RLC Book Club with Liz Cooledge Jenkins in conversation with Susan Wood

Join us for April’s Book Club with RLC friend and featured guest Liz Cooledge Jenkins in conversation with Susan Wood to discuss her latest book, “Nice Churchy Patriarchy: Reclaiming Women’s Humanity from Evangelicalism.”

The book explores how even in the warmest and most welcoming evangelical churches, patriarchy looms as an ever-present force, suppressing women’s possibilities and debilitating whole communities. Well-intentioned churchgoers and church leaders have bought into deeply-entrenched male-dominated mindsets, power structures, and theologies that are not working—not for women, and really not for anyone.

Part memoir and part faith-based feminist manifesto, “Nice Churchy Patriarchy” takes an unflinching look at the ways misogyny’s subtler forms impact every aspect of women’s experiences in church. From leading a church college ministry, to attending seminary, to eventually developing the confidence to preach, Liz Cooledge Jenkins weaves together her own journey with reflections on biblical interpretation, church history, and intersectional feminism.

After confronting misogyny’s faces head-on, Liz goes on to explore how we can build better faith communities together. For all who long to see women’s gifts greeted in churches with gratitude rather than a suspicious side eye, “Nice Churchy Patriarchy” points the way.

Jenkins is a writer, preacher, former college campus minister, and author. She writes at the intersections of faith, feminism, and social justice, and her work can be found at places like Sojourners and The Christian Century—as well as her new Substack, Growing Into Kinship, and on Instagram @lizcoolj and @postevangelicalprayers.

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