Uploaded July 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Katelin Hansen of the MennoNerds network interviews fellow MennoNerd Marty Troyer about his new book, The Gospel Next Door. Marty is the pastor of Houston Mennonite Church.
More on the book: martytroyer.com/the-gospel-next-door
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Katelin Hansen of the MennoNerds network interviews fellow MennoNerd Marty Troyer about his new book, The Gospel Next Door. Marty is the pastor of Houston Mennonite Church.
More on the book: martytroyer.com/the-gospel-next-door
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![Interview: Carol Penner, Feminist Theology and More
Carol Penner joins the podcast to discuss a few topics with Katelin, including feminist theology, abuse, pastoral theology, and writing worship resources. From Carols 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:
- Carols background in both pastoring and academia. (1:23)
- How Carols 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 dont 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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