Welcome toAuntieSermons.com

Welcome to AuntieSermons.com, home of Auntie Sermons, the podcast hosted by CrystalJae.

Auntie Sermons is a passion project started by CrystalJae, where she is working chronologically and methodically through the Bible, giving a sermon for every woman, named or unnamed.

Why, you might ask?

During her own deconstruction, CrystalJae began looking at the Bible differently. Not just at what it said, but at who was given the right to speak, who mattered, who was remembered, and who wasn’t.

And she began noticing how overwhelmingly male the biblical world was.

It was a book written by men, for men, and to men.

Women were there, but so often they were an afterthought, a prop, a wife, a daughter, a concubine, a slave, a womb, or a piece of property.

Women are even listed alongside property in the Ten Commandments.

And what disturbed CrystalJae almost as much as realizing all of that was realizing that, as a woman, she had spent decades in Christianity and had never really questioned it.

She had taught the Bible.

She had taught Sunday School.

She had taught women.

And still, it had seemed completely normal to sit in church week after week listening to men preach about men and then tell women what those stories meant we should do, think, believe, endure, and feel.

So CrystalJae wanted to create the antithesis of what we see on Sunday mornings.

Instead of men preaching about men to women, she would go through the Bible chronologically and methodically and give a sermon to every woman, named or unnamed.

This is a feminist, atheist space centered on women, deconstruction, biblical history, scholarship, community, curiosity, and questioning the things many of us were taught never to question.