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🎙️ 2. Pastor Kimberly Bulgin (Seventh-day Adventist) – The Sisters Stay Dropping Gems: Reclaiming Women’s Stories in Scripture

Alexis Rice welcomes Pastor Kimberly Bulgin—Seventh-day Adventist trailblazer, global leader, musician, and author of The Sisters Stay Dropping Gems: What Women in the Bible Teach Us About Life, Love, and Relationships. Pastor Kim shares what it actually costs to challenge patriarchy from the inside, why women’s stories in Scripture have been flattened into stereotypes, and how Jesus’ treatment of women dismantles modern purity culture and hierarchy.

Pastor Kim also opens up about being among the first women ordained in her region—celebration and pain held together—and offers language that will set many listeners free: “When you break glass ceilings, the glass can cut you.”

✨ In this episode, we talk about:
 • The resistance (and real-world backlash) women face in ordination
 • Why congregations need spiritual preparation to receive women pastors
 • What Seventh-day Adventists are known for: Sabbath, second Advent, health, and service
 • “Modern-day Rahabs” and why the church must stop treating women as problems to solve
 • Re-reading the Woman at the Well with complexity, dignity, and liberation
 • What Jesus’ public, unashamed posture toward women reveals about God
 • Stick around until the end for a closing prayer for anyone who hasn’t been prayed over in a long time

📖 Featured Book
 The Sisters Stay Dropping Gems — www.kimberlybulgin.com/shop.

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🎵 Music
 Brett Rutledge, Eddie Irvin, and Sean Spence

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