The Women Scholars and Professionals Podcast

Nov 26 2024 149 ep. 43 mins 4
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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

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Leslie Leyland Fields: A Radiant Birth

Nov 26 2024 54 mins  
“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 Author and writing teacher Leslie Leyland Fields joins us on the podcast to discuss the beautiful messiness of Advent and the joys of writing

Miranda Zapor Cruz: Faithful Politics

Nov 19 2024 63 mins  
"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 comes in lots of different forms and lots of different directions, but the misrepresentation of one another and the ways that fear is evoked in pe

Marilyn McEntyre: Midwinter Light

Nov 12 2024 54 mins  
“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 in such a way that it changes something, for them and for me. It feels magical to me. It still does, after so many years. I think teaching is a

Sheila Wise Rowe & Nicholas Rowe: Healing Leadership Trauma

Oct 29 2024 51 mins  
“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 Nicholas Rowe join us on the podcast to talk about the inner work required to lead as a secure and healing-centered person. What does it

Pricelis Perreaux-Dominguez: Being a Sanctuary

Oct 15 2024 54 mins  
“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 ourselves.” — Pricelis Perreaux-Dominguez Author Pricelis Perreaux-Dominguez joins us on the podcast to talk about cultivating communities that of

Shirley Mullen: Claiming the Courageous Middle

Oct 01 2024 52 mins  
“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 right now and ask God to make you adequate for that.” — Shirley Mullen Author and Houghton University president emerita Shirley Mullen j

Barbara L. Peacock: Soul Care in African American Practice

Sep 17 2024 54 mins  
“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 Author and spiritual director Dr. Barbara Peacock joins us on the podcast to talk about the ways attending to the care of our souls impacts

Amy & Rob Dixon: Penny Preaches

Sep 03 2024 42 mins  
"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 the community of scholars you’re a part of? Be looking for that too." — Rob Dixon Authors Amy and Rob Dixon join us on the podcast to t

Joanna Meyer: Women, Work, and Calling

Aug 20 2024 57 mins  
"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." — Joanna Meyer Listen in on our summer book club interview as Women Scholars and Professionals director Karen Guzmán conducts an online

Beginning Well: Podcast Guests Give Their Best Advice

Aug 13 2024 32 mins  
"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 special back-to-school episode. We’re looking toward a fresh school year and thinking especially about those of you who might be looking for