Today we’re so excited to welcome Katelyn Beaty to the podcast, author of Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church. We’ll be discussing Abigail’s resistance to corrupt power in 1 Samuel 25, and the ways her example can inform the modern Church. Katelyn will help us look at how we can interrogate our own stewardship of power and look with curiosity and honesty at the structures around us. There’s a lot to uncover about the Christian life and ordinary acts of faithfulness.

For reference and further reading:

1 Samuel 25

John 10

Check out Katelyn’s work:

Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church

A Woman’s Place

https://www.katelynbeaty.com/

Her podcast: Saved By the City

Follow her on Twitter @KatelynBeaty and Instagram @katelyn_beaty

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In today’s episode we are tackling a giant topic for women: style, fashion and clothing. Women experience immense pressures from all directions about how we dress and what we wear. We’re expected to keep up with fashion trends while also being modest, to dress professionally but also look cute. Style is such a moving target for women in society and can be a source of fun and creativity, and also anxiety and shame. Today we’ll dig into the way the Bible talks about clothing, how some Biblical women interact with it, and what it might look like for us to have a healthy relationship with our personal styles.

Read along with us:

Gen. 3:7, 21

Prov. 31:13, 19-20, 22, 24-25

Acts 16

Acts 9:36-41

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Today we’re in part 2 of our 2-part series on the Trinity. Last week we discussed the nature of and relationship between Jesus and God, and today we’re digging deeper into the nature of the Holy Spirit. This is the most mysterious and neglected part of the Trinity, and one that holds a lot of questions about femininity within the Triune God. We’re hoping to offer ideas, food for thought, and ultimately an exhortation for all believers to understand and seek the life of the Spirit.

Read along with us:

John 16:7-11

Rom. 8:10-11

Rom. 8:26-27

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Today we’re digging into a topic that we’ve referenced quite a bit in Season 1 and it’s finally time! We’re talking about the Trinity and how understanding of God has informed a view of gender and submission. The Trinity and our theology of God being three-in-one is complex and full of mystery. But for some, a heretical understanding of God has led to a permission and support for subordination of women. We’ll discuss how Scripture and historical orthodoxy affirm equity within Godself. In this episode we’ll focus primarily on the nature of Jesus and God, next week we’ll dig into the nature of the Holy Spirit. Let’s dig in!

Read along with us:

John 10:17-18

John 8:58-59

John 18:6

Col. 1:15-20

Phil. 2:5-8

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In today’s episode we’re uncovering an often ignored story about a wise and courageous woman in the Old Testament, Abigail. Abigail becomes a wife of King David, but their meet cute has higher stakes than most first encounters. Her story has a great deal to show us about the legacy of wise women in scripture, the character of David, and a Godly process for confronting those in authority.

Read along with us:

1 Sam. 25:2-42

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Today we’re talking about a central woman of the church who was the first to declare the good news of the Risen Christ to the other disciples. We’re digging into the story of Mary Magdalene and her faithful devotion to Jesus. We’ll be living into our goal of excavating, brushing away what might have been added into the text by pop culture narratives, conspiracy theories, and early scholars. We’ll be encouraged by the true legacy of her deep faithfulness to Jesus as a pillar of the Church.

Read along with us:

Luke 8:1-3

Luke 7:37

John 20:11-18

John 11:27

For further research:

https://www.elizabethschrader.com/about-7

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On today’s episode we are so excited to have Sheila Gregoire join us. Sheila is the author of the upcoming book She Deserves Better: Raising girls to resist toxic teaching on sex, self & speaking up. In our episodes about purity culture we started a conversation about the way purity culture modesty codes created contempt of women’s bodies and harmful messages for young women and girls. This week we’re looking at what the Bible actually says about modesty and how we can raise girls with empowering messages.

Read along with us:

1 Timothy 2:8-10

1 Peter 3:3-4

Connect with Sheila’s work:

https://sheilawraygregoire.com/

Preorder her new book releasing on April 18th http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/she-deserves-better/404641

On Twitter and Instagram @sheilagregoire

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We are recording this episode during Holy Week, the week leading up to Easter when the Church traditionally focuses on the events in the ministry of Jesus leading up to the cross in preparation for observing the crucifixion and celebrating the resurrection. So to honor the themes of this week in the Church calendar we’ll have a shorter episode discussion on the role of women surrounding the end of Christ’s earthly ministry, and a few things to meditate on in response to our previous episode about idolatry and violence.

Read along with us:

We referenced Jesus interacting with women in Mark 16, and Luke 8 and 24

Esau McCaulley’s article on Palm Sunday

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2023/march-web-only/palm-sunday-easter-holy-week-donkeys-not-branches.html

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In this episode we’re talking about a complex and often controversial issue in American society, our culture’s relationship with guns. This is a conversation that has become so muddied by political ideology and Christian nationalism that it can be difficult to have any kind of healthy dialogue. But it remains an urgent concern for our country. So we are trying to step back from the rhetoric and look at how the Bible describes idolatry, what constitutes something being an idol, and how God invites us to respond. We will also look at a powerful passage in Jeremiah where God calls upon the women in the community to wail and lament on behalf of the nation. We hope to let scripture be our guide in this difficult but crucial conversation.

Read along with us:

Jeremiah 9:17-21

Psalm 115: 4-9

Jeremiah 19:4-5

Psalm 20:7

Daniel 3:16-18

Further resources on idolatry in our lives and our society:

“The Liturgy of Politics” by Kaitlyn Schiess

“Playing God” and “Strong and Weak” by Andy Crouch

What Will Become of the Church - article from Heather about the exiles in Babylon

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As we continue in women’s history month we want to highlight the area of women’s health advocacy. There is still a great need for growth in research, taking women’s concerns seriously, and women having the tools we need to advocate for our health and care. When we contrast the continued minimizing of women’s health concerns with the life of Jesus, we see how radical He really is in demystifying and joining with our experience of our bodies. Male listeners welcome in this conversation!

Read along with us:

Mark 5:24-34

Research referenced in our discussion:

Origins of gynecology

​​https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/17/603163394/-father-of-gynecology-who-experimented-on-slaves-no-longer-on-pedestal-in-nyc

History of birth control pill testing in Puerto Rico

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-puerto-rico-pill-trials/

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” - book and movie (streaming on HBOMax)

“Our Bodies, Ourselves” - book

https://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/about-us/our-history/

Maternal mortality rate

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/16/1163786037/maternal-deaths-in-the-u-s-spiked-in-2021-cdc-reports

Black Lactation Circle

https://columbusunderground.com/community-group-gives-peer-support-to-breastfeeding-black-women-tm1/

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