Potlucks & Pulpits and Everything in Between

Potlucks & Pulpits and Everything in Between returns with episode 2 exploring how Canadian evangelical history, revivalism, and social reform movements have shaped women's roles in churches—and how women's lived experiences today both inherit and challenge those legacies. We move from 18th–19th century awakenings and maternal feminism to 20th-century education, temperance and suffrage, wartime shifts, and contemporary debates about leadership, language, and lay women’s invisible labour through a comparative lens with the UK and United States.

Welcome to Potluck & Pulpits and Everything in Between, an audio documentary exploring the varied experiences of women in the Canadian evangelical church. In this series, we dive into research conducted by the Women in the Canadian Evangelical Church (WCEC) research partnership, a study aimed at hearing directly from women across congregations, denominations, and backgrounds about their roles, challenges, and contributions to church life.

The research partnership for the study on Women in the Canadian Evangelical Church is excited to launch a podcast documentary series that will explore some of the findings and implications of their recent research with women. This is a supplementary resource to the final report that will be released in March 2026.