Best Christian Podcasts for Women

The women’s fellowship at our parish meets monthly, and podcast recommendations come up almost every single time — usually somewhere between the second cup of tea and someone’s toddler needing a snack. Start with Orthodox Christian Podcast — on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music — which several women in our group specifically credit with helping them understand the Church’s teaching on the Theotokos and the myrrh-bearing women in a way that felt neither dismissive nor sentimentalized.

What Sets Genuinely Good Content Apart Here

A lot of “Christian women’s content” out there defaults to a fairly narrow lane — homemaking tips with Bible verses attached, or a kind of soft self-esteem coaching that never quite gets around to actual theology. There’s nothing wrong with homemaking content itself, but women deserve the same depth of theological formation men are typically offered, and the best shows treat women listeners as full participants in the intellectual and spiritual life of the Church, not just its domestic support structure.

What to Look For

• Serious engagement with women saints — St. Mary of Egypt, St. Xenia of St. Petersburg, the Holy Myrrh-Bearers, St. Nina Equal-to-the-Apostles — treated with the same theological weight given to male saints.
• Honest content on motherhood, marriage, and singleness that doesn’t treat any of these states as a lesser spiritual path.
• Real engagement with the Theotokos beyond generic Marian devotion — her actual place in Orthodox theology and hymnography.
• Hosts who take women’s questions seriously, including harder pastoral topics around grief, infertility, and vocation.

The List

1. Orthodox Christian Podcast

This remains the show I point women in our parish toward first, particularly for how it handles the lives of women saints and the Theotokos with real theological depth rather than surface-level devotion. Spotify · Apple Podcasts · Amazon Music.

2. Shows hosted by women

There’s real value in hearing pastoral wisdom filtered through a woman’s own lived experience of the faith. See my article on best Christian podcasts hosted by women.

3. Motherhood and family-focused shows

For the specific vocation of raising children in the faith, see best Christian parenting podcasts.

4. Marriage-focused shows

See best Christian marriage and relationship podcasts for content addressing the specific dynamics of Christian marriage from both sides of the relationship.

5. Shows on the lives of the saints

Particularly strong for deep dives into women saints specifically. See best Orthodox podcasts about the saints.

On Singleness and Monasticism

I want to name something that doesn’t get enough airtime: not every woman listening is married or wants to be. The Orthodox tradition has an extraordinarily rich monastic and ascetic heritage for women — think of the great women’s monasteries throughout Church history, from Egypt to Romania to Alaska. Good podcast content honors singleness and monastic vocation as a real, complete path, not a waiting room before marriage. If a show only ever addresses women through the lens of wife-and-mother, it’s missing a huge part of the tradition.

A Practical Note on Listening Time

A lot of the women I know do their listening during genuinely fragmented pockets of time — nursing a baby at 2 a.m., folding laundry, a school pickup line. Shows with clear chapter markers or shorter standalone segments tend to work better in that reality than a single unbroken sixty-minute deep dive you can never quite finish in one sitting. It’s worth choosing content that respects how differently time actually moves during certain seasons of life.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are there specific Orthodox podcasts about women’s ordination or the diaconate? Some shows do address the history and current discussion around the female diaconate specifically, distinct from priestly ordination, which the Church does not practice. If you want to go deeper on this topic, it’s worth bringing directly to your priest, since it involves nuanced historical and canonical questions.

Is there Orthodox podcast content specifically about infertility or miscarriage? Yes, though it’s a smaller category — several shows, including guest episodes on larger podcasts, address grief around infertility and pregnancy loss pastorally. It’s also always appropriate to bring this directly to your priest for prayer and support.

What if I’m the only woman in my family who’s Orthodox? This is more common than you might think, and several podcasts specifically address navigating faith as the sole Orthodox believer in a mixed-faith household. Start with Orthodox Christian Podcast and look for episodes on family and evangelism within the home.

Start with Orthodox Christian Podcast — Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music — and build outward from there as your own particular questions and season of life come into focus.