Welcome to the Strong Women Podcast, where each week we explore a deeper understanding of the humanity, value, intellect, and creativity of women.

I'm Erin Kunkel.

And I'm Sarah Stone Street. We're so glad you're here.

It's hard to make sense of all the confusion that we find in the culture around us,

and we tend to either get outraged by it, or just kind of slowly back away and shut the door

and pretend like nothing's happening and just try to keep in our own little bubbles.

But that's really not an option either.

We ask Elisa Childers and

Natasha Crane to join us as we think about this topic. How do we engage well? How do we stay

informed and discerning in this cultural moment? Because we know it's not an accident that we find

ourselves in this time and in this place with the people that we're responsible for,

and that part of loving our neighbors is actually understanding and discerning what's affecting them.

So Elisa and Natasha actually have joined forces recently,

and they're hosting these apologetics conferences for the everyday Christian for that

reason, to engage with the world around them in a discerning and wise way. And then a podcast also

came out of that, where they take a current cultural issue and just talk about how to respond

to it well. So I think you're really going to enjoy this conversation and I'm so glad you're here.

Well, Natasha and Elisa, thank you guys so much for coming on the podcast. And Lisa, we've had

you on a couple times. Natasha, we haven't had you on. So we always love to start with our guests

with your story. So we're going to focus on you for a few minutes. So

tell us Natasha, how take us back to when you were little, where you grew up, and how you

became a Christian. Well, I always kind of wish that I had one of those dramatic conversion stories,

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