Very Good: What the Bible Says About Women with Jen Oshman!

Very Good: What the Bible Says About Women with Jen Oshman!

What drives someone to seek a life where being a woman actually feels "very good" rather than second best? This conversation on Anchored by the Sword sits right in that tension, especially for women who’ve walked through hard stories, confusion about worth, or church hurt on top of addiction, trauma, or feeling unwanted. Host Gina Fox chats with author and Bible teacher Jen Oshman about her new study, *Very Good: What the Bible Says About Being a Woman*.

Jen shares her journey from a fractured childhood, a sceptical dad and a “one foot in church, one foot in the world” lifestyle to a moment of surrender in her college dorm room, shaped by the verse: "You are not your own, for you were bought at a price.

So glorify God with your body." You’ll hear how she and her husband met “at the club” as believers, ended up serving overseas for 15 years in Japan and the Czech Republic, and planted a church back in Colorado. Along the way, Jen kept asking: what *does* the Bible actually say about being female? Her answer turned into a Genesis-to-Revelation study that refuses to cherry-pick verses or keep women boxed into the nursery or the kitchen.

She talks about reading the whole story, digging into context and culture, and noticing how often women stand at the centre of God’s work — from creation to resurrection. Jen pushes back on cultural messages that blur what it means to be female and on church cultures that leave women feeling unseen or like a problem to manage.

Instead, she highlights the biblical picture of women as essential allies, created "very good" and called to stand shoulder to shoulder with men in God’s mission. For anyone wondering if their story, gifts or recovery journey matter as a woman, this chat offers both a challenge and a deep breath of relief. What might change if you actually believed God calls you "very good"?