Living the Word Bible Podcast
Conversations with Women Who Love and Live God's Word
About the show
Do you long to connect with a variety of women just like you who live the Word of God in the world each day?
Join Sarah Christmyer, host and editor of the Living the Word Catholic Women's Bible, as she talks with other women about what they love about the Bible, how they read and understand it, and the difference it makes in their lives.
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Episodes
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Episode 18: Get a Fresh Vision for Life in the Spirit Featuring Lavinia Spirito
May 17th, 2023 | Season 1 | 42 mins 15 secs
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When is the last time you received “explosive power” from the Holy Spirit? Lavinia Spirito tells how she was lifted from the pain of a broken family and set on fire to pursue the Lord. She explains how Acts of the Apostles provides a blueprint for sharing the Gospel in our noisy world and a fresh vision for what it means to live by the Spirit. Lavinia also describes how she engages with Scripture and explains why Psalm 37:3-7 is a particular favorite.
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Episode 17: Finding Your Spiritual Gifts and the Witness of Grandparents Featuring Sandy Wanzeck
May 11th, 2023 | Season 1 | 42 mins 46 secs
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Sandy Wanzeck loved hearing Bible stories as a child. When she had children of her own, she began studying scripture so she could pass it on. Sandy tells Sarah Christmyer that she learned first-hand how the Holy Spirit uses spiritual gifts to build up the Church and describes how to recognize the gifts in your own life. She shares how her favorite Bible verse helps her find peace.
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Episode 16: Remember, You Are Loved! featuring Martha Fernandez-Sardina
May 4th, 2023 | Season 1 | 35 mins 41 secs
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Do you know how much you are loved even when you can’t feel it? Martha Fernandez-Sardina talks with Sarah Christmyer about why she started sharing messages of God’s love with others. These simple, spontaneous gestures not only speak of God’s love, but also demonstrate it. Martha also tackles the difficult question of how we can be sure of God’s love even when our circumstances make us doubt or forget.
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Episode 15: Discover Mary’s Spiritual Motherhood featuring Pat Gohn
April 27th, 2023 | Season 1 | 43 mins 44 secs
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Pat Gohn and Sarah Christmyer discuss how Pat came to know Mary as a spiritual mother only after she became one herself. Pat also explains how she came to rely on Mary as intercessor in her struggle with breast cancer and in learning to mother her children.
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Episode 14: Transformed by Love: the Woman at the Well and Mary Magdalene featuring Meg Hunter-Kilmer
April 20th, 2023 | Season 1 | 43 mins 34 secs
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Meg Hunter-Kilmer brings the Woman at the Well and Mary Magdalene to life in this week’s episode about the radical love that Jesus has for us. Meg also tells Sarah Christmyer why “his pierced hands” has a special meaning for her. Join us as we also pray together with a scripture passage that speaks of the Lord’s love.
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Episode 13: Getting to Know the Bible’s Silent Women featuring Elizabeth Tomlin
April 13th, 2023 | Season 1 | 36 mins 57 secs
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How can you have a meaningful encounter with women in Scripture—even those who have no voice? Elizabeth Tomlin and Sarah Christmyer talk about several “silent” women written about in the Bible, including Priscilla, Miriam, and Dinah, and what we can learn from them. Elizabeth also explains how she reads scripture to be transformed and challenged in her faith.
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Episode 12: Make a Personal Healing Pilgrimage through the Sorrowful Mysteries featuring Sonja Corbitt
April 6th, 2023 | Season 1 | 42 mins 54 secs
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Do you need healing from a deep inner wound? Sonja Corbitt talks with Sarah Christmyer how she found healing meditating on Christ’s Passion. Learn how Jesus can lead us along a redemptive path from suffering to peace, and pray together with the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary.
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Episode 11: Women are Strong: Inner Strength and the Feminine Genius featuring Lisa Cotter
March 30th, 2023 | Season 1 | 36 mins 55 secs
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Why was it mainly women who found strength to stay by the Cross? On this week’s podcast, Sarah Christmyer and Lisa Cotter discuss the unique giftedness of women. A Catholic speaker and author of Reveal the Gift. Lisa explains how she finds time to read the Bible, shares her favorite Bible hack, and reveals how her favorite scripture passage strengthens her when things get tough.
