Faith and Feminism

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!

Julie Faith Parker demonstrates how feminism interprets the Bible with fresh eyes and offers empowering insights for women who want to reclaim it.

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!

Christina Dent developed a passion for ending a criminal justice approach to drugs after she saw that it created a cycle of harm instead of treating the problem.

Mattie Jo was raised in purity culture and as she was breaking free from it, was raped. Mattie shares her story of what healing from both looks like.

Wendy Snyder is a certified positive parenting educator & family life coach who's helped thousands of parents transform their families and helps us learn positive parenting today. 

Journalist Sarah Stankorb outlines how access to the internet—its networks, freedom of expression, and resources for deeply researching and reporting on powerful church figures—allowed women to begin dismantling the false authority of evangelical communities that had long demanded their submission.

A listener reached out and wanted resources on finances because finances are feminist. So this week I interviewed Jen Smith of the Frugal Friends podcast on accessible behavior changes to help you spend on what matters, so you can save and increase your wealth!

In When Religion Hurts You , Dr. Laura Anderson takes an honest look at a side of religion that few like to talk about. Drawing from her own life and therapy practice, she helps readers understand what religious trauma is and isn't, and how high-control churches can be harmful and abusive, often resulting in trauma.

Shannon Harris, ex-wife of the man who wrote "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" shares her story in her own book "The Woman They Wanted."

Sometimes life can feel like it is moving so fast we hardly have the time to nurture ourselves-- especially if we are parents. Kayla Craig, author of Liturgies for Parents,  talks to us about her new book inviting us to take a deep breath and nourish ourselves alongside our children.

You asked for it and we're back reading terrible Evangelical Relationship Books so you don't have to. After popular vote, Sarah Lacour of "Deconstructing Purity Culture" and I go over "For Women Only" and talk about just how harmful this book is.

You asked for it and we're back reading terrible Evangelical Relationship Books so you don't have to. After popular vote, Sarah Lacour of "Deconstructing Purity Culture" and I go over "For Women Only" and talk about just how harmful this book is.

Is it possible to raise kids who are emotionally resilient within the dysfunctional dynamics of abuse, divorce, or shared custody? And how can the church be more supportive for children who have hidden trauma? Jessica Nagy, founder of Mosaic Motherhood, talks to us about how to create emotional safety for your children in less than ideal circumstances.

You asked for it and we're back reading terrible Evangelical Relationship Books so you don't have to. After popular vote, Sarah Lacour of "Deconstructing Purity Culture" and I go over "For Women Only" and talk about just how harmful this book is.

How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn from America's history of using the Bible in politics? How can we converse with people whose views differ from our own? In  The Ballot and the Bible , Kaitlyn Schiess explores these questions and more. She unpacks examples of how Americans have connected the Bible to politics in the past, highlighting t...

You asked for it and we're back reading terrible Evangelical Relationship Books so you don't have to. After popular vote, Sarah Lacour of "Deconstructing Purity Culture" and I go over "For Women Only" and talk about just how harmful this book is.

Toxic masculnity, or the idea that men are entitled to things like sex, abound in our culture today--even in our faith spaces. In this episode Zachary Wagner confronts the toxic masculinity found in purity culture and paints a better way forward.

In this episode, Gabrielle Blair makes the case for moving the abortion debate away from controlling and legislating women's bodies and instead directs the focus on men's lack of accountability in preventing unwanted pregnancies.

Many of us struggle with perfectionism, but few of us know that it is actually a symptom of white supremacist culture. In this episode, Caroline J Sumlin talks to us about the history of white supremacy and how the culture holds us all back from true freedom.

Trump, beloved by many evangelicals, is starting to face the consequences of some of his actions and is claiming there is a witchhunt against him. This is historically inaccurate, witchhunts are generally done by influential religion powers against minorities. Dr. Alexiana Fry educates us on what witchhunts look like, in the old testament, throughout history, and today.  

In "My Body and Other Crumbling Empires" Lyndsey Medford talks to us about the interconnected nature of individual and public health, theology, and her battle with her rare autoimmune disease.

The Evangelical Church hasn't always loved embodiment practices, often endorsing the "overcoming of flesh" to become spiritual. But what if inhabiting our bodies is one of the best ways we can connect with the divine? @chelseakimlong talks to us about the historical relationship with the church and embodiment and how we can use embodiment as a spiritual practice.

Traditional language for God has been dominated by a single image—Father—and masculine norms. For some, this language is meaningful. For others, it is deeply problematic. In both cases, it's limited.  One thing is certain: God is More Mallory Wyckoff explains why in today's episode.

Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI) convenes groups of women and men, and people of all gender identities and expressions, to work closely together—not only to heal from the past, but also to begin re-writing the future of gender relations in the human family.