Faith and Feminism

Kat Armas's Abuelita Faith tells the story of unnamed and overlooked theologians in society and in the Bible--mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and daughters--whose survival, strength, resistance, and persistence teach us the true power of faith and love. 

Kelly Browning, the host of All At Once  podcast, talks to us about coming forward about abuse and pursuing justice while being villainized for doing so. In it, she talks about her wrestle with the conservative church's ask for "forgiveness" while she pursued accountability.

Kimberly Peeler-Ringer, also known as "The Churched Feminist," talks to us about reading the Bible through a Black Woman's perspective.

Juni Felix, a survivor of profound trauma, a Behavior Design Teaching Team member of renowned Stanford University professor Dr. B. J. Fogg's Behavior Design Lab, and a Tiny Habits Coach shares why we are worth the work, and how we can begin healing.

In this more casual episode, Lauren Reyes-Yu, a friend of Meghan's and one of the first people to call her out on her racism, talk about what it's like to unlearn racism and all that entails.

Taylor Schumann, gun violence survivor, and author of "When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough" talks to us about the impact of gun violence on her world-- and the US at large.

Claudia Allen, writer and international speaker passionate about faith, culture, and justice, talks to us about expanding our horizons as a faith practice and learning from the experiences of others. Also, why CRT is important for us as Christians.

Psychology professor and personal development coach Dr. Peace Amadi helps us navigate the complexity of our emotions, from discouragement and hurt to trauma and depression. She explains the dynamics underlying what we feel and gives practical resources for living through our emotions in healthy ways.

So many of us were raised in purity culture and taught that sex and sexuality are shameful. As some of us begin to become parents, we are wondering how exactly to navigate this area of life with our children. Dr. Sellers shares with us about her new book "Shameless Parenting" and how we can reparent ourselves, and our children, to have a healthy sexual ethic.

Cole Arthur Riley, the creator of Black Liturgies, talks to us about the importance of implementing dignity, lament, rage, justice, rest, and liberation in our faith practice.

Robert P. Jones talks to us about his book "White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity."  

In June 2020, I had the incredible opportunity to interview Kristin Kobes DuMez about her book "Jesus and John Wayne: How Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation." A year later and she is re-releasing on paperback if you haven't read it yet. You want to.

Leslie Schilling, a registered dietitian, talks to us about diet culture, the church, and how we can do better.

Cait West tells her story of being raised in the stay-at-home daughter movement and finding the courage to leave.

Meghan is interviewed by her husband Dustin, about her new book "Women Rising" that launches today. Listen in and get all the juicy behind-the-scenes details you didn't know about.

Janice Lagata talks to us about her experience working with Hillsong New York and how it opened her eyes to the problem with the MegaChurch.

Bridget Eileen Rivera, author of "Heavy Burdens,"  unpacks the legacy of discrimination against LGBTQ people in Christianity.

Dr. Beth Allison Barr, professor of History at Baylor University, talks to us about her new book "The Making of Biblical Womanhood" and shares how gender role theology is not Biblical, it's historical.

Kat Harris, podcaster, educator, and author, talks to us about her new book "Sexless in the City" and her journey as a single woman navigating the Church.

Natalie Collins, domestic violence expert, talks to us about domestic violence in the Church, the theology and ideology that contributes to it, and what we can do to heal from abuse and prevent it in our spaces.

Denise Peñacerrada Kruse of the Asian American Christian Collaborative talks to us about Asian American and Pacific Islander racism, and what we can all do to fight it.

Abigail Harris and Kara Million (two listeners of the Faith and Feminism podcast) realized they were both being treated inappropriately by their pastor, but was it abuse? Was it something worth confronting? After hearing more and more stories like theirs, the two women sought to confront these inappropriate behaviors and found that in their Complementarian setting that women were denied a vote and...

Bibles, historically and traditionally, have been almost always translated by men-- some men have gone so far to write women out of the Bible (IE Junia to Junias.)  What would happen if a woman translated the Bible? How would that change things?  On this week's podcast I interview Bonnie Lewis about her First-Ever Idiomatic Bible translation,  Timshel .

My dear friend, Tara Teng, an Asian Christian Feminist who has worked for years with women who have been sex-trafficked, talks to us about the fetishization of Asian women, purity culture, unhealthy sexual ethics, and male entitlement that led to the murder of Asian-American women in Atlanta last night. If you, like me, was not knowing how to process the events of last night, this episode is for y...

Tiffany Bluhm talks to us about her new book "Prey Tell: Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth, and How Everyone Can Speak Up" which releases today.