Faith and Feminism

On today's episode, I interview Starr Davis, the founder of the Starr Institute about the risk factors that lead to trafficking, and how we can prevent them. We also talk a bit about recent events regarding storming the Capitol and why it's so important to fight racism.

January is human trafficking awareness month, as such I am choosing to feature voices from the past and present who are fighting human trafficking today. First up, I have an episode with Blythe Hill, founder of Dressember, that was recorded when this podcast was just a couple of weeks old. Learn from Blythe about how she started Dressember and the impact it has made.

Anna Woofenden, pastor, founding member of the Garden Church, and author of "This is God's Table" talks to us about the food justice movement and why confronting harmful systems is important.

Domestic violence is a pervasive threat the world over, but what do our masculinity scripts have to do with this? More so how do our masculinity scripts specifically found in athletics contribute to the problem? Nicole Lee is pursuing her doctorate in answering this question and guides us through her research today.

Baptizing Feminism, an in-progress feature documentary, explores the rise of contemporary evangelical Christian feminism as six women oppose an influential movement of Christian right leaders who promote traditional gender roles. On this podcast I ask Kathy, the producer, all about it.

Laura Jean Truman, who will you hear loves to talk with her hands, shares her journey of deconstruction to conservative homeschooled kid, to queer pastor, to writer. She also interviews me a bit in the process :)

With all of the shopping choices out there, how does one begin to shop ethically? How do we know our purchase is helping not hurting? In this replay from 2018, I talk to my friend Rachel about how to shop ethically and how she started a company to make this simple.

I needed the reminder about ethical shopping this holiday season and I figured you may too. In this episode recorded in 2018, Anika talks us to about the harms of fast fashion.

Ruth Everhart talks to us about her book, The #MeToo Reckoning and helps us understand and identify the Church's complicity in sexual abuse and misconduct.

Lyvonne Proverbs named one of the "11 women shaping the Church" by Sojourners magazine talks to us about her story of decolonizing her faith and reclaiming self-love.