Introducing FOLLOW: Logging Out and Leaning In
The Catholic Feminist
Claire Swinarski
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Follow: Logging Out and Leaning In, a serial non-fiction book available only to Letters subscribers.
You’re probably reading this on your cell phone. And just before you read this, you probably saw something else that made you mad. A controversial hot take. A perfectly-primped-and-primed mom influencer with her five children in identical rust-toned overalls. A “Christian” influencer holding not-so-Christian opinions.
Follow is an 9-part serialized book that’s equal parts hope-filled invitation and steadfast anthem to find freedom from social media practices that are hurting our souls and crushing our spiritual lives.
Because following Jesus doesn’t take place on a cell phone. You don’t have to give in to the cultural captivity of social media. Follow will help Catholics everywhere step forward into faith by logging out of the echo chamber and leaning in to the world around us—the kingdom gift we’ve been given.
Follow will be available to all subscribers to our Substack newsletter, Letters from a Catholic Feminist, and released in serial form. I’m living out my lifelong dream of publishing how Charles Dickens and Louisa May Alcott did—piece by piece. From April to December, Letters subscribers will receive a chapter of Follow, as well as a worksheet to help themselves narrow in on how they want to use (or not use) social media to bring about the kingdom of God. Get signed up today by subscribing to Letters From a Catholic Feminist at the catholicfeministpodcast.com/letters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's Claire. |
| 0:03.9 | You are probably surprised to see a new episode of the Catholic feminist popping up in your |
| 0:08.7 | feed. |
| 0:09.7 | But I told you I might be back from time to time just to check in and see how everything's |
| 0:14.9 | going. |
| 0:15.9 | And I wanted to give you guys a little update on what I'm up to about five months after |
| 0:20.5 | the podcast has ended. |
| 0:23.0 | So first of all, I am still pregnant, very pregnant. |
| 0:26.8 | I am due in mid-May and I'm really excited to have another baby girl added to our family |
| 0:33.3 | super stoked just to have another little feminist running around. |
| 0:38.8 | And that's kind of the main thing I've been focused on the past few months to be honest. |
| 0:43.0 | A lot of you know because I like never shut up about it, but I get really sick when I am |
| 0:47.8 | pregnant. |
| 0:48.8 | And so it's just been a lot of throwing up and a lot of laying around and a lot of feeling |
| 0:53.2 | useless and learning how to accept help from people. |
| 0:57.3 | A couple of other things that I've been into are that I have been doing a ton of reading |
| 1:03.2 | which just feels really good. |
| 1:05.6 | Like I've been reading for fun novels, but I've also been reading some nonfiction and just |
| 1:10.9 | diving into topics that I personally am really interested in. |
| 1:15.1 | A lot of history of the feminist movement and fun stuff like that. |
| 1:19.1 | And just kind of learning and soaking a lot in partly to share with my newsletter subscribers, |
| 1:25.0 | but also just because I am learning that you can get a lot of information on the internet, |
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