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Sarah Stankorb, Author of Disobedient Women & Damned If She Does: Why Women Quit Church and What It Means for the Future of Religion, reporter on the intersection of religion, politics, and gender

Question of the Week:
Why are women leaving the church and Christianity? Beyond simply loss of membership, what is the greater impact and significance of women leaving the Church? Is it possible for progressive faith communities to do the hard work to recognize the harms women have experienced at the hands of the Church and restore their trust in church as an institution?

Damned If She Does: Why Women Quit Church and What It Means for the Future of Religion

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Special Guest:
Chelsea Kim Long, Author of Faithfully Dissident Daughters: Reclaiming Christian Womanhood beyond Patriarchy; Neighborhood Pastor and Lay Theologian

Question of the Week:
How do patriarchal views of Christianity undermine women and womanhood? How can progressive faith communities help empower women to reimagine their faith and relationship with God?

Faithfully Dissident Daughters: Reclaiming Christian Womanhood beyond Patriarchy

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Special Guest:
Will Brown, Author of No Longer Male and Female: A Biblical Guide for Our Questions about Gender & Hospital Chaplain

Question of the Week:
How can faith communities invite people who see gender as only “male and female” to have a wider understanding of human experience and what it means to be made in the image of God?

No Longer Male and Female: A Biblical Guide for Our Questions about Gender 

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Special Guest:
Rabbi Caryn Broitman, Author of The Torah is an Open Book: Radical Readings for the Seeker and the Skeptic and rabbi of the Martha's Vineyard Hebrew Center 

Question of the Week:
We’ve talked a lot on the podcast recently about Biblical literalism and Christian nationalism and how the Bible has been used to shame and exclude people. But those conversations have been rooted in a Christian perspective. Drawing from your own Jewish faith and tradition, how would you recommend we interpret and engage with Scripture?

The Torah is an Open Book: Radical Readings for the Seeker and the Skeptic

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Special Guest:
Kimberly Knowle-Zeller, Author of Small Steps: Blessings to Lift Your Soul on the Pilgrimage of Life & ELCA Pastor

Question of the Week:
What does it mean to view our everyday lives as pilgrimages? How does that impact the way we understand our lives?

Small Steps:Blessings to Lift Your Soul on the Pilgrimage of Life

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Special Guest:
Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty, J. Roy Davis Family Chair of Theology and History, Director of Doctorate of Ministry Program at Union Presbyterian Seminary; Member of Charlotte Presbytery

Question of the Week:
A major challenge for churches is that they are both religious institutions and also non-profit organizations. How can faith communities navigate the relationship between economics/business and faith and theology to authentically live into our calling as Christians in this context?

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Special Guest:
Chantal Morales McKinney, Author of Following Jesus Beyond Church Walls: A Catalyst for Your Spiritual Growth & Episcopal Priest

Question of the Week:
What happens to our faith when our churches or institutions fail? Whether it be because they close or fail to live up to their own values, this can be a devastating event for one’s faith. How can we maintain our faith and also allow it to grow outside of rigid institutional structures?

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Following Jesus Beyond Church Walls: A Catalyst for Your Spiritual Growth

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Special Guest:
Pamela Gales Conrad, Author of A Believer's Journey Through the Stars: Spiritual Reflections on the Wonders of the Universe, Astrobiologist, Former NASA Scientist, & Episcopal Priest

Question of the Week:
We often hear that science and faith cannot coexist and are in opposition with each other. How does your experience with astronomy, space exploration and the Mars Rover mission and astrobiology challenge that perception?

A Believer's Journey Through the Stars: Spiritual Reflections on the Wonders of the Universe

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Special Guest:
Rachel Kessler, Author of Nerd Faith: 60 Second Sprints of Spiritual Guidance for the Occasionally Uncool, Episcopal Priest & Chaplain at Kenyon College

Question of the Week:
People often separate pop culture from faith. But how do pop culture and spirituality intersect and how can pop culture actually be an entry point to deeper topics of faith and justice?

Nerd Faith: 60 Second Sprints of Spiritual Guidance for the Occasionally Uncool

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Special Guest:
Natalia Terfa, Author of It All Counts: Finding God Everywhere They Told You Not to Look; ELCA Pastor, & Host of the Cafeteria Christian Podcast

Question of the Week:
We’ve seen a lot of changes and challenges to the ways we understand what it means to be a person of faith or a church. For example, the COVID-19 pandemic forced communities to embrace new ways of worshipping. What does it mean to embrace new questions and understandings about church or our own faith, especially when it challenges the traditions we were raised in?

It All Counts: Finding God Everywhere They Told You Not to Look

Cafeteria Christian Podcast

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