The Strong Women Podcast

In this best-of episode, we are joined by Cindy Rollins, an author, mother of nine, speaker, and co-host of The Literary Life Podcast. Cindy has encouraged many women, including Erin and Sarah, to stay curious, hunt for beauty in the everyday, and bring those around them along for the journey of lifelong learning. Morning Time: A Liturgy of Love by Cindy Rollins Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins People Pleasing: How Not to be an Approval Junkie by Lou Priolo Literary Life Podcast Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven, which "exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ." Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/ The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center, which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what's happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them. Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/ Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women Join Strong Women on Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/ https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/

We are joined by Sarah's lovely and feisty English grandmother, Sheila Broderick. Sheila was ten years old when England declared war on Germany in World War II. She was evacuated by train to Wales, but unlike the Pevensie children of C.S. Lewis' Narnia series, Sheila did not find a nice professor waiting to help spur on her imagination. Instead, she was the last child to be reluctantly taken in. From losing her father to surviving the Blitz, Sheila's formative years were shaped by suffering and resilience in the face of great uncertainty.

We welcome Dr. Kathy Koch, president of Celebrate Kids, to talk about the importance of paying attention to those around us. As Kathy likes to say, we are all made on purpose, with purpose, for a purpose. Kathy has a unique gift of making the people around her feel seen and cared for—especially children. She lets us in on why this is so important to her. Kathy's Website for Celebrate Kids The Picture Smart Bible Start with the Heart by Kathy Koch 8 Great Smarts: Discover and Nurture Your Child's Intelligences by Kathy Koch Raising Resilient Kids: Help Them Embrace Life with Confidence by Kathy Koch Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith by Scotty Smith Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change by William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick MAVEN Conference The Clutter-Free Home: Making Room for Your Life by Kathi Lipp Free Download: Strong Women Summer Reading Plan - Three Top Ten Book Lists Cultivate a rich reading life! The world is full of books, but not all of them are worth your time. Good books stand the test of time and discerning readers. Do you want to start reading more, but feel overwhelmed? Not sure where to start? We can help! Sign up here to receive THREE top ten book recommendation lists to challenge and inspire your reading life. Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which "exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ." Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/ The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what's happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them. Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/ Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women Join Strong Women on Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/ https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/

This week we welcome Mollie Hemingway, senior editor at the Federalist Society and a Fox News contributor, to share her story with us. During her adolescence, Mollie's family oriented their lives around the church. She shares with us how that foundation has shaped her over the years, as well as how Christianity has shaped her view of womanhood. The Federalist Society Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court by Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino He Restores My Soul by Katie Schuermann Strong Women listeners, we're excited to offer the Colson Center National Conference...ONLINE! Use promo code Strongwomen (all one word) to get $5 off the $49 ticket price. For one low price, you can experience all the main stage talks, breakouts, and panel discussions from our annual Christian worldview conference at your own leisure. Visit colsonconference.org for full event details and registration. Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which "exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ." Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/ The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what's happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them. Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/ Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women Join Strong Women on Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/ https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/

During our season break, we're looking back at some of our first and favorite episodes. In this conversation with Joni Eareckson Tada, Joni shares her journey from being a young athlete to a quadriplegic and how God has used this as an invitation for her to know Him better. A few years after her accident, she founded Joni and Friends, which has impacted so many families and people with disabilities. Joni's Website Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot Suffer Strong by Jay and Catherine Wolff The Warner Boys by Curt and Anna Warner Susanna Wesley by Charles Ludwig Colson Center National Conference Online video content is available now on-demand! This year's theme is "Earth Crammed With Heaven: An Invitation to Encounter God and His Mighty Works." For just $49, you can experience all the main stage talks, breakouts, and panel discussions from our annual Christian worldview conference at your own leisure. Visit colsonconference.org for event details and registration and if you use the promo code "Strongwomen" you can receive $5 off. Sign up today to learn from: Stephen Meyer, Ph.D. | Discovery Institute Kristen Waggoner | Alliance Defending Freedom Chris Brooks | Woodside Bible Chapel & Moody Radio Kristin Collier, MD | University of Michigan Roland Warren | Care Net ...and many more! Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which "exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ." Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/ The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what's happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them. Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/ Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women Join Strong Women on Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/ https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/

