16. Politics and Transcendent Longings with Jennifer Marshall Patterson

The Strong Women Podcast

Sarah Stonestreet

Society & Culture, Christianity, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality

2.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

As we near an election week, join us as Jennifer Marshall Patterson shares how to think about politics in an increasingly divided political climate, how to order our lives as Christians in the political sphere, and how our public policy often reflects our deepest longings as human beings.

Jennifer Marshall Patterson Show Notes:

Check out Jennifer's book Now and Not Yet: Making Sense of the Single Life in the Twenty-First Century here: https://www.amazon.com/Now-Not-Yet-Twenty-First-Century/dp/159052649X

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/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Strong Women Podcast, where we explore a deeper understanding of the humanity,
0:08.2	value, intellect, and creativity of women.
0:12.0	I'm your host Sarah Stone Street.
0:14.1	And I'm your co-host, Erin Kunkel. Our guest on the podcast today is Jennifer Patterson.
0:26.8	She is the director of the Institute of Theology and Public Life at Reformed Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.
0:34.8	She is also a senior visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and is currently working on her
0:40.5	PhD. We wanted to talk to Jennifer first about politics and public policy to get her wisdom and
0:47.9	insight on how to think about things in our political time and climate. This conversation helped me a lot to think about the
0:56.2	issues of our day through the helpful lens of our eternal longings as human beings. Her
1:03.1	encouragement may help give you some peace as we live through a very divided political point
1:09.0	in our history. We also talked to Jennifer about the
1:13.1	book she wrote on singleness. She puts our lives as women into the proper perspective of life
1:19.7	callings and how we need to recognize gifts in each other to help encourage people towards loving
1:27.4	and serving God,
1:28.9	no matter the stage or area of life we are in.
1:32.5	Here's our conversation with Jennifer.
1:41.5	Welcome back, everybody.
1:43.4	I'm so excited about our guest, Jennifer Patterson. She's a dear friend and a strong woman that I recognized right away and have been watching for a long time. She doesn't know that yet, but she's been a mentor to, a silent mentor to me for a very long time. So I'm really excited to have a conversation
2:02.7	with her and to let you guys in on that conversation. So Jen, we would love to just hear about you.
2:08.9	And I think one of the best ways to hear about you is to hear about where you came from your
2:13.9	beginning and then how you got to where you're at. We're mostly going to talk about
2:18.6	where you're at today, but I'd love to just hear some background where you grew up, your parents,
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