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Episode 10: God has Plans for You Featuring Denise Gustafson
March 23rd, 2023 | Season 1 | 31 mins 12 secs
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It’s never too late to seek out God’s plan for your life! Denise Gustafson tells how she gained God’s peace in a trying time and found herself journeying in new directions when she sought to follow the Lord. She also shares her love for the Old Testament prophets and her assurance of God’s providence and care.
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Episode 9: God’s Word Can Transform You! Featuring Laurie Manhardt
March 16th, 2023 | Season 1 | 45 mins 26 secs
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In this week's episode, Sarah Christmyer talks with Laurie Manhardt about how she was overwhelmed by God’s loving care at a critical point in her life. Laurie's experience breathed life into scripture and launched her into sharing it with others through a new Catholic Bible study program called Come and See. Laurie shares her love of John’s Gospel and the verse that helps her find rest.
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Episode 8: When Healing Takes Time Featuring Heidi Hess Saxton
March 9th, 2023 | Season 1 | 32 mins 25 secs
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A Holy Land pilgrimage brought the Gospels to life for Heidi Hess Saxton, challenging her to release an old burden of bitterness. She was inspired and encouraged by Psalm 107. Heidi and Sarah talk about how to pray with sacred images as they reflect on the gospel story of the woman who was healed when she touched Jesus’s garment.
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Episode 7: The Bible is a Place Where We Meet God featuring Katie Cavadini
March 2nd, 2023 | Season 1 | 31 mins 53 secs
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Can Scripture really set our hearts on fire with the love of God? Katie Cavadini talks with Sarah Christmyer about how she loves helping college freshmen at the University of Notre Dame discover that the Bible speaks to them. Katie explains how listening often starts at Mass, and she says that knowing the story is key to being set on fire.
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Episode 6: How to Love the Word Like Mary with Sonja Corbitt
February 22nd, 2023 | Season 1 | 30 mins 44 secs
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When Sonja Corbitt asked the Blessed Mother what she wanted Sonja to know about her, Mary tenderly revealed her own method of prayer and the way pondering scripture fosters a love for the Word who is Jesus and his Word that is scripture. In this episode, Sonja explains how her healing charism sprang from applying scripture to her life. She shares her favorite verse and demonstrates, using the Sunday gospel, how to pray the Word like Mary.
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Episode 5: Reading the Bible Can Change Your Life (Really!) featuring Allison Gingras
February 16th, 2023 | Season 1 | 33 mins 43 secs
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When Allison Gingras began reading the Bible, the Lord spoke to her heart, freeing her from anxiety and unforgiveness and waking her to the beauty of her Catholic faith and practices. In this episode, Allison shares how she finds value in scripture nuggets, why random reading suits her ADHD, and how she discovered a spiritual lifeline for her deaf child in sacramentals.
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Episode 4: The Radical Choice to Trust featuring Shannon Wimp-Schmidt
February 9th, 2023 | Season 1 | 39 mins 30 secs
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What do spiritual vitality, understanding difficult Bible passages, and radical faith all have in common? A relationship with Jesus grounded in scripture, according to Shannon Wimp-Schmidt. The author of Fat Luther, Slim Pickin's and cohost of the Plaid Skirts and Basic Black podcast talks with Sarah Christmyer about renewing our parishes, finding relevance in ancient texts, and learning from biblical women who live on the outskirts but who make radical choices to trust in God.
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Episode 3: God’s Love for Creation and Our Stewardship of It featuring Lisa Hendey
February 2nd, 2023 | Season 1 | 32 mins 34 secs
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Does being in nature lift your soul to God? Lisa M. Hendey, founder of CatholicMom.com, explains that since childhood, both the Bible and the natural world have instilled a sense of the sacred within her. Our call to care for one another by caring for the world around us springs from scripture, Hendey says. She believes that nature can open a door to conversations with those who are away from the Church.