S2 51: Compelled to Action With Emily Long

The Strong Women Podcast

Sarah Stonestreet

Christianity, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

2.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Emily Long felt called to action in her local public school when she noticed that the dress code had been changed. While that didn’t seem like an issue at first, she felt compelled to ask questions of the school board and discovered that several things needed to be addressed around issues of gender and that others were concerned, too. Even though it cost her greatly, Emily showed great courage in taking a stand and inspires us to rise to the occasions God puts before us.

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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.
0:11.1	I'm Sarah Stone Street.
0:12.6	And I'm Erin Kunkel.
0:13.9	Glad you're here.
0:18.6	Our guest today on the Strong Women podcast is Emily Long. And we found out about Emily from our good friend, Steve Verlay, who is the chief operating officer at the Colson Center. So Emily and her husband live in Texas along with their adopted daughter and their three boys. And it was being a mom of these three boys that really got her into
0:39.3	the interesting journey that you've been on the last couple of years, she found out what the
0:44.8	local schools had started to teach. And as she uncovered that, more was uncovered. And she decided
0:52.6	to do something about it. She took on the school board and she
0:55.4	really paid the price for that. And we're going to talk about that part of her story today.
1:01.0	But thank you for coming, Emily. Yes, thank you so much for having me.
1:05.7	Okay, Emily, we always like to start our interviews with hearing about your background. So where did you grow up? And what
1:14.3	kind of family did you grow up in? So I grew up in Dallas and I had two parents that loved each
1:22.0	other very much and loved me and my older brother very much. And I watched them live out there Christian faith. They were
1:29.6	very diligent to teach that to us. We went to church every weekend. My parents served. I watched my
1:37.6	mom step into a lot of very difficult situations with individuals. We lived in a rather bad part of Dallas when I was younger,
1:46.3	and we would have a lot of people on drugs under the influence, in our backyards, in our alley.
1:54.1	And I distinctly remember one time when there was a woman who was unclothed and walking down the street and you could tell that she was
2:03.9	in a bad way and my mom stopped the car, got out, was checking on her and I remember being
2:10.6	terrified, but that stuck with me because I saw that my mom was loving this woman the way that
2:16.8	Jesus would love somebody. I watched my parents do a lot of
2:21.0	things similar to where it gave me a different perspective about the world and about people and
2:27.8	what God asked us to do. Wow. Yeah, that must have really left an impression on you and your brother. That's amazing story. So were you pretty young then when you came to faith in Christ yourself? Was it around your teenage years? What did that look like for your journey?
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