems a way forward. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/33830837

Faithful Politics 11/04/2024

Faithful Politics Dr. Miranda Zapor Cruz guides us in forming a vision of citizenship that brings Christian convictions into political engagement while avoiding common pitfalls. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/33784207

The Growing Gender Gap: Part 2 10/29/2024

The Growing Gender Gap: Part 2 Dr. Brendan Kwiatkowski, founder of Re:Masculine, talks to us about the growing political gender gap between young men and women. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/33548037

The Growing Gender Gap: Part 1 10/22/2024

The Growing Gender Gap: Part 1 Dr. Brendan Kwiatkowski, founder of Re:Masculine, talks to us about the growing political gender gap between young men and women. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/33547612

The Mary we Forgot 10/15/2024

The Mary we Forgot In The Mary We Forgot, award-winning church historian and theologian Jennifer Powell McNutt unpacks Scripture and history to reveal the real Mary Magdalene: the first apostle of the good news and a model of discipleship for both men and women today. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/33284272

Recovering From Purity Culture 10/08/2024

Recovering From Purity Culture Drawing on historical and psychological research, her own personal experience, and therapy case studies, Dr. Camden Morgante tackles what comes next in reclaiming our sexuality from the harmful teachings so many evangelical Christians grew up believing. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/33283742

How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence 09/30/2024

How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence Dr. Nicole Bedera reveals the profound failures of the Title IX system and identifies concrete, surprisingly simple steps we can take to protect students. This is an extra-long episode, promise it's worth it. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/33268877

How to love your Christian Nationalist neighbor 09/23/2024

How to love your Christian Nationalist neighbor Pastor Caleb Campbell has watched as Christian nationalism has taken over large swaths of the United States and he's showing us the only way he knows to move forward in today's episode. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/33175042

Deconstructing Harmful Evangelical Narratives: Lies Women Believe Part 6 09/17/2024

Deconstructing Harmful Evangelical Narratives: Lies Women Believe Part 6 Sarah LaCour of Deconstructing Purity Culture, and I are back deconstructing harmful Evangelical Narratives. Today, we are covering "Lies Women Believe" by Nancy Leigh DeMoss and how it relates to our current political moment. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/33089017

Deconstructing Harmful Evangelical Narratives: Lies Women Believe Part 5 09/03/2024

Deconstructing Harmful Evangelical Narratives: Lies Women Believe Part 5 Sarah LaCour of Deconstructing Purity Culture, and I are back deconstructing harmful Evangelical Narratives. Today, we are covering "Lies Women Believe" by Nancy Leigh DeMoss and how it relates to our current political moment. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/32878426

Deconstructing Harmful Evangelical Narratives: Lies Women Believe Part 4 08/27/2024

Deconstructing Harmful Evangelical Narratives: Lies Women Believe Part 4 Sarah LaCour of Deconstructing Purity Culture, and I are back deconstructing harmful Evangelical Narratives. Today, we are covering "Lies Women Believe" by Nancy Leigh DeMoss and how it relates to our current political moment. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/32742952

Deconstructing Harmful Evangelical Narratives: Lies Women Believe Part 3 08/20/2024

Deconstructing Harmful Evangelical Narratives: Lies Women Believe Part 3 Sarah LaCour of Deconstructing Purity Culture and I are back deconstructing harmful Evangelical Narratives. Today, we are covering "Lies Women Believe" by Nancy Leigh DeMoss and how it relates to our current political moment. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/32589617

Deconstructing Harmful Evangelical Narratives: Lies Women Believe Part 2 08/12/2024

Deconstructing Harmful Evangelical Narratives: Lies Women Believe Part 2 Sarah LaCour of Deconstructing Purity Culture and I are back deconstructing harmful Evangelical Narratives. Today, we are covering "Lies Women Believe" by Nancy Leigh DeMoss and how it relates to our current political moment. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/32547432

Deconstructing Harmful Evangelical Narratives: Lies Women Believe Part 1 07/30/2024

Deconstructing Harmful Evangelical Narratives: Lies Women Believe Part 1 Sarah LaCour of Deconstructing Purity Culture and I are back deconstructing harmful Evangelical Narratives. Today, we are covering "Lies Women Believe" by Nancy Leigh DeMoss and how it relates to our current political moment. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/32315312

How to Talk About Polarizing Issues 07/23/2024

How to Talk About Polarizing Issues In today's episode, journalist Bekah McNeel analyzes the narratives surrounding six hot-button issues—immigration, COVID, abortion, critical race theory, gun violence, and climate change. For each topic, she exposes how “us versus them” thinking leads us to turn a blind eye to injustice. She also offers an alternative perspective on each issue, based on a sensitive reading of the gospel. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/32245922

