S2 39: The Power of Home With Dr. Carrie Gress
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Do you want to drastically impact your community? A flourishing home is a powerful place that draws us deeper into faith. Join us as we chat with Dr. Carrie Gress, the author of Theology of Home, about how we can faithfully reflect Christ in our homes.
Carrie Gress Show Notes
Theology of Home: Finding the Eternal in the Everyday by Carrie Gress
Theology of Home II: The Spiritual Art of Homemaking by Carrie Gress
Theology of Home: At the Sea by Carrie Gress
The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
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Strange New World by Carl Trueman
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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. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Sarah Stone Street. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Erin Kunkel. Glad you're here. |
| 0:15.0 | On the Strong Women Podcast today, our guest is Carrie Gress. |
| 0:22.6 | Now, Carrie is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a scholar at the Institute for Human Ecology at Catholic University of America. |
| 0:32.3 | So she's written a ton, and Aaron and I had the best time. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm like, oh, Aaron, you got to read this. And she's like,'m like oh Aaron you got to read this and she's like |
| 0:38.7 | oh Sarah you got to read this she's written several articles she has a three volume series called |
| 0:44.0 | Theology of Home and it has beautiful pictures and all that and so you guys need to check that out |
| 0:50.4 | but listen to the subtitle of volume one it It says, finding the eternal in the everyday. |
| 0:57.8 | Doesn't that just wet your appetite to go look that up? But out of that has come a whole project |
| 1:02.9 | that we can't wait to talk to you about, Carrie, but I'm just going to mention it for a second. |
| 1:07.0 | So it's the Theology of Home Project. And they have an online magazine, and then, of course, the three series book collection of this Theology of Home. |
| 1:17.4 | And so everybody should go check that out. |
| 1:19.9 | She and her husband have been married for 14 years, and they have five kids, and they live in Northern Virginia. |
| 1:26.6 | So, Carrie, thanks for joining us. Oh, thank you so much for having me. This is really great to be with you. First, we want to hear a little bit more about you and, like, where you started. Did you grow up in a Christian home and where did you grow up? I grew up actually in Eugene, Oregon, which is, you know, it's hard to be a more |
| 1:45.0 | a lower place than Eugene Oregon. But I was raised in a Catholic family. There were, I had two |
| 1:52.6 | older sisters and the younger brother. And, you know, our family would go to Mass every Sunday |
| 1:57.2 | and whatnot, but we weren't deeply religious, I don't think, in any sense the word. |
| 2:01.5 | And then my father actually passed away right after my 16th birthday, and I think that that was |
| 2:06.6 | a really transforming experience, certainly for our whole family, you know, to see his faith through |
| 2:11.5 | pancreatic cancer, you know, to go from seemingly very healthy in August and then to, you know, |
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