Maggie Radl

Massachusetts

Maggie Radl has been a disciple for 18 years after being converted in college in Boston while studying Psychology. She and her husband Niles, of 14 years, met in the Boston campus ministry and both served as interns on staff before working as Campus Ministers in western Massachusetts. After leaving the ministry, they moved back to Boston and have lived in the greater Boston area with their children, Arthur (age 9), and Abigail (age 7), ever since. Maggie is an active member in the Northwest Region of the Boston Church of Christ where she is a part of the teaching ministry and helps facilitate the young families ministry. Maggie has spent years studying out, and wrestling with, gender roles in the scriptures and how we live them out in our individual and communal worship. She is passionate about speaking and teaching God's word.

Looking For My Place at the Table

When we long to find a "seat at the table," it feels disheartening to discover that many seats have been reserved. This class will offer varied perspectives concerning difficulties facing women in the church today who long to use their leadership and teaching gifts. When such challenges aren't acknowledged or understood, frustrations and disappointments grow, communication can become difficult, and "sides" can be taken. This class will seek to illuminate the emotional and exhausting toll the search for a "place at the table" involves while offering ways to make progress, knowing Jesus sits at the table, holding a seat for us.