The Chick Report with Dr. Sandra Glahn
Jul 28, 2026 · 38 min · 11 segments
What if the church's vision of leadership has been built on the wrong foundation and a forgotten female prophet holds the key to correcting it? In this episode of The Chick Report, Dr. Sandra Glahn…
Christa McKirlandGuest
Sandra GlahnHost
Well, b- before we jump into Huldah, I want to talk about your latest book, A Theology of Authority: Rethinking Leadership in the Church.
So when people say women can't have authority in the church, and I should also front load, I'm really focused on authority, and the women stuff comes downstream of that.
That's actually not the, the crux of the book, so you w- you'll see in the title, right, nothing in there says an argument for women in leadership.
Actually, what I'm trying to do is redefine what we mean by leadership because so often we get, uh, concepts of authority baked in to our understanding of leadership, and often the forms of authority that we appeal to implicitly is this hierarchical command imperative, "I can tell you what to do and compel a consequence if you don't do it." My whole argument is I do not believe that is an appropriate use of authority among believers in Christ.
I have some, some push even on my, my, my beloved egalitarian brothers and sisters and organizations that are pushing for women to have the same rights as men and the same authority as men.
And I'm just concerned that we're fighting for a fiction, that we've created something and said, "That's, that's the golden egg we need to go for," and as it turns out, it's rotten.
I, I just, the New Testament trajectory, it is not about getting to have authority over others.
It is about looking like Christ Jesus, who epitomized having command executive authority, imperative authority over the universe, and what does he do with it? Well, he puts on an apron, he gets on his knees, and he washes his disciples' feet.
I think we need to de-center our leaders and our celebrity culture, but by de-centering-
Well, b- before we jump into Huldah, I want to talk about your latest book, A Theology of Authority: Rethinking Leadership in the Church.
So when people say women can't have authority in the church, and I should also front load, I'm really focused on authority, and the women stuff comes downstream of that.
That's actually not the, the crux of the book, so you w- you'll see in the title, right, nothing in there says an argument for women in leadership.
Actually, what I'm trying to do is redefine what we mean by leadership because so often we get, uh, concepts of authority baked in to our understanding of leadership, and often the forms of authority that we appeal to implicitly is this hierarchical command imperative, "I can tell you what to do and compel a consequence if you don't do it." My whole argument is I do not believe that is an appropriate use of authority among believers in Christ.
I have some, some push even on my, my, my beloved egalitarian brothers and sisters and organizations that are pushing for women to have the same rights as men and the same authority as men.
And I'm just concerned that we're fighting for a fiction, that we've created something and said, "That's, that's the golden egg we need to go for," and as it turns out, it's rotten.
I, I just, the New Testament trajectory, it is not about getting to have authority over others.
It is about looking like Christ Jesus, who epitomized having command executive authority, imperative authority over the universe, and what does he do with it? Well, he puts on an apron, he gets on his knees, and he washes his disciples' feet.
I think we need to de-center our leaders and our celebrity culture, but by de-centering-
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