Uploaded August 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Carol Penner joins the podcast to discuss a few topics with Katelin, including feminist theology, abuse, pastoral theology, and writing worship resources. From Carol's bio:
"Carol Penner teaches and writes in the area of practical theology. After many years as a pastor in various Mennonite congregations, she is joining the faculty of CGUC [Conrad Grebel University College] this year. Her research interests include feminist theology and Mennonite peace theology, and abuse issues. She has a popular blog of her worship resources at www.leadinginworship.com"
Some of the topics covered include:
- Carol's background in both pastoring and academia. (1:23)
- How Carol's pastoral experience is used in academia and what the average person is thinking about as theological questions. A major one is money. (5:38)
- Violence on a personal level, especially violence against women, not only seeing violence as "what would you do if called to war?" (14:21)
- How our theology and our Scripture contribute to questions of abuse. (17:41)
- Things Carol found helpful in feminist theology. (21:33)
- Pastoral abuse and how Mennonite churches don't do a good enough job talking about it. (32:34)
- Why Mennonite churches talked more about abuse in the 90s but then stopped. (39:59)
- Why Carol writes worship resources online. (44:15)
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Carol Penner joins the podcast to discuss a few topics with Katelin, including feminist theology, abuse, pastoral theology, and writing worship resources. From Carol's bio:
"Carol Penner teaches and writes in the area of practical theology. After many years as a pastor in various Mennonite congregations, she is joining the faculty of CGUC [Conrad Grebel University College] this year. Her research interests include feminist theology and Mennonite peace theology, and abuse issues. She has a popular blog of her worship resources at www.leadinginworship.com"
Some of the topics covered include:
- Carol's background in both pastoring and academia. (1:23)
- How Carol's pastoral experience is used in academia and what the average person is thinking about as theological questions. A major one is money. (5:38)
- Violence on a personal level, especially violence against women, not only seeing violence as "what would you do if called to war?" (14:21)
- How our theology and our Scripture contribute to questions of abuse. (17:41)
- Things Carol found helpful in feminist theology. (21:33)
- Pastoral abuse and how Mennonite churches don't do a good enough job talking about it. (32:34)
- Why Mennonite churches talked more about abuse in the 90s but then stopped. (39:59)
- Why Carol writes worship resources online. (44:15)
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Make a one-time donation through PayPal: paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=W798EGMFHTZE8
