Navigating Leadership and Prejudice in Church Culture

Thanks for joining us at the unSeminary podcast. Today we’re talking with Taylor Scott-Reimer, a dynamic speaker, advocate, and author of She Believed: Recovering the Fierce Faith of the Women of Scripture — and Ourselves.

Is your church truly inviting the full participation of women? Are female leaders empowered to speak, shape, and serve—or are they silently sidelined? Tune in as Taylor shares a practical framework to help churches reframe the narrative, restore the practice, and reclaim the voice of women—so that the whole body of Christ can flourish.

• Ask for the woman’s point of view. // Many women in churches carry a quiet pain—their stories aren’t preached, their voices aren’t heard. Over time it teaches women to shrink their faith to a mold that stifles spiritual growth, creativity, and courage and signals that their contributions are secondary. It’s helpful to call women to the table and ask them what their experience has been in the church. Making room for honest conversations helps surface unseen perspectives and fosters a truly inclusive church culture.
• Three step framework. // Taylor’s book as a three step framework in recovering women’s spiritual growth in the church—reframing the narrative, restoring the practice, and rediscovering the voice. It begins with theology in how we teach, preach, and talk about women in scripture. How we create space for women to lead and serve in meaningful, visible ways is the important part of restoring the practice. In rediscovering the voice we help women reclaim agency and spiritual authority, allowing them to show up as their full selves.
• Representation shapes identity. // Representation matters. When women see female prophets, leaders, and teachers elevated in sermons and stories, they begin to recognize their own place in God’s story. It empowers new callings and unlocks courageous leadership.
• Reclaim your voice. // Taylor offers a free PDF resource titled 7 Days to Reclaim Your Voice, which reflects on seven women from Scripture to help women rediscover their spiritual boldness. Her book expands on these themes, providing a roadmap for deeper reflection and community engagement.
• Look closer at your teaching calendar. // Look at your calendar for the next few months. Who’s preaching? Whose stories are being told? Are female voices and stories included? Are women speaking? Use small groups or leadership meetings to open these discussions and create space for women to express what they long to hear from the pulpit.
• A Church that needs all of us. // The Church needs all its members—male and female—to live and lead fully. When women are invited to speak, lead, and preach, the entire Body is enriched. It’s not about tokenism; it’s about telling the whole story of God through the voices He has gifted.

Grab a copy of Taylor’s book, She Believed: Recovering the Fierce Faith of the Women of Scripture — and Ourselves, on Amazon. Learn more about Taylor at taylorscottreimer.carrd.co and find her on Instagram.

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Episode Transcript

Rich Birch — Hey friends, welcome to the unSeminary podcast. Listen, you’re gonna wanna lean in on today’s conversation. I know that this is an issue in your church. It’s kind of thing that that you really should be wrestling with, thinking about. It’s not the kind of thing that should be on the back burner.

Rich Birch — It’s the kind of conversation that you should be having with your staff team, you should be thinking about with, various leaders in your church. It’s going to be a super helpful and challenging and encouraging conversation. Excited to have Taylor Scott-Reimer with us. She’s a writer, speaker, and passionate advocate for building a church where women’s voices are not just welcomed, but they’re needed.

Rich Birch — She’s written a recent book that I want you to pick up for your team called She Believed: recovering the fierce face of fierce not face fierce faith of women of scripture and ourselves. Through this book she’s invites you, our readers, to rediscover the fierce forgotten women of scripture the prophets, preachers, judges, and warriors who refuse to shrink from their faith ah or callings. Taylor, welcome to the show – so glad you’re here.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — I’m so glad to be here. Thanks for having me, Rich.

Rich Birch — Yeah, this is going to be great. Why don’t you tell us a little bit about your background? Kind of give us the the story, the Taylor story. Tell us about your, you know, yeah, just tell us about your background.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Yeah, absolutely. So I grew up deeply immersed in church life. My dad is a Presbyterian minister. And as a kid, I seriously loved church. I was the kind of kid who really enjoyed ah youth group Bible studies, just being around and part of our community.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — But over time, as I grew up and kind of moved away from my home church and encountered wider Christianity and the wider church world, I started to notice something that when we were having those conversations about leadership and calling and just more of the business and leadership side of church, it was really like the women in the room disappeared.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — And of course, not physically, they were often there, but there was something going on spiritually. We were expected to serve, but not to speak, to show up, but to not shape. And as I worked in ministry myself, I started to experience this deep ache that maybe maybe my voice didn’t belong. Maybe I was wrong on this issue.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — And “She Believed” was really born out of this ache. When I became a mom to my daughter and then to my son, I really was experiencing this tension of wanting to pass on a faith that affirmed and liberated and introduced my daughter to my personal savior, Jesus.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — But that also was ah enough for my son to be able to respect and to understand women as co-creators of the new garden. So that led me to writing “She Believed”. And it’s a reclaiming of space for myself, yes, but more importantly, for the many women who love Jesus deeply and yet have been told that they’re not allowed to lead boldly.

