A LISTENING SELECTION
Listen to women shaping religious life and naming the roles, pressures, authority, and possibilities they encounter. Buddhist, Jewish, and Christian voices appear here through leadership, sacred practice, cultural critique, and personal testimony.
An episode can be a first meeting with a voice that feels like good company. If a show resonates, you may choose to keep listening beyond this selection. Each episode here has been chosen on its own merits; the wider show is yours to explore.
10 selected episodes
Podcast EpisodeLife As It Is; Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Buddhist nun Karma Lekshe Tsomo recounts her path and her work for women’s education and full ordination in Buddhist communities.
Podcast EpisodeThe Bible for Normal People; Emilie Townes
Emilie Townes explains womanist ethics through Black women’s thought, then considers how communities wrestle with Scripture, uncertainty, and hope.
Podcast EpisodeNomad Podcast; Selina Stone
Selina Stone traces questions from her Black Pentecostal upbringing into womanist theology, spiritual well-being, and a changing relationship with church and Scripture.
Podcast EpisodeElizabeth Oldfield with Rabbi Angela Buchdahl
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl reflects on growing up Korean American, biracial, mixed-faith, and repeatedly questioned as a Jew—and on Jewish practices that can turn strangeness toward a more generous belonging.
Podcast EpisodeHarvard Divinity School with Georgette Ilunga-Nkulu Ledgister
Georgette Ledgister draws on research with Luba women to ask whether “divine feminine” can responsibly describe African Indigenous ontologies that may resist gendering the divine.
Podcast EpisodeJessica Tyler with Camden Morgante
Clinical psychologist Camden Morgante and counselor educator Jessica Tyler examine how purity culture can bind sexuality to worth, intensify shame and fear, and leave grief when promised outcomes fail.
Podcast EpisodeKristin Kobes Du Mez with Pete Enns and Jared Byas
Kristin Kobes Du Mez traces how ideals of militant Christian masculinity were shaped by American culture and used to consolidate religious power.
Podcast EpisodeErin Hicks Moon with Pete Enns and Jared Byas
Erin Hicks Moon tells a warm, candid story of questioning Southern Baptist formation, losing certainty, and finding a Christian faith spacious enough for mystery.
Podcast EpisodeEverything Happens with Kate Bowler and Jen Hatmaker
Jen Hatmaker talks with Kate Bowler about divorce, the constraints of being a pastor’s wife, parenting, therapy, and rebuilding a life after public loss.
Podcast EpisodeSheila Wray Gregoire; Tia Levings
Levings discusses recovery and reclaiming a sense of self after fundamentalist formation and an abusive marriage in conversation with Bare Marriage.