Theosophia Podcast

Rev. Erin Jean Warde serves as rector of St. Luke's in Ada, OK. She received her bachelors in English and Creative Writing from Troy University in Troy, AL, and her masters of divinity from Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, TX.

Erin and I talk about her unchurched path to ordination, what sacraments mean to her and how she understands priesthood as story telling.

Rev. Erin Jean Warde serves as rector of St. Luke's in Ada, OK

Today we are launching a new episode format. Once a month we will be featuring Sarah and another woman in theology talking about a current social issue. We will provide theological reflection on something that’s going on in our world.

Today's episode includes Rev. Shantell Hinton and Sarah discussing Lebron James’ new I Promise school and its theological implications on the world and society.

“What’s Going On with Sarah and Shantell”

Fr. Joe Alsay of St. Augustine's OKC invited me to preach on the Feast Day of St. Mary Magdalene on July 22nd, 2018. He thought it would be most fitting to have a female preacher on the day we celebrate the first disciple male or female who was commissioned by Jesus to spread the word of his resurrection. Mary Magdalene was the first person to meet the resurrected Christ.

Also, following in her legacy, I wanted to note that yesterday, July 29th was the 44th anniversary of the ordination of the Philadelphia Eleven. In 1974, The Philadelphia Eleven were the first women to be ordained in the Episcopal Church two years before the General Convention authorized the ordination of women. Most folks don’t realize the Episcopal Church was relatively late to ordain women to the priesthood compared to it’s other protestant friends but as an Episcopalian I am grateful for these women and their trailblazing, persistent attitudes and spirits that opened up the possibility of priesthood for us women.

Therefore, to honor the legacy of women being commissioned by Christ to do God’s work from St. Mary Magdalene to the Philadelphia Eleven to all the amazing women priests out there I know and love, here is a sermon to honor you all.

This is Episode 2 with Army Chaplain Jennifer Lane. We chat about her life as a woman serving in the United States Army as a chaplain charged with “nurturing the living, caring for the wounded, and honoring the fallen.”

You can follow Jen on twitter @CHJenLane and @loveusveterans

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Jennifer has a bachelors degree from the University of North Carolina, a Masters in Public Administration and Juris Doctorate from Indiana U and most recently a Master In Divinity from the Vanderbilt University. She wrote her final thesis on "Soul Repair of Moral Wounds from War.” In 2014 she was ordained as an American Baptists pastor and went Active Duty as an Army Chaplain with the 209th Aviation Support Battalion on Wheeler Army Airfield November 1, 2016. She also founded The Veterans Chapel in 2014 to teach churches and clergy how they can better minister to military families and Veterans, particularly marginalized groups of Veterans.

We chat about Jen’s journey to Army Chaplaincy. We discuss her religious upbringing in the Episcopal and Baptist Church, her various career lives and why it is so important to have women in ministry. Hope ya’ll enjoy, here’s Jen

We chat about the difficult topic of guns and violence in our world today. Becky and I have differing views on guns which makes for an exciting conversation. We ask a lot of questions of each other and approach the topic like Becky would on the Twisted Sisterds podcast - we dissect and deconstruct a social issue and how it affects our world.

She’s a chemist, a Nazarene and host of the Twisted Sisterds podcast which highlights - "women deconstructing culture, theology and a random stray thought here and there.” We chat about the Nazarene tradition, the genesis of the Twisted Sisterds podcast and how she experiences the divine.

Today we talk faith and politics and wrestle with the question of can and should our faith be political? We get into Emilie’s take on this question especially as it relates to theological education and her post as Dean of a Divinity School. She drops some serious wisdom bombs in this episode ya’ll are gonna love it.

Emilie is currently the Dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society.This week we chat about Emilie’s life and discernment of her vocation(s) of ministry, teaching and leadership in academia. She’s a pioneer, a visionary, and dare I say - a prophet.