Dra. Nancy Bedford’s daughter once asked, “How can I be a good mother if I’m not a theologian?” On this episode, we sit down with Dra. Bedford and discuss motherhood and vocation and how she raised hijas nepantleras.
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About Dra. Bedford
Nancy Elizabeth Bedford, Dr. theol. (Tübingen, 1994), was born in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina in 1962. She has been Georgia Harkness Professor of Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (Evanston) since 2003. Previously (1995-2002) she taught theology at Instituto Universitario ISEDET and Seminario Internacional Teológico Bautista (both in Buenos Aires). She has written, co-written, or edited ten books and written over 90 book chapters and journal articles, which have appeared in five languages.
Among her books are Who Was Jesus and What Does It Mean to Follow Him? (Herald Press, 2021), Galatians, A Theological Commentary (WJK, 2016) and Teología feminista a tres voces (with Virginia Azcuy and Mercedes García Bachmann; Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado, 2016). The second, revised edition of Nuestra Fe. Introducción a la teología cristiana (with Guillermo Hansen) will appear in Fortress Press in Spring of 2023.