The Women Scholars and Professionals Podcast
Religion & Spirituality
About
Join us for conversations in which we seek to give voice to women living into their God-given callings and serving as redeeming influences in the academy and beyond.For show notes or more information, please visit http://thewell.intervarsity.org/podcasts
Episodes
- Cynthia Prescott: Wise & Courageous
Welcome to The Wise & Courageous Podcast , where we host conversations with women leaders about how they are seeking and engaging wisdom and courage in their leadership and work in this unique season. “It took courage for me to transform m…
- Tish Harrison Warren: What Grows in Weary Lands
“Stability of the heart cannot come in isolation. It comes in community. It comes with the long haul — failing and getting up again. It comes with not living a life to minimize risk, and not living a life to minimize friction. We’re not se…
- Dorothy Littell Greco: For the Love of Women
“I believe that God loves women. Full stop. And the ways that Jesus treated women demonstrates his love for and respect for women. And I think if systems, if governments, if work places, if churches, if marriages, if there were places that…
- Amy Peeler: Ordinary Time
“The kingdom that is coming will actually be ordinary....There will be change, but there will not be crisis. The kingdom will be quite ordinary. So, no matter where you find yourself, if you’re in a difficult place, that is on the horizon…
- Quyen Ngo Metzger: Wise & Courageous
Welcome to The Wise & Courageous Podcast , where we host conversations with women leaders about how they are seeking and engaging wisdom and courage in their leadership and work in this unique season. “Somebody came to me and said, ‘You ar…
- Joey Stabile Schewee: When Working Together Doesn’t Work
“You need to know yourself. You need to know your personal challenges. You need to know your hardwiring before you engage in anything.” — Joey Stabile Schewee Author and management consultant Joey Stabile Schewee joins us on the podcast to…
- Kat Armas: Liturgies for Resisting Empire
“You cannot decolonize the academy. So, let’s get creative about what we can do.” — Kat Armas Author and theologian Kat Armas joins us on the podcast to discuss strategies for right-sizing our relationship with power in our world today. Ho…
- Diane Lee: Wise & Courageous
Welcome to The Wise & Courageous Podcast , where we host conversations with women leaders about how they are seeking and engaging wisdom and courage in their leadership and work in this unique season. “ God are you sure? Did you pick the r…
- Karen J. Johnson: Ordinary Heroes of Racial Justice
“Can you have reconciliation in the present if you are not acknowledging what has happened in the past?” — Dr. Karen J. Johnson Historian and professor Karen J. Johnson joins us on the podcast to discuss how the practice of history draws u…
- Froswa' Booker-Drew: Front Porch Wisdom
“You need to build a network .... The biggest mistake we make is just walking in and doing our job and not recognizing we need advocates and allies for every space that we’re in.” — Froswa’ Booker-Drew Author and non-profit executive Dr. F…
- Pamela Collins: Wise & Courageous
Welcome to The Wise & Courageous Podcast , where we host conversations with women leaders about how they are seeking and engaging wisdom and courage in their leadership and work in this unique season. “In any situation where you are uncert…
- Alyson Pryor: Come Away and Rest
“Whatever work you are doing you bring yourself to that work, so it matters what kind of person you are.” — Alyson Pryor Spiritual director and therapist Alyson Pryor joins us on the podcast to discuss the benefits and the challenges of ta…
- Christine Jeske: Racial Justice for the Long Haul
“Don’t forget about the good. Don’t forget that there are stories of people doing things that work out there.” — Christine Jeske Anthropologist and professor Christine Jeske joins us on the podcast to discuss ways to persevere in the long…
- Kelly Vaughn: Wise & Courageous
Welcome to The Wise & Courageous Podcast , where we host conversations with women leaders about how they are seeking and engaging wisdom and courage in their leadership and work in this unique season. “We say we can do it ourselves, but we…
- Kate Coleman: 7 Deadly Sins of Women in Leadership
“God didn’t call me in spite of who I am but because of who I am … and that’s true of all of us.” — Rev. Dr. Kate Coleman Listen in on our fall book club interview as Women Scholars and Professionals book club host Jasmine Obeyesekere cond…
- Elisabeth Rain Kincaid: Wise & Courageous
Welcome to The Wise & Courageous Podcast , where we host conversations with women leaders about how they are seeking and engaging wisdom and courage in their leadership and work in this unique season. “The caliber of my leadership depends…
- Emily Hunter McGowin: Households of Faith
“If at all possible, resist the dehumanizing forces that are at work in grad school and in the early days of your academic employment.” — Emily Hunter McGowin Theologian and professor Emily Hunter McGowin joins us on the podcast to discuss…
- Laura Baghdassarian Murray: Becoming a Person of Welcome
“Hospitality is not only external; it’s internal. Hospitality is not only inside of spaces; it’s also wherever we go.” — Laura Baghdassarian Murray Spiritual director Laura Baghdassarian Murray joins us on the podcast to discuss the place…
- Ruth López Turley: Wise & Courageous
Welcome to The Wise & Courageous Podcast, where we host conversations with women leaders about how they are seeking and engaging wisdom and courage in their leadership and work in this unique season. “I would like to leave a legacy of hope…
- Carmen Joy Imes: Becoming God's Family
“...our hearts are like this - given a whole week full of headlines and pressures and fears and joys we imperceptively get pulled off course...so to gather together with other believers is a way of pulling our needle back north again.” — C…
- Portia Preston: Hustle, Flow, or Let It Go?
