The Strong Women Podcast

How has dating changed? How should we view it? Lisa Anderson runs Boundless at Focus on The Family, a ministry that helps young adults to thrive in adulthood. Lisa shares insights and wisdom on the topic of dating that help us as well as the people in our lives who are in dating relationships. If the Strong Women podcast has made a difference for you—in your view of God, His world, His purpose for you as a woman—or anything else, we want to hear from you! Visit colsoncenter.org/sw-listeners to leave us a short audio message. We look forward to hearing from you! Boundless.org Focus on the Family The Dating Manifesto: A Drama-Free Plan for Pursuing Marriage with Purpose by Lisa Anderson "Thanks for Nothing" article on Boundless.org "What Not to Say to Single Women in the Church" article on todayschristianwoman.com The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World by John Mark Comer and John Ortberg The Shop Girls: A True Story of Hard Work, Friendship and Fashion in an Exclusive 1950s Department Store by Ellee Seymour Gentle and Lowly by Dana Ortlund If the Strong Women podcast has made a difference for you—in your view of God, His world, His purpose for you as a woman—or anything else, we want to hear from you! Visit colsoncenter.org/sw-listeners to leave us a short audio message. We look forward to hearing from you! 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/

Singleness is something that the Bible calls good, but do we really believe that? Is singleness just the stage of life before we "settle down"? Lisa Anderson is a Christian single woman who runs Boundless at Focus on The Family, a ministry that helps young adults to thrive in adulthood. Lisa shares her story and then helps us to think about singleness in the way the Bible describes it, not the way the culture around us—or even possibly how our local church culture—has influenced us to see it. Boundless.org Focus on the Family Lay It Down: Living in the Freedom of the Gospel by Bill Tell The Navigators If the Strong Women podcast has made a difference for you—in your view of God, His world, His purpose for you as a woman—or anything else, we want to hear from you! Visit colsoncenter.org/sw-listeners to leave us a short audio message. We look forward to hearing from you! 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/

India is ranked 10th on the World Watch List of countries where Christians face the most persecution—but there is a strong woman living faithfully in the midst of it all. Do you ever wonder what you would do in the face of the toughest persecution? Tehmina Arora has asked herself the same question and seen first-hand what people of faith do: They stand. Today, she shares her journey to God and how He invited her to view the suffering around her with His heart, compassion, and justice. During this conversation, we learn from Tehmina about what our brothers and sisters in India face. As a lawyer focused on religious rights in India, she sees story after story of God's faithfulness in the toughest of situations. Show Notes ADF India Website ADF International Website World Watch List Vanishing Girls Campaign Morning Star News covers persecution across the globe Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India by Christophe Jaffrelot; Angana P. Chatterji; Thomas Blom Hansen Series of Essays C.S. Lewis audiobook C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces Audio CD – Unabridged, January 15, 2014 by C. S. Lewis (Author) Shackled: One Woman's Dramatic Triumph Over Persecution, Gender Abuse, and a Death Sentence by Mariam Ibraheem and Eugene Bach. Savitribai Phule - article on the first female Indian teacher If the Strong Women podcast has made a difference for you—in your view of God, His world, His purpose for you as a woman—or anything else, we want to hear from you! Visit colsoncenter.org/sw-listeners to leave us a short audio message. We look forward to hearing from you! 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/

India is ranked 10th on the World Watch List of countries where Christians face the most persecution—but there is a strong woman living faithfully in the midst of it all. Do you ever wonder what you would do in the face of the toughest persecution? Tehmina Arora has asked herself the same question and seen first-hand what people of faith do: They stand. Today, she shares her journey to God and how He invited her to view the suffering around her with His heart, compassion, and justice. During this conversation, we learn from Tehmina about what our brothers and sisters in India face. As a lawyer focused on religious rights in India, she sees story after story of God's faithfulness in the toughest of situations. ADF India Website ADF International Website World Watch List Vanishing Girls Campaign Morning Star News covers persecution across the globe Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India by Christophe Jaffrelot; Angana P. Chatterji; Thomas Blom Hansen Series of Essays C.S. Lewis audiobook C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces Audio CD – Unabridged, January 15, 2014 by C. S. Lewis Shackled: One Woman's Dramatic Triumph Over Persecution, Gender Abuse, and a Death Sentence by Mariam Ibraheem and Eugene Bach Savitribai Phule - article on the first female Indian teacher If the Strong Women podcast has made a difference for you—in your view of God, His world, His purpose for you as a woman—or anything else, we want to hear from you! Visit colsoncenter.org/sw-listeners to leave us a short audio message. We look forward to hearing from you! 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/

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/