Feminism – The Two Cities

Feminist Trauma Theologies with Dr. Katie Cross (Podcast)

Jan 3, 2024

CW: gender-based violence, sexual assault, religious trauma, intimate partner violence Dr. Katie Cross is Lecturer in Practical Theology at Christ’s College at the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of The Sunday Assembly and Theologies of Suffering and the co-editor of Feminist Trauma Theologies and Bearing Witness. (Bonus note: Her co-editor is last week’s guest Karen O’Donnell!) In this episode we learn about feminist trauma theologies. Dr. Cross explains how her work with the...

Barbenheimer: Movie Reviews of Barbie and Oppenheimer (Podcast)

Aug 30, 2023

In this episode we give a joint review of the two Summer movies, Barbie and Oppenheimer. Over the course of our conversation we talk about the themes that emerge when the two ostensibly different films are juxtaposed and interpreted together, including: death, existential angst, technology, feminism, and power, and we have a lot of fun along the way. Team members on the episode from The Two Cities include: Barbie (Dr. Madison Pierce), Ken (Dr. Brandon...

Palestinian Theology & Identity from a Feminist Perspective with Marah Sarji (Podcast)

Oct 12, 2022

In this episode in our series on Palestinian Liberation Theology we discuss the intersectionality of the Palestinian experience by discussing matters of identity from a feminist perspective with Marah Sarji, who is a Christian Palestinian working on a master’s degree in Anthropology from Tel Aviv University. Over the course of the episode, Marah talks with us about the complexities of her identity, being a Christian Palestinian woman living in Jerusalem. In particular, Marah shares so...

Theology & Reproductive Loss with Dr. Karen O’Donnell (podcast)

May 4, 2022

(CW: Sensitive Themes). In this episode we’re joined by Dr. Karen O’Donnell to talk about Theology and Reproductive Loss. Dr. O’Donnell is Program Leader for Contemporary Spirituality Studies at Sarum College and the author of The Dark Womb: Re-Conceiving Theology Through Reproductive Loss (published by SCM Press). Over the course of our conversation, Dr. O’Donnell explains how important it is to explore the connection between theology and our bodies, emphasizing that all theology is embodied....

What Jesus Learned From Women with Dr. James F. McGrath (Podcast)

Oct 6, 2021

In this episode we’re talking about What Jesus Learned From Women with Dr. James F. McGrath, who is Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University, the host of a podcast called ReligionProf, and the author of the book that we’re discussing here, What Jesus Learned From Women (published by Cascade). Dr. McGrath’s thesis is that there are many women in the Gospels who teach Jesus various things. Acknowledging that...

Reflections on the Gender Series (Podcast)

Mar 17, 2021

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 regard every episode in between these two episodes as being part of the series, including the ones on racial matters,...

The Making of Biblical Womanhood with Dr. Beth Allison Barr (Podcast)

Mar 3, 2021

In this episode we discuss the concept of “Biblical Womanhood” from a historical perspective. To do so we are joined by Dr. Beth Allison Barr, who is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of History at Baylor University (Waco, TX), and the author of the forthcoming book, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth (with Brazos). In her new book, Dr. Barr contends that “Biblical Womanhood” isn’t...

The Two Cities Podcast: 2020 In Review

Dec 31, 2020

Amidst all the craziness of 2020, we finally decided to start a podcast here at The Two Cities back in March when the lockdowns were first going into effect in the States. Since then we were able to publish 47 episodes, with more to come in 2021. Here’s a look back at our top ten most played episodes from 2020. If you haven’t checked any of these episodes out, give them a listen! We’d also...

Paul & Masculinity Revisited with Dr. Valérie Nicolet (Podcast)

Dec 9, 2020

In this episode, Amber Bowen, Dr. John Anthony Dunne, and Grace Emmett are joined by Dr. Valérie Nicolet, Associate Professor of New Testament at the Protestant Institute of Theology in Paris, to continue an earlier podcast conversation on Paul and masculinity. Our conversation begins with Paul’s self-presentation, esp. in Galatians, and then extends to address the fuzziness of gender categories in antiquity, as seen with Thecla from the Acts of Paul and Thecla. Dr. Nicolet...

Recovering From Biblical Manhood & Womanhood with Aimee Byrd (Podcast)

Nov 25, 2020

Carrying on with our series on gender and the Bible, Amber Bowen and Dr. John Anthony Dunne are joined by Aimee Byrd, who is the author of several books, including Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Zondervan Academic, 2020). In this episode Aimee explains that, despite what one might suspect from her outspoken detractors, her book is ultimately about discipleship. She critiques the movement that appeals to “biblical manhood and womanhood” as truncating biblical gender...