12 Days of Christmas: Jenny Baker – A More Equal Christmas (NS06)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2014
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Jenny Baker was one of the founders of the Sophia Network, an organisation that champions the equality of women and men in church. She's also author of the book 'Equals: Enjoying Gender Equality in All Areas of Life'.
So we asked Jenny to reflect on the Christmas story from the perspective of gender equality.
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad Spirituality |
| 0:15.2 | On the sixth day of Christmas, Nomad gave to me a reflection by Jenny Baker. |
| 0:30.1 | We're getting good at this, aren't me? |
| 0:31.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.8 | So we're six days in to our 12 days. |
| 0:34.3 | Halfway there. |
| 0:35.1 | Nomad's 12 days of Christmas. |
| 0:36.5 | We're halfway there. |
| 0:37.2 | Still haven't got the other six |
| 0:38.2 | reflections in. So starting to get a little bit concerned now that we're not going to put out |
| 0:41.9 | to pull this together and that we're going to have to come up with six reflections ourselves |
| 0:45.4 | to finish this off. That could be interesting. So Jenny Baker, who is she? She works, I believe, |
| 0:52.5 | for the church Urban Fund, |
| 0:55.4 | and she is also the co-founder of the Sophia Network, |
| 0:59.9 | which is about women in leadership. |
| 1:02.5 | And she's also written a book called Equals. |
| 1:06.8 | Subtitle escapes me, looking down at my notes, |
| 1:10.0 | enjoying gender equality in all areas of life. |
| 1:12.9 | So are there men and women roles in Christmas, do you think? |
| 1:16.1 | Oh, Mary's pretty key, isn't she? |
| 1:18.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.2 | I think I was thinking about, you know, the traditional Christmas day. |
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