“No matter where you are and no matter what you are doing, you are completely worthy right now. There is nothing that you could do or not do that would make you any less or more worthy.” — Portia Preston Public health professor Dr. Portia…
- Working for Better: A Webinar
“While others are fighting or ignoring or separating, we can be people who truly engage because we understand what it means to be created in the image of God.” How can we explore the connection between faith and work more deeply in our liv…
- Grace Hamman: Ask of Old Paths
“I can’t fix the world. I can’t save my university. I can’t save my department. I can’t save my students .... but I can keep showing up to what I’ve been called to do.” — Grace Hamman Medieval scholar Grace Hamman joins us on the podcast t…
- Erin Devers: The Unbiased Self
“Even though it looks like other people are better prepared, God has gifted this to you. He is with you and you have an amazing opportunity. Don’t miss it because you’re concerned about how you might not be prepared or that you feel like y…
- Tracie Braylock: Radical Relaxation
“Do not put off rest or relaxation. Learn how to weave it in throughout your day. Schedule it as if it was another class or lecture you had to attend.” — Tracie Braylock Holistic nurse educator Tracie Braylock joins us on the podcast to di…
- Karen Swallow Prior: You Have a Calling
“Focusing on truth, goodness, and beauty first takes us outside of ourselves...but also it also changes who we are and how we are and how we do what we do.“ — Karen Swallow Prior Reader, writer, and erstwhile professor Karen Swallow Prior…
- Archive Dive: Back to School — Dear Mentor Podcast
"I start off with trying to make sure the student knows someone is looking forward to seeing them." — Jana Young How do you prepare to successfully kick off a new school year? Listen in on our first in a series of episodes where we answer…
- On Hope & Courage: A Summer Roundtable Conversation
“I think this would be a perfect time to choose to trust God with your future and with your present and just spend some time with him in nature, with other colleagues in prayer, in the word, etc.“ — Dr. Denise-Margaret Thompson Four esteem…
- Jennifer Powell McNutt: The Mary We Forgot
“Doing your PhD is ... there's a lot of pressure for sure, but you never get that kind of space and time [again] to focus on a single project. As soon as you leave ... there are so many other demands in your time. The privilege of getting…
- Nicole Massie Martin: Nailing It
“Show up as your authentic self. Please don’t mold yourself into what you think you ought to be or how you think you ought to be received. Just be who God has called you to be, because when you do that, you give other women permission to b…
- Beth Allison Barr: Becoming the Pastor’s Wife
“The pastor’s wife, in many ways, embodies the history of the Protestant church….Refocusing on her and putting her at the center helps us to understand the bigger picture of the role women play in church history and how women are overshado…
- Terri S. Watson: The Client's Guide to Therapy
“One of the practices I use a lot in clinical supervision with burned out and stressed therapist or academics is asking people to remember why we got into this work in the first place, remembering back about the original hope and intention…
- Ruth Bancewicz: Integrating Science and Faith
“I managed to divide myself in half. We can let our lives run on parallel tracks, and that is one way people deal with things. But it’s not healthy because the trains will collide.” — Ruth Bancewicz Science and faith professional Ruth Banc…
- Kendall Vanderslice: Bake & Pray
“I like to think of bread-baking more in terms of liturgy than in terms of recipe. ” — Kendall Vanderslice Author, baker, and theologian Kendall Vanderslice joins us on the podcast to discuss the way baking bread offers a gateway to prayer…
- Khristi Lauren Adams: Womanish Theology
“If we were all created in the image of God, all of us who look so different...there is so much more to learn about God. So, I get one step closer to knowing God from exposing myself to different people... ” — Khristi Lauren Adams Author a…
- The Magic of Knowing What You Want: Tracey Gee
