Faith and Feminism

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.

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.

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

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

Kristian A Smith talks to us about how to spot a cult and how to live in beloved community.

The church's teachings on forgiveness often fail victims and survivors of abuse. Susannah Griffith reclaims forgiveness by centering and empowering survivors.

Ashlee Eiland talks to us about the power of intentional language and a discernment framework in navigating conflicts in a constructive way.

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.

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 fr...

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.

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.

Sarah F. Farmer amplifies the voices of women who are or have been incarcerated to learn what supports their flourishing.

Diet culture permeates American society--even in our safest of places. It lurks in schools, playground conversations, medical offices, and even in our places of worship. Leslie Schilling, busts the myths around diet culture and tells us how to recover.

Angela Harrington, a faith deconstruction coach and host of the Deconstructing Faith Summit, sheds light on the challenges of leaving conservative religious circles, navigating deconstruction's impact on relationships, and advocating for personal healing and justice.

Dr. Verena Brown talks to us about the research on teens and porn.

Dr. Jasmine Harris shares her own experiences navigating an education system built for white wealthy men, and sociological impacts it has on society.

Amy Frykholm talks to us about the  Left Behind  series seeking to understand why American evangelicals find the idea of the rapture so compelling.

My dear classmate at Iliff School of Theology, Ru-Lee, is answering the questions about their trans identity that many of us have been too afraid to ask. 

My dear classmate at Iliff School of Theology, Ru-Lee, is answering the questions about their trans identity that many of us have been too afraid to ask. 

Throughout these weeks leading up to Christmas, Chelsea Kim Long will guide us through a series of 4 meditations, looking at Luke chapter 1, which focuses on the months leading up to the birth of Jesus, solidifying that from the beginning of his life women played a prominent role. Find them each Friday right here on the podcast feed!

Throughout these weeks leading up to Christmas, Chelsea Kim Long will guide us through a series of 4 meditations, looking at Luke chapter 1, which focuses on the months leading up to the birth of Jesus, solidifying that from the beginning of his life women played a prominent role. Find them each Friday right here on the podcast feed!

Amber Cantorna Wylde is the daughter of a Focus on the Family Executive, when she came out and began to disentangle from that culture, she learned just how toxic it was.