Cheryl Brodersen and Robin Jones Gunn
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Join us each week for a lively conversation between authors Cheryl Brodersen and Robin Jones Gunn as they explore the lives of well-known—and not so well-known—Christian women in history. Trust us, these are definitely women worth knowing!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Biographical conversations trace how Christian women's convictions became practical work through teaching, ministry, prayer, mentorship, and care.
Women Worth Knowing turns biography into an intimate conversation about how belief shapes a life. Cheryl Brodersen and Robin Jones Gunn move between historical profiles, such as Ruth Munce's, and interviews with women including Sarah Hill, Anita Coon, and Trish Kulcsar.
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A Bible, a midnight dream, and a move to Westmont shape one woman's road toward seminary.
Jennifer McNutt's road toward college begins with a Bible left on her mother's doorstep and a dream that wakes her mother in the night. From there, the episode traces her move from Texas to Westmont in Santa Barbara, her study of religious studies with a concentration in…
Sarah Hill makes Christian hope feel like a steady practice of care, prayer, and presence after devastating loss.
Hope feels practical in Sarah Hill's account of care, prayer, and people living at the edge of catastrophe. She recalls a young woman who loses a leg in a jet ski collision that kills her father, then receives a care package on the day she is having a baby and preparing for his…
Sarah Hill's call to Kauai opens into a sincere reflection on pain, authenticity, and serving youth.
Sarah Hill's call to Kauai anchors a thoughtful single-episode review of ministry shaped by hard preparation rather than polished appearances.
A frightened prayer, a move to Australia, and a terminal diagnosis bring Trish Kulchar's faith story into focus.
Trish Kulchar's story is framed around a frightened prayer that only gains its full weight in memory. Raised in a small village outside Manchester, she recalls a home marked by her father's drinking and aggression, her mother's efforts to help, and the two years she spent away…
A childhood above an English decorating shop opens into family ambition, private hardship, and a faith story still in motion.
Trish's story starts above her family's decorating shop in England, where childhood meant learning the trade early: unrolling wallpaper, balancing colors, painting, sanding, and papering walls before she was a teenager.
A warm biography with grit, friendship, and a strong sense of place.
Women Worth Knowing tells Eileen Coleman’s story with warmth and restraint, following a life shaped by a hard childhood, a steady family, and years of work in the Middle East.
Phoebe Judge narrates true crime history and interviews the authors who uncovered it.
Dramatized deep dives into American history, from the Galveston hurricane to Harper Lee's Mockingbird.
Dana Schwartz narrates the violent lives of monarchs, warlords, and queens.
Tracy Wilson and Holly Frey narrate overlooked history, from Courbet's realism to IUD regulation.
Mike Duncan narrates Rome's full history solo, from Aeneas to Romulus Augustulus's exile in 476.
In part three of the interview, Trish Kulcsar discusses her abusive first husband Alex's terminal illness and how both secretly converted to Christianity during his hospice care, leading to a transformative seven-month period.
This episode continues the story of Aileen Coleman, a Christian doctor who, with her companion Eleanor, served in Jordan during the 1960s-70s, overcoming war, cultural barriers, and superstitions to open a hospital.
This episode explores the life of Aileen Coleman, a missionary nurse from Australia who served in Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
Women Worth Knowing interviews Jennifer Powell McNutt about the childhood, call, and education that shaped her work in theology and church history.
Sarah Hill connects Bethany Hamilton's shark attack at Tunnels Beach to Jeremiah 29:11 and the promise of a "future and a hope." She says The Hope Effect podcast will collect stories of hope and healing for youth facing suicide, trauma, and hopelessness.
Sarah Hill says God asked, 'do you not love my son because of his scars?' and that question became the center of her 'Beautifully Flawed' message.
Trish Kulcsar says a foggy car wreck near London left a truck light on her lap, then a panic attack at 19 pushed her back to her parents' home.
Women Worth Knowing: Trish Kulcsar Part 1 follows Trish Kulcsar from Salford, Greater Manchester, to the years before the faith story continues in part 2.
Women Worth Knowing hosts Sheryl Broderson and Robin Jones-Gunn continue Anita Kuhn's account of leaving a cult in Ohio with her three children and returning to California.
Anita Kuhn recounts growing up with parents who drank daily, being diagnosed with mirror vision at Loma Linda Hospital, and learning to treat her sequencing difficulties as an advantage.
Women Worth Knowing: Phyllis Thompson Part 2 follows Phyllis Thompson's China Inland Mission service from her 1930 arrival in Yangqiao through wartime work in Henan and Tai Keng.
Women Worth Knowing introduces Phyllis Thompson, whose autobiography A Pilgrim in China describes her conversion at age 26 in 1933.
Women Worth Knowing examines Ruth Muntz, daughter of Christian novelist Grace Livingston Hill, whose work included violin instruction, Christian fiction, Bible teaching, and school leadership.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
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Hosts Cheryl Brodersen and Robin Jones Gunn discuss the life of Christian missionary Svea Flood, exploring her story and faith.
This episode continues the story of missionary Mary Aldersey as she establishes a home and school in Ningpo, China, with the help of local converts.
Cheryl Brodersen and Robin Jones Gunn discuss the life of Mary Ann Aldersey, a determined Christian missionary to China, highlighting her faith and setbacks.
Robin Jones Gunn adds family, faith, illness, and writing details to Harriet Beecher Stowe's story after Jasmine's earlier episode.
Women Worth Knowing follows Marilyn Laszlo from a 1933 Indiana childhood promise to missionary work in Papua New Guinea.
Women Worth Knowing presents Caroline Gates’s 40-year China mission alongside Mildred Cable’s captivity and escape across the Gobi Desert.