Rich Birch — Well, want to, so you’ve said something that really caught my attention that I want to kind of double click on and hear a little bit more. You said that there’s a deep but quiet pain. That that is a it’s powerful phraseology, uh, that many women experience in the church. Tell me about that. Talk that through, help us unpack that. What does that actually look like? What is that? How does that show up in a woman’s life? How is that, you know, how have you experienced that? How do you see that happening around us? How could that be happening in our church?

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Yeah, of course. Yeah, I think it’s the pain of just being spiritually disqualified whether explicitly or implicitly. It’s sitting in pews week after week but never really hearing a woman’s story preached. Never really seeing a woman and lead from a pulpit and never being asked what you think God is saying and being invited to bring your unique female perspective to the church.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — And that that kind of exclusion isn’t always loud, but I think what’s really insidious about it is that it’s formative. And over time, it teaches women to shrink their faith to fit a mold which stifles our spiritual growth, our creativity, and our courage. And as a result, we as a church, we miss out on the fullness of discipleship because half of the church is watching from the sidelines instead of participating on the field.

Rich Birch — Well, yeah, and I would echo that this this, you know, the issue you’re pushing on here has been my experience when I’ve interacted with prevailing churches that are making a huge difference. I look around those tables and I see it’s not all it’s not all men. There are often lots of women in the room leading, which is wonderful. Obviously a good thing we want want to we want to have have happen. We want to continue to kind of accelerate that.

Rich Birch — But my so my assumption, my thought as you’re as you’re as I was kind of listening to you unpacking what you talked about in in “She Believed”, is that this kind of quietening, silencing, sidelining, like that can happen even in a church that would maybe even theologically be like, I’m totally okay with having women lead, you know, and in all positions. Even in that, we’re not talking about churches that even necessarily just have a theological, you know, can, you know, bent towards limiting women’s voices. It can happen even in, ah you know, more, you know, in other churches. Is that true? Help us understand that.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Yeah, 100%. I think that is completely true. It’s it’s that difference between it’s not necessarily explicit exclusion, but it’s insidious and it it creeps up into our churches, whether we realize it or not. And I think it’s helpful to have these conversations where we can call it out and we can work and really ask the women who are around the table, if they are around the table, what is your actual experience? And creating such an environment where we can really dig into that. Because, Rich, this is important stuff. This is half the body of Christ we’re talking about.

Rich Birch — 100%. Yes. Yes.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — And yeah, yeah, we can do better.

Rich Birch — Absolutely. Well, and there’s that great irony of like, and I’ve said this in other contexts as well, not just in the kind of talking about this issue. The great irony is you walk into most churches and 60% the people, it’s even 50%, 60% of the people, 70% of the people in that room are women. Lots of churches skew towards there being more women engaged than men engaged. And even in those environments, there this I can see this happen.

Rich Birch — Well, in your book, you offer a three-step framework, something for us to think about. Can you help us kind of think through, even at a high level, to kind of talk that through a little bit?

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Yeah, totally. So high level, right off the bat, the framework is really simple. I think we need to be reframing the narrative, restoring the practice, and reclaiming the voice. So this really starts with our theology.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — So how we preach, how we teach, and how we talk about women in scripture. While writing this book, I encountered so many sources that delved into the stories of women in the Bible, but were so obviously written by men and centering the male experience of those texts. Reading things about how, ah you know, Rahab, when the Jewish spies go and ah scout out the city and they join her in a brothel and the text doesn’t address why are they in the brothel. What’s going on there? And what what would it have been like for Rahab, a woman, to not only have been exploited economically and societally, but then have the opportunity to meet God.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — And that’s that’s such a different conversation, that’s such a different sermon when it’s preached by ah by a woman and through her lived experience. So this really, really starts foundationally with reframing the narrative.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — And then it moves into church practice. So how we create space for women to serve and lead in meaningful ways. And meaningful ways is the important part here. Ways that allow them to show up authentically as their full selves.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — I’m a new mom myself, so showing up at a church and being told that I can listen to the sermon, but it’s in the family room. Or I can listen to the sermon, ah but I’m going to be in the hallway with my children during it. These are real, real things that are happening.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — So we need to think through our physical spaces, but also just the spaces and the culture that we’re creating as a church. Are we allowing, again, I’ve already said it, but half the body of ah believers to show up in a way that’s real to them. And finally, it’s really about voice.

