Faith and Feminism

Reclaiming Feminism for Christianity

Becoming the Pastor's Wife 06/24/2025

Becoming the Pastor's Wife In the New York Times Bestselling "Becoming the Pastor's Wife", Beth Allison Barr draws on her academic expertise to trace the history of the role of the pastor's wife, showing how it both helped and hurt women in conservative Protestant traditions. While they gained an important leadership role, it came at a deep cost: losing independent church leadership opportunities that existed throughout most of church history and strengthening a gender hierarchy that prioritized male careers. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/36973255

Daughters of Palestine 06/17/2025

Daughters of Palestine Leyla King shares her family's story of survival as her ancestors flee war and poverty. From Haifa to Ramallah, Damascus, Beirut, and finally Texas, Leyla makes global politics deeply personal as family squabbles, ambition, mental illness, romance, and religion shape their immigrant journey. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/36973205

Her Son Died From Subtance Use Disorder, Now She is Fighting to Change the Way We Treat the Disease 05/26/2025

Her Son Died From Subtance Use Disorder, Now She is Fighting to Change the Way We Treat the Disease Jane Clair's journey into advocacy began after losing her son Asa to substance use disorder, which led her to rethink addiction, drug policy, and how we can better support families. She is determined to prevent other families from experiencing the same devastation and is passionate in advocating for approaches to addiction that reduce harm and save lives. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/36720515

Plundered: The Tangled Roots of Racial and Environmental Injustice 05/06/2025

Plundered: The Tangled Roots of Racial and Environmental Injustice Two of the world's greatest crises, systemic racism and environmental destruction, share the same origin story. The two are rooted in economic forces that exploit and oppress both people and land. Pastor David Swanson shows how we have failed our God-given duty as caretakers of creation and how that failure has resulted in the exploitation of people and the extraction of natural resources. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/36454060

How an Ancient Saint Shows Us How to Resist Today 04/29/2025

How an Ancient Saint Shows Us How to Resist Today She was known as a whore and a saint. On today's episode, Amy Frykholm talks to us about the elusive Saint Mary of Egypt, and how she can teach women to reclaim their autonomy today. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/36356385

The radicalization of young white men in America. 04/22/2025

The radicalization of young white men in America. Rev. Angela Denker talks to us about the rise in radicalization among young white men in America, especially focused on the role of right-wing Christianity in the increase of religious-based hatred and violence, and how we can combat it by helping men heal. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/36262235

Saving Face: Finding My Self, God, and One Another Outside a Defaced Church 04/15/2025

Saving Face: Finding My Self, God, and One Another Outside a Defaced Church Aimee Byrd, author or Recovering From Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, talks to us the trauma she experienced through daring to question evangelical teachings on gender, and how she is healing as she finds a way forward walking in authenticity and integrity. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/36151735

Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health 04/08/2025

Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health Dr. Wylin D. Wilson talks to us about the disparity of healthcare when it comes to Black Women's bodies and how womanist theology can show us a way forward. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/36051050

Can play save us? 04/01/2025

Can play save us? Dr. Lakisha Lockhart-Rusch talks to us about the power of play, womanism, and how to survive an era when powers that be seek to erase minoritized identities. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/35854700

Safe Church 03/25/2025

Safe Church Dr. Andrew Bauman shines a light on the pervasive nature of the sexism on the church and how to fight back. Spoiler: we need to treat it like a men's issue, not a women's issue /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/35837585

Fundamentalists Played the Long-Game, This is How We Fight Back. 03/18/2025

Fundamentalists Played the Long-Game, This is How We Fight Back. Tia Levings, author of A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape From Christian Patriarchy, talks to us about fundamentalists played the long-game to build the government we have now-- and more importantly a hopeful message on how to fight back. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/35671125

A Lenten Look into the Radical Life of Mary Magdalene 03/11/2025

A Lenten Look into the Radical Life of Mary Magdalene Chelsea Kim Long talks to us about the radical role Mary Magdalene played for Christ during Holy Week. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/35605905

How to Make the Right Decisions in Difficult Times 03/03/2025

How to Make the Right Decisions in Difficult Times Just about every day, there is something new and urgent that needs my attention in this administration; it is easy to feel overwhelmed and apathetic. That's why this conversation with Dr. Angela Gorrell is more relevant than ever. She talks us about how to make the right decisions, even in the midst of intense difficulty. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/35517395

When Faith and Politics Bends Families to their Breaking Points 02/25/2025

When Faith and Politics Bends Families to their Breaking Points Danielle Hensley examines the seemingly universal and growing chasm between the right and the left through the lens of a single family and within the context of the Episcopal Church, she talks to us about where she has found hope and the next right steps. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/35408240

Money, Lies, and God 02/10/2025

Money, Lies, and God Why have so many Americans turned against democracy? Katherine Stewart talks to us about conferences of conspiracy-mongers, backroom strategy gatherings, and services at extremist churches, and profiles the people who want to tear it all down. Stewart analyzes the moral collapse of conservatism in America and points the way forward toward a democratic future. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/35221520

Womanish Theology 02/04/2025

Womanish Theology Khristi Laurens Adams introduces a new branch of theological thought Adams calls womanish, as a play on the womanist tradition (the theology of Black womanhood). This episode was slated to be released in August, but got pushed back to be release in Black History Month (February) so it is a little dated. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/35130695

Resisting Trump in a New Era 01/28/2025

Resisting Trump in a New Era Marla Taviano, of White Girl Learning and author of poetry books Unbelieve and more, talks with me about how to resist Trump in a new era without losing our minds. Explicit language warning. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/35017870

Invisible Jesus 01/21/2025

Invisible Jesus Many of those who deconstruct and leave the Church are said to "follow Jesus right out the door." On today's podcast with Scot McKnight and Tommy Phillips we discuss why those who leave the church do, and how churches can listen to their critiques. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/34945265

Walking with Our Children (and ourselves) in the Age of Climate Change 01/14/2025

Walking with Our Children (and ourselves) in the Age of Climate Change We are living in an era of climate collapse. We feel it in small ways: when the snow falls less or the cherry blossoms bloom too early. And in large ways: when our streets flood and entire towns burn to the ground. Lydia Wylie-Kellermann helps us walk forward. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/34844060

What You Didn't Know About Genesis 01/07/2025

What You Didn't Know About Genesis Liz Charlotte Grant and I talk about the things you didn't know about Genesis and her new book Knock at the Sky: Seeking God in Genesis after Losing Faith in the Bible. /episode/index/show/faithandfeminism/id/34679045

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

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