The Christian Feminist Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Christian Feminist Podcast
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Ack! Katie Grubbs, Sarah Thomas, and Victoria Farmer talk about the classic newspaper comic Cathy.
Laurie Norris, Christina Bieber Lake, and Sara Klooster talk about the HBO series The Last of Us.
Marie Hause, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Alexis Neal discuss the woman in the crowd in the Gospel of Mark.
Alexis Neal, Katie Grubbs, and Laurie Norris talk about the classic Robert Altman film Gosford Park.
Christina Bieber Lake, Laurie Norris, and Marie Hause talk about Dana Scully, the hero of the television series The X Files.
Laurie Norris and Jay Eldred talk about their experience in cosplay, particularly as it relates to gender.
Victoria Reynolds Farmer talks to Blake Miller, Katie Grubbs, and Alexis Neal about recent happenings in the Southern Baptist Convention.
Listen in as Christina Bieber Lake, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Sarah Thomas discuss Greta Gerwig’s smash hit film Barbie. Is life in plastic really fantastic? Find out here!
Alexis Neal, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Marie Hause discuss Tolstoy's classic novel.
The Mystery Gang is back! Alexis Neal, Laurie Norris, and Katie Grubbs discuss the HBO adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith's bestselling mystery series.
Marie Hause, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Sarah Thomas dive into some of the villancicos of famed early modern Mexican writer Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Topics include Marian villancicos, polyvocality, and proto-feminism.
Sara Klooster, Katie Grubbs, and Jessica Hardin conclude their discussion of the Australian children's series Bluey.
In the first half of this supersized episode, Katie Grubbs, Jessica Hardin, and Sara Klooster discuss the beloved Australian children's animated series Bluey. Look for part two next week!
Knowing
- Introductions
- First impressions
- Background on Other Feminisms and Leah Sargeant
Reading
- How is the newsletter structured? What sort of community and what sort of thought does that structure encourage?
- Why might it be valuable to expand the scope of feminism as most people define it to include issues of life and euthanasia?
- Same question, but for the boyhood issues raised in the education issue.
- One of the things that made me a paid subscriber is how Sargeant incorporates past reader comments into future issues. Were there any particular comments that stood out to you as thought-provoking?
Passing On
Alexis: Aging with Grace: Flourishing in an Anti-Aging Culture; For the Children’s Sake (also AmblesideOnline or Charlotte Mason’s 6-volume set)
Sarah: Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary by Brant Pitre
Victoria: Building the Benedict Option by Leah Sargeant
Related Episodes: #128, Invisible Women
Katie Grubbs, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Marie Hause talk about John Donne's elegies.
Victoria Reynolds Farmer, Kayla Beth Moore, and Christina Bieber Lake talk about the devotional practice of lectio divina.
Knowing
- What is lectio divina?
- https://www.usccb.org/bible/national-bible-week/upload/lectio-divina.pdf
- What are our experiences with this form of interpretation?
- How has it helped us think differently about Biblical texts or our own religious practices?
Reading
We will perform a lectio divina reading of a Biblical passage and discuss it afterwards. We encourage our listeners to use your Bibles along with us.
Passage: James 4:13-17 (New American but feel free to use your own)
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we shall go into such and such a town, spend a year there doing business, and make a profit”—
14 you have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow.* You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears.
15 Instead you should say, “If the Lord wills it,* we shall live to do this or that.”
16 But now you are boasting in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
17 So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin.
Reflection:
What did we notice that we wouldn’t have through just reading alone?
What did we learn from each other’s perspectives and observations?
How can we bring lessons from this kind of reading and observing to other parts of our spiritual lives?
Passing On
- Christina: M. Basil Pennington, Lectio Divina: Renewing the Ancient Practice of Teaching the Scriptures
- KB: Son of Laughter by Frederick Buechner
- Victoria: Daily Lectio Divina podcast by Sharon Garlough Brown https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-lectio-divina/id1507769421
Marie Hause, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Leah Flennikan talk about Christine di Pizan's medieval classic The Book of the City of Ladies.
Alexis Neal, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Kayla Beth Moore discuss George Eliot’s classic novel.
Laurie Norris, Katie Grubbs, and Victoria Reynolds Farmer talk about aunts, real and fictional.
In this year's Halloween crossover episode, Christina Bieber Lake, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Danny Anderson talk about John Carpenter's 1980 film The Fog.
Victoria Reynolds Farmer, Christina Bieber Lake, and Marie Hause talk about Teresa of Avila.
Knowing
- Why this episode and a bio of St. Teresa
- Our experience with her work
Reading
Interior Castle
- Metaphors for the soul
- Medieval worldview
- Some tricky bits of the text
Let nothing disturb you
- How the prayer frames our relationship to God
- Other prayers central to our religious practice
Autobiography
- Praying for physical illness
- Summing up the connection between the bodily and the spiritual
Passing On
- Christina: Thomas Traherne, Centuries
- Marie: https://sarahbessey.substack.com/p/breath-prayers-for-anxious-times
- Victoria: "The liturgy is of comfort to the disarrayed mind. We need not choose our thoughts, the words are aligned, like a rope for us to cling to." - Sister Monica Joan, Call the Midwife
Alexis Neal, Sarah Thomas, and Victoria Reynolds Farmer talk about the recent Apple+ series Schmigadoon.
