Right Side Up Podcast with Danielle Strickland – Details, episodes & analysis

Friends! Welcome to the Need to Know season of The Right Side Up. This season is all about supporting the forthcoming compilation book, Need to Know: Empowering Female Leadership and Why It’s Essential for the Future of the Church. In this introductory episode I share why empowering women is so important for the future of the church. You’ll hear me emphasize the importance of collaboration between men and women, the need for systemic change, and the role of theology in promoting gender equity. I reflect on the historical context of female leadership, the challenges of addressing abuse within church systems, and the necessity of honest hope and lament in the journey towards transformation.

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keywords

female leadership, church, empowerment, theology, equity, abuse, collaboration, hope, transformation, systemic change

takeaways

Empowering female leadership is essential for the future of the church.

Cultural awareness is crucial for understanding gender dynamics.

The cost of allyship can be surprising for men.

Theology plays a significant role in gender equity discussions.

Church systems often perpetuate abuse and harm.

Historical examples, like the Salvation Army, show the impact of female leadership.

Collaboration between genders is vital for church growth.

Honest hope requires acknowledging and lamenting past injustices.

Transformation involves a deep personal and collective metanoia.

Listening and learning are the first steps towards living differently.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction: The Need to Know

02:27 The Cost and Challenges of Empowering Female Leadership

06:09 The Interconnectedness of Power, Empire, and Leadership

08:01 The Importance of Doing Exegetical Work on Women

11:20 The Historical Role of Women in the Church

18:48 A Call to Repentance, Learning, and Living Differently

Bob is someone I have long admired for his witness of the ways of Jesus. He talks with us about his own story, the need to break allegiances with our dominant cultural idols (even national ones), and the ongoing journey of being faithful to Jesus in an age of rising nationalism disguised as Christianity. This is so eye opening and beautiful.

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S05 E04 Bonus podcast episode - An Easter message on two snapshots of the death and resurrection of Jesus and why it matters for our daily lives. This was a message preached at The Meeting House in Toronto, Canada. If you'd like some other great teaching check out their podcast! 

S05 E03 We are living in unprecedented times and asking ourselves some important and life altering questions, namely, 'what really matters?'. Although difficult, these may be the most important days of our lives... what we do now, will matter in the foundations of our lives for the rest of our lives. So, what really matters to you? How do you begin to practise building your life when all the 'extra' things have faded away? Who are you when no one is looking? 

S05 E02 Revelations, rants and ramblings from this season of releasing Better Together: How Women and Men can Heal the Divide and Work Together to Transform the Future. 

S05 E01 Every wonder how you can get 'unstuck' from your regular grind of living and thinking? In some research on the Creative Brain by Dr. Eagleman, Danielle shares some resistance exercises that might help you to think creatively and why Better Together, her new book is designed to help people think 'outside the box' to create creative solutions to complex situations around women and men working together. 

Join Judah (my 10 year old son), and me in a rare interview on all things 2020. How do we say goodbye to 2019 and hello to 2020? What are things that might help us move forward with confidence? How do we know what to do? Judah has some exceptional tips for this new year! The word that might best describe his advice is BOOST! I hope you will enjoy the wisdom and have a wonderful New Years! Grace 

Things change. What we do during those shifts is important. We are living in one of those times so figuring out how to let go and agree with God is paramount for seeing new things come to be. An end of year challenge. It's time. 

Happy thanksgiving and merry christmas and other thoughts on how mass consumption is consuming us. How do we fight back against our insatiable appetite and inclination to ‘get’ more - the ‘zombie’ disease? I’ve got two revolutionary ideas - check them out on this podcast.