Rich Birch — Yeah.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Helping women rediscover their agency and authority in community and in calling. And again, I really think this comes back to ah reading the stories of women in scripture and hearing their voices and interpreting it ah with a female-centered lens.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — It’s not a to-do list for churches, but it is a reimagining of what a healthy, vibrant discipleship can look like when women are no longer missing from the story, but are able to see themselves as important aspects of of this story

Rich Birch — Love it. I love it. And, you know, I got to say a part of what your work convicted me, even as I was reflecting on like, I feel like I’ve, I’ve worked, been a part of, led in great churches that are fantastic places. But even this idea of, I we we’ve never done, I’ve never been a part of like, hey, we’re going to do six weeks on, let’s look at six incredible female leaders in the Bible. Let’s look at six, you know, we just have never, and that would be, that would be the kind of thing that we’ve done in other kinds, like the kind of treatment of the text that we would have done in for other things, but we’ve never done that in this.

Rich Birch — I would say we’re the churches I’ve led in. We’re not probably on the extreme where it’s like the only time we talk about it as Proverbs 31 on Mother’s Day. Like that’s the only time we bring it up. It’s not that. But I like this idea of reframing the narrative. Maybe we could unpack that a little bit. Help us kind of imagine and kind of think a bit differently around that. I think that could be a really practical step for people to take away, which is, hey, how can we ensure that we’re infusing, highlighting, taking more time to point out some of the parts of the narrative that maybe we’ve just overlooked in the past? Help help us unpack that.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Yeah, well I really think when women only get to see themselves in scripture and in sermons as helpers or background characters in God’s stories, they subconsciously assume that that’s all they’re allowed to be.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — But when we can reframe this narrative and really claim it, everything changes. We know representation matters. Theological representation matters.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — When we lift up women with voices like Deborah, like the Jewish midwives, Mary Magdalene, Priscilla, Phoebe, Dorcas, suddenly the story gets so much richer. And I really think this is what we’ve been missing as a church. When women begin to see themselves as part of God’s story, they’re able to preach, to build, to speak truth. And what really happens is it’s like spiritual oxygen. It makes room for new callings to emerge, new stories to be told. And the Holy Spirit to come through all of us.

Rich Birch — I love that. I’m going to take advantage of the fact that you’re an expert in this area, ask you for some coaching on this. So let’s say I’m like, hey, that sounds like a good idea. Like my natural inclination or what’s that my hesitancy in the back of my brain is like, that’s like a fantastic idea for like a four or six week series. We’re going to do, we’re going to have like six weeks of women preaching on, I’ll have people on my team whatever, preach through all these things. That would be amazing.

Rich Birch — But then there’s, there’s a part of me that says, am I just ghettoizing this, this, through that, is that actually helping? Or am I is it one of those situations where helping hurts actually by kind of highlighting um you know the you know, this in kind of its own special thing. It’s like, the you know, it’s the thing that it’s like the churches that do the like, it’s youth Sunday. It’s like, that doesn’t really mean that you’re integrating youth to the church. It just means that you gave as a Sunday up for them. Help me. Maybe I’m just like overthinking it. It’s like, no, Rich, that’s a good idea. You should do that. Help us think through that. What what should we be thinking about?

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Yeah, I think the first thing that just comes to mind, Rich, when you say that is if you are a church who isn’t highlighting women’s stories, let’s start with that. If you’ve never done speaker series where you highlighted intentionally ah the the voices of women, maybe this is the push you need ah to to do that.

