Prayer for real life and hard seasons.
Praying Christian Women centers prayer as a lived practice, not a polished religious performance. Episodes move between Prayer Through the Psalms reflections and warm interviews with women discussing loss, healing, marriage, devotional habits, and meeting God in ordinary spaces.
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Praying Christian Women is built around prayer as a daily meeting place with God. It is calm, candid, and practical. Episodes often begin in the texture of ordinary life: a scattered mind, a busy spring calendar, a long to-do list, a change in work, or the need to pause before the day runs ahead. From there, the show turns toward Scripture, conversation, and spoken prayer. The Prayer Through the Psalms episodes give the format a steady devotional backbone. Psalm 58 brings up corrupt leadership, wickedness, and the difficulty of praying when injustice seems loud. Psalm 59 shifts toward personal refuge, fear, enemies, and God as fortress. Psalm 60 becomes a way to pray from hopeless ground toward victory. These episodes are not abstract Bible lectures; they sound like someone taking a passage seriously while also naming the pressure of modern schedules and anxious thoughts. The interview episodes add another layer. Kristen Rickards talks about her story, hope, and the question of where prayer happens. Willow Weston connects pain, brokenness, healing, and inviting Jesus into hurt. Autumn Scheck speaks around peace, journaling, Scripture, and the patient work of building a track record with God. Dana Che brings marriage, teaching, work, and a dedicated prayer space into the conversation. A recurring question about a favorite prayer closet gives the show one of its clearest signatures. The answer might be a couch, an office, a car, a hotel room, or a bedroom. That small detail captures the larger appeal: prayer is treated as intimate, specific, and possible in the middle of actual life. The show is especially suited to Christian women who want biblical encouragement with enough warmth to feel companionable and enough practical detail to carry into the week. It makes space for hard seasons, marriage strain, spiritual habits, healing, and hope without turning any of them into slogans.
Made for: Praying Christian Women is for Christian women who want Scripture-shaped prayer, practical encouragement, and honest conversations about faith in daily life. It especially fits listeners navigating busy schedules, marriage strain, healing, or a desire for steadier devotional habits.
What sets it apart: The show’s signature is its mix of guided Psalm-based prayer and intimate interview questions about where and how women actually meet with God. Its recurring “prayer closet” thread turns spiritual practice into something concrete, personal, and ordinary.
The show that brings Christian women from all backgrounds together as award-winning authors Alana Terry and Jaime Hampton discuss what it means to be a woman of prayer in the 21st century.Whether you’re brand new to the faith or have been a believer for decades, the Praying Christian Women podcast brings you biblical encouragement and inspiration (as well as an abundance of practical tips and easy-to-implement suggestions) to deepen your prayer life.
This is where your prayer journal meets Fiddler on the Roof and Harry Potter in the discernment aisle.
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A devotional conversation about prayer habits, journaling, and steadiness in ordinary routines.
Jamie Hampton's conversation with Autumn Scheck keeps its focus on the small, repeatable habits that can shape prayer and reflection: a family-room chair, a cup of coffee, journaling, and a prayer closet that shifts as life changes.
Prayer, authority, and fear meet in an open-ended discussion of spiritual warfare and what can be claimed with confidence.
The conversation settles into prayer, authority, and spiritual warfare, and it keeps returning to the question of what can be said with confidence and what ought to be handled with humility.
A quiet meditation on fear and refuge, rooted in David's plea and Hampton's memory of hiding from nearby danger.
Psalm 59 gives Praying Christian Women a steady prayer for moments when danger feels close and fear starts to crowd the room. Jamie Hampton frames David's plea for deliverance as a place of refuge, then brings it near through her memory of hiding under a wooden bed frame while…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Catholic arguments with pint-table warmth.
Daily headlines under Christian judgment.
Catholic homilies for the next faithful step.
Catholic teaching for ordinary discipleship.
Serious Bible questions, patiently reasoned.
Jamie interviews Dana Che about her new book 'Tried and True, Marriage Advice from 12 Imperfect Biblical Couples' and discusses prayer practices and spiritual spaces.
What does it mean to defend your spiritual territory with truth?
Jamie Hampton explores Psalm 59, where David prays for refuge while enemies surround him.
Alana and Jamie answer a listener asking when to persevere in prayer and when to release a request.
Praying Christian Women hosts Alana and Jamie use Tevye’s “If I Were a Rich Man” from Fiddler on the Roof to examine the prayer beneath a stated desire for money.
Praying Christian Women examines modern signs, omens, and spiritual shortcuts through Gideon's fleece in Judges 6:36-40.
Alana and Jamie examine witchcraft, Halloween, Harry Potter, and Christian discernment through parenting experiences and personal convictions.
Jamie frames Psalm 65 as a harvest and fertility song that challenges Baal's claimed control of rain, storms, and crops.
Hosts Alana and Jamie of Praying Christian Women ask whether some Christian prayer is "witchcraft in disguise," defining witchcraft as controlling outcomes or seeking hidden knowledge apart from God, with Exodus 22:18 as a reference.
This episode guides Christian women through praying and reflecting on Psalm 60 to find spiritual grounding during busy life seasons.
This episode features an interview with Kristen Rickards, a multi-talented Christian author and speaker, discussing her personal story of faith through loss and her book 'A Life Worth Living in Christ'.
Willow Weston discusses her ministry and new book about finding healing through Jesus when facing life's hurts, sharing personal practices like morning prayer routines.
This episode of the Praying Christian Women podcast focuses on praying through Psalm 58, which addresses corrupt leadership and God's ultimate reign when the wicked seem to win.
Autumn Scheck says anxiety is “our doubt” and “our shame,” then returns to “significant, but not sovereign.”
This episode features Dana Che discussing her new book 'Tried and True, Marriage Advice from 12 Imperfect Biblical Couples' on the Praying Christian Women podcast.