Potlucks & Pulpits and Everything in Between

In the final episode of Potlucks, Pulpits and Everything in Between , we step back from the data to hear from the researchers and research partners who helped shape the National Study on Women in the Canadian Evangelical Church. This episode explores what was learned through three years of listening to women across Canada as partners reflect on the challenges of conducting nuanced research to supp...

In Episode 3 of Potlucks, Pulpits, and Everything in Between, Lindsay and Murray move beyond statistics and historical framing to focus on the stories women tell about faith, participation, leadership, and belonging in the evangelical church in Canada. This episode explores how women understand their faith, navigate church culture, experience leadership, encounter barriers, and wrestle with both d...

Potlucks & Pulpits and Everything in Between  returns with episode 2 exploring how Canadian evangelical history, revivalism, and social reform movements have shaped women's roles in churches—and how women's lived experiences today both inherit and challenge those legacies. We move from 18th–19th century awakenings and maternal feminism to 20th-century education, temperance and suffrage, wartim...

Welcome to Potluck & Pulpits and Everything in Between, an audio documentary exploring the varied experiences of women in the Canadian evangelical church. In this series, we dive into research conducted by the Women in the Canadian Evangelical Church (WCEC) research partnership, a study aimed at hearing directly from women across congregations, denominations, and backgrounds about their roles,...

The research partnership for the study on Women in the Canadian Evangelical Church is excited to launch a podcast documentary series that will explore some of the findings and implications of their recent research with women. This is a supplementary resource to the final report that will be released in March 2026.