Podcasts about women beyond belief

This week, we talk about the religious attack on abortion rights. FFRF attorney Liz Cavell explains FFRF's friend-of-the court brief we filed at the U.S. Supreme Court challenging Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban. Then we talk with Mandisa Thomas, founder and president of Black Nonbelievers about the "Women of Color Beyond Belief” conference in Chicago.

My guest this week is Leah Helbling. Leah is the host of the Women Beyond Faith podcast and an incredibly important voice in the secular community. Leah has a long history of secular community building. Post-deconversion she started a chapter of Women Beyond Belief. She now is a team leader of Bart Campolo‘s Cincinnati Caravan. “Leah is often referred to as ‘The Great Connector‘” Leah and I discuss the gift of being present when someone tells their deconversion story. Leah shares her deconversion story which includes overcoming the purity culture and complementarianism of Evangelicalism. It also includes the unwelcoming atmosphere in the secular community for women and what she is doing about it. We talk about podcasting and what motivates us to do the work. Finally, we talk about building secular community. Links Women Beyond Faith https://womenbeyondfaith.buzzsprout.com/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/womenbeyondfaith Instagram https://www.instagram.com/womenbeyondfaith/ Cincinnati Caravan https://www.cincinnaticaravan.org/ Recovering From Religion https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/ Search for secular community on meetup.com https://www.meetup.com/ Interact Full show notes https://gracefulatheist.com/2021/03/14/leah-helbling-women-beyond-faith/?gaid=gap64 Deconversion https://gracefulatheist.com/2017/12/03/deconversion-how-to/?gaid=gap64 Secular Grace https://gracefulatheist.com/2016/10/21/secular-grace/?gaid=gap64 Attribution "Waves" track written and produced by Makaih Beats https://makaihbeats.net/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gracefulatheist/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gracefulatheist/support

Wendy grew up in a conservative right-winged home with an Evangelical Christian mother and Atheist father. The church she attended with her mother and brother was a Missionary Church.Wendy's life included submission, obedience and following rules, with guilt and shame as an integral part of her mindset. After attending a 1-room church school for 7 years (A.C.E. – Accelerated Christian Education curriculum), she was able to attend a more “normal” Christian school for the rest of her high school. Wendy went on several overseas short-term mission trips in high school. This further cemented her goal of being a career missionary. She met her 1st husband (who was a Missionary Kid from Papua New Guinea) at Prairie Bible College. After they were married, they pursued their missionary career in Brazil. They had 3 kids and were part of the mission for 15 years. After many difficult events and challenges, Wendy’s first marriage ended. This was around the same time she started to question her conservative Christian beliefs.She left her marriage, left the church, started a new career and rebounded into a 2nd marriage all around the age of 40. The 2nd marriage involved blending 2 families. That turned out to be very stressful with crisis after crisis. That marriage ended after 8 years, in 2018. Back in 2017, Wendy started the Women Beyond Belief podcast and interviewed over 35 women. These women shared their harrowing stories of leaving religion. During that year, the #MeToo movement became mainstream. This created some difficult issues which Wendy found too challenging and stressful to deal with. Wendy tried to rebrand the podcast under the Just Us Women title but finally decided to end the podcast. Wendy passed me the torch and I continue the tradition of creating space for women who have left religion to share their stories. Today, Wendy is trying to find her way on her own as a single-income household with her youngest still at home. She is learning to find romance and fun again through online dating. You can listen to many of the archive episodes of the Women Beyond Belief and Just Us Women podcasts. They are now under the umbrella title, Virtual Life Podcast.https://virtuallifepodcast.com/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=8739294)

Encore release December 24, 2018. Encore release September 16, 2017. We interview Karen Garst, editor of Women Beyond Belief: Discovering Life without Religion. This new collection contains 22 essays by women from various backgrounds, telling their stories of how the decided to leave religion and embrace secular, rational values. Women Beyond Belief is available in paperback and for Kindle. For more about Karen Garst and her projects, visit faithlessfeminist.com.

