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Hey, everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters. Today's episode is a personal one for me, and probably for many of you, especially if you often find yourself deferring to somebody

else's inspiration or noticing a tendency to believe that somebody else's knowing is more

trustworthy than your own.

Our guest today is Deidre Nicole Green.

She's a professor, a graduate theological union, a theologian and scholar whose work explores gender, faith, and the Christian life.

The starting place for this conversation was Deidre's just-release Wayfair magazine article called Enviing Hannah.

And at the center of this discussion is a concept called epistemic confidence,

which is really just trust in our capacity to receive and recognize truth for ourselves.

And while this shows up differently for each of us, research suggests that it doesn't fall evenly.

Women in particular are often more likely to feel that their

knowing needs to be confirmed or mediated by someone with more authority before it really counts.

Deidre helps us see how quickly this gets complicated, especially at church, or the line

between agency and people pleasing can blur without even realizing it.

She invites us to ask harder questions like, when does deference

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