Rich Birch — Right.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Because representation starts with things like that. We need those initiatives. to kind of get the ball rolling. Now, if you’re a church that, you know, again, we said at the beginning it’s 2025, maybe you’ve had these conversations. Maybe this is something that’s already happening in your church. I think getting to the point where we have more mature conversations. One of the things I hear often when I preach through our “She Believes” series is, I didn’t know we were allowed to talk about that in church, or I didn’t know we were allowed to say that out loud.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — And I think what’s really healing about these types of conversations is that it shows just the breadth and depth of God’s love for us within the human experience. And it lets us know that we can have these conversations, that God is big enough that we can challenge, we can ask questions, we can say, hey, you know what, what you just said really hurt me or that what you just said wasn’t fair. And be invited to really understand and move through those emotions as our full selves.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — God created us with the full spectrum of human emotion. And I often feel that sometimes women are only invited to bring some of those emotions into the church. In small group settings settings, I’ve seen women cry, laugh, really challenge each other. And most importantly, remember who God made them to be.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — So this devotional, “She Believed”, is designed to create that space. It’s less about arriving at answers or having a theological debate about women in leadership and spiritual headship and all of those kind of things, and more just about reclaiming that space and allowing people to wrestle honestly and faithfully and bringing in all of their questions.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — We’ve seen a lot of conversation in the last little while about deconstruction, reconstruction, all of that stuff. I think this is part of the piece of naming, explaining, and just being ready to hold the whole capacity of human experience and human emotion because God created it and it’s not something scary.

Rich Birch — So the, you know, in this you’ve provided, which is fantastic discussion questions, obviously it’s like a, Hey, we could do this in a group. We could have a, you know, conversation. You kind of touched on that little bit. I wonder if you could unpack stories you’ve heard or how has that impacted helped, you know, as you’ve invited people into this discussion to reflect wrestles, you know, and speak together, how, you know any kind of sense of the impact that that’s having or any kind of interesting stories along that line?

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Yeah, I would say one of the things that really struck me is I just finished preaching through “She Believed” at my home church where I grew up and where I was raised. Many, many women in our congregation came up to me afterwards with tears in their eyes just, and I realized in that moment that a lot of our older generations of believers haven’t been invited to have these conversations out in the open.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — They’re conversations that have happened in the kitchen and in the nursery, but not necessarily from the pulpit. And allowing the older generation of women to be affirmed, and to have the ways in which patriarchy has hurt them named is a deeply, deeply healing experience. But also for younger women like myself, new moms, women working, being able to see the the stories of scripture without the sanitized lens of helpers, what have you, has been super helpful.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — And cultural cues are powerful, especially especially in the church. So you can have all the right theology about women’s leadership on paper, but if your platform never reflects that, the signal doesn’t land.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Modeling is a ministry in and of itself, And when women see others women, women leading with authority, with authenticity, showing up as themselves with breast milk stained shirts and [inaudible], we normalize it. And that’s how we build a church that’s that’s more reflective of God’s kingdom and frankly, more suited for a ministry in 2025, where we’re stripping back the camera.

Rich Birch — Yeah, I love it. So good. And again, I think this would be a great ah great resource for church leaders to pick up, to wrestle through, to think about, you know, to have you come and speak. I think there’s lots that could happen there. I think that’s amazing.

Rich Birch — This is a bit of an unfair question. I asked my friend Kadi Cole this when she was on the episode. I should have told you this ahead of time. I’m pulling the rug out from underneath of you.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — All right, let’s do it.

Rich Birch — But hopefully we’re friends enough to ask this question. So and I know this book is not really answering that question. You’re not really wrestling with what I’m about to ask you. But I just want you’re in this. You’re thinking about these things.

Rich Birch — Do you think that if you think of the the broadly evangelical church, not like people ask me if I’m evangelical, it’s like, it depends on what you mean by that. Like, if you mean someone who takes the teaching of Jesus seriously, yes, I am evangelical. if If that’s what you mean, there’s lots of other cultural freight to that word that I don’t associate with. But I’m, you know, like in that in that church, whatever that church is, however you describe that, do do you think that this, the issue here is more of a sticky floor issue or a glass ceiling? Is it more that women are not leaning in where there’s maybe more opportunity there than then there they’re choosing to be a part of? Or is it a glass ceiling problem? There’s actually like systemic, and maybe it’s it’s obviously both.

Rich Birch — There’s obviously both of those dynamics happening. But which of those do you think is kind of the the side of the equation that we need to be thinking about or should be wrestling with. Again, it’s not, it’s it’s adjacent to “She Believed”. It’s not directly what you’re talking about. But but what do what do you think? Again, unfair question. What do you think?