Sara Klooster, Christina Bieber Lake, and Laurie Norris, talk about the animated television series Arcane, an adaptation of the video game League of Legends.
Christina Bieber Lake, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Katie Grubbs talk about Roxane Gay's memoir Hunger.
Katie Grubbs, Alexis Neal, and Laurie Norris talk about Agatha Christie's great woman detective, Miss Marples.
Marie Hause and Victoria Reynolds Farmer talk to Amy Frykholm about her recent book Wild Woman: A Footnote, the Desert, and My Quest for an Elusive Saint.
Kim Feldman talks to Christina Bieber Lake and Blake Miller about the struggles of being a pastor's wife.
Kim Feldman talks to Christina Bieber Lake and Blake Miller about the struggles of being married to a pastor.
Carla Godwin talks to Victoria Reynolds Farmer and guest panelist Reverend Emily Payne about the role of women in the ministry.
Knowing
Why this episode
Our past with the Biblical text
A bit of historical background
A bit of interpretation history (including Christine Yoder and Jacqueline Vayntrub)
Reading
Proverbs 31:10-30
Notable bits of the passage
The Most Misunderstood Women of the Bible and Proverbs 31
Passing On
The January chapter of The Year of Biblical Womanhood
Truth’s Table: How Black Christian Women Resist White Labels | Christianity Today
The Other Woman in Proverbs 31
Sarah Thomas, Laurie Norris, and special guest Joe Cerniglia discuss Robert Jordan's fantasy series The Wheel of Time and the first season of the Amazon television adaptation released in November 2021. Topics include the novel's universe/cosmology, Jordan's inspirations for the series, and ways to put the series in conversation with a Christian anthropology.
Victoria Reynolds Farmer talks with Mary DeMuth about her recent book "The Most Misunderstood Women of the Bible."
Laurie Norris, Christina Bieber Lake, and Sara Klooster discuss the amazing characters of Mythic Quest in a show that became our new favorite and should become yours too.
Alexis Neal, Kim Feldman, and Christina Bieber Lake discuss Daphne du Maurier’s classic gothic novel.
NOTE: Due to technical and scheduling difficulties, episodes #163 and #164 are being released out of order. Episode #163, on the series Mythic Quest, will be released next week, followed by our episode on Mary deMuth’s Misunderstood Women of the Bible as scheduled.
Victoria Reynolds Farmer leads Carla Godwin and Christina Bieber Lake in a discussion of Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Poisonwood Bible.
Ilia Danner Grubbs, Carla Godwin, and Kim Feldman discuss women’s issues raised in The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill Podcast.
Alexis Neal, Sara Klooster, and Katie Grubbs discuss the recent podcast from Christianity Today and what it means for complementarians.
Kim Feldman and Christina Bieber Lake interview Victoria Reynolds Farmer about her essay "Mary’s Song: What my journey with disability taught me about a God who raised up the weak and brings down the mighty."
Sara Klooster, Christina Bieber Lake, and Sarah Thomas discuss season one of Shonda Rhimes's hit Netflix Regency romance Bridgerton in anticipation of season 2's debut in 2022.
Katie Grubbs, Marie Hause, and Laurie Norris explore the worlds of The Expanse and take deep dives into gendered power and the fervency of political belief across the books and TV series.
Katie Grubbs welcomes cross-network guest Michial Farmer and cohost Sarah Thomas to talk about Edgar Allen Poe's story "Bereneice."
Laurie Norris, Ilia Danner Grubbs, and Victoria Reynolds Farmer examine the accusations of toxic behaviors leveled against Joss Whedon by former co-workers and discuss ways to model Christian justice and forgiveness in situations like this
Ilia Danner Grubbs, Christina Bieber Lake, and special guest Brian Grubbs discuss the female characters in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Marie Hause, Carla Godwin, and guest Carole Hawke discuss the Public Universal Friend and gender in Revolutionary America.
The Christian Feminist Podcast discusses The Book of Common Prayer and how liturgy plays a role in our private devotions.
It’s been 6 years since the Christian Feminists last tackled the Winchesters. Now that the long-running series has concluded, Alexis Neal, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Laurie Norris return to discuss its progress and problems.
Sarah Thomas, Ilia Danner Grubbs, and Shelah Woodruff discuss the women of the Passion accounts and the inspiration they can provide to 21st-century Christian women.
Christina Bieber Lake, Alexis Neal, and Kim Feldman discuss the advent of artificial intelligence and its impact on human relationships through Louisa Hall’s novel Speak.
Laurie Norris, Katie Grubbs, and Victoria Reynolds Farmer talk about female antiheroes on the American screen.