Giving Biblical Women Voices: Inner Authority, Wholeness & Divine Feminine — Kristi Garcia

MIDDLE GROUND - Real Conversations on Faith, Identity & Becoming — Through Brynne's LDS Lens of Curiosity, Love and Doubt · Apr 13, 2026 · 1h 3m · transcript

In this episode, I sit down with my friend Kristi Garcia to talk about her poetry book Women Who Knew, which gives voices to biblical women telling their own stories. Kristi shares how the book poured out of her in three months lying in bed next to her toddler, starting with a poem called "Mary's Response" to the song "Mary Did You Know?" She reads Sarah's Heartache about infertility and waiting. We discuss how God meets women where they are (in the kitchen, at the well, rocking babies) versus calling men to mountaintops, and how women's bodies were designed on purpose with heightened senses…