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Becoming the Pastor’s Wife with Professor Beth Allison Barr (Podcast)
Read more: Becoming the Pastor’s Wife with Professor Beth Allison Barr (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Professor Beth Allison Barr, who is the James Vardaman Professor of History at Baylor University and the author of Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry (published by Brazos). Over the course of our conversation we talk about how the common notion…
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The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood with Dr. Philip Payne (Podcast)
Read more: The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood with Dr. Philip Payne (Podcast)In this episode we talk about the Bible really has to say about “biblical womanhood” with Dr. Philip Payne, who has served as a missionary, pastor, and professor in a number of settings, and is the author of several studies on the Bible’s teaching about women in ministry, including the new book that we discuss…
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Tell Her Story by Nijay Gupta (Book Review)
Read more: Tell Her Story by Nijay Gupta (Book Review)Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church by Nijay K. Gupta (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2023). Imagine my surprise when preaching on Mary (Jesus’ mother), or Tabitha, or the importance of the presence of women in the Acts 1:14 prayer sessions, and then being told by those listening that…
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The Ministry of Women in the New Testament with Revd Canon Professor Dorothy Lee (Podcast)
Read more: The Ministry of Women in the New Testament with Revd Canon Professor Dorothy Lee (Podcast)On this episode we discuss the ministry of women in the New Testament with Revd Canon Professor Dorothy Lee, who is Stewart Research Professor of New Testament at Trinity College, Melbourne, an ordained priest in the Anglican church, and the author of The Ministry of Women in the New Testament: Reclaiming the Biblical Vision for…
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Reflections on the Gender Series (Podcast)
Read more: Reflections on the Gender Series (Podcast)In this episode we recap and reflect on the gender series that we’ve been doing since mid-November 2020. The series spans eighteen episodes, beginning with “Paul & Masculinity with Grace Emmett” (November 11, 2020) and ending with “The Great Sex Rescue with Sheila Wray Gregoire” (March 10, 2020). As we explain in this conversation, we…
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Gender in 1 Timothy with Dr. Cynthia Long Westfall (Podcast)
Read more: Gender in 1 Timothy with Dr. Cynthia Long Westfall (Podcast)In this episode we are joined by Dr. Cynthia Long Westfall, Associate Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, Ontario) and the author of Paul and Gender: Reclaiming the Apostle’s Vision for Men and Women in Christ (Baker, 2016). Our the course of our conversation we discuss a number of historical and cultural…
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Gender in Romans with Dr. Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Podcast)
Read more: Gender in Romans with Dr. Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Podcast)In this episode of The Two Cities podcast we are joined by Dr. Beverly Roberts Gaventa, who is Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Baylor University (Waco, TX), and the author of When in Romans: An Invitation to Linger with the Gospel According to Paul (Baker, 2016). Over the course of our conversation we talk…
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Women in 1 Corinthians with Dr. Lucy Peppiatt (Podcast)
Read more: Women in 1 Corinthians with Dr. Lucy Peppiatt (Podcast)Carrying on in our conversation on gender, we turn to discuss women in 1 Corinthians with particular attention given to the passage about head coverings in 1 Cor. 11 and women being silent in the church in 1 Cor. 14. In this episode, Dr. John Anthony Dunne, Brandon Hurlbert, and Dr. Logan Williams are joined…
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Women in the Academy with Dr. Jill Firth and Dr. Christa McKirland (Podcast)
Read more: Women in the Academy with Dr. Jill Firth and Dr. Christa McKirland (Podcast)In this all-women episode, Amber Bowen discusses the unique experiences of women in the theological academy, including the challenges that women have to navigate as well as the particular benefits that they bring to the theological task. Joining Amber for this rich conversation are two special guests to The Two Cities: Dr. Jill Firth (PhD,…
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Reflections on Beth Moore’s “A Letter to My Brothers”
Read more: Reflections on Beth Moore’s “A Letter to My Brothers”This past week, Beth Moore wrote a heartfelt and amazing blog post called, “A Letter to My Brothers”, articulating the hardships of being a prominent women leader in the conservative evangelical community. As I read it, I was grateful that she had the courage to write honestly about her experiences as a woman in ministry,…