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Issues, Etc.

Can Feminism Be Reconciled with Christianity? – Dr. Carrie Gress, 2/11/26 (0422)

Issues, Etc.

Lutheran Public Radio

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This is Molly Hemingway, encouraging you to listen to my favorite podcast, issues, etc.

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Every day you get in-depth interviews with host Todd Wilkin asking expert guests, substantive, thought-provoking questions on all of the important news and issues of our day.

0:18.7

The expert guests are in culture, law, ethics, philosophy, theology,

0:23.1

and apologetics. Expert guests, expansive topics, always extolling Christ, issues, etc.

0:36.6

This is what's missed a lot in the discussion about feminism.

0:41.3

Most of these women were former mainline Protestants, and almost all of them, after they had

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kind of a conversion where they left mainline Protestantism, they ended up becoming

0:51.0

Unitarians.

0:51.9

The part of the Christian gospel that is most offensive to people is the part that points out our sin and our need for Christ.

0:59.2

However, when you talk about doing things like feeding the poor and other social justice type things, those are not offensive.

1:06.2

Those can be very, very popular when they're not tethered to a gospel message.

1:09.9

When we're using extra biblical stories, what's being conjured up is feeling and sentiment

1:15.6

that this illustration is supposed to engender. And what goes by the wayside is Christ and Him crucified.

1:21.6

The Lord intends for the slavery of despair, not to end in despair, but to end in the merciful arms of the father.

1:31.7

Seamstresses love listening to issues, et cetera, while sewing baptism banners for all the new babies at church.

1:41.9

The ideology of feminism has been so incorporated into American culture that by

1:47.0

2026, there are Americans who can't distinguish between American ideals and the ideas of feminism.

1:55.0

Where did it come from? Was it always as hostile toward Christianity as it is today and well can anyone

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manage to leave it given the fact that it's everywhere and many of us automatically

2:08.5

think like feminists welcome back to issues etc live on this Wednesday afternoon

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February the 11th I'm Todd Wilkin thanks for for tuning us in. We're going to answer the

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question, can feminism be reconciled with Christianity, joining us to do so. Dr. Carrie Gress,

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