In this episode, from an elective at the 2025 Priscilla & Aquila Centre annual conference held on Monday 3 February 2025, Kate Snell, Assistant School Chaplain at Barker College and former Dean of Students at Mary Andrews College, and wife of Brian, Associate Minister at St Philip's, South Turramurra, helps us think theologically about menopause in a talk arising from a research paper she wrote as part of her Master of Arts in Theology.

Kate points out that menopause has the potential to challenge everything a woman thinks and feels about herself and her place in the world, and therefore this season of life raises all kinds of issues for women that also impact the way the church can care for them pastorally.

Even if you’re not a woman, let me encourage you to listen to Kate’s talk, particularly if you are involved in pastoral ministry. It will assist you in understanding the experience of something that will one day affect around 50 per cent of the population. That includes all the women in your life.

Please note: this episode is a companion piece to next week’s bonus episode with Kath Bruce and Cathy Young on the medical and ministry considerations of menopause.

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Next Priscilla & Aquila Centre evening seminar: A history of Complementarianism with Claire Smith (13 August 2025, 7-9pm).

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