Let It Matter Podcast

In this episode, host Kelly Wolfe is joined by Episcopal priest -- and former rector of Kelly's local parish church -- Rev. Catherine Thompson to explore various aspects of the Episcopal church like:

• The origins of the Church of England, the Anglican Communion, and the Episcopal Church in the US

• The differences between the Episcopal Church and the ACNA (Anglican Church in North America)

• The theological beliefs and practices in the...

In this episode, host Kelly Wolfe is joined by scholar and professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary, Nijay Gupta (DPhil) to discuss themes from his book Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church, in particular:

• looking closer into the three main issues (used by those seeking to uphold or defend complementarianism/patriarchy) that come from Genesis 1-3: the created order, the use of the word...

In this episode, host Kelly Wolfe is joined by Kat Armas, author of the new book Sacred Belonging: a 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture, to discuss:

• What it means to “repattern, reweave, and reimagine” Scripture and how doing so gives us fresh insights and leads us toward liberation

• Why creation, Holy Spirit, wisdom, the body, and the feminine are five areas which are so ripe for (& in need of) decolonizat...

**Content Warning for this Episode: We discuss topics like sexuality, reproductive healthcare, abortion access, contraception, and more. Please proceed with caution if needed.

In this episode, I am joined by Rev. Jes Kast to discuss various aspects of the women's reproductive healthcare conversation (including abortion, contraception, sex education, etc.). Jes is an ordained minister of Word and Sacrament in the United Church of Chr...

This week's Guest: Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes is a prominent psychologist, theologian, and author whose work focuses upon healing the legacies of racial and gender oppression. She is a professor at Columbia Theological Seminary and the author of Sacred Self-Care, I Bring the Voices of My People, and Too Heavy a Yoke. You can find her on Twitter and IG @drchanequa or on her website at drchanequa.com

In this episode, we discuss theme...

In this episode, host Kelly Wolfe is joined by author and spiritual director, Danielle Shroyer, to discuss:

-what the word blessing truly means and how original blessing is the truest thing about us as humans

-how the doctrine of original sin is unhelpful and unncessary to understanding human nature, sin, and our relationship to God

-ways we have cartoonized and flattened the biblical account of Genesis 1-3, and what is actually ther...

In this episode, host Kelly Wolfe is joined by author, speaker, and songwriter, Amanda Held Opelt, to discuss themes found in her new book, Holy Unhappiness, such as:

-what the emotional prosperity gospel is and how we see it manifest in our lives of faith and how it doesn't hold up to be true

-work, marriage, children and how those things promise meaning and ultimate joy, but in reality are still difficult and don't often prove to b...

In this episode, host Kelly Wolfe, is joined by embodiment coach, somatic practitioner, author, and former Miss Canada, Tara Teng, to discuss:

• what it means that our bodies are a revolution
• how the “unholy trinity” of white supremacy, colonialism, and patriarchy — as well as even some bad interpretations of scripture — have caused so many of us to become disembodied
• what healing/coming back home to ourselves looks like, feels like...

In this episode, host Kelly Wolfe is joined by author and co-founder/executive director of Theological Horizons, Karen Wright Marsh to discuss:

• the importance of wonder as a spiritual practice (or discipline) -- even when we are in low seasons (maybe especially then)
• the importance of adapting new spiritual practices to actually fit into our lives and work for us
• specific faith leaders of the past like Thomas Merton, Sts. Francis ...

In this episode, host, Kelly Wolfe, shares her own personal faith story with Kate Boyd including:

•how her first major faith evolution helped prepare her for the second

•the factors at play in her transition out of & away from Evangelicalism

•how she arrived in the Episcopal church

•what she has found beautiful as well as challenging within the Episcopal church

•what advice Kelly has for fellow travelers along the road of their fait...

In this episode, host Kelly Wolfe is joined by Certified Sex Therapist, Michelle Mower, to discuss:

• the differences between regular therapy, sex therapy, and sexological bodywork

• who sex therapy is for (hint: any and everyone regardless of relationship status, sexual history or experience level, gender identity, or sexual orientation)

• how sex therapy can help (i.e., how to give and remove consent, how to talk about STIs, exploring...

In this episode, host Kelly Wolfe is joined by (returning Let It Matter Podcast guest) Devi Abraham, for a conversation-style episode where we discuss the (mostly) evangelical myth that we - as people and in particular as women - are untrustworthy in our decision making, instincts, intuition, wisdom, etc. Guest BioDevi Abraham is a writer, thinker and cohost of the Where Do We Go From Here? podcast which invites listeners to untang...

In this episode, host Kelly Wolfe is joined by author, spiritual companion, and fellow podcast host, Lisa Colón DeLay to discuss themes from her book, The Wild Land Within, about ways to fill out and cultivate our inner landscapes and spiritual formation — including reincorporating Eastern or Orthodox understandings into our western worldviews, liberation theology and listening to voices from the non-dominant culture, and contempla...

In this episode, host Kelly Wolfe is joined by author, historian, scholar, public theologian, and preacher, Dr. Diana Butler Bass to discuss:-Diana's personal story as a woman, scholar, and theologian before that was widely accepted within much of American Christianity -the recent history of American evangelicalism and the shift made between the 70s and 80s onward, which draws a straight line to the state of evangelicalism we see t...

In this episode, host Kelly Wolfe is joined by lesbian therapist and Christian, Candice Czubernat, to discuss LGBTQIA+ allyship. -in the language, words, terminology, and pronouns we use-in the societal and political sphere -in the Church and in our homes (whether or not there is anyone "out" - that we know of)-and in the environments that we create and contribute to around us, and so much more!

In this ep, Candice mentions the non-...

In this episode, host, Kelly Wolfe, is joined by Lyndsey Medford, author of the recently released book My Body and Other Crumbling Empires as:-Lyndsey shares her experience with chronic illness (a rare autoimmune disorder diagnosed in childhood, in remission for several years in older adolescence/early adulthood, and which has returned), disability, and how she has learned to see her illness/disability as a potentially lifelong com...

In this episode, host Kelly Wolfe is joined by author, Catholic contemplative writer, and retreat leader, Shannon K. Evans, to discuss:

1. some of the harms caused by "white feminism" and how BIPOC (especially women of color), LGBTQIA+ folks, those in poverty, etc are able to reveal blindspots in white feminism that we need to learn from,

2. Shannon's experience being a feminist in a Christian tradition almost entirely led (in an offic...

In this episode, host Kelly Wolfe is joined by Quaker pastor, Hannah Mullikin Lutz to explore various aspects of Quaker faith & spirituality like:

• The origins of Quakerism and defining characteristics

• Quaker theology and practice around things like: God, mankind, egalitarianism, pacifism, sin, prayer, governance, gathering, the Bible, etc.

• and more!

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