In the last episode of 2018 (and the series), Rachel Epp Miller and Sarah Bixler break silences and talk frankly about infertility, miscarriage and infant loss. They tenderly share their individual journeys with one another and open space for honest questions as they struggle to find hope, support, healing and God through it all.

Theme music by Addie Liechty

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Special Guests: Rachel Epp Miller and Sarah Bixler.

In three Women Doing Theology shorts, we're introducing our main-stage presenters at the upcoming #WDT18 conference in November. Our theme is Talkin' Bout a Revolution: Dialogue Practice and the work of Liberation. At the conference we'll get to know our presenters' thoughts and ideas, but we wanted to offer an opportunity to get to know them on a human level. In this episode, we meet Yvette. Find out more info about #WDT18 at www.MennoniteUSA.org/wdt18 .

Theme music by Addie Liechty

Other music by Maria Pien

Special Guest: Yvette Blair.

In three Women Doing Theology shorts, we're introducing our main-stage presenters at the upcoming #WDT18 conference in November. Our theme is Talkin' Bout a Revolution: Dialogue Practice and the work of Liberation. At the conference we'll get to know our presenters' thoughts and ideas, but we wanted to offer an opportunity to get to know them on a human level. In this episode, we meet Malinda. Find out more info about #WDT18 at www.MennoniteUSA.org/wdt18 .

Theme music by Addie Liechty

Other music by Maria Pien

Special Guest: Malinda Elizabeth Berry.

If you live with mental illness, it can be too easy to believe you are all alone. We believe we must pretend that "everything's fine," because sharing our reality with others is just too terrifying. Jill Stemple helps us to break silence around mental illness as she reads, "Learning to be known and loved: The movement from hiding mental illness to sharing it with the church," an article she wrote for The Mennonite magazine in July of 2016.

Theme music by Addie Liechty

Other music by: www.bensound.com

Special Guest: Jill Stemple.

As we seek to make meaning of the darkness in our life's story, how do we take back power from the events that we've allowed to define us and embrace wholeness? In this episode, we break silences with Claire DeBerg, as she reads her essay, "Choosing Love: Adultery, Adoption, Abundance."

Theme music by Addie Liechty

Other music by: www.bensound.com

Special Guest: Claire DeBerg.

In three Women Doing Theology shorts, we're introducing our main-stage presenters at the upcoming #WDT18 conference in November. Our theme is Talkin' Bout a Revolution: Dialogue Practice and the work of Liberation. At the conference we'll get to know our presenters' thoughts and ideas, but we wanted to offer an opportunity to get to know them on a human level. First we'll meet Carolina. Find out more info about #WDT18 at www.MennoniteUSA.org/wdt18 .

Theme music by Addie Liechty

Other music by Maria Pien

Special Guest: Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros.

Why is it so difficult to talk about our failure? In the second episode of our “Breaking Silences” series, Jenny talks with three women: Elizabeth Soto Albrecht, Linda Gehman Peachey and Marathana Prothro, to explore failure — how it shapes who we are and who we become, and all it has to teach us when we face it.

Theme music by Addie Liechty

Other music by: www.bensound.com

Special Guests: Elizabeth Soto Albrecht , Linda Gehman Peachey, and Marathana Prothro.

This summer we’re focusing on “Breaking Silences” and talking about things we’ve typically avoided. We’re choosing to release shame, fear and discomfort as we courageously face conversations that have been put off for too long. In this episode, Erica Littlewolf reads her essay “On Singleness and the Church” published on the Menno Snapshots blog in August 2016. In the conversation that follows, Jenny and Erica explore the pressure single women face in the church, touching on sexism, purity culture and belonging.

Theme music by Addie Liechty

Other music by: www.bensound.com

Special Guest: Erica Littlewolf.

We conclude our series “Women in Leadership” with a talkback episode. We’ve invited five women from across the country to consider one event, experience or interaction that significantly shaped their leadership. Their stories are as unique as the women themselves and get to the heart of challenges and triumphs we’ve attempted to capture throughout this series. At the same time, their stories are universal, touching themes that continue to bubble up when we talk about women in leadership.

Special Guests: Emily Kauffman, Janet Stauffer, Nancy Kauffmann, Shirley Hershey Showalter, and Sue Park Hur.

How do we as women in leadership navigate through expectations about our bodies imposed upon us by the white patriarchy that is embedded within our faith communities? What do we have to strip away? What do we have to let go of? We continue our series “Women in Leadership” with Melissa Florer-Bixler, pastor of Raleigh (North Carolina) Mennonite Church.

Special Guest: Melissa Florer-Bixler.