Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith.

Ask questions, seek answers,

and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to settle for watered down Christian teaching.

And if you're ready to go deeper God is just as ready to

take you there. This is Verity where every woman is a theologian. Happy launch

week you guys this is the week that stop calling me beautiful goes out into the world and in honor of the book's birth I

Wanted to give you a little history of how it came to be going all the way

back to the very beginning the blog post that inspired it and how the book was

built. I always think that it's really cool to hear the backstory behind a

books writing and editing and idea process because when you have that I think it

makes reading the book more enjoyable. Maybe that's just

me maybe it's boring to you but I hope not because that's what this week's

episode is all about. So I'm here with my Aldi Parmesan Crisps. They're awesome. You guys should look them up and we are going to jump right in

You may not be aware that Stop Calling Me Beautiful's title is based on a blog post I wrote about I think three and a half

years ago maybe four years ago actually that went viral So this blog post is called

Dear Women's Ministry, stop telling me I'm beautiful.

Very short blog post in it.

I just pointed out that we as women in the church were tired of having

watered down messages that didn't have robust theology that didn't tell us why we

believed what we believe. It was as if theology

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