170. The Meaning of Homemaking: A Beautiful & Creative Pursuit | Rebekah Merkle

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Our current culture has come to think of homemaking as boring or unimportant. The role of women in the home is largely undervalued. Bekah Merkle is on a mission to change that by helping women to own the beauty, creativity, and innovation within their role as homemakers.

In our conversation, Bekah takes us through the history of how feminism has impacted the woman’s role and how we can begin to reclaim the importance of this high calling. Whether you are a new homemaker or have been making a home for decades, may this conversation remind you of your significance in your family and in the world.

In this episode, we cover:

How culture has been wrong about the significance of homemakers
Differing perspectives on education for women
What classical education offers to families
Imagining what it looks like to embrace homemaking in our modern world
How the internet influences our homemaking pursuits
The underappreciated value of an excellent homemaker
Looking at the ups and downs of feminism throughout history
Finding your vision for creativity and joy in homemaking

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life Podcast. I have a great interview for you today.
0:05.6	Becca Merkel, or she's really Rebecca Merkel. I think she goes by Becca, and I are going to chat
0:10.8	about the meaning in homemaking, the beautiful pursuit that it is, and how we've gotten this
0:17.9	wrong as a culture over very many years. It's a long history of how we have resigned ourselves to
0:25.2	this role being something that it's it's just something God just wants people to do. It's not
0:30.9	really a valuable one. Well, we are going to destroy that notion if you had it, and maybe you
0:36.6	didn't totally have it, but there's some there's some things that you might not even realize that
0:42.6	you think about that topic that you have some biases on. So with that further ado, let's jump into
0:48.8	this great conversation. My name is Lisa, mother of seven, and creator of the blog and YouTube
0:54.4	channel Farmhouse on Boone. Join me as I share with you my love for creating a handmade home from
0:59.9	scratch cooking and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way.
1:10.1	Hi, Rebecca, and I think you go by Becca, correct? Yes. Yeah, that is great. Awesome. Well, thank
1:15.6	you so much for joining me. We can start with introductions for those who don't know you. Tell us
1:20.0	about your your books, your film, your mission, whatever else you want to share your family.
1:25.3	All right. Thanks so much for having me on. Yeah, Rebecca Merkel, and I am married to Ben
1:33.6	Merkel. He's the president of New St. Andrews College, which is a small Christian liberal arts
1:39.8	college. We've got five children who are now basically all young adults. So they're all,
1:47.6	you know, it's grad school engaged, married, you know, we're in that kind of exciting case.
1:53.6	I have written a few books. The one I think you probably want to talk more about is even
2:00.4	exile. I wrote that a few years ago. Really, it's just kind of trying to engage with a question of
2:08.3	what are women for? We live in an age where that's really despised, where homemaking is despised,
2:14.8	where just role of wife and mother is seen as really embarrassing, and not something you'd
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