131. Girls Just Wanna Study Scripture (ft. Bible Divas)
The Bible Divas have entered the chat!
This week, four top tier Bible scholars — Angela N. Parker, Anna Sieges Beal, Jennifer Garcia Bashaw, and Cynthia Shafer-Elliott — join us to talk about their brand-new podcast and why biblical scholarship is better when women are included.
Along the way, we discuss:
• Why Al Mohler and the SBC are wrong about women in ministry
• How to build a theology bookshelf that doesn’t look like a men’s conference
• Why perspective matters when interpreting scripture
• What barriers women scholars still face in the church and academy
• How to tell whether a church truly values the women in their pews
If your theological influences have mostly come from the same familiar voices, this conversation is a great place to start expanding the table.
These are the scholars the theobros want you to ignore, which is precisely why we’re excited to introduce them to you today.
Be sure to subscribe to Bible Divas wherever you listen to podcasts and follow Angela N. Parker on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube; Anna Sieges Beal on Instagram and TikTok; Jennifer Garcia Bashaw on Instagram; Cynthia Shafer-Elliott on Facebook and Instagram; and Bible Divas on Facebook and Instagram.
Last edited: 07/12/2026
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Angela N. Parker:
James Cone, Renita Weems, Fernando Segovia
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Bitter the Chastening Rod: Africana Biblical Interpretation after Stony the Road We Trod in the Age of BLM, SayHerName, and MeToo | ed. Mitzi J. Smith, Angela N. Parker, Ericka S. Dunbar Hill
I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader | Mitzi J. Smith
If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority | Angela N. Parker
Katie’s Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community | Katie Geneva Cannon
The Salt Eaters | Toni Cade Bambara
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk | Delores S. Williams
Trafficking Hadassah: Collective Trauma, Cultural Memory, and Identity in the Book of Esther and in the African Diaspora (Rape Culture, Religion and the Bible) | Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar (Hill)
Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse (Semeia Studies Book 85) | ed. Gay L. Byron and Vanessa Lovelace
Anna Sieges Beal:
The Odyssey | translated by Emily Wilson
Scapegoats: The Gospel through the Eyes of Victims | Jennifer Garcia Bashaw
Serving Up Scripture: How to Interpret the Bible for Yourself and Others | Jennifer Garcia Bashaw
Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne | Wilda Gafney
Jennifer Garcia Bashaw:
Mujerista Theology: A Theology for the Twenty-First Century | Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott:
Carol Myers, Susan Ackerman, Diana Edelman, Nava Panitz-Cohen, Naama Yahalom-Mack
Grounded Theology in the Hebrew Bible: Exploring the Cultural Context That Formed Ancient Israel | Elizabeth Backfish and Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