Consent: Part 2 07/16/2024

Consent: Part 2 In Consent, Donna Freitas delivers a forensic examination of the years she spent stalked by her professor, and uses her nightmarish experience to examine the ways in which we stigmatize, debate, and attempt to understand consent today. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/32053332

Consent: Part 1 07/09/2024

Consent: Part 1 In Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention, Donna Freitas delivers a forensic examination of the years she spent stalked by her professor, and uses her nightmarish experience to examine the ways in which we stigmatize, debate, and attempt to understand consent today. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/32053297

Important Replay: The Power Worshippers 07/01/2024

Important Replay: The Power Worshippers This is an old episode that couldn't be more pressing today, as we face a democracy being eroded by Christian Nationalism. In this episode, Katherine Stewart makes a probing examination demands that Christian nationalism be taken seriously as a significant threat to the American republic and our democratic freedoms. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/31972237

Othered 06/25/2024

Othered For anyone who has felt left out or pushed out of the church, Jenai Auman invites you to find spiritual rest and belonging in a God who loves, restores, and blesses the outcast and the marginalized. *note: there is something weird with the audio on my track where certain words cut out. Rather than rerecord the whole episode, I just went with it /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/31880097

Getting Unstuck and Embracing Imperfection 06/18/2024

Getting Unstuck and Embracing Imperfection Dr. Meredith Estevez guides artists at all levels and in all disciplines to build a creative life that resonates deeply with their core values, and to cultivate an artistic practice that is joyful and sustainable. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/31600802

A Progressive Christian Ethic of Flourishing 06/11/2024

A Progressive Christian Ethic of Flourishing Amanda Udis-Kessler talks to us progressive Christian beliefs, feminism, true equality, justice, and inclusivity. We also completely rethink what salvation means in a Christian context. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/31600687

The Fruitful Lives of Women Without Children 06/04/2024

The Fruitful Lives of Women Without Children Elizabeth Felicetti disputes the idea that motherhood is the highest calling for Christian women, holding up biblical figures, monastics, reformers, civil rights figures and more. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/31600437

Finding God After Disillusionment 05/28/2024

Finding God After Disillusionment Aimee Byrd shares her journey of holding onto her faith through extreme online harassment and personal attacks after she began advocating for women's equality within her denomination. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/31493162

How to Spot a Cult 05/21/2024

How to Spot a Cult Kristian A Smith talks to us about how to spot a cult and how to live in beloved community. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/31287777

Forgiveness After Trauma 05/14/2024

Forgiveness After Trauma The church's teachings on forgiveness often fail victims and survivors of abuse. Susannah Griffith reclaims forgiveness by centering and empowering survivors. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/31287397

Constructive Conversations: How to Speak Among Disagreement 05/07/2024

Constructive Conversations: How to Speak Among Disagreement Ashlee Eiland talks to us about the power of intentional language and a discernment framework in navigating conflicts in a constructive way. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/31092123

Wishful Thinking: Finding Faith After You've Lost It 04/30/2024

Wishful Thinking: Finding Faith After You've Lost It Donna Freitas wants to believe. Raised Catholic, she sang songs about Jesus as a child and lived in a house where nuns and priests were regular guests, yet she found herself questioning the faith of her family, examining the reasons none of it added up, and distancing herself from the God of Christianity-- now she is trying to find her faith again. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/30847198

Speaking of Rape 04/23/2024

Speaking of Rape Dr. Danielle Tumminio Hansen speaks to us about how rape survivors need speech to recover, but the words available to them often fail to describe their experience of the violation, which isolates and silences them, enables future perpetration, and lets rape remain unacknowledged. Tumminio Hansen steps into this space of the seemingly unspeakable and responds to the linguistic crisis by offering fresh ways of speaking and listening that reframe how we can describe, discuss, and address rape. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/30846818

Holy Ghosted 04/16/2024

Holy Ghosted Tiffany Yecke Brooks us to understand and name tactics of spiritual abuse and manipulation. We go over methods of control found in toxic religious communities—including legalism, indoctrination, praise, and fear—and how to identify and respond to it in a healthy way. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/30846553

The Exvangelicals 04/09/2024

The Exvangelicals Sarah McCammon shares about her New York Times bestselling book The Exvangelicals-- Part memoir, part investigative journalism, Sarah names and describes the post-evangelical movement. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/30679428

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