Dr. Mary Hunt reflects on how women find their voice and express leadership in religious spaces inside and beyond institutions. Then RNS reporter Richa Karmarkar reviews trends she follows on the Hindu beat.
In 2023, the Religion News Service hired Richa Karmarkar as the first national religion reporter covering the Hindu beat. She hopes the growth of the Hindu community sparks interest and curiosity about the diversity of a religious tradition that is not well understood.
A trailblazer in Christian feminist theology, Dr. Mary Hunt, joins to reflect on how the world for women in religion has changed and how groups like hers are adapting.
Jacki King, the women’s minister at Second Baptist Church in Conway, Arkansas, first felt a call to ministry as a college student. She decided to follow it, giving up her pre-med major and her spot on a college softball team for ministry training at a small Bible school with a mostly male student body.
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, born in England, has devoted her life to attaining enlightenment in a female form at one stage spending years isolated in a cave in the Himalayas to follow the rigorous path of the most devoted yogis.