Welcome everyone to episode 214 of the Everyone’s Agnostic podcast. I’m Cass Midgley. I'm going to die. A big thanks to each and every one of our Patreon and Paypal supporters.  Today, my dear friend Dave Warnock and I talk with Marcia Wickham. We interview people you don’t know, about a subject no one wants to talk about. We hope to encourage people in the process of deconstructing their faith and help curb the loneliness that accompanies it. We think the world is a better place when more people live by sight, not by faith. Please subscribe to our podcast, and leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts. Also, we offer these podcasts freely. And your support truly makes a difference. You can support us monetarily in two easy ways: you can pledge a monthly donation through Patreon. that’s www.patreon.com/eapodcast,  or leave a lump-sum donation through PayPal at our website, www.everyonesagnostic.com. Marcia Wickham is an organic farmer from central PA and the mother of eight beautiful kids. Her recovery from childhood incest has led her to a passionate interest in helping other survivors and in building bridges of understanding between the Christian faith and those who have left. She engages in dialogue with pastors to address the ways theology can collide with psychology when it comes to the often messy process of recovery. She’s studied psychology, sociology and philosophy of religion through Harrisburg Community College and has collaborated with Refinery29 in New York on a feature length documentary about recovery from incest that is in its final edit. She’s also done podcasts with Life After God and Women Beyond Belief. Like all of these episodes, we interview regular people, fighting their own battles, reaching for oxygen, discovering their own selves, wrestling to steal back their own lives, their own agency, formerly hijacked by people and gods and people-made-gods, just to craft some kind of life worth living and find the laughter and joy that is theirs to procure. Buckle your seatbelts. Push your earbuds in tight. You're gonna wanna take this in, drink this in, deep into your soul because we all have a lot to learn from Marcia. This is what power looks like. This is what overcoming odds and violation and people who step WAY beyond the bounds of other precious human's rights. Fuck the takers. Applaud the givers but most of all, WORSHIP the BE-ers. They just want to be. They've detached from the myth of NEED NEED NEED. Not Marcia, she KNEED her malefactor in the metaphorical balls posthumously and reinvented herself anew. This kind of power is what excites me, gives me hope. It's strangely non-violent yet kicks ass and takes names in a way that foments love and tenderness and respect and hope. So with further Beauty, I bring you, Marcia Wickham. We taped this conversation on July 22nd, 2018. The intro music is by Dave Weckl called "Just Groove Me" The segue music on this episode is "Ghost Train" by Counting Crows Thanks for listening, and be a yes-sayer to what is.  

This week we are joined by Karen Garst to talk about her book Women Beyond Belief and her upcoming book Women vs. Religion. We also talk about her own story, how terrible religion is for women, and the Mythinformation Conference. Blog http://faithlessfeminist.com/ Book http://amzn.to/2kQdBO6 Twitter https://twitter.com/karen_garst This episode was recorded on October 14, 2017 for release on December 5, 2017 as Dustin and Lauren are on parental leave. Watch the Facebook page and Twitters for updates on the baby. This episode is brought to you by: Dark Matter Sponsor – >US$35.00 * Travis Megee Nuclear Sponsor – US$20.00 – US$35.00 per month * Mike Platinum Sponsor – US$8.00 – US$19.00 per month * Darryl Goossen * Kim * Danielle Gold Sponsor – US$4.00 – US$7.00 per month * Rachel * John * Josh * Rob * Alfred * Henry * Alex * Mike * The Flying Skeptic Bronze Sponsor – < US$4.00 per month * George * Frank * Revan * Archway Hosting provides full featured web hosting for a fraction of the cost of traditional shared hosting. You get all the benefits of shared hosting, without the sticker shock or extra fees. Check them out at archwayhosting.com. You can find us online at www.atheistnomads.com, follow us on Twitter @AtheistNomads, like us on Facebook, email us at contact@atheistnomads.com, and leave us a voice mail message at (541) 203-0666. Theme music is provided by Sturdy Fred. DOWNLOAD EPISODE

This week we are joined by Karen Garst to talk about her book Women Beyond Belief and her upcoming book Women vs. Religion. We also talk about her own story, how terrible religion is for women, and the Mythinformation Conference. Blog http://faithlessfeminist.com/ Book http://amzn.to/2kQdBO6 Twitter https://twitter.com/karen_garst This episode was recorded on October 14, 2017 for release on December 5, 2017 as Dustin and Lauren are on parental leave. Watch the Facebook page and Twitters for updates on the baby.

