Auntie Sermons

Episode 16 | Mahalath, Oholibamah, Basemath & The Problem With Esau's Wives Why do Esau's wives seem to have different names depending on which chapter of Genesis you're reading? Why does Judith disappear? Why does Mahalath become Basemath? Why does Adah suddenly appear? In this episode of Auntie Sermons, we step into one of the most confusing genealogies in the Hebrew Bible and di...

Episode 15 | Judith and Basemath: Ride or Die | Esau’s Wives, Loyalty, and the Women Blamed for Family Division in Genesis Judith and Basemath are remembered as the wives who “made life bitter” for Isaac and Rebekah—but what if that isn’t the whole story? In this episode, we revisit Esau’s wives and ask whether these women were really the problem, or whether they were simply loyal to the man they...

Episode 14 | Keturah the Forgotten Wife | Abraham’s Final Wife, Marriage, and the Women Used to Build Nations Keturah is one of the most overlooked women in Genesis—Abraham’s final wife, mother of six sons, and the woman whose descendants helped shape the map of the ancient world. In this episode, we examine how her story exposes the institution of marriage as a system of lineage, expansion, and p...

Episode 13 | The Bond of Rebekah & Her Mother | Rebekah’s Mother, Mothers and Daughters, and Women’s Bonds in Genesis 24 In this episode of Auntie Sermons, we examine one of the most overlooked women in Genesis: Rebekah’s unnamed mother. In a rare biblical moment, Rebekah runs to her mother’s house first, not her father’s, revealing a glimpse of female-centered space, maternal authority, and t...

Bonus Episode | The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Extended Edition | Eve, Knowledge, and the First Woman in Genesis In this extended edition of The Woman Who Knew Too Much, we take a deeper look at Eve, the woman blamed for humanity's fall and punished for seeking knowledge. Moving beyond the traditional reading, this episode explores questions of responsibility, wisdom, gender, and power while exa...

Episode 12 | Rebekah | Cognitive Dissonance, Faith, and Distrusting Your Own Morals Rebekah is remembered as one of the faithful women of the Bible — obedient, discerning, and chosen to help fulfill God’s plan. But beneath that flattened version of her story is a much more complicated woman: one bound to prophecy, caught inside a family system built on favoritism, deception, and rivalry. In this e...

Episode 11 | The Trauma of Lot’s Daughters | Why I Don’t Believe Lot Synopsis: For centuries, Lot’s daughters have been preached about as seductive, immoral women who got their father drunk and took advantage of him. But what if we’ve been listening to the wrong storyteller? In Episode 11 of Auntie Sermons, Auntie CrystalJae takes a deep dive into Genesis 19 and challenges one of the Bible’s darke...

Episode 10 | The Salt of the Earth | Lot’s Wife, Pillar of Salt, and Why She Looked Back Lot’s wife is one of the most reduced women in the Bible—no name, no voice, just a warning. But what if she wasn’t weak, faithless, or disobedient? What if she was human—responding to violence, loss, and devastation the way any of us would? In this episode, we challenge the story we were told and reclaim the w...

Episode 9 | Hagar the Victim | Abuse, Power, and Survival in Genesis 16–21 Hagar’s story is often softened, spiritualized, or turned into allegory—but when we read it plainly, it is a story of exploitation, abuse, and survival. In this episode, we center Hagar as a person, not a symbol, and examine what the text actually says about power, consent, and what it means to be told to return to harm. Wh...

Episode 8 | Milcah & Iscah | Genealogy, Mitochondrial DNA, and the Women Written Out of Lineage Genesis 11:29 is often treated as a throwaway genealogy verse—but when we slow it down, it reveals something much deeper. In this episode, we look at Milcah and Iscah, what their names mean, why they are included and then ignored, and how biblical genealogies prioritize control over truth. This is a...

Episode 7 | Sarah Enters the Story | Power, Patriarchy, and the Women We Were Told to Be Sarah is one of the most praised women in the Bible—but when we slow down and actually read her story, a very different picture emerges. In this episode, we look at how Sarah is introduced, how her story unfolds, and how her actions have been taught to generations of women as a model of faith and obedience. Th...

Episode 6 | Women of the Ark | The Unnamed Mothers of Humanity and the Cost of Erasure in Genesis The story of Noah’s ark is often told as a story of obedience, survival, and divine rescue—but almost no one talks about the women who made humanity’s survival possible. In this episode, we center the unnamed women of the ark, explore how different traditions chose to remember—or erase—them, and exami...

Episode 5 | Daughters of Humans | Nephilim, Consent, and the Women Erased in Genesis 6 Genesis 6 introduces one of the strangest and most overlooked passages in the Bible—where “sons of God” take human women, and the story quickly shifts away from what happened to them. In this episode, we slow the text down and center the women who were seen, taken, and erased. This is a story about power, violat...

Episode 4 | The Woman Who Was Named | Naamah, Naming, and the Power of Being Seen in Genesis Naamah appears in a single verse—and yet her name stands out in a genealogy that largely ignores women altogether. In this episode, we examine what it means for a woman to be named in a text that so often erases them, how later traditions tried to redefine her, and why simply existing without explanation h...

Episode 3 | Ornament and Shadow | Adah, Zillah, and the Women Who Built Civilization in Genesis Adah and Zillah enter the story with names—but almost nothing else. In this episode, we look at what those names mean, what flows through these women, and what it says about a text that records the achievements of men while leaving the women who made those achievements possible in silence. This is a sto...

Episode 2 | The Woman God Didn’t Bother to Name | Cain’s Wife, Erasure, and the Cost of Silence in Genesis In the story of Cain and Abel, we’re taught to focus on the first murder—but almost no one talks about the woman who comes after. In this episode, we look at Cain’s unnamed wife, what the text actually says about her, and what it means that the Bible gives a murderer a name, a voice, and prot...

Episode 1 | The Woman Who Knew Too Much | Eve, Knowledge, and the First Woman in Genesis Eve is often blamed for everything—but what if she was never given the full picture to begin with? In this episode, we take a closer look at how Eve is introduced, what she actually knew, and how the narrative shifts when you read the text carefully. This isn’t a story about weakness—it’s a story about curiosi...