Women Worth Knowing

Love these stories! You should check out Rochunga and Malawi Pudaite. ❤️

These episodes are so inspiring! They encourage me so much! Thank you!

I was excited to see a podcast about a little known heroine of mine, Nurse Edith Cavell (1865-1915). Until you mis-pronounced her name. There are easily researched discussions on the correct pronunciation, which tells me you didn’t do your work. Sad.

My flesh wanted to rate this show a 1, but I’m reminded that God doesn’t want believers to be easily offended. So, I’m putting my feelings aside to stick to the facts. I’m a black woman and I do enjoy this podcast. However, when they’re describing the women who did missions in Africa, the hosts (especially Cheryl) uses terms as “these people” and says other offensive things. In the “St. John’s” episode, the missionary lived in Morocco and Cheryl described a woman who was a part of the village as “Fatima with the big nose.” Just out of curiosity, I scrolled through the episodes to see how many black women they would cover on their show and the only ones I saw were slaves. I guess there were no Christian women a part of history that were not slaves. I may continue to listen because I enjoy learning and being empowered. However, I think there is a bit of ignorance and maybe I need to find a similar podcast that better suits my needs. I always expect for my culture to be underrepresented and sometimes talked down upon, so the things I have heard are no surprise. I’ve enjoyed everything else [so far] and I pray that God continues to get the glory out of them doing this podcast.