I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to the next right thing.

You're listening to episode 202.

This is a podcast about making decisions but also about making a life.

If you struggle with decision fatigue, chronic hesitation, or if you just need a few minutes

away from the constant stream of information, and is sometimes delightful, but also distracting

hum of entertainment, you're in the right place.

Today I'm happy to sit down with my friend, Kat Armas.

She's the host of the Protagonista's podcast and author of Avalita Faith.

Her work is based on the question, what if the greatest theologians the world has ever

known?

Are those whom the world wouldn't consider theologians at all?

I'm especially glad to host this conversation during a week where many of us will be spending

time with family around tables, in kitchens and childhood homes.

What better places to pay attention to the ways in which God is revealed through regular

people?

Kat's book tells the story of unnamed and overlooked theologians in society and in

the Bible, mothers, grandmother's sisters, and daughters, whose survival, strength, resistance

and persistence teach us the true power of faith and love.

Listen in.

Well, Kat, welcome to the next right thing.

It is so wonderful to have you here.

If there's one thing that I'm learning as I'm growing older, it's that we all speak

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