S5E2: Women, Justice, and Preaching in the Deep South: Janet Wolf

TOKENS PODCAST: S5E2

“I did not go to divinity school to become a pastor. I went to figure out how people could read the Bible and not do justice.” In this episode, Janet Wolf recounts many of the moving experiences along her unlikely road to becoming the first female pastor in Lawrence County, Tennessee, right in the heart of the Bible Belt. Since her work in ministry began, she’s been a fierce enactor of all kinds of justice in the face of misogyny, povery, and racism—dedicating her life to “the power of the gospel and community to call us into a whole different understanding of discipleship.”

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Tokens began in 2008. Our philosophical and theological variety shows and events hosted throughout the Nashville area imagine a world governed by hospitality, graciousness and joy; life marked by beauty, wonder and truthfulness; and social conditions ordered by justice, mercy and peace-making. We exhibit tokens of such a world in music-making, song-singing, and conversations about things that matter. We have fun, and we make fun: of religion, politics, and marketing. And ourselves. You might think of us as something like musicians without borders; or as poets, philosophers, theologians and humorists transgressing borders.

Lee is an Alabamian by birth, a Tennessean by choice, and has sojourned joyfully in Indiana, Texas, and Nairobi. He likes to think of himself as a radical conservative, or an orthodox liberal; loves teaching college and seminary students at Lipscomb University; delights in flying sailplanes; finds dark chocolate covered almonds with turbinado sea salt to be one of the finest confections of the human species; and gives great thanks for his lovely wife Laura, his three sons, and an abundance of family and friends, here in Music City and beyond. Besides teaching full-time, he hosts Nashville’s Tokens Show, and has authored three books. Lee has an Undergrad Degree in computer science (Lipscomb University, 1989); M.A. in theology and M.Div. (Abilene Christian University, 1993); M.A. and Ph.D. both in Christian Ethics (University of Notre Dame, 1999).

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