Last Word 2 with Lisa Weaver Swartz and Amanda Holm Rosengren

The start of the new season in 2024 marks the end of the current season for Tent Talks. We are bringing our podcast in to land, with a series of final thoughts from former guests, hosts and friends of the show. Join Stephen Backhouse in a series of conversations as we explore The Last Word. Episode Two features co-host Chris Marchand offering a coda to his series on "Women in Church Leadership" with conversations from sociologist Lisa Weaver Swartz, author of Stained Glass Ceilings and Anglican priest Amanda Holm Rosengren.

You can find out more about Lisa Weaver Swartz at her website: https://lisaweaverswartz.com/ or purchase her book here.

Amanda Holm Rosengren is a priest at Church of the Redeemer in the Anglican Church of North America.

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As mentioned during the episode, here are some of the books available that offer Biblical and theology support for women as church ministers: Rediscovering Scripture's Vision for Women, Unveiling Paul's Women, and Women and Worship at Corinth by Lucy Peppiatt; The Hidden History of Women's Ordination by Gary Macy; Icons of Christ byWilliam G. Witt; Women and the Gender of God by Amy Peeler; The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr, Paul and Gender by Cynthia Long Westfall; Tell Her Story by Nijay Gupta; The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood and Man and Woman: One in Christ by Philip B. Payne.