We flip the microphone in this episode towards our guest, Erin Kunkle. Erin has been co-hosting Strong Women with me for three years now. The podcast has grown and has become more than the side project it was when we began. Nothing else in Erin's life has slowed down, so she has made the difficult decision to step out of co-hosting Strong Women. Erin has been and continues to be a strong woman and dear friend in my life, so I wanted to share more of her story with you all. Maven's Website Maven Parent Podcast Dorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers and C.S. Lewis by Gina Dalfonzo Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter Help us equip individuals and institutions to bring restoration to their spheres of influence—for the advance of the Kingdom and the flourishing of culture. Give to support our fiscal-year-end goal at colsoncenter.org/fye23! Colson Center National Conference Online video content is available now on-demand! This year's theme is "Earth Crammed With Heaven: An Invitation to Encounter God and His Mighty Works." For just $49, you can experience all the main stage talks, breakouts, and panel discussions from our annual Christian worldview conference at your own leisure. Visit colsonconference.org for event details and registration And if you use the promo code "Strongwomen" you can receive $5 off. Sign up today to learn from: Stephen Meyer, Ph.D. | Discovery Institute Kristen Waggoner | Alliance Defending Freedom Chris Brooks | Woodside Bible Chapel & Moody Radio Kristin Collier, MD | University of Michigan Roland Warren | Care Net ...and many more! The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what's happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them. Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/ Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women Join Strong Women on Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/ https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/

We have been living in a post-Roe America for a year now, and it's become more evident than ever that abortion has torn our nation apart—affecting babies and mothers, families, civil society, and every area of our common life. This week we're joined by Alexandra DeSanctis, co-author of Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing. Alexandra gives us a year-in, post-Roe analysis of the pro-life movement. While abortion affects more than just one group of people, this week's discussion focuses on how it has affected women—even those who have not had abortions themselves. We hope this conversation informs and equips you to have meaningful conversations about this difficult topic. As Chuck Colson would say, culture changes over the backyard fence, which is why it is so important to be knowledgeable on how abortion affects those closest to us—families, friends, and neighbors. Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing by Ryan Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision by Erika Bachiochi Tactics by Greg Koukl Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World by Richard Snow Little House on the Prairie Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Project Rachel Help us equip individuals and institutions to bring restoration to their spheres of influence—for the advance of the Kingdom and the flourishing of culture. Give to support our fiscal-year-end goal at colsoncenter.org/fye23! Strong Women listeners, we're excited to offer the Colson Center National Conference...ONLINE! Use promo code Strongwomen (all one word) to get $5 off the $49 ticket price. For one low price, you can experience all the main stage talks, breakouts, and panel discussions from our annual Christian worldview conference at your own leisure. Visit colsonconference.org for full event details and registration. Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which "exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ." Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/ The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what's happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them. Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/ Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women Join Strong Women on Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/ https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/

At this year's Colson Center National Conference, we sat down with Dr. Kristin Collier, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of the Program on Health, Spirituality, and Religion at the University of Michigan Medical School. Kristin shares how her faith has shaped her view of medicine, including how God speaks through the suffering and grief in her vocation to show that He suffers with us. She unpacks the temptation among physicians to see people as machines to fix, and shows us that rich theology helps us to see each person as an image bearer to care for. James: Mercy Triumphs by Beth Moore Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande Feminism Against Progress by Mary Harrington The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington Help us equip individuals and institutions to bring restoration to their spheres of influence—for the advance of the Kingdom and the flourishing of culture. Give to support our fiscal-year-end goal at colsoncenter.org/fye23! Strong Women listeners, we're excited to offer the Colson Center National Conference...ONLINE! Use promo code Strongwomen (all one word) to get $5 off the $49 ticket price. For one low price, you can experience all the main stage talks, breakouts, and panel discussions from our annual Christian worldview conference at your own leisure. Visit colsonconference.org for full event details and registration. Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which "exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ." Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/ The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what's happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them. Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/ Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women Join Strong Women on Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/ https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/

Dr. Melissa Cain Travis, an Affiliate Faculty member at Colorado Christian University, discusses the importance of intellectual discipleship and fostering a love for God through learning. She explores the intersection of science and Christianity, highlighting the connection between faith and scientific discoveries. Practical ways to cultivate the mind, prioritize lifelong learning, and the inspiring life of Grand Duchess Christina of Lorraine are also discussed.

Maria Keffler is a mother, educator, and author who dedicates her time to helping parents whose children are being taken captive by the lies of the transgender movement. In our conversation, Maria shows us how this social and cultural movement is capturing young people. We discuss how we can join the fight for the hearts and minds of these young people, show them where their identity lies, and highlight the significance and beauty of God's design for them. Maria's Website Advocates Protecting Children Desist, Detrans, Detox: Getting Your Child Out of the Gender Cult by Maria Keffler Maria's op-ed in the Washington Post Beloved by Toni Morrison Color of Water by James McBride Help us equip individuals and institutions to bring restoration to their spheres of influence—for the advance of the Kingdom and the flourishing of culture. Give to support our fiscal-year-end goal at colsoncenter.org/fye23! Strong Women listeners, we're excited to offer the Colson Center National Conference...ONLINE! Use promo code Strongwomen (all one word) to get $5 off the $49 ticket price. For one low price, you can experience all the main stage talks, breakouts, and panel discussions from our annual Christian worldview conference at your own leisure. Visit colsonconference.org for full event details and registration. Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which "exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ." Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/ The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what's happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them. Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/ Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women Join Strong Women on Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/ https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/