Part 2 of my wide-ranging and though-prvoking conversation with Karen Garst, "The Faithless Feminist," continues in this episode. For those undergoing a process of discovery and deconstruction of their inherited belief systems--particularly coming out of a fundamentalist or conservative religious framework--then this episode is a must-listen. That process is fraught with emotional threats: fear, anxiety, and separation from loved ones. But it can also foster learning and new directions for life, previously unimagined. Don't miss this one!  

"Religion contributes to--or directly causes--gender inequity." Particularly in the case of women, this statement is certainly true--both historically, and even now in terms of religions. Women have been marginalized, oppressed, shunned, vilified, and more by a variety of religions, and not just limited to Christianity. In this episode, I engage in a wide-ranging interview with author, blogger, feminist and atheist Karen L. Garst, who wrote a fascinating work interviewing 22 women from a variety of Judeo-Christian religions who have left it all behind--and who are finding out what life can be like without religion.

Seth Andrews speaks with a panel of atheists, secular activists and educators about the opportunities and obstacles women face in the fight against religion.Dr. Karen Garst is author of the book, "Women Beyond Belief: Discovering Life Without Religion" and host of www.faithlessfeminist.com.Dr. Abby Hafer is an educator, writer, speaker, and author of "The Not-So-Intelligent Designer - Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not."Wendy Marsman is a former believer and missionary who escaped fundamentalist religion and now hosts the "Women Beyond Belief" podcast.Support our sponsors: The Great Courses Plus http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/sethHarry's:  http://www.harrys.com/thethinkingatheist 

Wendy Marsman was raised in a strict Evangelical community in rural Canada. She fulfilled her dream of being a missionary by moving to the Brazilian Amazon for eight years with her then-husband and children. What followed was an unraveling of what she believed, and a painful realization that, as a woman, she was a second-class citizen in Christianity. Wendy has faced some stark personal truths, and has surmounted major changes to found Women Beyond Belief, a podcast where other women (and men) finding their way out of religious beliefs can also find community. We talk about: How she feels about having promoted to indigenous people beliefs she no longer holds herself How her community used religion to hide abuse How women were treated in her Evangelical faith "Closeted" atheists and dark family secrets: life in the "mission field" of the Amazon The different paths she's seen people take out of Christian belief—and which one she took The loss that can come with leaving one's religious culture Where she derives her "morality" and "ethics" outside of religion--and how she feels more deeply moral than before Where she turned when faced with a serious disease Hey! You can subscribe to the Big Chew Podcast at www.thebigchewpodcast.com

Welcome to the Doubting Dogma podcast, the accompanying show to the Doubting Dogma blog, where we pair Molly Un-Mormon, a former Mormon now "doubting her dogma" (see what we did there?), and the corrupting hussy that told her about CogDiss, Marissa Alexa McCool. Together, they'll try to work out what's going on in the world while also having fun at the story's expense.  This week, Molly and Ris talk with Wendy, the host of the Women Beyond Belief podcast. She talks of her time growing up in a fundamentalist Christian home and spending 15 years as a missionary in Brazil before she returned to Canada, got divorced, and left religion behind her. You can find her website at: http://womenbeyondbelief.com/ Support Doubting Dogma at www.patreon.com/doubtingdogma Follow the Doubting Dogma blog at doubtingdogmablog.wordpress.com Marissa Alexa McCool is from the Inciting Incident podcast, our sister show, as well as Full Frontal Nerdity Deluxe and The Cis Are Getting Out of Hand ... rismccool.com Twitter- Molly - @DoubtingDogma, Ris - @RisMcCool Facebook - www.facebook.com/doubtingdogma This podcast is copyrighted (c) 2017, All Rights Reserved. 

Anthony, Amanda and Chad sit down for a chat with our first real guest on the show. We talk about her book “Women Beyond Belief” among other things. We had a really great time doing this one.   Http://faithlessfeminist.com Her Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1nTsyWLXJWhXBaED8cOekg     Twitter: @SecularPodcast @TSPChad Email: TheSecularPerspective@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/thesecularperspective Tumblr: http://thesecularperspective.tumblr.com/ Episode Index Website: TheSecularPerspective.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thesecularperspective TeePublic: http://tee.pub/lic/dq5I2_9pamk Theme Music Provided By: http://www.jewelbeat.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu9jawLiiCqWmnGNYC9ivA Tags: Secularism, Atheism, Agnosticism, Humanism, Anti-theism, Religion, Belief, Faith, God, Christianity, Women Beyond Belief, Karen L Garst, PhD  

