The Strong Women Podcast

Lauren Green McAfee was raised in a Christian home. She is the granddaughter of the founder of Hobby Lobby, and daughter of Steve Green, the founder of the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. The mother of two children, Lauren found out just one month after their elder child, Zion, was adopted that she had cancer. She shares with us how waiting, longing, and suffering drove her deeper into Scripture and into a more intimate relationship with God.    Register for the Strong Women Lent Reading Challenge! Visit colsoncenter.org/lent for more information. We hope you join us!  Not What You Think: Why the Bible Might Be Nothing We Expected Yet Everything We Need  By: Michael McAfee, Lauren Green McAfee  Museum of the Bible  Hobby Lobby  Moral Choices by Scott B. Rae   Outside the Womb by Scott B. Rae   Becoming Elisabeth Elliot by Ellen Vaughn  God of Freedom Bible Study by Jen Wilkin on Exodus  Strong Women Podcast Episode 34. The Life of Elisabeth Elliot with Ellen Vaughn  Strong Women Podcast Episode S2 23: Starting Life In the Jungle With Valerie Elliot Shepard    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/ 

Sarah Zylstra answers our listeners' questions about Social Media.    Register for the Strong Women Lent Reading Challenge! Visit colsoncenter.org/lent for more information. We hope you join us!  Social Sanity in an Insta World by Sarah Zylstra  Scrolling Alone: How Instagram Is Making a Generation of Girls Lonely, Anxious, and Sad podcast episode   Sarah Zylstra’s articles on The Gospel Coalition website   Tech Wise Family by Andy Crouch  Social Sanity Book Club Chapter 9: Posting Well  S2 16: Answering Listener's Questions on Self-Care with Sarah and Erin Strong Women Podcast  Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell     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/   

So many of us have been swept up into social media without asking, “Why am I using this? What is this for?” Sarah Zylstra has thought deeply about these questions. She joins us today to share her journey and struggles and tell us why she decided to give up social media altogether. Sarah is a wife, mom, author, and Senior Writer at The Gospel Coalition.    Register for the Strong Women Lent Reading Challenge! Visit colsoncenter.org/lent for more information. We hope you join us!  Social Sanity in an Insta World by Sarah Zylstra  Scrolling Alone: How Instagram Is Making a Generation of Girls Lonely, Anxious, and Sad podcast episode   Sarah Zylstra’s articles on The Gospel Coalition website   Tech Wise Family by Andy Crouch  Social Sanity Book Club Chapter 9: Posting Well  S2 16: Answering Listener's Questions on Self-Care with Sarah and Erin Strong Women Podcast  Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell   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/   

Valerie Huber takes notice of what is in front of her, no matter how small, and uses her gifts and resources to make a difference in the lives around her. This way of seeing and living has fueled Valerie’s life of service, from serving lunch to the teachers at her kids' school, to working in the Department of Health and Human Services, and to founding the Institute for Women’s Health.    Institute for Women’s Health  Target Africa: Ideological Neocolonialism in the Twenty-First Century by Obianuju Ekeocha   Join Strong Women on Social Media:  https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC, https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc, https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/      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 

Erin and Sarah reflect on their interview with Erika Bachiochi about the beginnings of the Women’s Rights Movement and how the original vision of the movement was rooted in the primary purpose of human freedom: the development of virtue. The Christian worldview offers the most beautiful picture of what it means to be a woman, and gives a foundation for rights that cannot be found anywhere else.    The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision by Erika Bachiochi   Strong Women Podcast: S2 3: The Journey of a Woman's Right to Abortion with Erika Bachiochi   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/   

Erika Bachiochi returns to the Strong Women Podcast to teach us about a woman in history that many of us have never heard of but certainly should know about: Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary was a writer and champion for women’s rights. This fascinating discussion will leave you wanting to learn more about this incredible woman who fought for rights that so many of us now take for granted.    Strong Women Podcast: S2 3: The Journey of a Woman's Right to Abortion with Erika Bachiochi  Abigail Adams Institute  The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision by Erika Bachiochi   Strange New World by Carl Trueman  Thoughts on the Education of Daughters by Mary Wollstonecraft  Vindication of the Rights of Man by Mary Wollstonecraft  Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft  Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone  Sexual Desire by Robert Scrutin   Man and Wife in America: A History by Hendrik Hartog   Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis  Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis  Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman 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/  

Sarah and Erin reflect on their conversation with Mandy Birch and how the differences that we find between men and women and person to person are part of God’s good design.       S3 2: Developing Resiliency in Yourself and Others With Dr. Kathy Koch Strong Women Podcast  48. Adversity Is Part of Our Grooming With Tammie Jo Shults Strong Women Podcast Colson Fellows  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/   

Listener Mandy Birch served in the military as an engineer for 30 years and now works in quantum computing, fields typically thought of as masculine. God has used Mandy’s love of adventure and doing the hard things to show her how to overcome obstacles, extend charity to others, learn to make allies, and embrace her own limits. Join Erin and Sarah as they talk with Mandy, whose story demonstrates that God’s design is big enough to encompass different giftings and callings.  48. Adversity Is Part of Our Grooming With Tammie Jo Shults Strong Women Podcast Best of Strong Women Podcast with Cheryl Bachelder  “Life Plan” with the Paterson Center  Officers Christian Fellowship   Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace By John Mark Comber    The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America by Margaret O’Mara   Bomb Shelter: Love, Time and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott   Turnaround: How to Change Course When Things Are Going South By Lisa Gable  The Ambassadors By Henry James   Mandy’s website    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/   

After talking with Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, Sarah and Erin reflect on the pro-life movement and ways to be involved.       March for Life  Strong Women Pro-Life Episodes Spotify Playlist  Join Strong Women on Social Media:  https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC, https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc, https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/      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 

Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, joins Sarah and Erin to talk about the strategy for the pro-life organization since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Jeanne shares her personal journey of faith and how she got involved in the pro-life cause. She also shares about the founder of the March for Life and what we can do to stay involved in the protection of the preborn.    March for Life  Family Research Council  Project Rachel  Silent No More  Strong Women Podcast with Lila Rose  The Supernatural Ways of Royalty by Kris Vallotton and Bill Johnson  Catherine of Siena by Sigrid Undset  Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food by Catherine Shanahan  The Innocent by David Baldacci  Join Strong Women on Social Media:  https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC, https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc, https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/      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