Taylor Scott-Reimer — No, I love it, Rich. That’s awesome. I think you were already kind of pointed to it, but I do think it’s both. It is a glass ceiling issue of if there’s no room, there’s no room. We need to make room. But it is also a little bit of the the need to just empower daughters of Christ ah to to take that space. And if it’s not available to make that space.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — I notice a lot of the times in my own experience of evangelical Christian world, however you define it, there’s a lot of mentoring opportunities for for Christian young men um that Christian women aren’t being invited into. I think of an example for myself.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — I went to a Christian university. I absolutely loved my experience there. But I had professors who abided by the Billy Graham rule, right, of not being a alone with a woman. How does that translate into career opportunities and mentorship for daughters of Christ if their professors won’t sit down and have a conversation with them? How does that transfer into internships and pastoral ministry if people aren’t engaging with women in that mentoring capacity to affirm their gifts, but to also tell them ah how to use them for the church.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — I think ah women are grieving this, and the church is grieving this. We’re missing out on half of the body because of it. But some of the most powerful leadership I’ve seen really comes through this grief and this acknowledgement that it is both of those issues, the glass ceiling, we need to make the space, we need to do the work, but it is also empowering daughters of Christ to to live to their calling.

Rich Birch — Yeah, that’s good. Yeah, so good. and ah And I’ve talked about this on other episodes, but like my own personal experience with the Billy Graham rule, like I have a ah certain sense of I have been the benefactor. Listen, I am a like middle-aged white guy. I am like, I check a lot of the boxes that are, you know, born in a fairly affluent family in the West, white guy, you know, at ah at of a great time.

Rich Birch — I was born in 1974, the lowest birthright year of the 20th century, which gave me a significant leg up. And I, in that particular issue, I have, there ah there was a a, and I’ve said that I’m only saying this again to to point out ah to other folks. I’m not trying to make this about me, but there was a week early on in my ministry. I was a young leader in my twenties where we were trying, we were stuck as a church. And like, there was another church, a very large church, literally like 10 times our size, who I knew they had solved this problem. And I reached out to a leader there and I said, listen, can I just come and hang out at your church for the week?

Rich Birch — And he was like, what? And I was like, yeah, I just want to like sit in in all your meetings and like take a bunch of notes and you don’t have to talk to me. You don’t need to you don’t need to do anything. I just want to be around. I just want to try to see what I can learn from that experience. And he graciously said yes. By the end of that week where I’m like having dinner at his house, hanging out, um you know. We’ve become friends. We’re now lifelong friends. That week was absolutely an inflection point in my leadership. Like I was like, oh, my goodness, I saw things differently.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Right.

Rich Birch — I know that that leader, if I was a woman that had called him and said, hey, can I just hang out for the week? I don’t think that would have happened. I think he would have said, ah well, maybe come, we got a conference coming up next month or next year. Why don’t you come to the conference and we can, why don’t we see each other after a session or something like would have been probably what he would have said. That’s, and that’s not a slight on him. That’s just a slight on the culture. What’s all all around that.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Yeah.

Rich Birch — And so, yeah, that’s a, that is a very real issue. I think we have to create that space. So you touched the Billy Graham rule and it like touched a part of me and I was like, oh, I got to talk about that. So yeah.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Right?

Rich Birch — Well, let’s get back to your content. So you’ve given us a ah PDF that we’re going to link to. It’s called Seven Days to Reclaim Your Voice, a devotional guide for women. And I would say men. I went through this. I think this is fantastic. I know what you mean by that. But I think this a fantastic resource. Talk to us about this resource. We’ll link to it.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Yeah, awesome. So this is this a great resource to kind of get the the ball rolling, whether that’s ah around the table in your staff meetings or for your own personal use. The resource works through seven women of scripture, and it’s a quick daily reflection. And then my book, “She Believed”, which is coming out later this summer and will be available on Amazon, really delves into these topics in a fuller way.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Again, I think we’ve mentioned this, but something I’ve really intentionally done with She Believed is this is not this is not the place for a theological argument.

Rich Birch — Yep.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — This is the place for women and men, by extension, who have been hurt by the church, have been hurt by the ways that patriarchy has played out in the church and that ah that need ah that pastoral hug um and that commissioning that you are doing God’s work and there is ah there’s a lot of work to be done.