Welcome back to the apostate celebrating nexus, this time Karen Garst talks to us about her new book Women Beyond Belief! Women telling their stories and sharing perspectives of leaving their various religious faiths and communities. We discuss her own…Read more ›

Wendy was raised in a fundamentalist evangelical home in Canada. She married and raised her children in Brazil while working as a missionary. Her marriage of 20 years ended and during that time Wendy was becoming an atheist. Wendy has become so much happier outside the church and has even reconnected with her high school sweetheart! They have a blended family of 5 children. Wendy hosts the Women Beyond Belief Podcast-a podcast aimed at giving women who've left religion a voice and a place to tell their story.   Women Beyond Belief http://womenbeyondbelief.com @WBBPodcast https://www.facebook.com/WomenBeyondBelief/ https://www.instagram.com/womenbeyondbelief/ https://www.pinterest.com/wbbpodcast/women-beyond-belief-podcast/   The God Virus by Darrel Ray http://www.thegodvirus.net   Seth Andrews http://www.thethinkingatheist.com   Christopher Hitchens  https://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything/dp/0446697966   Richard Dawkins https://richarddawkins.net    

Karen Garst reached out to the show to talk about her upcoming project, and she and Ris became fast friends. This is a powerful conversation between two feminist women of a different generation, and how they come together and understand each other. Support Inciting Incident on Patreon at www.patreon.com/incitingincidentpodcast for free stuff, personalized things, and being awesome, or by rating, subscribing, and commenting! 100th Episode LIVE coming July 14th with Chris Kluwe, Scathing Atheist, Opening Arguments, and Gaytheist Manifesto. www.incitingincidentpodcast.com www.facebook.com/incitingincidentpodcast Email: incitingincidentpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @RisMcCool Instagram: @blissfulris PLEASE fill out this 30-second survey. It's super quick and helps the show. http://survey.libsyn.com/incitingincident Edited by Morgan Clarke Visit our sponsors Mind Aquarium and Warriors of the Crystal! Voiceover by Jesse Dollemore of "I Doubt It With Dollemore." Theme music by Elizabeth Drinks and Ris McCool Credits Music by Nate Myers Copyright (c) 2016, All Rights Reserved, It's a Shameful Thing, Lobsterhead! LLC For media and inquiries, please contact patorrez@patorrez.com.

My guest for today is Karen Garst, author and editor of the book “Women Beyond Belief: Discovering Life Without Religion.” She also blogs about feminism and atheism at FaithlessFeminist.com. Today we’re going to talk about her backstory, her book, and how religion hurts women.Links:•Faithless Feminist: http://faithlessfeminist.com/ •Faithless Feminist on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Faithless-Feminist/ •Karen on Twitter: http://twitter.com/karen_garst •The Gaytheist Manifesto: http://gaytheistmanifesto.secularmediagroup.com/ •ReasonCon 3: http://reasonnc.com/ •Nashville Nones (NaNoCon): https://nashvillenones.com/ •Freedom From Religion Foundation: https://ffrf.org/ •Secular Yakking: http://secularyakking.com/ •The Podunk Polymath: https://thepodunkpolymath.com/ •The Biskeptical Podcast: http://www.spreaker.com/show/the-biskeptical-podcast•Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Biskeptical Podcast Fans Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/179617892470906/ •Email: bianymeanspodcast@gmail.com •Listener line: 410-690-3558 •My Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means Blog: http://freethoughtblogs.com/bianymeans/

My guest for today is Karen Garst, author and editor of the book “Women Beyond Belief: Discovering Life Without Religion.” She also blogs about feminism and atheism at FaithlessFeminist.com. Today we’re going to talk about her backstory, her book, and how religion hurts women.Links:•Faithless Feminist: http://faithlessfeminist.com/ •Faithless Feminist on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Faithless-Feminist/ •Karen on Twitter: http://twitter.com/karen_garst •The Gaytheist Manifesto: http://gaytheistmanifesto.secularmediagroup.com/ •ReasonCon 3: http://reasonnc.com/ •Nashville Nones (NaNoCon): https://nashvillenones.com/ •Freedom From Religion Foundation: https://ffrf.org/ •Secular Yakking: http://secularyakking.com/ •The Podunk Polymath: https://thepodunkpolymath.com/ •The Biskeptical Podcast: http://www.spreaker.com/show/the-biskeptical-podcast•Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Biskeptical Podcast Fans Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/179617892470906/ •Email: bianymeanspodcast@gmail.com •Listener line: 410-690-3558 •My Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means Blog: http://freethoughtblogs.com/bianymeans/

