About this episode

Dr. Bethany Ober Mannon discusses her book on how American women narrate their experiences within the church.

Ask six Americans what the adjective or the noun “evangelical” means, and you’ll get as many answers. Ask six historians, and you might get twelve. But what if you ask a rhetorician? We’re going to find out today as Christian Humanist Profiles welcomes Dr. Bethany Ober Mannon to the show to talk about her book I Grew Up in the Church: How American Women Tell Their Stories. Along the way we’ll visit and revisit some figures and some phrases that our long-time listeners will remember from episodes of The Christian Feminist Podcast, and perhaps we can add to the conversations that we inherit from them.

People in this episode

Host: The Christian Humanists

Guest: Dr. Bethany Ober Mannon

Topics covered

• evangelicalism
• American women
• rhetoric
• Christianity
• storytelling

Keywords

• evangelical
• historians
• rhetorician
• Christian Feminist Podcast
• American women

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Christian Feminist Podcast

Books & works: I Grew Up in the Church: How American Women Tell Their Stories

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