S2 14: A Better Yes with Rachel Gilson
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Rachel Gilson, author of Born Again This Way, has experienced same-sex attraction since she was a young woman. After coming to Jesus as a student at Harvard, Rachel shares how she learned to trust and obey God even when it's hard. Rachel also shares how to think well about our desires and submit them to Christ. We learn from Rachel how to approach the topic of homosexuality with thoughtfulness, truth, and compassion.
Rachel Gilson Show Notes
Born Again This Way by Rachel Gilson
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Confronting Christianity by Rebecca McLaughlin
Secular Creed by Rebecca McLaughlin
10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask (and Answer) about Christianity by Rebecca McLaughlin
Confronting Jesus: 9 Encounters with the Hero of the Gospels by Rebecca McLaughlin
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Strong Women Podcast, where each week we explore a deeper understanding of the humanity, value, intellect, and creativity of women. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Erin Kunkel. |
| 0:11.8 | And I'm Sarah Stone Street. We're so glad you're here. |
| 0:18.4 | Well, today on the Strong Women podcast, we have Rachel Gilson. |
| 0:23.0 | And we're excited to introduce you to her. |
| 0:25.4 | If you don't already know who she is, she authored a book that Sarah and I both read and loved, which is called Born Again This Way. |
| 0:33.6 | Rachel stirs on the leadership team of theological development and culture with crew. |
| 0:39.4 | She's a writer and a speaker who lives in the Boston area. |
| 0:43.9 | So Rachel, thank you so much for being on the Strong Women podcast. |
| 0:47.9 | Yeah, it's my pleasure to be with you. |
| 0:49.7 | Rachel, we like to start with our guests just to kind of get a background. |
| 0:53.9 | Where did you grow up? And did you |
| 0:55.3 | grow up in a Christian home? Oh, I love talking about where I grew up. I grew up in beautiful Santa Barbara |
| 1:01.6 | County, California, actually in Solvang, the Danish capital of America. But I didn't grow up in a Christian |
| 1:07.9 | family at all at all, like not even Christmas or Easter |
| 1:12.1 | type scenarios. We were just never in a church. So did you grow up even celebrating Christmas? |
| 1:18.6 | Yeah, but we did like American Christmas. You know, it was like the tree and there was Santa and |
| 1:23.9 | there was frosty, but like baby Jesus was not, we didn't have a crash. We didn't have anything like that, you know? And actually, when I first became a Christian, it was really weird to be like, oh, now I need to think of Christmas as like a celebration of the incarnation. Like, can't they just be separate holidays? Like, it was really weird because I'd always just celebrated pagan Christmas. Yeah. So then walk us through how you came to Christ. |
| 1:45.9 | Well, so like I said, I didn't grow up in a Christian household. |
| 1:48.5 | And by the time I got to high school, I was actually pretty strongly anti-Christian. |
| 1:53.3 | Like my nickname, amongst of my favorite teachers, was Satan. |
| 1:57.8 | Like, I would write Satan at the top of my papers in tournament because I was fairly antagonistic. Wow. On the one hand, I thought Christians were just stupid. Like when I was trying |
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