“What does success mean to you? What does that look like? What is yours to do? What isn't yours to do?” — Tracey Gee Author and consultant Tracey Gee joins us on the podcast to discuss the value of knowing our own desires and the barriers…
- Jerusha Matsen Neal: Holy Ground
“Find your Elizabeth. Find the person who sees the gifts in you and names them. That’s really significant.” — Jerusha Matsen Neal Author and professor Jerusha Matsen Neal joins us on the podcast to discuss the importance of place as we con…
- Julie Lane-Gay: The Riches of Your Grace
“Do what you do with love. Whether you’re gonna teach physics coming out of Cambridge and Harvard or whether you’re gonna go teach first-year English at your local community college — do it your best and do what you do with love..” — Julie…
- Leslie Leyland Fields: A Radiant Birth
“Do what you and your family need. Let go of the cultural and even the church expectations. Just take time to behold — to behold the wondrous mystery of Christ among us and Christ in us and Christ born for us.” — Leslie Leyland Fields Auth…
- Miranda Zapor Cruz: Faithful Politics
"We need to be cautious about hyperbole, about dramatizing things before they are reality. One of the major issues we are facing in politics for a decade or more now is the erosion of truth, the erosion of fact based information and that c…
- Marilyn McEntyre: Midwinter Light
“I love the relational dimension of teaching, where you get to meet someone at the point of their curiosity or openness, right at their learning edge, and help them into a place of seeing something more complexly or shifting a perspective…
- Sheila Wise Rowe & Nicholas Rowe: Healing Leadership Trauma
“The core message for leaders is that before you do anything, that relationship with the Lord is the central piece.... The Lord loves you independently of anything you do.” — Sheila Wise Rowe & Nicholas Rowe Authors Sheila Wise Rowe and Ni…
- Pricelis Perreaux-Dominguez: Being a Sanctuary
“The biggest thing is to affirm ourselves and not wait for anyone or any room or anyone with any degree or any letters behind their name to affirm our voice and to say that our voice matters. We need to say it to ourselves and for ourselve…
- Shirley Mullen: Claiming the Courageous Middle
“If you have two choices, go with the one that’s going to ask you to become a larger person, not the one you think you are capable of doing in that moment. That would be my advice to women…. Do the thing that you don’t think you can do rig…
- Barbara L. Peacock: Soul Care in African American Practice
“When I practice receiving the love of God, opening myself to receive the love of God, I’m blessed by that encounter, understanding that God is love. He is the very essence of love. The very essence of God is love. ” — Barbara L. Peacock A…
- Amy & Rob Dixon: Penny Preaches
"Your education is not just about the knowledge-acquisition, it’s not just about the degree at the end, but it’s also about your formation. How would God speak to you through whatever class you’re in, whatever program you’re in, through th…
- Joanna Meyer: Women, Work, and Calling
"In your heart of hearts — your deepest conviction — do you believe that God is sufficient for your need? Because if we don’t, it’s treating perfection like an idol in our life. We can become enslaved to the point where it distorts us." —…
- Beginning Well: Podcast Guests Give Their Best Advice
"You're someone who's smart and who's capable and God has plans for those gifts." —Dr. Jennifer Holberg What is the best advice you've heard about starting the school year? Listen in to some of the wisest moments from our podcast in this s…
- Jeff Haanen: Working from the Inside Out
"Lots of people don’t have eyes to see how good and important their work is." — Jeff Haanen Listen in on our spring book club interview as Women Scholars and Professionals book club host Jasmine Obeyesekere conducts an online discussion wi…
- Grace Hamman: Jesus through Medieval Eyes
“You discover these people who uniquely speak to you, who are not just wonderful and wise in their own right, but actually become your teacher and your friend in a very real way.” — Grace Hamman Author and scholar Grace Hamman joins us on…