Recovering God: The Conversations
Recovering God: The Conversations is for people who want to think more about the issues affecting Christian women. Each month, we interview people from a range of backgrounds to ask about Christian faith, feminism and what the implications are for today. If you have any comments, let us know at RecoveringGodPodcast@gmail.com. You can follow us on Twitter @RecoveringGod or Instagram at RecoveringGod. Please remember to rate, subscribe and tell others who you think will be interested.
Episodes
This episode we interview our very own Amy (@AEMarriott1) about her dissertation: Female Embodiment in Paul's letter to the Romans. We discuss how Amy came about to her dissertation and why she decided on that topic. Amy also reads out a part of her dissertation where she got to write some historical fiction. So if you struggle with St. Paul give this a listen. Also you can read Amy's full dissertation here: link to follow.
...This Month's interview is with Natalie Grace.
Follower of Jesus. Wife and mother. Conspirator for nonviolence. Guns into garden tools. Radical grace.
*Book coming soon*
Find on X at @natgrace79
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Join us for this thought provoking discussion with Dr Katie Cross.
In this episode we discuss the unique challenges of being a woman in academia, why women especially suffer from imposter syndrome and many other topics too!
We're delighted that Katie could join us for this conversation - Katie is a lecturer in Pratical Theology at Aberdeen university, she describes herself as a feminist who is intersectional, keen to un-learn ...
Amy works as an Action Researcher for The Salvation Army and ia in her second year of a part time PhD funded by the University of Leeds and The Salvation Army exploring domestic violence and abuse within The Salvation Army. Amy is a Christian, a feminist and mum to a thoughtful, curious 27 month old who she is still breastfeeding.
Amy can be found on the following social media sites:
Twitter: @amyegraham_89
Instagram: @amyquinngrah...
Jo Ibbott -
Jo Ibbott is a Christian and part of the leadership team of her local church
www.freedomchurch.uk. She is married has has three adult daughters all very well
informed about perimenopause and menopause! Jo studied theology at London
Bible College (now LST) back in the early 90’s. For 7 years she led the
community work in her church, and has just stepped down from that to focus on her
menopau...
Rachel Noël, affectionately known by the local press as the Pink Vicar, is vicar at St James Church, Pokesdown, Bournemouth.
Rachel had a particularly formational journey through curacy, during which she was diagnosed with Bipolar, ADHD and Sensory Processing Disorder, and subsequently Autism. Her gifts and symptoms include high energy, enthusiasm, creativity and love of colour (especially pink!), she loves exploring her f...
Shannon K Evans lives beside a conserved prairie in the U.S. Midwest with her spouse and their 5 children. Her day job is as the spirituality & culture editor at the National Catholic Reporter newspaper, an independent, progressive paper that centres the intersection of faith and justice.
Shannon is the author of 'Rewilding Motherhood' and her most recent release which we discuss in this episode, 'Femin...
In this epidote we discuss how we approach Biblical narratives, and then hone in on the story of Sarah and Hagar.
We're joined by Dr Jayme Reaves from Sarum College, Salisbury. Jayme serves as the Director of Academic Development and is also a Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Theology.
Jayme is the author of Safeguarding the Stranger and the co-editor of When Did We See you Naked? Jayme is a public theologi...
In this episode we interview our very own Alison before she waves a fond farewell to the Recovering God team.
We are so very thankful for all that Alison has given to the podcast over the years and for her passion and vision to set it up in the first place. It is with much sadness we say goodbye.
If you would like to pass on your own messages of thanks to Alison please do so using the podcast email address: recov...
In this episode, our guest speaker, Kirsi Cobb , and our very own Sarah M-H,
talk to Vicky about being a disabled Christian woman.
Kirsi Cobb is a lecturer in biblical studies at Cliff College and a co-investigator in the AHRC funded project Abusing God: Reading Bible in the #MeToo Age. The Abusing God Network provides a platform to connect academics, church, and charity practitioners, in order to develop new researc...
Dr Selina Stone is a scholar-activist, holding together her academic work with the desire to stay connected to her community and create change in the world. She currently works at Durham University as a researcher trying to improve inclusion and belonging in theological education. In this episode we chat with Selina about the limitations of feminism and what we can learn from womanism.
Selina recommends the following books:
- Siste...
Happy New Year
In this short episode, the current team members talk about our hopes for 2023.
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Marg Mowczko describes herself as an ordinary person who loves God and loves the Bible. She hosts a website exploring the biblical theology of Christian egalitarianism. She believes that God’s ideal is for complete affinity, unity, and mutuality between men and women, especially between husband and wife.
In this episode, Marg talks to Sarah M-H & Amy about her experience and faith. She looks particularly at some of the ...
Rev. Amie Aitken is the second woman in the history of the Baptist Union of Scotland to appointed sole pastor of a church. She was adopted at the age of three, has grown up in the church and that is where her interest in the intersection of faith and attachment comes from.
She has been a foster parent and speaks openly about adoption in her advocacy work with 'Home For Good', which aims to place every vulnerable ch...
In this episode, Sarah P & Amy interview Dr Katie Gaddini about the findings of her new book: The Struggle to Stay: Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church (2022). Katie is a sociologist and scholar of Christianity, gender, race, and politics. She is a Lecturer at UCL and currently a UKRI research fellow based at Stanford University in California.
You can get copies of Katie's book at bookshops and onl...
In this unusual episode, Alison asks the fabulous, new team the set questions that we ask all of the people who we interview. It's an opportunity for you to get to know a bit more about who they are ready for when they start interviewing. We are so excited about the new team with their fabulous breadth of experience and skills.
We hope that you enjoy this episode.
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Rev. Cham Kaur-Mann has over 25 years of leadership experience in the church, charity and voluntary sectors. She mentors and supports leaders from a variety of sectors, backgrounds and communities and is the first (and currently only) Asian woman minister within the Baptist Union of Great Britain.
Cham is co-director of Next Leadership and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). She has a unique and compelling ability to ‘stor...
Clare Williams is the founder of GET REAL, which endeavours to engage with big questions about the Christian faith. It is an organisation that tackles issues concerning identity, race and religion. Clare is a Christian who is passionate about the intersection of race, faith and apologetics. In this episode, Clare talks about apologetics and the positives of questioning our faith.
Book Mentions in the Episode
· Esau McCaulley, Re...
Dr Karen O’Donnell has published a new book: The Dark Womb: Re-Conceiving Theology through Reproductive Loss. Amazingly, the book is the first academic theological investigation into the impact the experience of reproductive loss has on the way that we think about God and faith. She wrote the book in response to her own personal losses as a young woman and the growing awareness that there were no deep explorations of the issues tha...
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