Rich Birch — Yeah, I really appreciate this fantastic. And I appreciate you redirecting. I’ve been pushing us towards, let’s talk about this issue. And I know obviously it’s connected to what you’re talking about, but but I love the underlying push of like, hey, we got to get back to scripture. Let’s look at these stories. Let’s engage women on this and let’s ensure that we’re looking at ah scripture from that lens. I think is is critically important.

Rich Birch — Listen, there might be some pastors that are listening who want to do better. They’re like, they’ve they have listened to this conversation and they’re like, man, I really do want to take a new start here. I feel like we’ve got a you know, I would say a step they could take would be to buy your book, which we’ll talk in a minute where people can get that when it comes out.

Rich Birch — But what what’s another kind of step or something they should be thinking about as kind of a first step in this direction to be like, Hey, we need to do a better job kind of regardless of where they’re at in this, in this area.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Yeah, totally. I would say ah next little bit, low hanging fruit look at ah look at the narrative that you’re telling from the pulpit. Look at your preaching calendar for the next few months and ask whose stories are we telling? Whose voices are we centering?

Rich Birch — So good.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — This might be looking and seeing who the preachers are, like we’ve already talked about. Are they male or female? But also, are we preaching about all male prophets? Are we preaching about all male disciples? Can we do better here? Can we include some of these voices that have been historically disenfranchised?

Taylor Scott-Reimer — And then go deeper, invite women in your congregation into that conversation.

Rich Birch — So good.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — I wanna say to your pastors listening, particularly if they’re male pastors, is this isn’t all on you. Tap in, see who’s in your conversation, ask them what kinds of stories or sermons that they wish they heard of more often. I think oftentimes as pastors and ministers, people assume it’s all on them, but people in your congregation will be able to give you a sense of what’s actually happening beside behind the scenes.

Rich Birch — That’s so good.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Small groups are a great place to start these conversations where people already know each other more intimately and can speak more authentically. The goal isn’t to really overhaul everything overnight, but it is to start seeing what’s missing and to commit to filling those gaps with courage and care.

Rich Birch — Well, where do we want to send people to ah pick up not a copy, but copies? I think this would be, to me, this is done best in community. It’s like, this is a staff team resource. This is a, hey, we’re going to do with our small groups. We’re going to buy couple hundred copies and do with the entire church. Like it’s that kind of thing. I think it’s it’s best made for in community. Where do we want to send people to pick up copies?

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Yeah, 100%. So the book is coming out this August. So you can find, or you will be able to find “She Believed” on Amazon, both print and ebook formats. And if you head to my website, which we provided for you, ah there’s a free downloadable discussion guide that we’ve kind of already highlighted and mentioned to help guide you to use it in starting these conversations.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — And yeah, you can follow me on Instagram @taylorreimer96 and stick along for the journey. I’m really, really excited about this project. It’s it’s kind of a new thing for me to be stepping into. And I just, I’m really passionate about it. And I’m so thankful, Rich, for the opportunity to share it with you and your listeners.

Rich Birch — Yeah, any any last words, last encouragements you’d say ah just as we wrap up today’s episode?

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Yeah, I was struck by a line this morning. I’m I’m of ah a certain demographic. I believe we’re called Zennials. I think that’s what it is. I’m the Gen Z Millennial kind of.

Rich Birch — Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, right, right.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so full disclosure, was on TikTok this morning and I saw a TikTok…

Rich Birch — That’s great.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — …like why… Yeah, yeah. How hard could it be – boys do it? And it was young women showing what they don’t think that they’re able to do, but men do all the time.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — And I was kind of struck by: how hard could it be boys do it? And I think that’s something we as women in the church need to remember.

Rich Birch — That’s good.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — People do it. We can do it.

Rich Birch — Yeah. Yeah, that’s good. Well, this has been great. Listen, I want to like honor you publicly. I thank you for writing this book. I thank you for sticking your neck out here and raising a good question, doing it in just a super elegant way and helping us think through these issues and really hopefully encouraging, you know, some folks to, to think differently and to move forward in this. So I really appreciate this, Taylor. Thanks for being here.

Rich Birch — And we’ll link to all of that in the show notes, friends. You can you can get all that there. But thanks for being here today. Thank you so much.

Taylor Scott-Reimer — Thank you.