#66: Trump Mania, Executive Orders, and Women Beyond Belief Remember the phrase “Trumped Up Trickle Down” from the debates? Well here at Cellar Door Skeptics are tackling the month old question about Trump’s executive orders and how they are reshaping America. We also interview a wonderful author, Karen Garst, about her most recent book “Women Beyond Belief”. This episode will also contain a discussion our Chinese future, and leaving the TPP. Buckle up and enjoy the ride as we entertain, educate, and hopefully make you think. #Trumpalicious #WomenBeyondBelief #AlternativeFacts #DonaldTrump #MAGA Subscribe: http://www.spreaker.com/user/cellardoorskeptics Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CellarDoorSkeptics RSS Feed: https://www.spreaker.com/user/8326690/episodes/feed iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cellar-door-skeptics/id1044088575?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 Website: http://cellardoorskeptics.com Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/cellar-door-skeptics Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cellardoorskeptics Intro Music: http://aloststateofmind.com/ Links ------ http://www.forbes.com/sites/russellflannery/2017/01/22/alibabas-jack-ma-isnt-the-only-china-billionaire-that-says-u-s-has-wasted-its-wealth/#4b195bfa1b02 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-18/alibaba-s-ma-wants-to-avoid-u-s-china-trade-war-at-all-costs http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-energy-renewables-idUSKBN14P06P http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-38060980 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/06/secrecy-in-international-trade-negotiations-is-a-good-thing-true-or-false/?utm_term=.f8d3617d555d ------ https://www.amazon.com/Women-Beyond-Belief-Discovering-Religion/dp/1634310829 www.faithlessfeminist.com https://www.facebook.com/faithlessfeminist/?ref=bookmarks https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1nTsyWLXJWhXBaED8cOekg @karen_garst ------ https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/25/executive-order-border-security-and-immigration-enforcement-improvements http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38777437 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/11/20/infographic-screening-process-refugee-entry-united-states http://www.wrapsnet.org/admissions-and-arrivals/ https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/us/christian-leaders-denounce-trumps-plan-to-favor-christian-immigrants.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=http://m.facebook.com/ https://theintellectualist.co/in-move-reminiscent-of-adolph-hitler-trump-to-publish-weekly-list-of-crimes-allegedly-committed-by-immigrants/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/bc.marfeel.com/amp/www.nationalreview.com/article/444370/donald-trump-refugee-executive-order-no-muslim-ban-separating-fact-hysteria?client=safari https://www.google.com/amp/www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-refugee-policy-fact-check-2011-20170129-story,amp.html?client=safari http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/vetting-obama-the-right-way

Listen to David Suhor's godless invocation before the Pensacola City Council, which he sang while the public was rudely protesting and praying. We hear some music by the freethinking composer George Gershwin, whose birthday is this week. After drawing for another free copy of FFRF’s “Friendly Neighborhood Atheist” CD, we listen to the historic freethought anthem “Die Gedanken Sind Frei” (“My thoughts are free”). Then we talk with the “faithless feminist” Karen Garst, whose new book is called Women Beyond Belief: Discovering Life Without Religion.

Dr. Karen Garst is the former executive director of the Oregon Community College Association and Oregon State Bar. She writes at the website Faithless Feminist, and she’s the editor of a new book called Women Beyond Belief: Discovering Life Without Religion. We spoke about how women are uniquely affected in a negative way by religion, what's stopping more women from leaving their faith, and why we don't see more women celebrated as atheists.

Cecil and Tom welcome guest Karen Garst of The Faithless Feminist and author of Women Beyond Belief. They also discuss David Duke, coathanger beatings, and more. Stories covered in this episode: A mother beat her 7-year-old son with a coat hanger and used religious freedom as an excuse David Duke: Trump Has Sent ‘A Very... The post Episode 315: Faithless Feminist Karen Garst first appeared on Cognitive Dissonance the Podcast.