Is God a Mother?, Can Modesty and Muscle Coexist?, Facing Marriage Without Fear | ACW333
Ask Christopher West
Theology of the Body Institute
4.9 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Questions answered this episode:
- Can we call God “Mother” without being heretical?
- Is my friend’s bodybuilding lifestyle and public modesty truly compatible with Christian witness?
- How do I prepare for marriage without becoming anxious about its challenges?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello everybody. This is Juan, producer of the podcast. I just wanted to give you a heads-up. |
| 0:04.6 | We are changing our podcast host, so you will stop seeing new episode updates in the Ask Christopher |
| 0:09.3 | West.com website. The podcast will still be available on major streaming platforms, but no longer |
| 0:14.7 | on the website. So if you want to submit a question, just go to the show notes and you will |
| 0:18.8 | find a link there to do so. God bless. |
| 0:26.4 | From the Theology of the Body Institute, this is the Ask Christopher West podcast. |
| 0:36.9 | Hey Wendy. |
| 0:38.6 | Yes. |
| 0:39.7 | Remember last episode when the whole world knew who the Pope was, but we didn't. |
| 0:46.2 | Right. |
| 0:47.1 | You predicted that would happen. |
| 0:49.2 | Guess what? |
| 0:50.4 | What? |
| 0:50.8 | We know who the Pope is now. |
| 0:52.0 | Now we're in the loop. |
| 0:53.7 | Leo, the 14th. Here we are in the loop. Leo the 14th. |
| 0:55.7 | Here we are. |
| 0:56.6 | Yes. |
| 0:57.6 | It's a new day. |
| 0:58.7 | It's a new era. |
| 1:00.4 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:01.0 | And of course, the whole world's already been talking about it for a long time, but we haven't talked about it yet on this podcast because of the timing of our recordings. |
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